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Elaina G. wrote:
Do you know any effective bird-safe mouse traps?
Dear Elaina
The safest mouse traps around birds are manual ones.
I set a snap mouse trap and slip it into a small paper bag. Leave the end open then place along the wall under the bird cages.
Mice tend to travel along the walls and will enter, go for the bait, get killed. Then you fold up the bag and throw the whole mess out.
Keeping up with debris and changing out the paper daily. Removing ALL food, including the food cups at night also help.
Birds will not starve if they don’t have food to snack on after birdy bedtime. In the wild birds don’t have a handy food dish next to them to nibble at night.
Catherine
Elaina responds…
We’ve been removing the food dishes for about a week now and the water, and we’re pretty conscientious about the debris.
With Merlin, our Lilac Crowned Amazon, falling as much as she is, with that injured claw, we’ve been reluctant to use any snap traps.
But with them inside the bag and around the perimeter where she’s less likely to engage it, and under the cage, that might actually work.
I have found the snap traps to be the only effective way even though sometimes we have mice that are crafty enough to remove the peanut butter without setting off the trap. Can only imagine what genes those mice have. We have occasionally caught a young mouse in the glue traps we got from Terminex, but the older mice avoid them completely.
Note: Glue Traps should never be used around birds. However, if your bird does get stuck to one. Using a water-based personal lubricant will loosen the grip without using oil which you then have to wash off the bird. The personal lubricant washes off with water easily.
Elaina responded again a day later…
I cannot thank you enough. We were doing everything else, but with the glue traps that the Terminix guys gave us we caught one or two young mice but not the real offenders.
We put into place your suggestion with the paper bags and the snap traps and have already caught three adult mice that were going into the birdcage, because no matter how carefully you clean up, they will find something not to mention water.
Thank you again for your advice.
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17 Nov 2024Having this issue (of a little traveler running around @ night) but for me at least the bag trick would be a resounding NO. I’ve a tiel & LOVES PAPER/CARDBOARD + dark areas (I’ve set up a cardboard box for him to play in/take a snooze, whatever & this IS a way from home (cage). At times, he has snuck his way into a cabinet or 2 loving dark squared corners so as maybe your successful way of an mouse trap would be a disaster for Billy (our tiel). So placement of glue traps are so far my only option (other than plugging up holes where they be coming from but apt building has its problems unfortunately).