Mice

This sort of thing works very well, in particular this breed ...

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What's wrong with traditional mouse traps at about £1 a throw. OK you squash their noses sometimes but most times you break their necks instantaneously. Maltesers work well if your mice are suspscious of free cheese.
 
There are some newer, plastic mousetraps on the market that are very good too. An office I was working in a few years ago had bit of a problem & the plastic traps were very good - they don't endanger your fingers in the same way that the old fashioned ones do either! They did the job alright, they were far more efficient than the old fashioned wire mousetraps we had used to start with.
 
Diver, I do have a £1 a go mousetrap however the little blighters managed to get off the bait without pinging the trap. With a little bit of tweaking though so that is is now so sensitive you hardly have to touch it I have now caught two! I'm going to have a look at for the plastic moustraps that Shadow Leader mentions as well, the more the better. I was slightly freaked out after a bit of googling to find that one mouse couple can be responsible for 2000 offspring within a year!
 
Mice can sing,surely it would be more profitable to find the mouse with the X factor and make a killing.
 
There is a spray repellent which also repels other rodents, cats, and pigeons, but not gulls. It's humane and non-poisonous, and works by discombobulating the creatures' senses of smell and taste. Inexpensive. I used it on the windowsills last year, when the pigeons were starting to get into the flat. It worked, although after rain it needs respraying. Any garden centre or DIY store will carry it.
 
I often sit in the dark through the night watching films. Lately a mouse will walk along the floor as if nothing is going on. The cheek of the bastard. You think I could get some privacy when Im watching certain film......
 
The crispy bit off the cooked bacon is attractive to most mice and you can get it firmly fixed on the pin. They don't get away with very often. Tying the cheese on with cotton works as well.
 
Gareth, if you saw the shape of me you would know why I should give all my bacon rind, and the bacon for that matter, to the mice.
 
A few years ago now, I got up at 5am to go to work, as I entered the living room from the stairs, a mouse ran into my fireplace which was/is one of those imitation coals, gas fires, actually looks like a real fire when lit......

I grabbed a furniture spray can(nothing else was handy) and waited for it to come out so I could polish!!!(sorry about the pun?) it off...

But to no avail so I decided to spray the polish under the fire hoping it would come out(forgetting the pilot light was on) all of a sudden there was this loud explosion and flash of fire( it frightened me that much! I had to go and change my undies and trousers too :P :D ) and the mouse came out on fire.... I fell over laughing (after) as to what I had done being half asleep, but the poor mouse was no more as he rolled over dead in my kitchen, to be deposited in the bin................

Not advised on how to catch a rodent like this either........unless of course your inflamed!!! by the situation????? :rolleyes:
 
Can you believe it..... I have found mouse droppings in my kitchen this evening and lots of them. :confused: I don't want to kill the little blighters, and my cat is worse then useless so no chance of her catching them. I may just leave her in the kitchen tonight and see how she gets on.

Off to get some humane moustraps tomorrow if she fails.
 
Kathy, I've tried the humane mousetraps as I really didn't want to kill them either but they didn't go anywhere near. I'm so sick of them now though that its all out war on them anyway.

Diver, thanks for the bacon tip, that's the next bait to try.
 
Triptych, I spent an hour trying to find out why they are there. Behind the microvave I found like the outside of what looked like nuts. The amount of mouse pooh was amazing. I eventually traced the pooh trail to the wild bird nuts that we keep in the kitchen. These are now in the shed, and when I came downstairs this morning, no fresh mice pooh BUT I am not convinced they are not still in the house. I checked all the cupboards etc and they don't appear to have been anywhere else. The hunt will continue. :ph34r:
 
I tried the human mousetrap on the kids, but regrettably it didn't break their necks.

(Gearoid - if you stop watching your 'American Tail' video yer man will leave you be.)
 
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