Comments on: How to live trap mice and squirrels https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/ Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492628 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:04:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492628 I guess the NYC mice were the model for the ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492627 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:12:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492627 Well, they probably think “Oh, a dishtowel. This is novel!” and while they are contemplating that you make your next move.

]]> By: scientificalpoliticist https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492626 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:53:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492626 the most effective way i’ve found to trap the little mice in nyc apartments is by throwing a dish towel on them. i read it somewhere on the internet, and by god, it works. whether they’re too weak or it just paralyzes them with fear, they can’t get out – you just scoop them up and toss them in a bag and off to the park you go.

i damn well wouldn’t try it with a nyc squirrel, though.

]]> By: stillwaggon https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492625 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:05:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492625 Friends of mine have a very mouse-plagued house. The resident 3 cats seem to be of no use whatsoever, though they do bring birds in through the cat door, alive and still ready to fly — I’ve taken some outside and off they go. When my cat lived in that house, she was a dedicated and successful hunter, not so good at actually killing though — as evidenced by the mice she gifted me in bed at night. Mice trapped in the Havaheart currently live a life of captive luxury until they are donated to a person who uses reptiles for educational programs. One mouse, so far uncaught, squeezes into the hamster cage to dine and uses the exercise wheel.

]]> By: sailor https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492624 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:56:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492624 Lots of mice appreciate sunflower seeds. Works well in a haveaheart trap. On he other hand for the snapping kind you need sticky peanut butter.
Sounds weird, but the most mice I caught was just having a bucket with some water in the bottom close by the porch. No bait. That caught more mice than the traps.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492623 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:58:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492623 I leave field mice alone – they’re never a threat and at most are a nuisance when food is scarce. The house mouse on the other hand is as good as dead if I see it; in fact just the other night I swatted one, crushed it’s skull, and tossed it into the garbage can.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492622 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:27:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492622 Well, now your bird feeder is a raptor feeder!

]]> By: GoatRider https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492621 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:24:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/26/how-to-live-trap-mice-and-squi/#comment-492621 I love the idea of an owl feeder! We’ve had an owl family in the neighborhood for the last two summers, I’d love to see them come back. I suspect they aren’t around now, because squirrels have returned to our bird feeder.

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