need have-a-heart type mousetraps

anyone have any they can lend me?

harriet not doing her bit?

it's at my studio! i have several new mouse friends there and they are starting to get tame enough to walk around my feet. (and if i tell my landlord he will bring out glue or snap-traps, which i'd like to avoid)

leave a tiny trail of peanut butter into another studio? :-)

this is a busy mouse. it already knows about the other studios. she has visited them regularly.

general question about have-a-heart traps for mice (not meant as only directed to you, BP):

what the heck do you do with the mouse after you've caught it? i mean, in as densely populated an area as brooklyn, where can you set a mouse free without effectively just giving it to some lucky neighbor?

i was going to bring it outside... there's no good solution.

There's probably a lot more than one, unfortunately. We thought we had just one several times, but as soon as I "got" one in our mouse zapper (quick kill and more humane than the glue or snap traps, imo.) another appeared. 6 in 4 days--got another within an hour or so of resetting the trap every time.

And as I'm sure you know or others have said, get some steel wool for holes you can find. The holes for pipes (radiators, water, gas) are a great place to start if you can get to them.

You can have our traps -- they've never worked for us, unfortunately.

really? thank you! i'll PM you

Can you take Harriet to the studio for a couple of days? I get the pottery+cat=clay shards, but after a couple of days she may just clear the place out.

sadly, the studio is very dusty and not a good place for cats. plaster dust on the flooor, she'll walk in it then lick paws. very bad. plus, harriet is very high maintenance. she doesn't like new things or new people. she basically only likes a: food, and b: me

We had some luck getting rid of mice in my darkroom by taking some of our cats used litter and strategically placing it in holes and cracks around the baseboards. I also made a life size photo of the black cat, well maybe it was a little bigger then life size. Just don't get stopped and searched in the subway while transporting the turds.

Clever!