I've put crunchy nut cornflakes on the traps ( i have 8 of these) the crunchy nut was all gone and the traps haven't gone off. Believe me these critters are well smart!
Im gonna try the chocolate, the glue traps and then I'm gonna nuke this place!!!!
Tomorrow I've got the men from the council coming around.
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Try peanut butter, they love that! No better way to catch mice, serious!
(sorry just jumped in without realising there was a question to this thread )
(sorry just jumped in without realising there was a question to this thread )
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Obviousman wrote:Try peanut butter, they love that! No better way to catch mice, serious!
(sorry just jumped in without realising there was a question to this thread )
...and the peanut butter's probably contaminated with Salmonella - an even better weapon against the pesky critters (see recent email thread from the Other Place)!
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Well, to be honest, I haven't even read the first post yet right noweotunun wrote:Giving an answer without knowing the question ought to result in "42", so you probably are wrong.
But 42 would do, too
We caught a couple of them that way, honest! In a mouse-friendly trap (a bit like a tube with a slight angle, tips over when the mouse walks in, closes door), after which I swung 'em over the wallSINsister wrote:Obviousman wrote:Try peanut butter, they love that! No better way to catch mice, serious!
(sorry just jumped in without realising there was a question to this thread )
...and the peanut butter's probably contaminated with Salmonella - an even better weapon against the pesky critters (see recent email thread from the Other Place)!
But, then, salmonella would mean they'd suffer less, I presume, ?
Aye, me toSINsister wrote: I'd luuuuuuurve a kitteh
Being brave is coming home at 2am half drunk, smelling of perfume, climbing into bed, slapping the wife on the arse and saying,"right fatty, you're next!!"
Yep, I'd like the middle One of these Little CutiesSINsister wrote:Exactly. Poor meeces.
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scotty wrote:Yep, I'd like the middle One of these Little Cuties
LOL! Erm, scotty...not exactly the type of "kittehs" that *I'd* had in mind. Pfffft!
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Keef - those are kittins, not kittehsscotty wrote:Yep, I'd like the middle One of these Little CutiesSINsister wrote:Exactly. Poor meeces.
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They probably suck... at catching mice anyway.scotty wrote:Yep, I'd like the middle One of these Little CutiesSINsister wrote:Exactly. Poor meeces.
Sorry, too tempting.
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Read it. Hell mend you for eating the stuff! 'Tis the work of the Devil I tell you - and probably ideal for poisoning mice as well as people.SINsister wrote:Obviousman wrote:Try peanut butter, they love that! No better way to catch mice, serious!
(sorry just jumped in without realising there was a question to this thread )
...and the peanut butter's probably contaminated with Salmonella - an even better weapon against the pesky critters (see recent email thread from the Other Place)!
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Oh, dear Androo, you silly sod, I could eat half a jar of the stuff in one sitting if I allowed myself that kind of wanton behavio(u)r!
I.LOVE.peanut.butter. (Good thing it comes in a reduced-fat variety, these days!)
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A tip: If you ever happen to visit my mother (I know, I know) don't ask her for peanut butter. The last time I did, the jar was four years past its sell-by date.
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Crunchy was it?markfiend wrote:A tip: If you ever happen to visit my mother (I know, I know) don't ask her for peanut butter. The last time I did, the jar was four years past its sell-by date.
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It had separated; a layer of oil on top, all the peanutty bits had sunk.
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When I was cearing up in my grandma´s basement something like 1992ish I found cans of fruit that had expired in 1977..markfiend wrote:A tip: If you ever happen to visit my mother (I know, I know) don't ask her for peanut butter. The last time I did, the jar was four years past its sell-by date.
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I've been known to curl up in front of an episode of QI with a tub of it, a teaspoon and some sugar on top...SINsister wrote:Oh, dear Androo, you silly sod, I could eat half a jar of the stuff in one sitting if I allowed myself that kind of wanton behavio(u)r!
I.LOVE.peanut.butter. (Good thing it comes in a reduced-fat variety, these days!)
YUM!
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markfiend wrote:It had separated; a layer of oil on top, all the peanutty bits had sunk.
and you used the green fur to make ikle waistcoats for all them lovely meeces!
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Clearly Mrs. Fiend Snr. and Mrs. Eotunun Snr.+ aren't having any truck with this sell-by malarkey - peanut butter lives forever (its half-life is second only to that of Marmite, which has been found in some of the oldest pyramids, proof that the pharaohs knew a bit about a decent breakfast) - sometimes the heavier peanut settles out below the lighter oil (it's really just pureed peanut in an oil suspension, the oil giving it spreadability and mouthfeel), all you have to do is stir it up a bit and you're ok.eotunun wrote:When I was cearing up in my grandma´s basement something like 1992ish I found cans of fruit that had expired in 1977..markfiend wrote:A tip: If you ever happen to visit my mother (I know, I know) don't ask her for peanut butter. The last time I did, the jar was four years past its sell-by date.
Yumyum!
Eotunun's granny understood that the whole point about canning stuff was that it preserves it in perpetuity - so long as the can isn't damaged in such a way that the tin coating is compromised, thereby allowing the contents to interact with the steel inner wall, causing (this) corrosion and leading to oxidation of the steel and the subsequent explosion of the can, then there is no reason that canned goods cannot be kept for as long as you want (which is why they keep them in fall-out shelters, and why the cans of pemmican that they found in Captain Scott's hut in the Antarctic are as good today as they were in 1912).
Of course, the real trick is to get the mice into the cans in the first place.
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Even microbes refuse to eat that stuff?EvilBastard wrote: peanut butter lives forever
There´s a theory the climate of the Antarctic might have a wee effect, too. (As I heard a number of fatalities resulted from the techniques used for canning in the earl days of the canned food, which was to solder the cans shut with the very heathy metal calle Lead. Your food will easily survive you.)EvilBastard wrote: and why the cans of pemmican that they found in Captain Scott's hut in the Antarctic are as good today as they were in 1912).
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Nope - microbes won't eat peanut butter because they can't get hold of any really good jam, and even the least-discerning microbe knows that peanut butter without the jelly just isn't worth the efforteotunun wrote:Even microbes refuse to eat that stuff?EvilBastard wrote: peanut butter lives forever
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Either I am even lower in the food chain than an amoeba then, or what you are saying is SO NOT TRUEEvilBastard wrote:and even the least-discerning microbe knows that peanut butter without the jelly just isn't worth the effort
Peanut butter ought not to be sullied by contact with any other foodstuff, quite frankly. It stands alone
(don't buy s**t brands though kids, they're full of palm oil which is not actually a foodstuff either, rather something the yanks invented to decimate indonesian forests and make their own populace even more fat)
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And yet...you advocate sprinkling sugar on top of it...boudicca wrote:Peanut butter ought not to be sullied by contact with any other foodstuff, quite frankly. It stands alone
I've been known to curl up in front of an episode of QI with a tub of it, a teaspoon and some sugar on top...
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