Guest guest Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 Well, I caught a mouse today! I was sitting at the table and I heart it scratching in the trap. It was a tiny little thing, so adorable. I took it up to Lake Chabot and let it go. Being the crazy person that I am, I worried about the mouse, though. I took a toilet paper tube with a little bit of tp attached, and I took a bit of the bread the mouse used to like to take from the ledge and put them out by a tree, then I opened the trap and the little thing took off like a rocketship, straight up the tree. So now I am worried about the mouse who is used to living in my warm kitchen being in the cold, and whether it will have friends, and then my friend said if it was so tiny it is probably a baby and will miss its mommy, but my husband said all the mice he's seen have been tiny. He caught one in a PETA trap last week and took it to work and let it go there ... not the best spot since there are a lot of feral cats in the area. So I am hoping to catch more mice to release in the same spot so they can find each other again. And my husband thinks I seriously need psychiatric help. Sharon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 I have caught and released hundreds of mice in Colorado. The Humane Society told me to release in a place with a variety of grasses and hiding places, not in an open field. And that they can be pretty small & still survive and can acclimate to the cold. The trap I used was called "Tin Cat" from a hardware store in Boulder. It's a repeating trap about the size of a cigar box. Lined it with pieces of newspaper for them to shred so they can build a bed & have something to do while incarcerated. I put peanut butter and sunflower seeds in it and placed the traps along the walls. The trap of course says you can drown them, but it's easy to flip open the top and let the mousies jump out at their leisure. Some bolt; others are shy and linger for a half hour! When I released them, I dumped more sunflower seeds in a safe place - near a rock, log, etc. I usually got more than one mouse at a time. Once I opened the lid and the mamma had given birth! She jumped out to run away, stopped and looked up at me. I told her I wouldn't harm her and she waited by the side while I fixed it so the lid could only be open, hid the whole trap in an abandoned house and added more seed and newspaper. You can only do the best you can do and say prayers for their safety. Good luck - I am sure the mice know you are on their side! Elizabeth Check out the all-new Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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