Building a better mouse trap- will it work?

[TonyB]

A small and furry squatter has taken up residence in our kitchen. It hides inside the back of the oven, and is living off scraps that it steals from our plates while they await being cleaned off and put in the dish washer.

It's a hard case little bugger- it knows MrsB is scared of it (the loud squeak she emits every time she see's it probably gave that away), so it hides under the elements and peers out at her. Last night I went in there and it was trying to steal a large bit of pizza crust. Even though it could hear me talking it continued to drag the crust towards the entrance to it's lair...

I have decided that as it is a hard case, it deserves a chance to be caught alive and released (yes I'm a soft bugger!), so I have devised a cunning plan to capture it...

I have a plastic milk bottle balancing on the edge of the oven....inside the bottle is a nice big bit of pizza crust...tied to the bottle is a bit of string that is tied to the oven...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/tonybl/IMG_0844.jpg


When my noble advisory walks to the end of the bottle to retreive the crust, his weight will over balance it, the bottle will fall to the end of the string, and he will be trapped!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/tonybl/IMG_0845.jpg

So, do you reckon it will work??

[XTC]

Uummm righto.... Just get some poison dude... It's a mouse get it before it becomes 100 mice.

[John]

You bloody legend, thats what I like to see - good old fashion westie fabrication love it, if it goes into it then it should work, although them mice have a tendency to be very sneaky, and get out of ackward places such as in a milkbottle by chewing through it or climbing out..

[Artifice]

it has a good chance. but dems mice are tricky shits (ask to see his union card). probably what you have is not a mouse problem but a mice problem. he got lots o mouselets to feed (chuck him outside and he may call the union in on you). think mice a too stoopid to find the way home from the neighbours garden. HAH!!

[Ixion]

He will gnaw his way out.

Get a cat. But NOT Mr Motu's cat. A proper cat.

[TonyB]

He will gnaw his way out.

Get a cat. But NOT Mr Motu's cat. A proper cat.
Got two cats. They probably brought the bloody thing in in the first place! Socks will come in with a mouse, meow at you, and in the process his mouth will open, and the mouse will drop out and run away!!!








My own wife voted against me...

[crazyxr250rider]

will work but use stronger bottle we have all seen or heard of the damage one of these can do by sratching and nawing

[crashe]

hehehehehe what a classic....

Mate just buy a mousetrap.... and kill the sucker/s...
cripes its told all its other wee mouse friends where there is a free feed..lol
I see you have a dishwasher beside the oven... check behind the dishwasher too. As its warm behind there and they love to live there as well...

Oh and dont put cheese on the mousetrap... put a piece of meat on it....
apparentely mice dont go for cheese now...lol.

(I know about that cos a mate has them behind there dishwasher too.)

[sunhuntin]

what a good guy! good on you for wanting to let the wee beastie live!! but i agree, get a stronger bottle, or put something in the bottom that cant be chewed through before you find it...

best of luck, seems like a very clever idea to me!!

[Coyote]

Don't kill the thing! Would you like a bloody great big spring loaded metal pole slamming into your neck?

Save the mice! Also hug a tree while your at it

[crazyxr250rider]

Don't kill the thing! Would you like a bloody great big spring loaded metal pole slamming into your neck?

Save the mice! Also hug a tree while your at it
So your one of them eh.
Probably, rather that than being cooked under element that im hiding under

[sAsLEX]

Don't kill the thing! Would you like a bloody great big spring loaded metal pole slamming into your neck?

Save the mice! Also hug a tree while your at it

but i dont go theifing other peoples things and making a mess in their house so prob wouldn't get the metal pole across the neck

[crazyxr250rider]

but i dont go theifing other peoples things and making a mess in their house so prob wouldn't get the metal pole across the neck
point taken loud and clear

[Biff]

Yeah it might work. Good luck. Keep us informed please.

Spotted my first house mouse today lurking in the garage. There's a hole outside our back door that leads under the fioundations of the house, so the little begger must have sneaked in while I was washing the motors down this afternoon.

As long as it and its buddies stay outside the house, or at least out from the eating area, they're safe.

