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[–] odium@programming.dev 91 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why tf does your house have that many mice?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 139 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because his cats suck at hunting, do pay attention.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

like, read, man

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 34 points 6 months ago

Because the cat is a shithead and doesn't catch all the mice

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And how are you getting them off the glue traps alive? What the Amityville fuck is going on in that house?

[–] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You can get mice off glue traps using vegetable oil. It does make them covered in oil which probably isn't great for them.

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Great for even cooking though.

[–] Senseless@feddit.de 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

At that point you can just deep fry them

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[–] Maeve@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Apparently they can get themselves off certain glue traps. I worried when I caught one I had in the kitchen as a bug deterrent (I had a very sloppy housemate for a short while) whether I should kill it outright or let it starve to death ( which was more humane, stomping it ir show starvation outside?) When I looked, it was gone, trap was there. I set a proper trap with a goat milk cream cheese spread on it and it hasn't touched it. Maybe it's the garlic...

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IMO a swift end is preferable to a prolonged demise.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree, but stomping it just seemed so brutal. Hence the proper trap. I need to clean it off and put peanut butter on it.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don’t bother with glue traps if you’re looking to be humane. It’s a horrific way to go, often involving limbs desperately chewed or ripped off in addition to creating warier mice. Poison is terrible but the most effective method. Creating a rat trap bucket is far and away the most humane method but is very, very hit or miss. A beautiful bandaid for managing a population without destroying it, or a means of saving as many animals as possible before purging those that remain. Just my experiences.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've had the best luck with snap traps. They're kind of brutal but they're quick

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

They’re very humane but the bucket is more so. They’re also effective but the poison is more so. I just wanted to offer an option where some of the adorable little idiots get to live.

[–] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, they might slip when they run away from the cat they are presented to later in the day.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 30 points 6 months ago

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