You've Got To Laugh Haven't You?
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My husband discovered that mice visited our garage/utility room in the night. They've bitten through the clear plastic bird food containers with lids & tucked into the peanuts, etc., leaving them stewn all over the worktop & floor.
He's reluctantly bringing home a couple of mouse traps & a Mars bar later, to help get rid of them (they love Mars bars!).
We don't want another cat as we love to feed & watch the birds in the garden - undisturbed.
Although we don't really want to kill the mice, what other options do we have? (Apart from not keeping bird food in there).
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My husband just walked in the door & said to our little Granddaughter (aged 3), "Here you are Izzy go & give these to Nanny". I opened the brown paper bag to find two mouse traps - I didn't have the heart to tell her what was inside - she'd never forgive us!
We've both decided to wait until tomorrow to buy some humane traps. We just can't face finding little dead mice in the morning!
I had the same problem in my garage. My husband bought these little trays with a tape or glue like stuff on the surface, we put some peanut butter on it to draw the mice. And they're little feet got stuck to the tape. I know it sounds bad, but it's realy not. The mice were fine, they lived ( in the woods) instead of my garage.And we bought a ultra sonic device like Noxlumos mentioned, and we have not had problems since. Hope this helps.
Thank you Clanad - You are right of course, I probably am being over sensitive, seeing that mice are after all vermin, along with squirrels, etc.
I'd already thought about changing the containers, but you can still get spills when filling the bird feeders (inside if it's raining), etc.
My husband feels the same as you, but he won't kill them unless I give him the nod!
I'm probably going to get a leg smacking for chatting smudge but this reminded me of a funny story
A friend of mine caught a mouse in his house in a humane trap & took it miles away to a lovely parkland and released it along with a tiny packed lunch. I was a bit concerned as to whether a town mouse would take to becoming a country mouse but he said it would be fine. Shortly after I gave him a white sugar mouse with a note tied to it - Found, Cold & Frozen on *** Park.
I'm a soft old Biddy too..... :-)