[scumdog]

Harden up! Put a piece of newspaper down over one of the elements, put a hole through it above the element and tie a piece of cheese with jam on it to the element (through the hole)

Turn down the lights and be quiet. (so you can hear little feet on the newspaper)

Now the good bit: load your favourite slug gun ( a six shot Crossman gas pistol is my favourite)

When you hear the feet on the paper let loose with the gun! presto, dead mouse!! - if your aim is good!

If not then a .22 rifle and bird-shot will do it - but make sure you put a board down on the element and behind it to 'soak' up the lead!! :niceone:

[zooter]

Harden up! Put a piece of newspaper down over one of the elements, put a hole through it above the element and tie a piece of cheese with jam on it to the element (through the hole)

Turn down the lights and be quiet. (so you can hear little feet on the newspaper)

Now the good bit: load your favourite slug gun ( a six shot Crossman gas pistol is my favourite)

When you hear the feet on the paper let loose with the gun! presto, dead mouse!! - if your aim is good!

If not then a .22 rifle and bird-shot will do it - but make sure you put a board down on the element and behind it to 'soak' up the lead!! :niceone:

Overkill dude!

My vote is drown the little bastard.

Bucket of water with ruler "balanced" on the edge, bit of weight (less than mouse weight!) on the end resting on something the same height as your bucket, peanut butter down the business end.

[HDTboy]

You could try being a sadistic feind and just turn the element on high

[sAsLEX]

( a six shot Crossman gas pistol is my favourite)

only had a one shot Crossman pump one job, but it fired little darts so a full power hit from one of them would of killed the barstards.................only ever got the wall though !?

[speedpro]

Overkill dude!

My vote is drown the little bastard.

Bucket of water with ruler "balanced" on the edge, bit of weight (less than mouse weight!) on the end resting on something the same height as your bucket, peanut butter down the business end.
Did that at sprog school when I joined the air force, it worked a treat.

[Suney]

My dad use to trap the mice inside an air tight container til it died :(

[scumdog]

only had a one shot Crossman pump one job, but it fired little darts so a full power hit from one of them would of killed the barstards.................only ever got the wall though !?

Yeah well the ex went spare at the carnage the Crossman caused to the skirting board when I had no 'back-stop and I was trying my 'running shots' at meece heading for the pantry!!
Got the bastards though - and that was ANOTHER mess I had to clean up, those mice are SO messy!!

Hot tip: put the bait on a coal-shovel on the floor, you get a few ricochets but the cupboards/skirting boards have a few less holes - and the mouse is ready for disposal 'cos it's on the shovel :niceone:

[dangerous]

You could try being a sadistic feind and just turn the element on high
and then that would take cear of the sprogs dinner for the night :niceone:

[Rainbow Wizard]

You bloody legend, thats what I like to see - good old fashion westie fabrication love it, if it goes into it then it should work, although them mice have a tendency to be very sneaky, and get out of ackward places such as in a milkbottle by chewing through it or climbing out..
You see their wee incisors will be trying to bet a bite on a concave surface, I doubt there would be success. :no:

[scumdog]

You see their wee incisors will be trying to bet a bite on a concave surface, I doubt there would be success. :no:

Too true - but NEVER underestimate the cunning little shits eh? :nono:

[Ixion]

Still reckon y' need a PROPER cat.

Ours isn't allowed in the house, but we don't get miceses (or rats, or voles), cos NOTHING survives approaching the perimeter .

And saves on cat food. All we see is the occasional leftover head or tail

(Incidentally, anyone want a collection of meter reader's uniforms)

[TonyB]

Righto. Went out at 3am- the bottle was hanging from the string.....empty. The viabrations from the dishwasher may have caused it to fall off.
This morning.....same result. Bugger! The angle it hangs on may allow the mouse to jump out. Will try two other options today/ tonight.

