flemishwhite
Well-Known Member
This happened about two months ago, but I bought some rat glue traps today so I thought I'd recount this story.
My wife and I were in the living room, when a "clank," "clank," noise brought our attention to see one of our baby rabbits (3 1/2 month old flemmish) came running up to us with one foot stuck on a mouse glue trap...the glue trap was making the noise. she had been in a bathroom, exploring the crack between the clothes dryer and clothes washing machine when she stepped into the glue trap. There can be a problem with glue traps. Trying to brute force free an animal can cause loss of hair, skin, or for mice...mice can lose their legs. We knew what to do. I picked her up and took her into the kitchen. My wife poured a little vegetable oil onto the glue trap and immediately, the rabbit's foot was released. Next we washed her foot with dish detergent to get rid of the oil, toweled off her foot with paper, and then used my wife's hair dryer on low to finish drying. I kept my hand on her foot to make sure she was not damaged by too much heat.
With glue traps I've caught many mice, one big rat, also my bunny, and my wife and step daughter! Humans get trapped when they step on a trap a night.
When I catch a mouse or rat, I put them and the trap into a large plastic laundry basket. I pour some vegetable oil in to release them and take them to a city park for release.
Our house rabbits cause a mouse/rat problem. Our house is an old wood frame house with a under floor crawl space. There are holes that allow rats/mice to get into the house. Once inside..its rat/mouse heaven. Open food bowls of rabbit food, water and oar hay (oat kernels). Also, with free running rabbits, I cannot use snap traps...particularly rat snap traps. They would probably cause the rabbit's foot to be amputated. I use glue traps in the kitchen...the rabbits don't go there because they don't like the slick linoleum floors. Also, I use electronic rat/mice traps. Victor electronic traps. The rat/mouse has to crawl into a small hole that is to small for my now very big flemmish babies.
Just another life incident of living with rabbits!!!
My wife and I were in the living room, when a "clank," "clank," noise brought our attention to see one of our baby rabbits (3 1/2 month old flemmish) came running up to us with one foot stuck on a mouse glue trap...the glue trap was making the noise. she had been in a bathroom, exploring the crack between the clothes dryer and clothes washing machine when she stepped into the glue trap. There can be a problem with glue traps. Trying to brute force free an animal can cause loss of hair, skin, or for mice...mice can lose their legs. We knew what to do. I picked her up and took her into the kitchen. My wife poured a little vegetable oil onto the glue trap and immediately, the rabbit's foot was released. Next we washed her foot with dish detergent to get rid of the oil, toweled off her foot with paper, and then used my wife's hair dryer on low to finish drying. I kept my hand on her foot to make sure she was not damaged by too much heat.
With glue traps I've caught many mice, one big rat, also my bunny, and my wife and step daughter! Humans get trapped when they step on a trap a night.
When I catch a mouse or rat, I put them and the trap into a large plastic laundry basket. I pour some vegetable oil in to release them and take them to a city park for release.
Our house rabbits cause a mouse/rat problem. Our house is an old wood frame house with a under floor crawl space. There are holes that allow rats/mice to get into the house. Once inside..its rat/mouse heaven. Open food bowls of rabbit food, water and oar hay (oat kernels). Also, with free running rabbits, I cannot use snap traps...particularly rat snap traps. They would probably cause the rabbit's foot to be amputated. I use glue traps in the kitchen...the rabbits don't go there because they don't like the slick linoleum floors. Also, I use electronic rat/mice traps. Victor electronic traps. The rat/mouse has to crawl into a small hole that is to small for my now very big flemmish babies.
Just another life incident of living with rabbits!!!
Fortunately meadow hay doesn't have much in the way of seeds so doesn't really attract mice, and Bandit always ate his pellets straight away so there wasn't a problem in that regard either.
