MICE

EmeraldSignal · 10 Mar 2007, 23:42

We have mice, they have suddenly appeared.
Ive put down traps with cheese, bread, jam you name it! Got one but the rest dont seem to take the bait. Apart from nuking the house anyone got any ideas.

????

Badlander · 10 Mar 2007, 23:46

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But not mine coz he's no good as a hunter.

EmeraldSignal · 10 Mar 2007, 23:50

hmmmmmmmm a friendly feline............not a bad idea.

Izzy HaveMercy · 10 Mar 2007, 23:58

Hmmmzz... NOT if you got a feline hunter like our cat, who just finds said rodent, plays with it until just enough entrails are smeared over the floor and walls to make for a nice rub-down of your place, but still leaving said rodent alive enough to squeak the whole night long, crawling into/under a place where you can NEVER retrieve it, where it will eventually die an agonizing death.

While feline sits by and watches you with interest while you crawl under cupboards and mop the floor.

IZ.

lazarus corporation · 11 Mar 2007, 00:17

Corporate employees of the month:

(they're very good at fluffy toys, not so good at live prey)

Izzy HaveMercy · 11 Mar 2007, 00:19

lazarus corporation wrote:Corporate employees of the month:

(they're very good at fluffy toys, not so good at live prey)

I see that... there's a mouse right next to the ginger and he doesn't give it a glance...

IZ.

lazarus corporation · 11 Mar 2007, 00:23

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
lazarus corporation wrote:Corporate employees of the month:

(they're very good at fluffy toys, not so good at live prey)
I see that... there's a mouse right next to the ginger and he doesn't give it a glance...

IZ.

Yeah, he's not too bright, sadly

James Blast · 11 Mar 2007, 00:29

I've said it before, looks like I'll have to say it again - Cats are Bastards!

thank you

Dark · 11 Mar 2007, 00:32

lazarus corporation wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote: I see that... there's a mouse right next to the ginger and he doesn't give it a glance...

IZ.
Yeah, he's not too bright, sadly

Ginger? Not too bright? Oh, almost too easy..

canon docre · 11 Mar 2007, 00:38

James Blast wrote:I've said it before, looks like I'll have to say it again - Cats are Bastards!

thank you

why thank you, cat-fodder.

6FeetOver · 11 Mar 2007, 00:40

Purrrrrrrrrdy!

canon docre · 11 Mar 2007, 00:59

SINsister wrote:Purrrrrrrrrdy!

sentiment echoed, Sinny. (He just told me)

EvilBastard · 11 Mar 2007, 01:09

You could try glue traps - they're horrible nasty things, with a sticky toxic surface that Mr. Mouse gets stuck to and can't get off. Meanwhile the toxins work their way through his system, it takes about 4 days to die. Of course, if you find him then you can beat him to death with a half-brick, if you have the stomach for it. Personally I loathe the things, but they have a better track record than bog standard moose-traps.

Have to concur with the others, though - a cat is the way forwards. Do you have a friend with a farm, maybe? Perhaps he can lend you a mouser.

canon docre · 11 Mar 2007, 01:12

EvilBastard wrote: Do you have a friend with a farm, maybe?

being friends with scotty usually helps too, or so I was told.

EvilBastard · 11 Mar 2007, 01:17

canon docre wrote:
EvilBastard wrote: Do you have a friend with a farm, maybe?
being friends with scotty usually helps too, or so I was told.

Now now, that's not nice - the scots gave up eating rodents months ago

canon docre · 11 Mar 2007, 01:19

EvilBastard wrote:
canon docre wrote:
EvilBastard wrote: Do you have a friend with a farm, maybe?
being friends with scotty usually helps too, or so I was told.
Now now, that's not nice - the scots gave up eating rodents months ago

James Blast · 11 Mar 2007, 01:27

all cats are bastards - Blast FACT!#1

EvilBastard · 11 Mar 2007, 01:33

James Blast wrote:all cats are bastards - Blast FACT!#1

"Mommy? That nasty man said that [gulp] all cats are [gasp] bastards! He doesn't mean me, does he?"

6FeetOver · 11 Mar 2007, 01:39

Hmm. Some friends of mine likened me to their cat, Josie, who's rather aloof and skittish around strangers, takes awhile to warm up to people, and won't be treated roughly or told what to do.

So: alien, or cat? Hmm.

Or perhaps BASTARD, then, eh, James?

Actually, I wouldn't take offense - they're all variously applicable.

6FeetOver · 11 Mar 2007, 01:43

@EB: did you get that baby kitty pic here, by any chance?

canon docre · 11 Mar 2007, 01:55

Great link.

I urgently need one of those to scare the neighbours.

6FeetOver · 11 Mar 2007, 02:07

LOL!

undertow · 11 Mar 2007, 02:09

emerald Sig. wrote:

We have mice, they have suddenly appeared.
Ive put down traps with cheese, bread, jam you name it! Got one but the rest dont seem to take the bait. Apart from nuking the house anyone got any ideas.?

They are a bit crafty and a very swish in the running department:
But I did find that Chocolate and raisins were favourites when I was trying to catch them. I seem to remember nuts as well but definitely Chocolate
Humane traps are good BUT REMEMBER TO CHECK THEM regularly, I didn't once, for a week.............

I think I'd rather have my back broken (and die instantaneously) than starve to death.

6FeetOver · 11 Mar 2007, 02:10

But...but...mice are cute.

undertow · 11 Mar 2007, 02:20

Sinsister wrote

But...but...mice are cute.

Yes they are , but not at 7.00am when you open the bread bin and they leap out at you like a......... crazed furry thing, then whilst you recover from an unwanted dose of adrenalin, you suddenly realise your crumpets have been violated and devoured.
That's not the rollercoaster start to the day you need, tha't before you brave the 95 bus and work.

That's why I recommend humane traps baited with chocolate. Atleast they 've got something nice to eat whilst they are waiting to be liberated!

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