Reply to: Mighty Mouse - A new species?

[KathyWoolfe]

2006 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin

(10 January 2007, East Germany) A 63-year-old man's extraordinary effort to eradicate a mole from his property resulted in a victory for the mole. The man pounded several metal rods into the ground and connected them to a high-voltage power line, with the intent of rendering the subterranean realm uninhabitable. Incidentally, the maneuver electrified the very ground he stood upon. He was found dead at his holiday property on the Baltic Sea. Police had to trip the main circuit breaker before venturing onto the property. The precise date of the sexagenarian's demise could not be ascertained, but the electricity bill may provide a clue.

Don't do this!

[BrowneIssue]

... Had a quick search and you can see the traps here:
http://www.frenchentree.com/france-d...e.asp?ID=13134

Following the link it says:

"Every year, at least 20,000 people in France are injured in some way as a result of trying to kill moles"

May I humbly suggest, we should be using humane mole traps and shipping our moles live to France. The moles are doing sterling work over there!

[Board Game Geek]

One would assume that moles employ vertical and lateral movement in their tunnel-digging lawn-wrecking fests.

Unless of course they have mastered the art of levitation, which, although admirable, has not ever been recorded by the likes of Bill Oddie or David Attenborough. Although there may be a sinister motive for that.

Void Reaver Down ! Another Guild 1st !

Friday Night is Drunken Kara run on Teamspeak...can't wait...

[Lucifer Box]

You need to think laterally with moles. It's called "concrete".

Vertically, surely?

[Board Game Geek]

You need to think laterally with moles. It's called "concrete".

[ferret]

We had moles in our garden once and my dad set traps for them. He told us how the traps worked, often not killing it and just holding it there until it just died through lack of food etc. He also told us that they have really sharp claws. One day one of the traps fired off and my little brother ran over and pulled it out of the ground. There wriggling in the trap was this mole. He took it to the patio and let it out. The mole made a bid for freedom, back to the grass while he tried to stop it by pushing it back with his foot (wary of the claws). In the end he smashed its head in with a lump hammer - much more humane than letting it starve to death in a mole trap. Then the dog ate it. Nice!

That's the problem with the mole traps in this country, far too weak to dispatch the moles and therefore inhumane IMO. My Dad hired a mole catcher once, was a lady and she used to import her traps from Holland. I used to go around the fields with her to show her where the little devils were. My Dad asked if we could buy some traps off her and from then on I did all the mole trapping. Had a quick search and you can see the traps here:
http://www.frenchentree.com/france-d...e.asp?ID=13134

Much more effective. I used to get £5 a mole

[miffy]

We had moles in our garden once and my dad set traps for them. He told us how the traps worked, often not killing it and just holding it there until it just died through lack of food etc. He also told us that they have really sharp claws. One day one of the traps fired off and my little brother ran over and pulled it out of the ground. There wriggling in the trap was this mole. He took it to the patio and let it out. The mole made a bid for freedom, back to the grass while he tried to stop it by pushing it back with his foot (wary of the claws). In the end he smashed its head in with a lump hammer - much more humane than letting it starve to death in a mole trap. Then the dog ate it. Nice!

Absolute class.

[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

[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".

[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

[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.

[KathyWoolfe]

This is possibly your answer


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

[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.

[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.

[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.