The little buggers can jump though- funny story- my mother in law had a cheeky mouse loose in her house. It used to sit behind the grandfather clock and watch her- taunting her. We arrived one day, and it was watching us from behind a clock on the end of the mantle piece. I got a glass from the kitchen, and got MrsB stand at one end of the clock- the mouse ran towards the end of the mantle piece, straight off the end and into the glass. I put my hand on the end and walla! The mouse was caught! Couldn't beleive it myself. Then Lexie wanted a look. She couldn't see it properly through the glass, so I lifted my hand just a bit. She peered in, then she grabbed my hand and moved it..... the mouse jumped out of the glass and jumped from my waist level nearly up to my shoulder. Then it leapt to the floor before I got my hand over it and was gone.... the best laid plans of mice and men eh :rofl:

[StoneChucker]

If you ever DO catch it, can you courier it down to me? My dog loves mice.
Cheers :niceone:

[crazylittleshit]

bro just get a mouse trap or some poison :yes:

[Coyote]

bro just get a mouse trap or some poison :yes:
or

http://coe.nevada.edu/lnadelson/Mouse_Trap.jpg

[erik]

or

http://marquardts.org/mindspring/mice/

(but if your trap works, it is more elegant in its simplicity ;))

[Biff]

A trick my grandfather uses in his house and garage to get rid of/keep out mice is placing cayenne pepper in the places the mice enter/gather/party. Apparently the little critters hate the smell of the stuff.

My mice have apparently now made it into the attic. Ms Biff claims to have heard them last night and now says she hears them munching on one of our bathrooms extractor fan outlet pipes. Time for the Biffmeister to hinvestigate.
It now looks like war has been declared here to. :devil2:

[TonyB]

Well if I'd used a bottle that he couldn't jump out the little bugger would have been caught...there's a mouse poo in the bottle- he can jump out.

[onearmedbandit]

Maybe he thought you were kind enough to leave him a 'toliet'. Rig up a trap door on the top of the bottle, that'll fuck him.

[Enn]

Plastic supermarket bags work well for the cheeky ones, put a bit of tucker in the bag and hang in a accessable place you can tell when they drop in lotsa noise then quiet, you ever tryed to get something out of a plastic bag quietly??? and if your not in the room a baby monitor works well, as some of us are bound to know too bloody well.... :rofl: happy hunting eh.. :niceone:

[zooter]

My vote is drown the little bastard.

Bucket of water with ruler "balanced" on the edge, bit of weight (less than mouse weight!) on the end resting on something the same height as your bucket, peanut butter down the business end.

But if you really don't want to kill the little rat then you could put 15 to 20mm of water in the bottom of the bucket so he can hold his head up out of it but can't get a grip on the bucket with his wet feet.

[sAsLEX]

But if you really don't want to kill the little rat then you could put 15 to 20mm of water in the bottom of the bucket so he can hold his head up out of it but can't get a grip on the bucket with his wet feet.

fill it and make it swim, they dont sink they just paddle around!

[NC]

At an old flat, the chick I was living with used to have 3 cats, and 2 of them used to bring huge live rats into the house. So...my flatmate used to track them down, throw a tea-towel over it and SMASH them to death with a hammer...W....T....F!


Another reason why, I'm just not right

[tl_tub]

At an old flat, the chick I was living with used to have 3 cats, and 2 of them used to bring huge live rats into the house. So...my flatmate used to track them down, throw a tea-towel over it and SMASH them to death with a hammer...W....T....F!

Did she wash the tea-towel after that? :no:

[TonyB]

I don't fricken believe it!!! I get to work this morning, and what do I find? MOUSE SHIT IN MY COFFE CUP!!!!!!!!! There's something going on here....are they out to get me??? .......am I the first stage in a evil mousey plan for world domination???:killingme

[Paul in NZ]

I don't fricken believe it!!! I get to work this morning, and what do I find? MOUSE SHIT IN MY COFFE CUP!!!!!!!!! There's something going on here....are they out to get me??? .......am I the first stage in a evil mousey plan for world domination???:killingme

Dude! Thats what you get for being nice to them!

This aint Micky Mouse! making the neighbourhood a better place and they are not building the magic kingdom up the road! These are cunning, kill you if they could carry the black death vermin type critters... Just get some disposable (and lethal) traps before they get established!

[vifferman]

Oh and dont put cheese on the mousetrap... put a piece of meat on it....
apparentely mice dont go for cheese now
Ah.... there's a reason for that.
Mice in the wild don't come across very many cheese trees. Or meat bushes, come to that. :weird:
They eat seeds, the occasional insect, that sort of thing. So the best bet is bread, and even better is peanut butter smeared on the trap, because (a) the smell is enticing, and (b) it's not easy for them to sneak off with it.
Traps are generally pretty humane, and if you don't like killing them, there are traps that trap rather then kill. However, if you just take them outside, they'll come back in. It's getting cold and wet outside now, and food is scarce (not seed season any more), so they'll come back to your hotel again.

