we had humane traps, but they would get in, eat the bait and panic when the trap closed, causing them to sprint around the room flailing wildly (once escaped from hopelessly ineffectual trap) and come to rest, say, in your food or on your bed. We had a long-term plan to kill them in this way by inducing chronic anxiety disorder, but our nerves were already frayed by my housemate's habit of leaving scalpels everywhere, so we came off worse.
we went with snappy traps rather than poison as they are faster and the mice do not crawl into inaccessible places to die. we got 17 in the end.
in other news, at least the squirrel did not die of starvation, a horrible disease or being poisoned and spending about an hour in agony. other than extremely efficient dogs or well aimed cars, you furnished the thing with about the least painful death it could have hoped for.
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Date: 2007-01-21 08:19 pm (UTC)lots of them. I sympathise.
we had humane traps, but they would get in, eat the bait and panic when the trap closed, causing them to sprint around the room flailing wildly (once escaped from hopelessly ineffectual trap) and come to rest, say, in your food or on your bed. We had a long-term plan to kill them in this way by inducing chronic anxiety disorder, but our nerves were already frayed by my housemate's habit of leaving scalpels everywhere, so we came off worse.
we went with snappy traps rather than poison as they are faster and the mice do not crawl into inaccessible places to die. we got 17 in the end.
in other news, at least the squirrel did not die of starvation, a horrible disease or being poisoned and spending about an hour in agony. other than extremely efficient dogs or well aimed cars, you furnished the thing with about the least painful death it could have hoped for.