Posts Tagged ‘Mouse Glue Trap(s)’
The Dangers of Pesticide
Pesticide has gone a long way in harming our environment. Take DDT for example. DDT was hailed as a miracle pesticide because of its ability to shield crops from nasty pests. It was cheap, effective, and people assumed safe. So safe, in fact, that some people drank it with gin as a cocktail to prevent [...]
Pet Mice and Pest Mice
Many of us choose to have rodents as pets. Guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rats, and rabbits are all great pets. They make especially good first pets for kids because they are low maintenance and cute. They are also surprisingly smart (except rabbits, who are surprisingly dumb). The problem is once you invite one rodent into [...]
How to Catch a Mouse Without Ever Seeing It
When I moved into my new apartment everything seemed in order. It was clean and pest free, or so I though. At night however I would hear squealing and shirking from the walls and radiators vents. At first I thought ghosts, but then I realized I was dealing with a much more serious problem, mice. [...]
Prevent Rodent Dinner Parties With the Best Mouse Traps
Clean your home to prevent mice from running rampant. When you leave crumbs out, it’s like inviting the mice over for dinner. The smell of your cooking is like a special postal delivery to the home of the mice. Mr. Mouse says, “Mrs. Mouse, did you see that David invited us to dinner tonight?” “Yes [...]
Mouse Glue Traps When You Evict Your Apartment Mice
You do not think about these things until it is too late. Each week you get pizza deliveries and boxes from six packs. You break down the box from your pirogies and there is that delivery of bulk plain colored hats you ordered from eBay, there is a box there as well. With three roommates always on the [...]
Mice Rampage Through Melbourne, Australia
This past week, the Australian city of Melbourne experienced a rare case of a mice plague as thousands of rodents are running through roofs and inside buildings around the city. In an interview for a local newspaper, one official said that the city is, “Getting five new calls a day from the public. There are [...]
Do I really have a mouse in my house?
If you spot a mouse in your house, then there are several steps you need to take. Most of them are pretty simple and we have laid them out in previous posts. But what happens if you’re not really sure if you have a mouse or not? You think you saw something move, but you [...]
The Bubonic Plague and Catchmaster
Rats are disgusting. I was in the subway last night and I watched one climb over the rail. He had a bald patch on his large hindquarters, probably from a rat fight, and he was maybe a handspan long, not including his corrugated tail. I sneered. These animals devastated Europe in the Medieval Era a [...]
Protecting Your Own Pets From Sticky Mouse Traps
If you have mice in the house, it’s already a hassle. They get into your food, they run around in the middle of the night and keep you up, and they pose a health risk. But it can be hard to lay those sticky mouse traps around when you have your own pets, whether cats, [...]
How to Catch a Mouse
You woke stumbled into the kitchen and hit the light to see a mouse tail running into your stove. Blaugh! you said and turned on the light with care. There were small brown pellets scattered over your kitchen counter. Is that… it is. You sprayed it with bleach cleaner and wiped it down. You fried [...]
