Reply to: stupid scaredy girl question

[shaunbhoy]

it was obviously country music

IIRC.........."Living in a Windmill in old Amsterdam" featured quite prominently.

[Boudica]

I might have posted this story before...

A few years ago I had mice in the kitchen, looked like field mice. I was still thinking about using traps when I noticed that whenever I played guitar they'd come out of the kitchen and sit around my feet or to the side of the chair. If I stopped playing they scuttled back to the kitchen.

I got a cardboard box and left it beside the chair and started playing, one by one I caught the mice and transferred to another box, into the back of the car and a ten minute drive to release into the countryside. Didn't have any problems after that.

All in all a surreal experience.

it was obviously country music

[scooterscot]

mouse!!!!

i'm here alone, it knows! i just watch a mouse walk across the sitting room bold as brass, i don't have a trap or anything and i'm worried about it crawling on me when i'm sleeping

eeek!!!

any (helpful) suggestions?

get a cat

[Zippy]

you some sort of rodent medium then?

Dormice Stokes perhaps?

[Cliphead]

Your music sounds like a mouse dying.

Like your attempts at humour

[MarillionFan]

I might have posted this story before...

A few years ago I had mice in the kitchen, looked like field mice. I was still thinking about using traps when I noticed that whenever I played guitar they'd come out of the kitchen and sit around my feet or to the side of the chair. If I stopped playing they scuttled back to the kitchen.

I got a cardboard box and left it beside the chair and started playing, one by one I caught the mice and transferred to another box, into the back of the car and a ten minute drive to release into the countryside. Didn't have any problems after that.

All in all a surreal experience.

Which just goes to prove what we've said all along. Your music sounds like a mouse dying.

[Cliphead]

I might have posted this story before...

A few years ago I had mice in the kitchen, looked like field mice. I was still thinking about using traps when I noticed that whenever I played guitar they'd come out of the kitchen and sit around my feet or to the side of the chair. If I stopped playing they scuttled back to the kitchen.

I got a cardboard box and left it beside the chair and started playing, one by one I caught the mice and transferred to another box, into the back of the car and a ten minute drive to release into the countryside. Didn't have any problems after that.

All in all a surreal experience.

[Pogle]

B&Q traps are effective.

I have 7 dead mice that can give testimonials to that.

you some sort of rodent medium then?

[Scrag Meister]

Late to the party but hey!

If you trap them humanely where are you gonna put them? They'll be straight back if released within walking distance.

I bought 3 traps for a pound in some small hardware shop. Worked a treat.

<Random mouse info/>

Peanut butter and chocolate are favourites for mice, NOT cheese, although they will if that is all that is available.

Position traps short side to the wall along which they run.

Can squeeze through gaps as small as .5cm.

</Random mouse info>

[shaunbhoy]

I'm glad I could amuse you with my very limited brain.

Stuff and nonsense. Nothing wrong with the size of your brain. Ideal for these parts anyway.

[Boudica]

What a marvellous analogy!


Yes..............pretty much!

I'm glad I could amuse you with my very limited brain.

[shaunbhoy]

Like Voltaire at Ferney?

What a marvellous analogy!


Yes..............pretty much!

[Boudica]

Oh you know.............struggling on against adversity. The usual. How about you?

Like Voltaire at Ferney?

[shaunbhoy]

How are you anyway SB?

Oh you know.............struggling on against adversity. The usual. How about you?

[Zippy]

Tou don't need to kill the mouse. Just make sure it can't get at your food and leave it an escape route.
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