Quote from: purrin on October 20, 2012, 08:55:59 PM

What exactly are human mouse traps? Do they vaporize the mice?

Human mouse traps are dudes you hire to catch mice. They just lie around with a piece of cheese of their tongues.

in my former house, i once heard a scratching behind my oven during a brutal winter after getting home after midnight.  i knew what it was and flushed it out.  no humane or human traps here.  i ventured out after midnight to a 24/7 Walgreens to get a few "old fashioned" mouse traps.  had a couple beers afterwards, and it was dead before i went to bed.  squirrels are an equal evil to a home owner that lives in colder climes whrere winters are real, meaning cold. 

I don't like mice and rats. I'm afraid of them because a rat scared me when I was very little.

I killed a mouse about 3 years ago. My wife found it in the dining room. She picked up my then 2 year old son and screamed. I was a bit pissed at the sight of it. The mouse ran for it to a corner where I had a little oven. I kicked the oven against the mice and it squealed. It somehow managed to jump, but I must have hurt it because it couldn't run anymore.

I didn't want to mess my floor or miss, so a graved a nearby broom and beat the living out of it. Little dude did not move anymore and had little bit of blood in his mouth. Graved the dustpan and transported it's mini-ass to the dumpster.

Funny thing is that my wife sort of started to cry for the mouse, but then said she was relieved that it was gone and away from our us (specially our son.)

Rats are much nastier. Really don't like rats. Me and my friends used to shoot at them with a .22 pellet air gun.

LOL! shooting rats with anything inside the house has it's issues. There was empty lot where people would leave garbage, near where I used to live when I was a kid. Rats were all over that place. That's where my friends and I used to shoot...

Inside the house I would opt for traps, cats, or something else for sure... My anti-mice broom method would be a bit more challenging with a rat.

Mice, as long as there isn't a huge hoard of them, are usually pretty harmless. Rats are a different story altogether though. So that everyone knows sometimes cats aren't the answer if you have a rat problem. The average wild bush rat isn't a problem for a cat but the average sewer or river rat can grow to the size of a small dog. Those types of rats have been known to feed on cats. I remember fishing once at a river bank and seeing a couple of river rats in the foliage scavenging around nearby and they looked pretty big. I quickly packed up my gear and left. Large river rats if they're hungry enough have been known to attack fishermen in an attempt to steal their catches. Another time when I was a teenager I was outside an old abandoned grain storage facility watching a demolition crew knock it down. When the front end loader started plowing through the walls you should have seen the sea of rats that suddenly came out of the old building. The demolition crew had to stop because the people working outside the trucks couldn't work without the fear of being bitten. They had to call in a bunch of exterminators to gas the whole place before they tore down the building.