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My pet mouse escaped from his box in my car, a 2004 Chevy Classic. I have had no luck attempting to catch him. I know he is still there as I have set food aside for him to eat, and its been nibbled at or gone. I would like to make sure my mouse lives. Any suggestions from anyone else that has experienced a similar situation??
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i don't recommend building a mouse trap, there is no guarantee that it will be a humane trap. there are a few humane traps out there, one that works really great is the tomcat multi-catch. it's grey with a clear panel so you can see if you caught something, and it comfortably holds up to 10 mice. i got mine at walmart, but they don't always have it. try a feed store maybe, or order online. pretty much every other humane mousetrap is either not attractive enough to make the mouse enter it, or they can get out too easily.
it's pretty bad news that your mouse is loose in the car. they are so small, they can get through pretty much any opening. they can do a fair bit of damage, or they could get caught in the engine while you are driving and burn.
since this is a pet mouse, it may be slightly easier to retrieve your little pal than if it was a wild one. did he have any favorite toys to hide in? my mice used to have this tennis ball with a hole cut out of it, i could hardly get them out of it. you could take the toy, add some of his old bedding material and a snack or two, and just wait up for him one night. leave it in your car in the same spot you left the food before, keep the car dark, and when you hear chewing sounds, aim a flashlight at the toy to keep him from coming out (the light will scare him a little).
if you don't have a little mouse toy like this, maybe use an aquarium with an open top. set a ramp/ladder up against the side of the aquarium so he can climb up. have some bedding material in the aquarium and some food and a water bottle, so it looks and smells like home. he can probably jump out, though, so you should stay up and wait; when he goes in, put a cover on it.
good luck.
i don't recommend building a mouse trap, there is no guarantee that it will be a humane trap. there are a few humane traps out there, one that works really great is the tomcat multi-catch. it's grey with a clear panel so you can see if you caught something, and it comfortably holds up to 10 mice. i got mine at walmart, but they don't always have it. try a feed store maybe, or order online. pretty much every other humane mousetrap is either not attractive enough to make the mouse enter it, or they can get out too easily.
it's pretty bad news that your mouse is loose in the car. they are so small, they can get through pretty much any opening. they can do a fair bit of damage, or they could get caught in the engine while you are driving and burn.
since this is a pet mouse, it may be slightly easier to retrieve your little pal than if it was a wild one. did he have any favorite toys to hide in? my mice used to have this tennis ball with a hole cut out of it, i could hardly get them out of it. you could take the toy, add some of his old bedding material and a snack or two, and just wait up for him one night. leave it in your car in the same spot you left the food before, keep the car dark, and when you hear chewing sounds, aim a flashlight at the toy to keep him from coming out (the light will scare him a little).
if you don't have a little mouse toy like this, maybe use an aquarium with an open top. set a ramp/ladder up against the side of the aquarium so he can climb up. have some bedding material in the aquarium and some food and a water bottle, so it looks and smells like home. he can probably jump out, though, so you should stay up and wait; when he goes in, put a cover on it.
good luck.
Why are we told so much sports news that takes time away from the important stuff?
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Even the weather which is certainly more important is lengthily cast and often leaves you not knowing what is likely to happen in your zip code. Then the news casters are like bull dogs when they get hold of juicy gossip on one incident that you hear till you get nauseous. All the while you wait and are curious about the tease of a new development on a cancer cure they throw out and every commercial break. How can they improve? What should they do?
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There are many alternate outlets for scores and game times, but the regular news cast are at a time when the bulk of viewers are tuned in. I wonder if a real survey was taken, just how sports would do. Many as I do not need to know every detail of the teams and what the playing jocks philosophical outlook is. I have tried to surf to another station, but they are wise to that and are speaking sports also. they compete but also know each other too well now. Certainly there are too many things to report it all, and the public is too dumbed down to understand anything but sports, car crashes, and drive-by shootings. Like the print media does, they need feed-back and voice of the people input to create more personal interest. The PBS stations are better sometimes, only they run ads now and are always begging Geeeee's!!!
There are many alternate outlets for scores and game times, but the regular news cast are at a time when the bulk of viewers are tuned in. I wonder if a real survey was taken, just how sports would do. Many as I do not need to know every detail of the teams and what the playing jocks philosophical outlook is. I have tried to surf to another station, but they are wise to that and are speaking sports also. they compete but also know each other too well now. Certainly there are too many things to report it all, and the public is too dumbed down to understand anything but sports, car crashes, and drive-by shootings. Like the print media does, they need feed-back and voice of the people input to create more personal interest. The PBS stations are better sometimes, only they run ads now and are always begging Geeeee's!!!
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