need gardening help--mice and rats into the greens in my greenhouse. YUCK.

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Permalink Reply by Blueberry on December 25, 2008 at 3:35am

Can you get a humane trap that traps them without killing and you can release them somewhere where they won't cause a problem.

http://www.hygienesuppliesdirect.com/sub/humane_rat_traps_humane_mo...

If you google search you should find other humane traps that will be suitable

I'm biased too as I used to resuce mice and rats, they are wonderful animals, very intelligent and communicative.

I had a rat in my compost once and I got a bit of a shock as it was huge but I felt sorry for it knowing it was likely to be poisoned and die a horrible slow death once anyone knew there were rats around so I used to feed it, I never got inundated with rats, they never caused me a problem but eventually it disappeared, I suspect though someone else poisoned it, the way they kill them is horrible they put down these pellets that swell inside them and then explode causing there insides to dissolve and they die a horrendous long painful death.

I once saw a mouse in my house but I never saw it again and when I moved my dad found it dead, in the back of a cupboard, it had died of old age.

Anyway none of this helps you with your problem, if I were in your situation I would seek out a humane trap and release them in a field or woods.

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Permalink Reply by Kaybee on December 25, 2008 at 12:53pm

awww blueberry--I SO wish i could... but i tried this with mice in my house once and it was an absolute nightmare, and totally ineffective. I caught like 2 before I moved out, and there were dozens and dozens more left uncaught. Ive been know to remove live mice from sticky traps my old landlords put down and then release them, and toss the traps, despite the hell my apartment had become... its just a lose lose sitation. as far as the rats, there are SO many of them, they are everywhere. a friend told me that there is always a rat less than 6 feet from you, and given how many there are here, I wouldnt be suprised. Im going to check out your trap, but I dont know that I can make a dent in my problem by trapping one at a time... hmmm. i hate dilemmas like this. my friends say I always end up with the critter problems because they know i dont wanna kill them. lol. at the moment there is a huge snail living on the ceiling in my spare bedroom... hes been there a while, i think he needs to go live outside and eat grass instead of wallpaper hes been eating...lol but yeah, hmmmm. i dont know that relocating one at a time is going to work in this situation. someone posted about an electric wire..that sounded really good...except I dont know how I could run it low enough without the wire being touched by grass or anything as the greenhouse is in a field...

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Permalink Reply by Kaybee on December 25, 2008 at 12:47pm

lol. i wouldnt even know where to find one here.ive never heard of anyone having them as pets here. but yeah, if it were my property and my place, i could do a whole variety of things, but with it not being my place, i dont have the resources or the money to make too much of an investment. he lets me use the greenhouse for free because hes not interested in it anymore. i can do whatever i want it seems, he doesnt really care/mind, but i cant ask him to invest in a greenhouse he has no interest in. so finding a solution falls on me.

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