Mice

Someone I know has mice. Since Gary and I were able to survive The Great Mouse Infestation of '87, we feel we can give advice. Got mice? Consider your options, one of which is glue traps.

1. Glue traps. Why?

• The mice really suffer, and after your husband sweetly buys Humane Mouse Traps for the darlings, and they bite him as they are released into the field, and then run directly back into the house, you will want them to suffer.
• I mean, they really SUFFER. If you get two stuck on one trap (as we did when we acquired thirty-one mice while we futzed around with Humane Mouse Traps) they will mercifully kill each other by chewing each others heads off.

2.  Glue traps. Why not?

• You wake up every day to the screaming of the mice, Clarice. Out of compassion, you have to euthanize the mousies.
• The mousies cling to life. You can elect to throw them away and let them starve (cruel!) or to drown them (very effective) or to hit them on their heads with a hammer.
• DON'T HIT THE MOUSIES ON THE HEAD WITH A HAMMER. Because you will miss, and then on the upswing you will have a mouse coming at your face, stuck to a glue trap, stuck to a hammer. Then you will have to throw the hammer away. And, you will have to flash back that image every time you use a hammer.

See me? See how I give and give and give?

Comments

[ariel]

I don't know how it would work on a larger property, but when I lived in Paris last year I got rid of my "roommate" by using an electric device. I've seen a lot on the internet saying they're a scam, but it actually worked for me. It can take up to a couple of weeks, but eventually it just "annoys" the mice away.

The one I used was called an "Electro-Chat" but judging by the spelling of "Cat" I would say that's a french model.

[Becs]

It may not be fun for the mouse, but cats are an excellent solution to the problem. A 1 - 2 year old with a playful 'tude. I am willing to rent out one of my gang. I suggest Phoebe, Dylan, or Sophie. Our list of choices is extensive.

[KD]

We use the old fashioned snap-their-necks mousetraps. A little peanut butter and birdseed for a tempting treat and -SNAP- no more mousie.

[KC]

I'm soooo glad that my boss just left for the day, because this post made me truly laugh-out-loud. The guffaw would have given away the fact that I'm messing around instead of working like I should.

I have a cat, but I don't think he's a mouser. Too old and lazy for that kind of fun.

[Caroline]

You could try my parents approach. Deny there's a problem. Leave on a 4 month RV trip. Ask the kids to check on the house. Allow them to be horrified by what they find. Let them set traps and throw away everything in the cabinets, then check them weekly so that the dead mice can't smell up the place. Return home. Grocery shop.

[melati]

Why can't mouse and human co-exist peacefully? Learn to live with your fellow Planet Earth citizen.

If not, just don't lead your mice out of the house and try to burn them in a pile of leaves in your backyard because one of those damn mice are going to go running out of that leafy inferno straight into your house, make it's way into your walls, and your whole house will be gone faster than you can say Fuck Me Mickey.

[TheQueen]

So, to summarize, here are some other options:

1. Go to Paris to buy a French electronic device.
2. Get a young go-getter New Jersey (not old/lazy) cat.
3. Have children so they can kill the mice while you RV.
4. Co-exist with the mouse by promising not to go all Tibetan monk on their mousie asses.