Mouse in the House

[keninparis]

iirc there is no such thing as a single mouse in your house.

The warning makes sense now..

"All hope abandon ye who enter here. Seriously."

[Scrag Meister]

Caught one on a glue board last week in our boiler cupboard, the missus did scream cos the poor thing was obviously still alive and well stuck to the glue by its fur.

Quickly dispatched in the garden with a clout over the head.

Poison is our most successful method though, give it a few days for them to get used to it being there and then they scoff the lot. Place in an undercover out of the way place so they can relax and enjoy the meal.

Peanut butter and/or chocolate on traps. Traps should be placed perpendicular to the wall.

They can climb curtains, pipe lagging etc.. Had them scoffing my Dairy Milk on my desk at a previous gaff. £3 for 3 traps did the trick.

[TestMangler]

Use traps. Not gay, new age 'catch and release' traps. Use 'smash the skull' spring traps.

As someone else said, chocolate and even small lumps of bread rather than cheese, but smelly cheese is ok too.

You can get them too, as CH said, by using a spanish guitar, but it's difficult to smash a mouse to a pulp with a spanish guitar. A banjo is much easier to handle, with the added bonus that you'll rid the world of another banjo at the same time

[stek]

iirc there is no such thing as a single mouse in your house.

This is true, they'll be hundreds of them by now, and clean your teeth properly, they crawl into your mouth when you're asleep and eat the food stuck between your teeth.

When we had mice the local Post Office woman said I should use her humane traps and release them into the wild, presumably to be eaten by owls. How very humane.

In the end I got a man in, 40 quid, put some stuff down and they ate it and all shrivelled up into little strips of brown. No more meeces.....

Remember too they piss and walk at the same time, no bladder control.....

[Spacecadet]

Get a cat IMO, good at seeking out pests in the house.

Last time we had a mouse in the house it had been brought in by the cat who wanted somewhere warm to play with it.

Ended up having to use the cat as a hunting partner to flush the mouse out from under the furniture so I could trap it in a box and chuck it back outside.
I was surprised at how well the cat followed my directions.

[NotAllThere]

Rather than cat, I find kitkat with traditional mousetrap has always done the trick.

[BrilloPad]

I have an idea for a new business model. RentACat. I could lend Nick a cat for a few weeks - all his issues would go away(our cat can catch squirrels so a mouse presents no problem).

I could go on Dragon's Den with this one.

[Churchill]

I have an idea for a new business model. RentACat. I could lend Nick a cat for a few weeks - all his issues would go away(our cat can catch squirrels so a mouse presents no problem).

I could go on Dragon's Den with this one.

Might I suggest that if you have the ability to "herd cats" that your talents may be better exploited elsewhere...

Henceforth you shall be known as "Heidi, the cross-dressing cat-herd!".

[xoggoth]

Another thread about being nasty to little creatures. Needless to say I am going to respond "you bastard"

[BrilloPad]

Another thread about being nasty to little creatures. Needless to say I am going to respond "you bastard"

So you welcome mice into your home? And cockroaches? Wasps? Flies?