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Thread #55444 Message #861415
Posted By: IanC
08-Jan-03 - 03:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Help! Mice! Any Humane Suggestions?
Subject: RE: BS: Help! Mice! Any Humane Suggestions?
Dewey
There are "humane" traps on the market, but if you put a mouse outside you'll have 1,000 offspring (including offspring of offspring etc.) within 10 weeks and many of them will be back. However, more than half of them will have been eaten (pretty inhumanely) by cats, birds of prey etc.
Maybe a plain oldfashioned trap is more humane? We last had mice about 6-7 years ago and used a new plastic trap with mouse attractant included. It worked very well.