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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberWe frequently get mice running about in the house, but generally they are confused field mice and if we leave the patio doors open for a while, they tend to make their own way out. Perhaps if you create tiny little fire escapes and lower them out of your flat window, perhaps your mice will do the same.
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Gary Stanton
offlineMemberTraps are against the walls as above. I'm the only one still up. Paul Morley has just mentioned Nietzsche on Newsnight review and looks to have gotten away with it.
I sit and wait.
It's raining outside.
I feel like that guy in Apocalypse Now as he closes in on the mad colonel.
Elsewhere the guinea pigs remained unperturbed and seem to have taken a liking to Sonic Youth.
Wir werden sehen.
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Gary Stanton
offlineMemberI'll tell you what - why don't I just cook them a "full english" and have done with it..
Needless to say the night passed off uneventfully. The traps are the non-kill variety and they seem flimsy and poorly designed. I can quite imagine a mouse going into the trap while his pal holds the flap up and keeps a lookout.
I'm going out for a pint and to discuss tactics. It's suddenly dawned on me that, to many people, this thread is far more entertaining than any of my subs. So be it...
At least there's a semblance of a plot
Bis heute Abend xxx
Posted 2 years ago # -
the coarse whisperer
offlineMemberThere'll be a whole nest of them and breeding like…well, mice. I wasn't going to do anything about my mice until one of them ran across my chest while I was lying in bed reading. That was just taking the piss. Oh and the cliché is true, stilton cheese worked for me. You might try letting them feed from unsprung traps for a couple of times. Let them get cocky then…bam!
Failing that, hostages, reprisals, collective punishments. It's the British way.
Posted 2 years ago # -
MrChigleysAunt
offlineMemberDon't give up just yet. Bear in mind that, for a cheetah, the normal hunt to kill ratio is about 7:1. But perhaps you should team up with some jackals:Cheetah fact
Look in the mirror each day, growl, and say "I am a cheetah, I am a cheetah".Posted 2 years ago # -
thisisall1word
offlineMemberI've found that the raison and chocolate club bars are to mice what crack cocaine is to Phil Mitchell. Not sure if you can still get them though.
I once tried constructing a home made mouse trap involving a 2 litre drink bottle with the top cut off, reversed and stuck back to the rest of the bottle, with a load of mouse food inside - the thinking being was that they can get in but not out. Didn't work.Instead of trying to catch the mice I learned from them, watching them and following them as the disappeared back into the holes in the walls and loose kitchen skirting - then it was a case of hammering in a range of corks and I never saw them again. This is the Sun Tzu school of mouse removal.
I also can recommend this: fine product - and others like it, mice don't like the noise at all - although from the comment on the page it doesn't work for rats.
And of course, if you have mice then you know you don't have rats.
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Chip Paper
offlineMemberHi Gary. We've finally got rid of a load. My tips would be - use the metal traps as they can chew through the plastic ones and be careful not to handle them too much as human scent sometimes puts them off. Also, take them at least a mile away to tip them out or the little buggers act like sodding homing pigeons.
Peanut butter worked really well with ours. Thing is, they'd get absolutely smothered in the stuff, so I'd end up tipping out very sticky, not particularly streamlined, peanut butter-covered mouse treats for their predators... felt a tad guilty.
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Des Custard
offlineMemberPoison them. Otherwise you'll have a heart-stopping moment when a trap goes off and then you'll find the poor defenceless creature cut in half by the trap but still just about alive and making big accusing eyes at you.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Des Custard
offlineMemberGive them a name beginning with 'Ramble'
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Chip Paper
offlineMemberdecided against snap traps when a friend found only the mouse's skin in the trap... found the body later in the boiler cupboard ewwwwwwwww.
Posted 2 years ago # -
rickwestwell
offlineMemberWhy don't you send them an angry private message? That'll do the trick.
Posted 2 years ago # -
sauce
offlineMemberLove the idea of peanut butter-coated mouse treats for local foxes. Our's would enjoy them.
We tried snap traps - yuk! And they don't always die at once; can hear them struggling and even dragging the trap under the eves - then poison (messy, not sure if they are immune and simply gorging) then live-catch (they nibbled their way IN and ate the bait).
So we invested in a battery-operated zap trap that electrocutes the wee buggers: instant, mess-free and about as painless as might be. Peanut butter or choclate or cheese all work. First week we caught one or two each day. Thereafter it slowed down.
As they'd bloody-well destroyed most of the stuff stored in our attic and garage (no food, so it was just cosiness that tempted them to set up a city), including turning a 7m2 windsurfer sail into a cut-out doily effect, I don't feel too bad about their demise.
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