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Bird Safe Rodent Traps?

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« on: November 02, 2011, 01:01:16 pm »

Everyone in my family (besides me) absolutely hates mice.  Every year especially once it cools down outside, we usually end up getting several in our house.  Other years we have placed the traps in rooms where the birds don't have access, but my parents have insisted on placing the sticky glue traps all over the entire house--including the bird area.  hmm My dad poured concrete into some holes he found around the foundation of the house, some rodent experts sealed up our house, and we haven't had any mice for months now...

Does anyone know of any bird-safe rodent traps/deterrents?  I'd like to present them to my parents as a safer alternative.  Any suggestions?
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2011, 04:04:54 pm »

Off hand, no.  Just the old fashioned snap traps (non bird area) dknow
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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2011, 05:32:36 pm »

if by some chance someone DOES get stuck to the glue.... flour, lots and lots of flour. i had the unfortunate experience with my dear sweet caique getting stuck to  fly paper, also very sticky. just keep putting handfuls of flour all over the trap and bird, eventually it kinda works its way loose. luckily, those types of traps have no poison in them.

they do make the sticky traps in tent-like shapes so if a feathered-person were to fall on it, they would not stick. it kinda creates a tunnel that the mice seem to adore.  dknow
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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2011, 09:17:11 am »

Thanks for the flour tip--good to know!  Thankfully, nobody has landed on one.  Been lucky so far!

I've been shoving the traps under doors and furniture, in hopes that the fids won't find them.  So far, so good.
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« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2011, 10:17:11 am »

If your birds have Happy Huts do NOT use the tent style as it would be an invitation for them to go in. Use the dome style glue traps that have several holes in them as the holes are too small for anything bigger than a finch to get into.

Personally I don't like the glue traps as I feel it's an inhumane way to kill anything, a quick death is best if you have to kill them.
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