Oct 7, 2011 21:27:38 GMT
nev90
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Post by nev90 on Jan 14, 2012 0:15:14 GMT
Releasing the mice away from your home is giving your mouse problem to someone else. Maybe they'll catch them and release them near you
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Jan 14, 2012 7:24:52 GMT
Releasing the mice away from your home is giving your mouse problem to someone else. Maybe they'll catch them and release them near you I can't agree more. |
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Post by brian1 on Jan 14, 2012 12:02:34 GMT
Releasing the mice away from your home is giving your mouse problem to someone else. Maybe they'll catch them and release them near you I agree Nev, I was thinking perhaps a woodland, away from a built up area......... |
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
Marianne Marlow
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jan 14, 2012 12:13:22 GMT
There are always more mice though no matter how many are disposed of. It's better to make sure they can't get in to your aviary.
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Post by brian1 on Jan 14, 2012 12:18:33 GMT
There are always more mice though no matter how many are disposed off. It's better to make sure they can't get in to your aviary. So true Marianne, I do check every night, look for holes etc; the floors are solid 2" slabs so should be safe.........  |
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Jan 14, 2012 15:18:05 GMT
There are always more mice though no matter how many are disposed off. It's better to make sure they can't get in to your aviary. That's right. When there is one, there are always more. |
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Jan 12, 2012 20:06:54 GMT
susan
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Post by susan on Jan 15, 2012 20:10:11 GMT
I have two of those very traps. We had a gap in the oak flooring where the central heating pipe came up. That is where the field mice were coming up from. We caught about 4 in it and one time two tiny babies at once. You have to drive over 3 miles away otherwise the mice remember their way back. It was a real pain to do that but I too could not face killing them. We used to release them in the field around 4 miles away.
Sometimes it was funny to see the confusion on their faces when we opened the lid. they would stand and look around before making a run for it.
I used to put peanut butter in it or fresh peanuts that we put in the birds feeders. That always attracted them.
We also have a plastic one that would be like a seesaw that tipped down once they were in there trapping them inside it but if they were there over night they could chew away at the plastic.
Don't put the traps in a garage or somewhere that you will not often check as they will starve to death which isn't nice.
I too do not kill spiders.
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Oct 7, 2011 21:27:38 GMT
nev90
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Post by nev90 on Jan 16, 2012 4:05:25 GMT
The mice that come around our aviaries are house mice not field mice so no matter where they are released they will search for human habitation to make their home. Anyone who doesn't like killing mice should either not catch them or get someone else to dispose of them. Don't infest another persons home
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Jan 16, 2012 9:23:46 GMT
Very good point Nev  |
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Post by Captain Howdy on Jan 17, 2012 15:50:53 GMT
I use these, very good for getting more than one a time, plus no chance of any birds being hurt or accidently eating poison etc, no dead mice in where the birds can get to them either.
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Jan 12, 2012 20:06:54 GMT
susan
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Post by susan on Jan 17, 2012 18:22:23 GMT
We have never had house mice where we live at the moment. I know they are bigger and ugly. But the field mice are tiny and have big ears. They are the only ones we had coming in our house.
I release them in the woods so they do not come back as there are no houses anywhere near.
But I understand about the worry of giving them to someone else.
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