Anyhow - mices ain't so bad - we had a rat in our kitchen last year, which I chased around the kitchen with a 'squash' racket (it didn't squash it) and I caught two or three by our spa pool. Kinda weird having a war with rats when we have three pet ones... :confused:

[Pixie]

Living in the country,this is the time of year they all start to move inside.
I recommend nailing a block of Pest Off to a piece of wood,the mouses love it ,it smells like fudge.It was all I could do to resist eating it myself.And it kills them too!
If your trap works you will be left with a live mouse.You will then have to make the choice of despatching it or imprisoning it as a pet .Release is not an option.
A humane way of disposing it is to give a small squirt of CRC CO contact cleaner into the bottle.The mouse will be anaesthetised and asphyxiate while unconsious.It's a lot better than hitting it with a hammer.
Or shooting it.
An aquaintence told me of shooting a mouse he saw in his linen cupboard.
He used a .22 shot round,which I don't think are available any longer.
There was a lot of washing to do that day!

[Lou Girardin]

If you're about to do some kitchen renovations, try a 3" !2 gauge loaded with 00 buck.

[Biff]

A bit of Mars bar and/or jam have always worked in my traps. If the trap doesn't kill them it'll rot the little bastards teeth!

[Paul in NZ]

A bit of Mars bar and/or jam have always worked in my traps. If the trap doesn't kill them it'll rot the little bastards teeth!

Should stick a small piece of a Big Mac down then... According to some people that'll get the little buggers...

[NC]

Did she wash the tea-towel after that? :no:
Yeah, there was brain matter on the wallk for a while, I refused to clean it!

[Ixion]

Chopped the head off a rat once with a cavalry sabre. I was rather proud of that stroke, took the head clean off, just part of the shoulder attached, and didn't hit the ground with the blade (just as well, cos it was concrete, wouldn't have wanted to nick my blade)

[Aitch]

hehehehehe what a classic....

Mate just buy a mousetrap.... and kill the sucker/s...
cripes its told all its other wee mouse friends where there is a free feed..lol
I see you have a dishwasher beside the oven... check behind the dishwasher too. As its warm behind there and they love to live there as well...

Oh and dont put cheese on the mousetrap... put a piece of meat on it....
apparentely mice dont go for cheese now...lol.

(I know about that cos a mate has them behind there dishwasher too.)
That's what the professional mouse hunters use for bait....

[notme]

No! not peanut butter......well....not if you want to catch MICE...cos this morning i was in the workshop here and heard a "SNAP" then a godawfull commotion....turns out a wee sparrow (airborne mouse!) had tried to investigate the peanut butter in the mousetrap at the back of the workshop....he was ok when i let him go but damn he was swearing black and blue in sparrow-language!

For those of you wondering how the birdie survived - it's one of those "gentle" mousetraps that allows you to catch the buggers and let them go...don't ask me why we have it, but it's probably a good thing since i step on the bastard regularly! :niceone:

[Jantar]

I don't fricken believe it!!! I get to work this morning, and what do I find? MOUSE SHIT IN MY COFFE CUP!!!!!!!!! There's something going on here....are they out to get me??? .......am I the first stage in a evil mousey plan for world domination???:killingme

Perhaps you should read "The Hitch-hikers' guide to the Galaxy". You will see that mice ARE out to get us for ruining their experiment. :yes:

[WINJA]

THE ONLY REASON ID LIVE CAPTURE IT IS TO KILL IT SLOWER THAN A TRAP. I FUCKEN HATE MICE AND AS NICE AS YOU MAY BE YOUR ENDANGERING YOUR FAMILYS HEALTH LETTING HIM LIVE LONGER , MICE EAT DOG SHIT AND RUBBISH THEN WALK ALL OVER YOUR KITCHEN

[Odin]

Good on you for not wanting to kill the bugger.

