What do you think about this mousetrap ? Too inhumane ? Or give you 14 of them right now ? 😳
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swirlie · F
@Piper
Releasing a mouse in your house to the outdoors like you've described is actually the wrong thing to do.
That same mouse will re-trace it's own path and end up back in your house in the same way it got in there in the first place. That is a known fact among rodent exterminators.
Other mice will also follow the first mouse's tracks into your house because they know that another mouse has discovered a way in, so they follow it, sometimes days later.
Mice are blind, which is not a myth, which means they have nothing but 'scent' to guide them to where they want to be. That is why mice typically run along the edge of a baseboard instead of across a room and will follow the baseboard because it can't see where it's going when it's out in the middle of the floor.
Releasing a mouse in your house to the outdoors like you've described is actually the wrong thing to do.
That same mouse will re-trace it's own path and end up back in your house in the same way it got in there in the first place. That is a known fact among rodent exterminators.
Other mice will also follow the first mouse's tracks into your house because they know that another mouse has discovered a way in, so they follow it, sometimes days later.
Mice are blind, which is not a myth, which means they have nothing but 'scent' to guide them to where they want to be. That is why mice typically run along the edge of a baseboard instead of across a room and will follow the baseboard because it can't see where it's going when it's out in the middle of the floor.
Piper · 61-69, F
Well @swirlie, those mice I've caught in a humane trap and released, have not returned to my house. You seem to be assuming that people would not release a mouse or mice far away from houses, in a habitat that seems suitable for little creatures that do survive outdoors...before they enter houses.
Adult mice have limited vision, but are not "blind".
Adult mice have limited vision, but are not "blind".
swirlie · F
@Piper
Why would I assume that you put a virus infested rodent in your car to drive it a safe distance from your home to then remove it from your car and then set it free from the trap which you've probably been handling with your bare hands?
Adult mice as well as young mice are blind from birth because of incest within the mouse colony, which happens when the adult male mates with his own female offspring, who then mate with the other male offspring as well, often producing litters of mice one after the other which is what builds the mouse colony.
In a mouse colony, which typically survives in the attics of homes, every mouse is genetically related to the original male and female who ended up in the attic in the first place.
This is why brothers and sisters of humans shouldn't have sex together because the offspring will almost always look like a circus freak and will almost always be either blind or deaf or both. That's why all mice are blind.
Why would I assume that you put a virus infested rodent in your car to drive it a safe distance from your home to then remove it from your car and then set it free from the trap which you've probably been handling with your bare hands?
Adult mice as well as young mice are blind from birth because of incest within the mouse colony, which happens when the adult male mates with his own female offspring, who then mate with the other male offspring as well, often producing litters of mice one after the other which is what builds the mouse colony.
In a mouse colony, which typically survives in the attics of homes, every mouse is genetically related to the original male and female who ended up in the attic in the first place.
This is why brothers and sisters of humans shouldn't have sex together because the offspring will almost always look like a circus freak and will almost always be either blind or deaf or both. That's why all mice are blind.
Piper · 61-69, F
@swirlie Somehow, I've managed to survive handling a humane trap with a mouse in it just fine. Nothing bad happened to me. Maybe the mice I've released got eaten by a predator, but at least they had a chance to survive.
Nothing I've ever read about mice, confirms that they are actually "blind".
We do agree that incest is not something humans ought to engage in, for many reasons. Good grief.
Nothing I've ever read about mice, confirms that they are actually "blind".
We do agree that incest is not something humans ought to engage in, for many reasons. Good grief.