Reply #16: Check this one out!

[pink-o]

http://www.nixalite.com/ratzapper.aspx


I've seen these Rat zappers for sale at OSH. It still kills the mouse/rat but it's a lot less painful than the snap trap and that horrible, heinous glue trap.

I've used the "humane" trap that sticks them in a cage and you let them go in a field, but I've since found out from a biologist that the mouse most likely dies anyway. The animal doesn't aclimate well to a strange environment and probably becomes fodder for a predator pretty quickly.

But the best solution? Feline. Humans have used kitties for this purpose ever since Egyptians became an agricultural society and needed to protect the grain stash in their silos. Phonecians took them on their ships to keep the rats down and populated a lot of Europe with them. I rescued mine from the shelter 6 years ago for that expressed purpose, only to find that once the rats were gone, I loved her for other reasons!