Conference misery::feline

825.0. "Safe way to get rid of mouse?" by KMOOSE::CMCCUTCHEON (The Karate Moose) Fri Nov 04 1994 17:57

One of our cats brought in a live mouse a few months back.  It found it
way into the insulation around the stove, which makes a "wonderful" aroma
when we turn it on, not from the mouse itself, but from the droppings
it leaves - we replaced the insulation once when we were fooled into thinking
the mouse left somehow.

Both cats appear completely uninterested in the mouse, which has been
seen several times by us, if not the cats.  I've never seen them trying
to get at the mouse.

I've tried several "safe" ways to catch the mouse:

	- plastic one-way in traps.  They worked in another house I
	  had.  Maybe this mouse is too smart?

	- Sticky stuff, kinda like flypaper, only gooey.  I put in back
	  of the stove so the cats wouldn't get in it.  Somehow the thing
	  can get to the peanut butter bait without getting stuck.

Any good ideas?  I'm tired of the "aroma" and don't want to replace the
insulation AGAIN before the thing is gone.  I'm nervous about poisons
since the packages I've read says it takes days, so the cats or my toddler
could find the mouse body before I might.

A quick search showed no other notes via keyword or title...

Charlie

    
    
    	Charlie,
    
    	I'm not sure what the answer is to this challenge. In the HOME_WORK
    
    	notes file refer to note # 5446 I got a mouse in my house!
    
    	Folks are discussing this topic....
    
    	Best of luck
    
    	Mike

    
    Hi Charlie,
    
    Take a look at note 823; there may be some ideas in there that
    could help.  
    
    Donna

Sigh.  823 is only a few notes away.  I looked for "mouse" not "rat".
Guess I can clean up the plastic traps and try again.

Charlie

    
    my girlfriend heard a mouse in the ceiling, so she bought one of those
    little plastic traps.  That didn't work so she bought a hav-a-hart
    trap for $14.  So far she's caught 12!!
    
    deb