Mighty Mouse - A new species?

[xoggoth]

Hey! That's wierd. I would never poison nice little mice but had a rather similar rodent event in my shed yesterday. Something had piled a similar pile of junk, nibbled bits of paper, glass fibre insulation, even a couple of cable clips on top of my tin of peanuts for the birds. No sign of any droppings and it was right under the window, not the dark places they like, so can't have been a nest. Maybe they are trying to communicate with us.

PS We had a mole once but it didnt stay, probably ran out of elastoplast for its paws. For some reason the soil in our garden is full of broken glass.
PPS You mole/mouse murdering lot above are all BASTARDS.

[expat]

ensue

Set up a video camera in there and see what exactly is triggering the traps and covering the poison. Do you have kids? Sure it isn't them messing about? Stop using the humane traps would be my suggestion.

Maybe it is rats and not mice?

If you have rats they will usually keep the mice away (not that I am suggesting that as a fix). This is not always so, and indeed it is usually rats that give you the feeling of being outsmarted: their guiding principle is caution so they are hard to trap; mice are curious so easier to trap.

A cat will keep the mouse population down but probably won't kill them all, that's not his real interest. A terrier will kill them all for you.

OTOH if the mice have somewhere else to go that doesn't have a cat, and you do have a cat, the mice probably will go away.

[ferret]

sit in your garage armed with an AK47 and night vision goggles an wait for the rodent barstewards to arrive... then do a tackleberry on them!

or is that extreme?

This is not far off. Some lovely heavy metal soundtrack so if you have speakers you may want to turn the sound down. Lots of video of rats getting shot with air rifle and infra-red scope, if you don't like it don't click the link:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=deMYhq3YvEE

PPS You mole/mouse murdering lot above are all BASTARDS.

Nope, my parents were married before they had me. Nothing wrong with kicking the ass of vermin I blame Walt Disney for your limp wristed attitude to pest control.

[Clippy]

Use a classic springloaded bar mousetrap with chocolate or peanut butter bait. On each of the two occasions where we've had mice problems (different houses), this has been extremely effective, and we've had no re-occurence.

Forget poison, forget "humane". Snap the vermin.

Failing that, nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[BrilloPad]

my boss at clientco told me a terrible story. He tried to kill a mouse by snapping its neck but ended up just pulling the fur off(is this possible?). He says it was an accident. not sure if he is winding me up?

Anyway says he killed it with a spade moments later. I still think, if true, it is very cruel. Death is one thing but any animal cruelty I just cannot stand - even if by accident.

[KathyWoolfe]

This is possibly your answer


http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0...r:Pratchett&lr=

[NotAllThere]

Death is one thing but any animal cruelty I just cannot stand - even if by accident.

I love this bit about "humane" mousetraps.

It is important to release the mouse promptly – as mice can die from stress or dehydration – and at some distance, as mice have a strong homing instinct. Survival after release is not guaranteed, since house mice will tend to seek out human buildings, where they might encounter lethal mousetraps. In the wild, house mice are very poor competitors, and cannot survive away from human settlements in areas where other small mammals, such as wood mice, are present.

So, I'm sticking with the traditional traps. Fast and effective.

[BoredBloke]

If it's your garage, why not lay a big metal sheet down, covering the whole floor, which you can periodically zap with large amounts of elctricity. That should get the squeaky little ferkers

[Board Game Geek]

If it's your garage, why not lay a big metal sheet down, covering the whole floor, which you can periodically zap with large amounts of electricity. That should get the squeaky little ferkers

Combine that with an audit from the new housing inspector teams with their "Snooper's Charter" and you can kill 2 types of vermin in one go.

It's called "Pest Control Efficiency".

[Diver]

Burn down the garage, wait outside with a cricket bat, when the mice run out, beat them to death with the bat, simple yet effective