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need have-a-heart type mousetraps — Brooklynian

need have-a-heart type mousetraps

brooklynpotter
brooklynpotter
edited November -1 in Brooklyn Pets
anyone have any they can lend me?

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  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    harriet not doing her bit?
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    it's at my studio! i have several new mouse friends there and they are starting to get tame enough to walk around my feet. (and if i tell my landlord he will bring out glue or snap-traps, which i'd like to avoid)
  • encedicktardder75
    encedicktardder75
    leave a tiny trail of peanut butter into another studio? :-)
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    this is a busy mouse. it already knows about the other studios. she has visited them regularly.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    general question about have-a-heart traps for mice (not meant as only directed to you, BP):

    what the heck do you do with the mouse after you've caught it? i mean, in as densely populated an area as brooklyn, where can you set a mouse free without effectively just giving it to some lucky neighbor?
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    i was going to bring it outside... there's no good solution.
  • opossumqueen
    opossumqueen
    There's probably a lot more than one, unfortunately. We thought we had just one several times, but as soon as I "got" one in our mouse zapper (quick kill and more humane than the glue or snap traps, imo.) another appeared. 6 in 4 days--got another within an hour or so of resetting the trap every time.

    And as I'm sure you know or others have said, get some steel wool for holes you can find. The holes for pipes (radiators, water, gas) are a great place to start if you can get to them.
  • bullyboy
    bullyboy
    You can have our traps -- they've never worked for us, unfortunately.
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    really? thank you! i'll PM you
  • homeowner
    homeowner
    Can you take Harriet to the studio for a couple of days? I get the pottery+cat=clay shards, but after a couple of days she may just clear the place out.
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    sadly, the studio is very dusty and not a good place for cats. plaster dust on the flooor, she'll walk in it then lick paws. very bad. plus, harriet is very high maintenance. she doesn't like new things or new people. she basically only likes a: food, and b: me
  • modsquad
    modsquad
    We had some luck getting rid of mice in my darkroom by taking some of our cats used litter and strategically placing it in holes and cracks around the baseboards. I also made a life size photo of the black cat, well maybe it was a little bigger then life size. Just don't get stopped and searched in the subway while transporting the turds.

    image
  • bullyboy
    bullyboy
    Clever!
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