Frillylily said:the only problem with that is they crawl off in the wall and die and they rot and smell horrible, that is why I always use traps.
Frillylily said:I generally use live traps with good success, but have my own experience . . . poor little mousy was mid-way in the trap. I just so happened to have a rain barrel. I had heard a story direct from a diver (man who loved to dive) that went too deep, did not have enough air to make it back to top (no gear), actually drowned, was recussitated (sp?) and said how peaceful it was after he died for minutes after that gulp of water he had to take. So I drowned mousy and he died very quickly -- but I cried and had to turn my head.
Little mousie had its legs in it, but was very much alive -It was AWFUL. I put him in a sandwhich bag and laid him on CEMENT (not soft ground) and very swiftly ended him flat on with a concrete block. Gross, yes, but it was the best fasted thing for him.
Frillylily said:
The poppy seeds may work, I would be interested. But unless it eats enough of them, it may just make it really sick.
Frillylily said:The poppy seeds may work, I would be interested. But unless it eats enough of them, it may just make it really sick. You would have no way of knowing if the mouse ate only one seed or the whole pile. Suppose it brought the seeds back to it's 'nest' and 5 mice shared them? they would all be very ill but none die?