A couple of weeks ago, Megan and Phil reported seeing a mouse in the house. Being the liberal hippies that we are, we decided to get some live traps so that A) Megan wouldn't have to stumble upon a decapitated mouse corpse B) Jordan wouldn't toddle into an errant trap and get hurt when she put it in her mouth (as she most certainly would) or C) We'd become haunted by cute little ghosts. We started with a couple of traps from PIC. We wound up catching 2 mice in a week or so and released them across the street at the Lutheran church.Well, the second mouse we caught almost chewed through the trap and I was tired of baiting it with peanut butter (it was messy and gross).
Since I figured we probably would have more mice than traps, I ordered a new one from Amazon. Behold, the mousinator! This thing traps mice like no body's business. I set it out in the morning unbaited. When I came home at 2:30, there were 3 mice inside. Three mice and no bait used. I guess they just cant resist a little tunnel to crawl in.They were kind of small so I'm hoping that we got their litter mostly captured and released and that they're joining the choir on Sunday like I always read about when I was a kid. Since then we've caught one more. They're kind of jumpy and Megan still doesn't like them much but this trap is a breeze to set up and use.
We'll keep the ticker updated.
3 comments:
How wonderful that the little mice will grow up with a chruch home. How did you decide which chruch to take them to?
I agree that mice killed in a regular mouse trap are messy and pose a danger to pets and mobile babies.
Well, I certainly don't want the baby mice growing up Methodist.
Not being a hippie, I prefer dCon mouse traps. They have a satisfying clunk when you finally catch that critter that has been eating your Captain Crunch. They have a special enclosure that keeps the mouse ghost trapped until the trap hits your local dump.
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