I feel like a total jerk

[Angry Irishman]

Get the trap that basically electrocutes them quickly and most likely painlessly.

Its a box with a metal plate on the bottom powered by a battery. They step on the metal plate thus completing the circuit while getting at the peanut butter at the other end and POW their heart stops.

You don't have to crush, glue or drown them this way. This little box is the most humane and cleanest method IMO.

http://www.amazon.com/Victor-M2524-...50892997&sr=8-1&keywords=electrocute+mice+box

 

[Red Squirrel]

Get the trap that basically electrocutes them quickly and most likely painlessly.

Its a box with a metal plate on the bottom powered by a battery. They step on the metal plate thus completing the circuit while getting at the peanut butter at the other end and POW their heart stops.

You don't have to crush, glue or drown them this way. This little box is the most humane and cleanest method IMO.

http://www.amazon.com/Victor-M2524-E...ocute+mice+box

Yeah I'm thinking of that, given I'm catching so many of em. These can store a bunch of bodies per set. Was thinking this:

http://www.amazon.com/Victor-M260-Mu...ef=pd_sim_lg_7

With this:

http://www.amazon.com/RATT001-Zapper...ef=pd_sim_lg_7

I can then wire that to my environmental server so I get an email when a mouse is caught.

The nice thing with the snap traps though is they're extremely easy to wire up and generally do instantly kill except for this one time.

I think I will have to also put some in my other attic, since if I have some in this one I probably have some in the other. Though I think they are interconnected. It was hard to tell when I was in there.

 

[Colt45]

Get a snake :awe:

 

[OBLAMA2009]

If it makes you feel better, I never thought of you as an asshole.
A naive, ignorant dickhead, yes.

killing mice doesnt make you an ahole, theyre aholes for coming in your house and ruining everything

 

[Red Squirrel]

Get a snake :awe:

Hmm that would totally work too. Need to go in the south and see if I can pick one up somewhere.

I could also build an attic rover with laser turrets. Pew pew pew!

 

[tcsenter]

I try to catch them live and release them about 1/3 mile down the road in a field. A friend of the family used to say, hamsters are just rodents that got a fair shake from society.

 

[Charles Kozierok]

You don't have to crush, glue or drown them this way. This little box is the most humane and cleanest method IMO.

http://www.amazon.com/Victor-M2524-E...ocute+mice+box

I bought one of these. Absolutely useless.

The Rat Zappers do work. They cost more.

The bucket trap is nearly free, works on multiple mice, and pretty foolproof. It does require you to get your hands a bit dirty, though.

 

[PingSpike]

Yeah, you should get one of them taser traps for rodents. Only takes a couple D batteries and kills the motherfuckers instantly. Use PB&J for their last meal.

I have one of these, its pretty awesome. Unfortunately, a chipmunk got trapped in my garage once and got wasted by it but its killed tons of mice with no real mess or torturous deaths. It doesn't even have bait in it right now but mice still walk into it when they run along the walls and die.

 

[PingSpike]

Fuck mice. I don't like killing them but I didn't go to their house and start shitting all over it so they're asking for it.

The only thing mice are good for is feeding other cooler animals.

 

[ichy]

Glue traps are nasty and inhumane, but other than using those killing mice doesn't bother me. They're disease spreading vermin. Snap traps have always worked pretty well for me (every mouse I've ever killed in one had its head smashed so it would've died instantly) but nothing beats having a cat.

 

[lxskllr]

Wish thermal imaging cameras were not so freaking expensive. Could probably track them from inside.

I wish you made more money. I'd love to see the ridiculous tech you'd use for various things if money weren't an issue :^D

If you wanted to do something on the cheap, perhaps you could make pressure switches that notified you when stepped on. You'd be limited to single spots, but you might be able to narrow down where they're coming from. It could be a fun project anyway.

 

[olds]

...15 minutes pass. The apartment begins to smell of burning flesh.

Had one commmit suicide once.
Mouse got in house. We set traps/looked all over for it and never caught/found it.
Later on, I smell something rotten coming from the refridgerator. I slide it out and there is a dead mouse behind it with a gash on the top of his head. He had ran into the fan blades.

 

[alkemyst]

Had one commmit suicide once.
Mouse got in house. We set traps/looked all over for it and never caught/found it.
Later on, I smell something rotten coming from the refridgerator. I slide it out and there is a dead mouse behind it with a gash on the top of his head. He had ran into the fan blades.

lollercopter?

 

[olds]

Stealth edit...

 

[werepossum]

Two humane alternatives. First, use live traps and convince your local pet shop that you're a breeder of pet mice. When life gives you lemons, sell them to those fools who like pet lemons.

Second, build a small but strong catapult. Er, mouseapult. That way the mouse's survival is between it and G-d*. Don't like the impact, evolve the ability to fly, bitch. Hey, squirrels did it. And if you're not as bright as a freaking airhead squirrel you got no business living in a house.

