mouse in the house!!

WayOutWestMom
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:39:03 +0000

Hanta in the US is unheard of outside the Southwest and Rocky Mts. And only certain types of mice carry it. Common house mice rarely carry it. And hanta is spread by virus particles in feces and urine not by the mouse itself.

If it’s any comfort, a house mouse is more likely to give you bubonic plague than hanta.

And we use bacon to bait our traps—sticks better than cheese which tears and crumbles. Peanut butter also works well.

I also have 2 good mousers around the house, though one has a unsettling tendency to drop “gifts” of still living wood rats at my feet when coming inside.

And if you can’t have cats–I’ve known some dogs to be good at mousing. I had one–and she was a big dog not a terrier.

A poisoned mouse will poison whatever eats it. If you believe the mouse is dying of poison, it’s better to kill it yourself by breaking its neck and dispose of it in the trash. If you can’t do the neck breaking, you can wrap it tightly in plastic so it will suffocate and put it the outside trash bin.