Posts Tagged ‘Mouse Glue Trap(s)’
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 [...]
Humane Mouse Traps: The Talk of Rodentown
“It wouldn’t be that bad if he were housebroken,” my girlfriend said. But the fact that he isn’t, that he leaves his filthy droppings all over our kitchen counter, and that even the sticky mouse traps aren’t enough to catch him and his brethren, makes it different. Even when people keep mice for pets they [...]
Which Are the Most Humane Mouse Traps?
We have had a rodent problem for a few weeks. Wake up in the morning, turn on the lights, and watch the tail end of our pet mouse scurry from the counter top into the range top, and away. We found droppings, bags chewed, and decided that this could not go on. We decided to [...]
Robert Burns was a Catchmaster
Winter is a good season for mice. They like to hide in barns and attics, crawlspaces and other small, dark, warm areas. Robert Burns, a catchmaster, and one of Scotland’s favorite poets, knew this, and dedicated one of the most famous poems in the English language, “To a Mouse.” Forgive his horrible spelling, that was [...]
Winterize Your Home With the Best Mouse Traps
It is important to prevent mice from entering your home during the winter. This is when mice like to make nests, and their favorite places to do so are in the warm, dry places in your home. A mouse can fit through an opening the size of a dime, so it’s important to survey the [...]
The Catchmaster Presents a History of the Word ‘Rat’
Rats have always been despised by humans. This post will examine this manifestation of disgust in the English language. The word rat has been used slangily to describe a scoundrel, a traitor, informer, especially in times of trouble, as well as a person who frequents a certain place. For example, that pack of teenagers you [...]
Bring The Best Mouse Traps to Your Dreams
When I was a little boy, one of my worst nightmares occurred soon after I had seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It involved me wearing an Indiana Jones hat and holding a whip, and I reluctantly entered the dark, deep temple of my own mind. Wandering through the labyrinthine maze of black [...]
Humane Mouse Traps: Solution for the Squeamish
I have no qualms about using mouse glue traps, if it means it will keep them from invading my house, but my boyfriend is a little more sensitive than I am. He is the type who will bring home birds with broken wings and nurse them back to life. He leaves cat food out for [...]
Disposable Fly Traps Keep Me Sane
It’s not that I don’t like bugs, it just that I don’t like them in house. If I see an insect or a rodent anywhere outside my home, even it’s in the yard, I don’t really look twice. I mean, if you think about it, my house is kind of on their turf anyway. So [...]