*This is assuming the mouseapult is not combined with skeet shooting . . .

Seriously, I understand your reluctance; they ARE cute. This spring I caught a mouse in the house that one of our cats had cornered but not yet mauled. Little shit bit the blood out of my hand. I've probably caught a hundred or more and released them outside, first one that ever bit me. At first I thought I'd picked up a shrew by mistake as a couple of years shrews repeatedly entered the house, lived under the stairs, and ate cat food, but no, it was a big mouse. (Or maybe a small rat, though it had big mouse ears; I wouldn't intentionally pick up a rat with my bare hands.) Second time I was more cautious and picked him up trapping his head and shoulders between thumb and forefinger, and carrying him outside I could feel and hear his jaws impotently snapping. On some level I have to admire that fearless behavior. Of course, on another level I have the urge to stomp that sucker flat . . .

 

[highland145]

*This is assuming the mouseapult is not combined with skeet shooting . . .

Fun, do you know what it is?

Think I'd like to try this with the squirrel re locator.

 

[alkemyst]

Two humane alternatives. First, use live traps and convince your local pet shop that you're a breeder of pet mice. When life gives you lemons, sell them to those fools who like pet lemons.

Second, build a small but strong catapult. Er, mouseapult. That way the mouse's survival is between it and G-d*. Don't like the impact, evolve the ability to fly, bitch. Hey, squirrels did it. And if you're not as bright as a freaking airhead squirrel you got no business living in a house.

*This is assuming the mouseapult is not combined with skeet shooting . . .

Seriously, I understand your reluctance; they ARE cute. This spring I caught a mouse in the house that one of our cats had cornered but not yet mauled. Little shit bit the blood out of my hand. I've probably caught a hundred or more and released them outside, first one that ever bit me. At first I thought I'd picked up a shrew by mistake as a couple of years shrews repeatedly entered the house, lived under the stairs, and ate cat food, but no, it was a big mouse. (Or maybe a small rat, though it had big mouse ears; I wouldn't intentionally pick up a rat with my bare hands.) Second time I was more cautious and picked him up trapping his head and shoulders between thumb and forefinger, and carrying him outside I could feel and hear his jaws impotently snapping. On some level I have to admire that fearless behavior. Of course, on another level I have the urge to stomp that sucker flat . . .

A big trebechet filled with free iPhones is my solution to the immigration problem.

 

[Capt Caveman]

In my first house, I had mice. I just caught them and released them on the other side of town.

 

[sjwaste]

A big trebechet filled with free iPhones is my solution to the immigration problem.

Careful. I think RedSquirrel might be designing a mouse trebuchet that is auto-loaded from one of those live mouse traps, with remote, computer-controlled launch capabilities, as we speak.

Actually, that would be incredible.

Red - just make sure to write Aguilar's name on one of the mice.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I've used these live traps: http://www.tomcatbrand.com/live_traps.html

Worked like a charm if you every feel bad about actually killing them. I think I've finally taken care of my mouse problem. I think in the past 6 mos I've gotten rid of/killed about 20 of the little fuckers. I've been lucky in that they've only been in the garage and not in the house. I set a few more live traps and so far haven't caught anything. They shit and piss on everything. I've thrown out a bunch of shit because of them. Now, since I think the problem is solved, I'll be able to clean out my garage and start putting boxes in my attic. I'll be reboxing everything first to make sure there aren't more rodents in them first though.

 

[Nintendesert]

What kind of pathetic retrogressing sack of semi-human shit feels pity for vermin?? You disgust me. You're not fit to be on the same food chain level as I am.

 

[werepossum]

In my first house, I had mice. I just caught them and released them on the other side of town.

Another sound business opportunity. Take out ads in gay magazines.

Got a friend, relative or coworker telling you how you're offending G-d? Try Red Squirrel's new Plague O'Mice to make them rethink their stance! < cut to sketch >

"I dunno, looks like you're the one G-d is visiting with plagues. Wouldn't want to be in YOUR shoes come Judgment Day!"

For maximum effect, be sure and follow up with Red Squirrel's new Plague O'Frogs and Red Squirrel's new Plague O'Locusts too! And for a great practical joke, try Red Squirrel's new Plague O'Mice in environmentally friendly hot neon colors!

Granted this doesn't have quite the technological challenge of building an automated mouseapult with automatic aiming compensation for weight and fluffiness and user-defined mouse distribution, but it could bring in a nice second income.

 

[Kadarin]

After mice spend some time making a disaster of your house, you will no longer have any interest in being "humane" toward them. It'll be all-out war. Mice are evil, disgusting vermin that deserve extermination.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

feel no pity for these vermin. they deserve the most brutal demise imaginable.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

After mice spend some time making a disaster of your house, you will no longer have any interest in being "humane" toward them. It'll be all-out war. Mice are evil, disgusting vermin that deserve extermination.

quoted for truth. my own yearly battle has already begun.