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Post by Crescent Tail Sevyn on Jun 11, 2007 8:18:01 GMT
Well found out few days ago a big rat sneaked into my house through a open door, last night I saw himm pretty big for a rat and long as well, a Weiner rat XD, were able to get him outside last night. He found his way back into the house but through the vents today.
Does anyone know of a humane way of getting the rat outside and to stop him from getting inside again ?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 10:56:24 GMT
Get a large trap that you can buy at some pet shops/garden store etc. that is non-harming, and put some food in there. Then, if it's in the cage the next day, take it some place faaaaar away. This is what we did first of all with the squirrels. But we didn't take them far enough, and they kept coming back. So in the end we had to get someone to put up harmful traps.
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Post by Robshi on Jun 11, 2007 11:35:21 GMT
At one point we had a mouse infestation in one of our kitchen cupboards. We put up a trap that had food in, and mechanism that trapped the mouse once it started eating the food. We took every trapped mouse outside into our garden and let it go.
I find this ironic considering we have four cats in our household, and the mouse count was into the thirties at one point, but we got rid of them eventually.
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Post by captainkitsune on Jun 11, 2007 14:52:31 GMT
I think you can get like little cage thing so you can put them somewhere else without killing them, like a food trap.
Hope you don't have to kill it ):
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Post by lonesoviet on Jun 11, 2007 21:42:53 GMT
Use a havahart trap. Their designed not to kill, you just bait it with food. My grandpa uses em, but he baits them with d-CON, so it kinda defeats the purpose of not killing them. =/
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Post by Robshi on Jun 11, 2007 22:27:34 GMT
One time, I noticed that our cat Molly was hovering round a corridor in our house. I looked and managed to spot a mouse scuttling round in between a pile of shoes. I shooed Molly away and decided I'd catch the thing myself. This was one difficult task. That mouse was fast, but I could clearly make out that is was hiding behind a shoe. I managed to corner it one the other side of the corridor. It began climbing up a curtain over a door in the corridor. I watched it, and decided to try and put it on the palm of my hand and take it outside. As I moved my hand up to do this, the mouse leapt off the curtain (from a good six or seven feet up), landed in the shoes, then shot into our utility room. I tried to find it again, but gave up. It had gotten away. I assume it left the house and got outside at some point by its own will, seeing as none of our cats ever caught it and I never saw it again. Although I guess this is what convinced Squaresoft (Now Square-Enix) to make Freya a Dragon Knight with the awesome Jump command... ;D--> -->
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2007 11:04:23 GMT
Hehe jumping mice = jumping Freya. Nice idea! XD
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Post by drake on Jun 23, 2007 17:46:43 GMT
I suggest all the humane traps but the Sticky Traps, nine times out of ten the mouse will die after being on one. Possibly one of those Door Traps.
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Post by captainkitsune on Jun 23, 2007 23:22:28 GMT
^^^ Is that really true? That's sad :/
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Post by drake on Jun 28, 2007 1:51:46 GMT
Yep, they will gnaw their paws off and bleed to death, sorry to be morbid but its true.
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Post by ajcrescent on Jun 29, 2007 14:27:19 GMT
Those shouldn't even be allowed. If you really have to kill something, you should do it quickly and at least near-painlessly. There's absolutely no point in making it suffer an agonizing death just because one doesn't want it in their house.
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