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The "green blocks of poison" are intentionally slow acting. The mouse will become dehydrated and search for water. This prevents the mouse from dying in the wall and smelling. If they've eaten some of it, it is only a matter of time.
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Get one of those massive rat-killer hotels they put along the walls in warehouses. Many mice will die in there. Or use tip traps with peanut butter if you love the mice!
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My mom bought some new kind of plastic reusable trap that was supposed to be easier to set that kills the mouse instantly. I went over to her house the other day and she was asking my dad to clear out the trap, only to find the hammer had snapped down, but left the mouse alive. My parents' plan was to let it die, then clean it out. Now, I'm perfectly fine with traps that kill mice, so long as they die in relatively short order (instantly, really), but I have a problem with letting any living thing suffer needlessly, especially because it's too icky to actually kill it yourself when your trap doesn't do it.
So after my parents steadfastly refused to kill the mouse, I took it outside and tried to free it, but it was clearly too maimed even after I released it and prodded it a little. So I killed it. Then I forbade my parents from using anything but the spring loaded old-fashioned traps that have never failed to kill them in the past.
Was kind of a surreal evening, but, I think I did the mouse a favor.
PS. Peanut butter ALWAYS worked for us growing up. We used to have terrible mice problems because our neighbor has this huge wood pile that they'd breed in. I think our record one year was something like 40 or 50 mice.
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We have a possum living in our (open) garage. We just spray it with vinegar water when we catch it eating the cat's food. Works pretty well. Posts: 6367 | Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:Originally posted by PSI Teleport: We have a possum living in our (open) garage. We just spray it with vinegar water when we catch it eating the cat's food. Works pretty well.
But not so well that the possum has... y'know... left? He's still there?
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