Yep. Garage Mouse got into Cris's car, ate a plastic bottle of rubbing alcohol (he keeps it in the car for disinfection purposes), took out and ate some e-cigarette butts from the ashtray AND closed the lid after that. The critter clearly had a party for one. Cris is buying traps today, before it gets under the hood. :D
I loathe rodents ... my cat is usually useless but the other day she caught a truly horrible bird (invasive species) in our berry patch ... was pleased as punch . She now spends a few hours a day in there hoping to do it again. We will see.
Well done, cat! She's right to be pleased. I'm generally a live and let live kind of person until damage is done. I completely understand people who kill rodents because they are a pest and could do serious damage to crops and homes, not to mention cars. My only bird problem is with jays and magpies because they are so damn loud!
When you're trying to go the "humane" route, this isn't an option, but for others, when you have a rodent cornered, but know the moment you go closer it will escape in another direction is a time when glue traps are especially useful. Quietly set a set of glue traps just outside their alarm range, then advance, and the traps will catch the little varmint.
It is advisable to use enough traps that it can't leap over the full extent.
That can get a little pricey, but the damage even one rodent can do costs a lot more.
Well, also because you didn't want to kill the critter.
However, in my scenario, you actively scare the rodent onto the glue traps once you have it cornered, after that one can pick the glue traps back up because the varmint is vanquished.
My glue trap proposal is meant to solve the problem of, "I've got the rodent cornered, but when I make a move to catch it, it eludes me because it's so fast..."
It also really needs two people. One to keep the critter cornered, and another to fetch the glue traps.
Yep. Garage Mouse got into Cris's car, ate a plastic bottle of rubbing alcohol (he keeps it in the car for disinfection purposes), took out and ate some e-cigarette butts from the ashtray AND closed the lid after that. The critter clearly had a party for one. Cris is buying traps today, before it gets under the hood. :D
Hilarious!
I loathe rodents ... my cat is usually useless but the other day she caught a truly horrible bird (invasive species) in our berry patch ... was pleased as punch . She now spends a few hours a day in there hoping to do it again. We will see.
Well done, cat! She's right to be pleased. I'm generally a live and let live kind of person until damage is done. I completely understand people who kill rodents because they are a pest and could do serious damage to crops and homes, not to mention cars. My only bird problem is with jays and magpies because they are so damn loud!
When you're trying to go the "humane" route, this isn't an option, but for others, when you have a rodent cornered, but know the moment you go closer it will escape in another direction is a time when glue traps are especially useful. Quietly set a set of glue traps just outside their alarm range, then advance, and the traps will catch the little varmint.
It is advisable to use enough traps that it can't leap over the full extent.
That can get a little pricey, but the damage even one rodent can do costs a lot more.
With a cat in the house I don't think glue traps are the best option for us.
Well, also because you didn't want to kill the critter.
However, in my scenario, you actively scare the rodent onto the glue traps once you have it cornered, after that one can pick the glue traps back up because the varmint is vanquished.
My glue trap proposal is meant to solve the problem of, "I've got the rodent cornered, but when I make a move to catch it, it eludes me because it's so fast..."
It also really needs two people. One to keep the critter cornered, and another to fetch the glue traps.
Right, got it now. It does need two people, definitely.