I had the same problem a while back, a little mouse would run around the house in the evenings looking for anything my kids might have dropped. I keapt catching glimpses of it out of the corner of my eye. So i mannaged to block the hallway with a cupboard door leaving only a tiny gap that lead in to a hole in a 36 pack beer box. I spend a good hour chasing the mouse arround and finally got it in the box. I then keept it in an aquarium for 2-3 weeks while my 2 girls and me feed it and opserved it. They named it rose. Then we took the hole thing in the car and drove to a feild and set it free :weird:. My girls talk of it now and again. saying things like "I hope rose have found a place to live, its could outside" :love:

[TonyB]

Alas, I think the mouse is now wary of the trap. I tried a 1.5 litre fizzy bottle as it would be harder to jump out of, but from the looks of it the bottle moved around too much when he was trying to squeeze in. So at the moment I've got an extended milk bottle (two taped together). Don't think my furry nemisis has been near it. I'm sure the idea would have worked first time out if I'd used a suitable bottle. I'll try putting some peanut butter in it tonight. Then I'll try the ruler, old rubbish bin and peanut butter idea. If that doesn't work, then I'm afraid this mouse is going to find that he gets really thirsty- I already have the bait. :bye:

[avgas]

I perfected the 14 mega hits of doom, with my crutches when i had em. No mouse was safe under the shoe rack anymore. Most didnt even have noticable bones anymore. :puke: :weird:

[sAsLEX]

So i mannaged to block the hallway with a cupboard door leaving only a tiny gap that lead in to a hole in a 36 pack beer box.

Had one in my room once, couldn't sleep with it scurrying round, so created a funnel with books and boxes leading to a howitzer shell i had and drove it in to there.

THen put the shell with a book on it in the hallway for mum to see when she got up in the morning as she didn't believe I had a mouse in my room, she sure yelled loud for a non-existent mouse.

[vifferman]

A bit of Mars bar and/or jam have always worked in my traps. If the trap doesn't kill them it'll rot the little bastards teeth!
Well, if you're going for the luxury foods, give 'em chocolate or some coffee. Rodents have high metabolic rates, and stimulants like that can cause heart failure. And (for those pest-lovers) at least they'll die happy!

[Ixion]

Had one in my room once, couldn't sleep with it scurrying round, so created a funnel with books and boxes leading to a howitzer shell i had ...

Uh, air pistols, yeah I can see that. Rifle, well maybe, gonna splatter him a bit but it'll work. Shotgun, well you're gonna make a bit of a mess. But a HOWITZER ? Don't you think that's a bit of an overkill (note clever pun here ) .

[Stroker Girl]

We had these cool little humane traps a few years ago. They are a yellow and shaped like a square tunnel? with the end section raised upwards. The door at the front is lifted up like a trap. You put the food at the back of the trap and when the mouse goes in to get the munchies its weight moves the end section down and the front part snaps shut. Mousey is trapped inside.

Sorry didn't explain that very well :no: Anyway, I've seen them at some pet shops and I think some of the hardware places sell them.

You could always try the holistic way. Was watching a show on tv "Riverside Cottage'?? where he got in a mouse whisper to do a sort of ceremony with crystal, candels etc where she very very politely asked the mice to leave his house and go live down in the garden shed :weird: The scarey thing was that the mice actually moved (either that or he went out with the poison while the camera's weren't about!)

[Artifice]

so what was in the candles then?

[zooter]

Alas, I think the mouse is now wary of the trap. I tried a 1.5 litre fizzy bottle as it would be harder to jump out of, but from the looks of it the bottle moved around too much when he was trying to squeeze in. So at the moment I've got an extended milk bottle (two taped together). Don't think my furry nemisis has been near it. I'm sure the idea would have worked first time out if I'd used a suitable bottle. I'll try putting some peanut butter in it tonight. Then I'll try the ruler, old rubbish bin and peanut butter idea. If that doesn't work, then I'm afraid this mouse is going to find that he gets really thirsty- I already have the bait. :bye:
Make him wade around in a half inch of water so he can't climb the sides, but give him a freebee dash of peanut butter tonight as a "peace offering" so he isn't suss' about walking the plank tomorrow.

