humane way to get rid of mice???

Last weekend I was cleaning out my garage for a big yard sale and found *gasp* mouse droppings!!! I cleaned the floor and the next day, there were new mouse droppings all over. EWWW..

Now my challenge is- I HATE the thought of any animal suffering more than necessary even though I KNOW mice carry diseases, etc. I went to the store and looked at various traps/poison but I literally got a queasy stomach just thinking of the poor mice who'd get trapped on the glue trap or eating poison and suffering before dying.

Another issue is that I found a hole in the wall that I think mice are coming from so I'm afraid that some mice might crawl back into that hole and die therefore the house will stink for a few weeks.

What are your advice about this?? I bought a Sonic pestchaser but haven't used it. it's EXPENSIVE $15 for one but it's supposed to chase rodnets away with a high sound beeping. My question is- would this work? Or is it better to buy some kind of trap or poison?

If so, what is the best and humane way to kill a mouse without me seeing or having to handle a dead body? I might cry if I see a dead mouse. I KNOW this is silly but it's real hard for me to see any dead animals.

HELP.

Hey it's not silly at all. I have a prob killing anything.

We got a small have a heart trap. Like for squirrils. Ive got quite a few that way. We have a cemetary down the road, actually where my dad is buried. I take every mouse down there and let it go in the fields.

What we had to do tho was line it with hardware cloth because once a mouse tried to get out through the grid and got stuck and died. I felt so bad. So it takes a bit of work, cutting the wire and zip stripping it onto the trap. Don't know if you want to go through all that.

But it works good. Bait it with a cracker and peanut butter or wet catfood. And take the mouse far far away. Like a 1/2 mile or it will come back.

Good luck.

Where do I get this have a heart trap? How much was it?

If you already have the electronic pest repeller I would try that before you start buying traps.

I don't know if they really work or not. I bought them when I had squirrels visiting my basement. They had come in twice while I was not home.

After I put in the electronic repeller they stopped coming. I donâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t know if it was because of that or that they just liked the neighbors basement better.

You should also plug up any holes that they might be using to get in.

Don't they have little plastic live traps? I thought I've seen them.

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I haven't ever had mice but my kitty acts as a spider killer. He never eats them (thank goodness) he just likes to squash 'em dead.

I ordered a 3 pack for $11.99. They have an annoying click like water dripping. You eventually get used to it. IDK if is working but the cats aren't staring at the walls anymore.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ef=oss_product

I use an electronic repeller in my Gite (holliday cottage) and I find it works well, so I would give yours a try first before you buy something else.

I forgot about the electronic repellers - that would be most humane - just scare them away.

Other then that I know Dcon kills them pretty quickly and they don't suffer. The WORSE and most inhumane are the glue traps. Personally they should be banned intirely. Even if you don't like mice, that is the most cruel form of killing something.

When we had a mouse many years ago we bought a humane trap. We put it out one night and the next day had the mouse. We took the trap and mouse to a local park and let the mouse out. Here is one example. Its not like the one we have, but that was like 20 years ago, so I'm sure they have a lot more options now then they did then. Just google humane mouse trap.

http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Mouse-Tr.../dp/B000YFA7HW

Try trapping them with a humane trap and releasing them into a distant field.

Mice are tiny little prey animals that rely on the cover of their territory to protect them from predators. Whenever you take an animal completely from it's territory it has no safety, does not know where to look for food or water, and usually dies from lack of. Trapping and releasing in another location is not really humane - it just makes people feel better because they don't have to watch the animal die or see it dead. But you still cause it's death.

This goes for all sorts of animals, not just mice. Relocating is simply not humane.


To the OP: if you have a bad mouse infestation you would be better off finding a quality exterminator. They would find and patch up any points of entry, plus come back for any rodent clean up.

I don't see how De-Con could cause a painless death, being that they bleed to death internally....that can't be nice.

The old-fashioned snap traps are the most humane. I think they sell covered ones so you don't have to see the body. Or have someone else remove the traps.

I just let the pets handle it. Scotty once caught a mouse in my parents' garage. And there was a rat in my garage one winter, causing all kinds of damage. I was considering my options, then I found the body in the backyard. The dogs caught it. So far I haven't had to take care of such things myself.

It would be a good idea to hire someone to find all the mouse entries and seal them up. Otherwise you'll just have more. For now make sure there's absolutely nothing in there for a mouse to eat.

umm when I lived with my parents we never had to worry about mice since we always had a cat.

WHen I got moo and he started to go after them as well...well that is when the mouse population disappeared.

My parents now have 2 new cats and they report no mice activitiy. It is almost as if they are afraid of the cats!

now that i live in an apartment...my kitties earn their keep by eating any bug that DARE ventures into our apartment. WHen we had an ant infestion (caused by our down stairs neighbors) my cats were happily spending their day licking ants off the floor. It may not be humane but it is in their nature.

If you have cats you should not poison your mice. If perchance your cat found one of the mice that was poisoned and ate it, it might get poisoned too. Mechanical traps humane or not are a better bet. And be sure to tell any hired exterminators that you have cats.