On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 22:43:52 -0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 21:38:04 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

I suspect I have a problem with mice and don't want to kill
them.

The Rentokill tippy square tube live capture trap works but the
little buggers can get out and note about checking frequently. But
what do you do with live mouse in trap? Do you have a mouse cage to
put it and any others you catch? You *never* have A mouse. Then what
do you do with it? Releasing vermin is illegal, though the law is not
well defined.

Never heard of that before. You're supposed to take them to the nearest woods. Although letting them slowly die in the trap is more satisfying.

If you just take it out into your garden it'll probably
be back inside before you are. We live capture and used to release
100 m away down the in-bye, then we caught a mouse with a nick in one
of it's ears, we caught it again the next night and the next. After
that we took to deporting them up onto the fell a good few miles from
any habitation, they don't come back from there. I doubt many people
have a spot that is three miles from *any* habitation less than 5
miles away. B-)

Machete.

Any suggestions on how to repel them?

Cat, for the last 7 years or so we had a cat and no mice (apart from
the ones she brought in and ate). A few months ago she lost an
argument with a car and now the weather has got colder the mice have
returned...

I have a video of one of mine juggling with a mouse. Quite amusing.

The humane way is to kill them quickly.

This is the best option for most people. Mice are destructive little
buggers that leak **** all the time. They leak **** to leave a sent
trail for other mice, or themselves, to follow.

If you don't want to trap them, get a hungry cat.

Cats don't kill them quickly even when hungry.

Yes. Cats like to torture them.

An over fed town cat might, our cat was a feral born farm cat who
adopted us. About 80% of anything she brought in was dead, 19%, so
badly hurt it could run and was was very soon dead. 1% alive enough
to run but cat was very patient and would catch and dispatch the
moment it re-showed itself. She might bat the corpse about a few
times but was far more interested in a snack.

Mine don't want to eat the mice. They give them to me as presents and probably think I convert them into cat food. Why would they want to have to remove the fur?

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