I am curious because i have this problem. What do Vegans do when mice come to your home or a rat!?!
Answers: Would you poison it? Or would you try to catch it humanely alive and take it somewhere else? What would you do?
Unfortunately mice don't come into the house singly - they move in en masse and breed very quickly - so catching them and putting them outside isn't really a practical option.
If taken outside they will soon find their way back in.
There is no point in being sentimental about mice and rats - they are a huge health hazard and a danger when in your home. A danger because they need to gnaw constantly and will present a very real fire risk by gnawing on electric cables. A health risk because they spread disease - they are there for your food and will contaminate that; mice urinate and defecate constantly and that will be spread around wherever they go.
Though a dilemma, because you don't want to harm life, it is essential to rid your house of rodents if you have an infestation.
A better option is to try and prevent them coming in. You can get a plug-in device that emits a noise inaudible to humans but intolerable to rodents; make sure your kitchen is squeaky clean, with no food scraps or crumbs to tempt them in; and try to block up any holes or gaps where they might get in - bearing in mind that if you can get a ball point pen into a hole, a mouse can get through it. They tend to stay away if you have a cat, too.
If having tried all the above I still got an infestation, then sorry, but I would call in an exterminator. Your health and safety and that of your family comes first. Being a vegan means you do what you can and all you can to minimise your contribution to animal suffering and exploitation; it doesn't mean you sacrifice your own health or safety.
Live Traps are good.
Capture it and release it far away. Unless you are afraid of mice...lol
I'd try to catch it humanely. I remember building a mousetrap car for Physics, and it hurts so bad when that thing snaps on you. It's supposed to be humaen by breaking the mouses' neck! But what if it's not the mouse's neck and some other part of it that doesn't allow it to die quickly? I just don't think mice should be killed--or rats--because they don't know any better. Now, if they had rabies...that's a different matter.
God.. I would never poison it! I have pets rats are they are the most gorgeous little girls :)
It wouldn't bother me if there was a mouse hanging around for a little bit, I think they're beautiful, and especially if it's winter I wouldn't mind sharing my home for a bit. But if hung around a little too long or started chewing my cords (nooo..! Not the precious internet!) I'd catch the little fellow and take him for a nice walk to the nearest, and bushiest park. :)
My garage was infested and i bought some traps that you put peanut butter in . when they go back to eat it, the top closes. I would check it constantly and throw them over the tracks near my house. I got like 6 traps and daily i emptied them twice. Home depot has them. I did not have a problem again. I was so infested because i kept rolls of insulation out there. When i unrolled it- about 100 mice jumped out. It looked like a mouse village in there. I got rid of it, did the traps- they did not come back. My brother once tried to "help" one out of a glue trap, pulled by the tail and it's body came out of it's skin. He was still alive. I don't know what he was thinking....
i have a cat....
Live traps tend to be a solution. Though nothing wrong with the good death traps.
You swore not to eat anything that comes from an animal, you didn't swear not to hurt one. ^.^
humane traps are best so they are caught by a shutter and trapped therefore no pain, sum comments say to kill them how can you do this, arnt they living things and ur killing them not even for food, so thats all wrong, you can quite easily deal with them in a humane manner..i just think vegan that are passionate about animal rights using traps to kill the rats are basically going against everything they beleive. oh and rats are very clean, thyey wash themselves alot..and its mosquitos that carry the plague then just past it on to rats when they feed on the rats blood just as the plague is then passed onto humans if we are bit, by that logic ur assuming humans carry the plague..and to the last comment there is nothing natural about an exterminator.
Poisoning them is not good idea because if anything,they will die somewhere where you can't get them and your house will stink. You can try catch and release but that's just giving the problem to someone else.
Mice and especially rats are known carriers of disease and pose a serious health hazard. As long as they can smell food, they will never leave anyway. You can be an animal lover all you like but bubonic plague (yes rats still carry them) and rabies are no fun especially if your child gets bitten. It's basically a choice between human safety and animal rights. You decide.
If you can't get yourself to kill them, then either hire an exterminator or get a cat and let nature take its course.
I'm not sure how the poison works.. if it was quick and relatively painless I would use it, IF I didn't have cats that could accidentally get into it.
I HATE glue traps because I personally have seen a mouse, still alive, squealing in agony as it died slowly.. COMPLETELY inhumane.. I throw them away when I find them at my work, other places..
The humane traps are definitely an option, but you want to release in a park or something far away from your house or other houses..
THe snap traps at least (when they work right) kill so quickly that the mouse doesn't suffer much.. so at least that's better than the glue trap.
I have two cats and don't have a mouse problem.. My cats don't even catch any mice.. the mice apparently decide it's better to find soemwhere else to live..
cats that do find/kill mice are kind of cruel too... but at least it's NATURE'S way.. that's something, at least..
so there are your options, go with what you feel comfortable with..
Let the rat live in my house. People should not infringe where animals want to live. We are secondary to animals needs.
I have a cat.
Catch and release with mice might become a problem. Like Lo said, once they start breeding you'll never catch up with them. I think the best thing is to get a cat but a vegan owning a pet is just a mini-zoo. Poison is ingested by the animal and brought back to the colony and can be effective.
If you have a big problem you should call in a professional or live with the problem. You can't harm the animals but it doesn't mean somebody else can't come in and do it. *wink-wink*....you can even pretend you hate the Orkin guy for doing it too!
Orrrr give them to Ashley. I had a bat in my house once so I gave it to her. She keeps it in her belfry now.
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no poison, of course!!!!!!!, only ask to them to please to get out the house, and keep it very clean, shut all windows, doors, holes, keep food out of the reach of nothing, and there is a device ultrasonic that emit a sound that mice afraid of, then, no mice anymore!!! regards
I use Hav-a-heart traps, and relocate the rodents, that is, unless my cats have found them first.........
I'm a raw vegan.
I just get the old fashioned snap rat/mouse traps. It kills them, but so what. They are coming into my home to eat my food. I didn't go into their home to eat their food. And I have every bit as much right to be on this planet unhindered as any bleeding rat.
They carry nasty diseases. It makes me laugh to think that someone thinks I am a ghastly ghoul for killing a rat.
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