[Wellyman]

Just kill the bugger. i hate the stupid things. we once nailed one with a broom and took out some of his vitals and then my mate nailed him with an air rifle.

[TonyB]

we once nailed one with a broom and took out some of his vitals and then my mate nailed him with an air rifle.
Tell me it was dead when you pulled out some of it's vitals

[Wellyman]

Tell me it was dead when you pulled out some of it's vitals

Wait my mate smacked it's vitals out with a bottle of heiniken while it was running away.

[myvice]

Just open a tank of LPG in your kitchen and wate for your mouse to light a match. If that wont work do what I do... Show him the hours you work, the money you get after tax and the bills you have to pay, then tell him about the latest ohmygodIwantone from Italy and then the price, he will kill himself for you

[TonyB]

Got the little bastard!! I tried the peanut butter trick- works brilliantly. I put a little bit on the opening (teaser) and a big blob at the end. He took the teaser just after tea. A few minutes ago I was getting out of the shower when I heard the bottle drop, so I ran out and put my hand over the end of the bottle. He was jumping really high!

I then got dressed and released him into the wild some distance away. Mission accomplished.




Boooooorrrrn Freeeeeee,
As freeeee as the wiiiind blooows....
Ooo look, more votes in the Tony is nuts column LOL

[sunhuntin]

Got the little bastard!! I tried the peanut butter trick- works brilliantly. I put a little bit on the opening (teaser) and a big blob at the end. He took the teaser just after tea. A few minutes ago I was getting out of the shower when I heard the bottle drop, so I ran out and put my hand over the end of the bottle. He was jumping really high!

I then got dressed and released him into the wild some distance away. Mission accomplished.




Boooooorrrrn Freeeeeee,
As freeeee as the wiiiind blooows....
Ooo look, more votes in the Tony is nuts column LOL

woooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

good on ya for lettin him go free. :niceone:

cos im as free as a bird, now, and this bird you cannot chaaaaa-aaaaange [or as free as a mouse?]

[dangerous]

Got the little bastard!!
LOL...... ok so this morning/tonight whenever ya go back into the kitchen you will see a mouse sitting on the stove, you will think is that a differant mouse or has the bugger come back..... you will now relise that there are a family of the things living behind the stove :rofl:

My red dobie had a mouse living under his kennel, frigen dog would go nuts at 3am so i figered it was time to solve the problem, got the mouse that night and another one every night after for a week 7 wee mungers in all...... good luck TB :Punk:

[Biff]

Yippeeeeeee!!!

Well done that man. Now for forksake dispose of it a looooong way from your house, or kill it, otherwise he'll find his way back.

[crashe]

Before you let him go... did you tattoo his little ear, so that when a mouse returns you can see if its the same one again...hehehehe.

Oh BTW they breed really quickly, so watch out for his whanau.....
They will be coming to get you.....hehehehehe.

[John]

Got the little bastard!! I tried the peanut butter trick- works brilliantly. I put a little bit on the opening (teaser) and a big blob at the end. He took the teaser just after tea. A few minutes ago I was getting out of the shower when I heard the bottle drop, so I ran out and put my hand over the end of the bottle. He was jumping really high!

I then got dressed and released him into the wild some distance away. Mission accomplished.




Boooooorrrrn Freeeeeee,
As freeeee as the wiiiind blooows....
Ooo look, more votes in the Tony is nuts column LOL
hahaha excellent, did you give it a snack before it was free'd?!

yay 2000 :D

[TonyB]

Nah, didn't tatoo his ear. He was trying VERY hard to get out so it was get dressed and go before he escapes.
He got the bit of bread with the peanut butter on, sort of a last supper I guess LOL

[dangerous]

Nah, didn't tatoo his ear. He was trying VERY hard to get out so it was get dressed and go before he escapes.
He got the bit of bread with the peanut butter on, sort of a last supper I guess LOL
Bloody hell man...... next you will give him a damn name :niceone:

[crashe]

Bloody hell man...... next you will give him a damn name :niceone:

As long as it ain't "Mickey mouse".....hehehehe
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[TonyB]

Bloody hell man...... next you will give him a damn name :niceone:
:bleh: 'The Last Supper' fell out of the bottle while I was trying to shake him out......ended up having to rip the bottle open and expel him.
It's MrsB's fault the mouse was referred to as him. Bloody woman, shes turned me from a red blooded farm boy into a SNAG... :mad:

