Reply to: Mouse in the House

[Sysman]

The little gits also eat cable insulation & gnaw at all sorts of stuff.

I felt quite sorry for killing them, but I prefer not to share my house with vermin.

Rats are even worse.

I've heard stories of rats and meeces taking out computer rooms.

They like the insulation around cables apparently.

[Sysman]

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

They breed faster than rabbits as well.

And wear army boots to walk across the ceiling above you.

My Labrador pup was a good mouser until she ate one that had been poisoned. Puke, bile, diarrhoea and very sorry looking pup welcomed me home that day.

She was still good at retrieving dead ones though.

Which helped keep the place tidy.

[BrilloPad]

As regards to this thread - may I just say and and
Rodents are people too

Depends where they are. I quite like rats - my sister used to have a pet one. They are very intelligent. But I dont want them running round my house.

And how do you feel about cats attacking rodents? Should all cats be killed?

[Sysman]

Seeking it out isn't the problem: it seems quite happy popping in and out of the chimney. I just don't think a cat could get in there, and also I'm not sure how I'd get it out again.

The cat would probably sit patiently for the bugger to emerge, then pounce.

[TimberWolf]

A proper contractor would have...

[MarillionFan]

A proper contractor would have turned this situation into a plan B.

[Scrag Meister]

After last weeks success with the sticky board, we have left some poison down and its still being eaten. The traps are rubbish.

Only a matter of time.

[d000hg]

Why didn't you just set a fire?

[Pogle]

As regards to this thread - may I just say and and
Rodents are people too

[Churchill]

I have. There was a study by a chap called Daniel Keyes about the similarities between the fates of mice and their hosts. If the conclusion is true, you can be expected to be hoiked out of bed one night and dumped , naked in a freezing lay by before being eaten by a flock of owls

That's the excuse that Nick uses when he gets caught by the rozzers for "roaming" at night with no clothes on!

[EternalOptimist]

People say "Oh it'll die, it can't cope out there" and so forth but, as far as I can determine, this is based solely on assumptions: I can't find any actual studies where house mice have been released into the countryside and then observed to be beaten up by gangs of voles and so forth.

I have. There was a study by a chap called Daniel Keyes about the similarities between the fates of mice and their hosts. If the conclusion is true, you can be expected to be hoiked out of bed one night and dumped , naked in a freezing lay by before being eaten a flock of owls

[BrilloPad]

Yep. It's also not the same one as the one I can hear dicking about over near the window right now

Are you sure you don't want to get a cat?

[NickFitz]

Are you sure it wasn't the same one?

Yep. It's also not the same one as the one I can hear dicking about over near the window right now

[TimberWolf]

Another one gone an hour ago. I'm spoiling those owls

Are you sure it wasn't the same one?

[NickFitz]

Worry about the the other 75 meeces you have!! I had 40-odd when I thought I had one!

Another one gone an hour ago. I'm spoiling those owls