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Friendly Mouse Traps - Where to buy them?

  • 26-10-2004 10:23am
    #1
    Aisling Ni Dhio
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    I am having a bit of a problem with mice in my house, i live in the country and a few field mice have moved in. They are so brazen they don't even run very fast away when i find them, they obviously know that I am not going to kill them. I want to catch them in one of those friendly mouse traps and release them back into a field 10 miles away. Any idea where I might find those traps?


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  • #2
    Blub2k4
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    I bought one recently from Boardwalk Pets on the quays in Dublin in between the ha'penny and the millenium bridge on the Temple Bar side, it was a Rentokil humane mouse trap and it cost 9.99.
    It worked really well and caught us a really tiny dormouse which I subsequently released.
    Good luck.


  • #3
    Nala
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    I was in Woodies DIY in Lucan today and they had them. I *think* they were $5.99. Good to see not everyone wants to kill them! I saw a field mouse for the first time a while ago and could not BELIEVE how tiny they are!


  • #4
    Blub2k4
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    Before I got my pet rats I would have killed the mouse without thinking about it, but the mouse is really only similar to a small rat so now there is no way I could have done it. My girlfriend was at home when the mouse was caught so I got her to put it into our spare rat cage with shredded paper bedding until I got home to release it. It was a really cute animal and like a tiny version of the rats, no way I could have harmed it. They do smell pretty bad though, the rats have practically no smell.


  • #5
    koneko
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    I used humane mousetraps when we had mice in the new house we'd moved into. It caught all of them. I only bought two but over the space of about 2 weeks we caught 4 or 5 mice (seemed to be a family aswell as 2 of them were tiny and went in the trap at the same time - which was cute).


  • #6
    luckat
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    You might also want to borrow a *male* cat. Not to be sexist or anything, but generally female cats are better hunters; but for some strange reason mice dislike the heavy scent of a male cat, and will often move out.

    I get mice moving in every winter too; apart from the endless cleaning this requires (getting rid of their scent trail with hot water, detergent and citronella, to make them feel disoriented) I don't actually mind too much - even though they do spread disease with their urine - but what I can't stand is the fleas they bring. Go away, mice!

    I've never found the *black* humane traps any good, but the see-through ones worked fine when I could get them.


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