Humane mouse traps??

[SeaSpray]

Does anyone know where I can buy some humane mouse traps?? I have a mouse in my house who deserves to live!! LOL Long story, but after this mouse getting out of several traditional type traps, this thing DESERVES to live!!! LOL

I want a trap that would catch the mouse but not harm it, so we can let it go out in the woods.

I can find them online, but I'd rather see if I can find a store nearby so I can just go buy them. Does anyone know of any big stores that sell them?? Thanks! And the mouse thanks you too

 

[DawnCt]

They are called Have a Heart traps. I used to have one to catch our ever escaping hamster. You can usually find them at farm supplies stores. If not, look on the internet. I tried to catch a house mouse on a sticky board one time, thinking it would just hold the mouse until I unstuck him. It was awful. I felt very bad. I had to bathe the mouse in Avon Skin so Soft to remove the glue. He lived but it was traumatic for all of us. The mouse was screaming, the kids were crying, etc. Don't use sticky boards.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I would think a local hardware store or maybe the garden section in Home Depot.

 

[piglet too]

Ditto to what Dan said. I bought ours at either Home Depot or True Value (or maybe ACE) Hardware. They work real good, that is how we caught the mice at my parents house. Some people say to use peanut butter to entice the mouse, we never had to use anything. Just lay it along pathways the mouse is known to use and check every other day or so.

 

[minniepumpernickel]

I still have nightmares about those awful sticky traps. My neighbor had a ton of them, and used to call me all the time to help free baby birds, and other small rodents. She even had a snake stuck to it once. That one just had to die there, I don't touch snakes!

Dawn's idea of the "Have a heart trap" sounds like the best!

 

[MosMom]

Yes, they are like little boxes and when the mouse walks in it triggers the door to close. You know you have got one when the box ticks back and forth. Just make sure to get the mouse out fast or it will die of shock.

 

[SeaSpray]

Thanks, I will go to Home Depot and hopefully they'll have them there.

Believe it or not, this mouse HAS been stuck to a glue trap and got himself off!!! (While DSs and I were away last week, DH put out 2 glue traps, with a spoonful of peanut butter in the center. The next morning when DH woke up, this mouse was stuck in one of the glue traps, with his tail stuck in the second glue trap that was right next to it. His FACE and all 4 legs were stuck in the glue. So, DH tossed the glue traps and the mouse, STILL ALIVE, into a plastic bag, then put the bag out on the back, enclosed porch {If I were there, I would NOT have allowed him to put this poor live mouse out there in a bag!} but later that day, DH looked out at the porch, saw a hole chewed in the plastic bag, and mouse sitting next to it, looking back at him!! LOL)

Prior to the glue traps he had licked the peanut butter off of 3 traditional snap-type traps without setting them off, SEVERAL times over!! We wish we would've set up our video camera overnight so we could've taped the mouse going to the 3 traps and licking off the teaspoon full of peanut butter on each one, without setting them off!! We're calling him Houdini Mouse, and that's why I want him to live. This little sucker deserves to live after all this! LOL

 

[Kermit]

We've used those successfully. I think I got them at Home Depot.

Just a word of warning: They're only humane if you remember where you put all of them and then check them frequently. It sounds obvious, but we forgot all about one of them when we picked them back up. The smell eventually reminded us about it.

 

[Bob Slydell]

There a similar product called "Mice Cubes" that, I believe, they sell at places like WalMart.

 

[Cruisin]

We have used those kinds of traps before.

I did read somewhere though that you should release the mouse at least, I think it was, 2 miles away from where it was found. Apparently if you release them too close then they will find their way back into your house.

 

[petula]

I wish I'd asked everyone here the secret to these a few years ago. I had absolutely no success with them. Found them easily in Tru Value though.

 

[MosMom]

We put peanut butter and bacon in ours. Never caught a mouse with cheese but they seem to love peanut butter with a little piece of bacon stuck in it.

 

[catsrule]

We used one when Simba brought a live mouse into the house. Put peanut butter in it and the next day the critter was in it. DH took it to the woods and released it. I think you can buy them almost anywhere.

 

[SeaSpray]

Thanks everyone!! I went out this morning and bought 3 of them. Later DH will set them up around the house. We'll be sure to check them so we can release Houdini out into the woods. Hopefully he won't find his way back. I think with the weather warming up he'll be OK outside and not try to seek out the warmth of the house.

I'm really happy that these traps exist because I really felt bad about luring a mouse into a trap only to kill it

 

[lindajo]

Good luck with the traps! We have one that is like a metal shoe box. The mousie walks in the hole and sets off a little thing that lifts and tosses him into another section of the box. DH used to set it all the time, marking a little mouse figure on the box with each capture. After we caught about 20 of the little critters, they stopped coming for awhile. I told DH to mark him with paint, because I think it was the same little guy coming back in each time!!LOL! Anyway, I'm glad to see there are so many folks out there who would go to the trouble of "live" capture. Oh yeah, they do like peanut butter. The other night, I heard one of em crunching away on something in my room. The next day I moved a laundry basket, and found that he had gotten some of kid's Reese's Pieces, but he completely cleaned out the peanut butter and left the candy shell! The little buggers!!!!