How do you catch a Mouse?

[SandraC]

Not Mickey Mouse....a real MOUSE! Today my dd came screaming out of her room that there was ghost under her bed! I went in giggling BUT IT WAS A MOUSE! EEEEK! So what do we do? I know this isn't the place to post this, but dh thought Mouse experts would know! THANKS! S

 

[Chuck S]

Build a little theme park under the bed. In the Haunted House with 999 happy haunts (room for 1000), put a mouse trap at the exit.

 

[Kirk]

Very nice Chuck S!!!


How 'bout donating it to the "Pirates"? Some of them look like they could use a little meat for their bones!

 

[btuftee]

*rimshot* Hehe... it's amateur night at the PI Comedy Club! Thank you, I'll be here all week!

Seriously, I'd get some of that sticky paper stuff for catching little Mickey. Just don't kill him though. Big Mickey might catch wind of it and have a nasty surprise in store for you next time you visit his house in Toontown. Don't say I didn't warn you.

 

[disneefamily]

Disnee Dad Says...............................How about useing a mouse trap!!! I like the black plastic ones where dude goes inside the trap and gets it. Then you can toss the whole thing if you are squeemish. Or release the carcass and use it over.
And use peanut butter, not cheese for the bait. Works like a charm. The odor is stronger, and seems to say "mmmmm peanut butter, come eat me!"
When your cat starts looking at the walls and is all confused, you have a mouse! It happened a few years ago to us. Went into the crawl space above the garage and saw proof if you know what I mean! Set two up there and one in the garage. The garage one got one by morning, dumped mouse and reset. Came home from work and had another one. Dumped and reset. Nothing for two days. Never did get one in the crawl space!

 

[bunnyfoo]

Same thing happened to me yesterday ... I was playing a video game in my boyfriend's basement and noticed something out of the corner of my eye ... a mouse I noticed he had been nibbling on a chocolate bar ... so you could always put some chocolate in your trap We've got ours out but We're using one of those traps with a door that slams shut once the mouse walks in. So far, he hasn't taken the bait yet.

 

[SandraC]

Thank all ~ dh put 4 traps in dd's room last night and I stuffed a towel under the door so it won't get out of the room. I freaked out here!

We have a couple of options. We could move. But I like the 'build a theme park under her bed idea."

We thought about sending our cat into the room, but she doesn't know she is a cat and would be scared out of her wits. She would be like that cat in Peepy LaPew (sp?) cartoons. You know, the black cat that accidentally gets a white line of paint down her back and Peepy the skunk thinks the cat is a female skunk ~ Le Pant, Le Pant! I could just see my cat in the room with a mouse. She would be spread eagle up against the door begging for her life, "STOP, I have children, take them!".

If the mouse wore white gloves, black shorts with big buttons and could carry a tune, I might consider letting it stay. But at this point who knows what will happen. I'll keep you posted! THANKS Sandra

 

[browneyes]

If I have a persistent mouse, I borrow my brother's dog. He's a good mouse catcher.

 

[SandraC]

....or I can name the mouse Stewart Little and go from there. S

 

[TRAPPED-PARENT]

We had mice in our shed last year. Good old fashion mouse trap with --- a piece of Payday candybar!!!

It was so sticky and a bit solid, that the mouse wouldn't be able to pull it out and WHACK!!!! We got HIM!!!!!!

 

[MosMom]

I can't really offer suggestions on how to catch a mouse but I just have to say that I just woke up and my eyes are quite foggy. As I read your title I thought it said...

How to catch a MOOSE. LOL I had to read a few times before that U came into focus. hahaha

 

[Mskanga]

LOL MosMom, you are not alone on this , the other day I went to walmart and I saw one of these motorized store scooters with the tray on the front and there was a sign that said " No children in the basket " and I read " No chicken in the basket " I thought, why can't people put chicken in the basket??? Then I read it again and laughed.

 

[MosMom]

Originally posted by Mskanga
LOL MosMom, you are not alone on this , the other day I went to walmart and I saw one of these motorized store scooters with the tray on the front and there was a sign that said " No children in the basket " and I read " No chicken in the basket " I thought, why can't people put chicken in the basket??? Then I read it again and laughed.

LOL Too funny!

 

[cinmell]

The sticky mouse traps work pretty good.

 

[phanomouse]

I know you have gotten a lot of suggestions and maybe you've already caught the mouse. But I decided to reply just in case.

I bought a home that is 112 yrs old here in Utah, I have been restoring the home over the past year and have found that the mice own it not me. I tried everything I could... traps, poison, exterminator. NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK. Then my father came to see the home and I told him about my problem, he suggested Glue traps (its a little plate with glue in it and food in the middle) He also suggested a humane trap (a plastic box in the shape of a house that once they go in they can't get back out)I tried both and caught 9 mice in a day!!! they work I promise... Good Luck hunting... OH I used to try to trap a mouse in the room that I saw it in first by sealing off the door and laying lots of traps in it... it doesn't usually work I found that they somehow either got out before or found another way

 

[SandraC]

Yeah, I figure he's not in dd's room anymore either, but I'm sitting in my house alone right now and I have to trick myself that he is still trapped. We figure he got in thru the bathroom vent that goes outside. dh and I noticed mouse do-do and fallen insulation in the bathroom. The little sucker is fast! I haven't seen it yet. dh says it's about 3 cm long with a very long tail. dd (she is 9) says it's 3 feet long, has fangs, swears and smokes non-filtered cigarettes. Personally, I hope I don't see the little fella! S

 

[Mskanga]

One thing Sandra...if there's any wholes where you have an opening , stuff it with steel wool, they don't get through that.

 

[Lanshark]

Sticky traps work great but you have to deal with a mouse that is hopelessly stuck in the goo. Then the only humane thing to do is drown it. The little black box thing works better. Then at least you don't have to handle the thing.

I have a feeling just the smell of your cat will keep the mouse away. Make sure to find out where he is coming from and block that entrance. The last thing you want is a family setting up house.

 

[antnee]

I have heard that if you fry up some bacon and use that as food in the trap works just as well also. As for blocking the doors, dont waste you time the little guys cn get thru almost anything I saw one come under a door that was tight to the ground. They have almost no bones in their body and can go flat as a pancake.

 

[bunnyfoo]

One thing about sending a cat in ... you might have a bigger mess to clean up I guess it depends on what the cat does with the mouse when he's done catching him.