[Wolf]

:bleh: 'The Last Supper' fell out of the bottle while I was trying to shake him out......ended up having to rip the bottle open and expel him.
It's MrsB's fault the mouse was referred to as him. Bloody woman, shes turned me from a red blooded farm boy into a SNAG... :mad:
SNAGs are so 80's - you're a "Caring, Undemanding Nice Type" :devil2:

[Pixie]

Got the little bastard!! I tried the peanut butter trick- works brilliantly. I put a little bit on the opening (teaser) and a big blob at the end. He took the teaser just after tea. A few minutes ago I was getting out of the shower when I heard the bottle drop, so I ran out and put my hand over the end of the bottle. He was jumping really high!

I then got dressed and released him into the wild some distance away. Mission accomplished.




Boooooorrrrn Freeeeeee,
As freeeee as the wiiiind blooows....
Ooo look, more votes in the Tony is nuts column LOL
If the little bugger bites you ,you may turn into a rodent at the next full moon

[TonyB]

SNAGs are so 80's - you're a "Caring, Undemanding Nice Type" :devil2:
LOL. That'll keep.

[Wolf]

LOL. That'll keep.
So will pickled pork, dude.

[Wolf]

We found by pure chance that there is a damn-near fool-proof mousetrap on the market - found the cat swatting a roach trap (small cardboard box with holes in the ends, a lure and sticky paper inside) around the floor. Thought the cat had gone mad until we realised a mouse had run into the trap to escape the cat and had become stuck to the paper within - all along its belly fur, feet, tail, the works. Couldn't pull itself loose.

The next day we found another mouse had stuck itself in a roach trap and the cat had torn it open and killed the mouse - was amusing itself by swatting it around.

The holes in the roach traps are large enough for a mouse to enter but the box is not very high so they have to slither along on their beliies - not good when they hit the sticky paper inside with their furry bellies.

[Lias]

Mouse disposal is much like our current judicial system. its in serious need of reconstruction and needs to be about punishment not rehabilitation :niceone:

Once you had it in the bottle, shoulda thrown the bottle into a bonfire or fireplace, thus ensuring a slow painful mouse death, and no possibility of reoffending whilst sending a clear message to the greater mouse community :whistle:

[Wolf]

Mouse disposal is much like our current judicial system. its in serious need of reconstruction and needs to be about punishment not rehabilitation :niceone:

Once you had it in the bottle, shoulda thrown the bottle into a bonfire or fireplace, thus ensuring a slow painful mouse death, and no possibility of reoffending whilst sending a clear message to the greater mouse community :whistle:
LiasTZ - the man who would see a small, mouse-sized gallows in every home...

[TonyB]

So will pickled pork, dude.
Revenge is sweeter. And I have a sweet tooth. :devil2:

[Lias]

LiasTZ - the man who would see a small, mouse-sized gallows in every home...

Complete rubbish.

Under my benevolent rule, we would provide all mice with free train trips to "rehabilitation camps", with extensive shower facilities. :whistle:

[Wolf]

Complete rubbish.

Under my benevolent rule, we would provide all mice with free train trips to "rehabilitation camps", with extensive shower facilities. :whistle:
Coming soon: Lias Industries Novelty Lamp Shades...

[Wolf]

Revenge is sweeter. And I have a sweet tooth. :devil2:
Tastes best served cold, I find.

Great quote I heard, think it may have come from a movie: Former victim finally locates his nemesis "what dun him wrong" all those years ago and has him in his power. "Aha," he gloats, "I've been dreaming of this moment every night since we last met" and his nemesis replies calmly "Really? I haven't given you a moment's thought since."

[SpeedyGirl]

Uummm righto.... Just get some poison dude... It's a mouse get it before it becomes 100 mice.


Ha that doesn't work either... we have a mouse in the office and after a month the damn thing is still there..... we have 20 poison traps set :slap:

[TonyB]

Ha that doesn't work either... we have a mouse in the office and after a month the damn thing is still there..... we have 20 poison traps set :slap:
We had the same problem in my office. Little bugger actually SHAT IN MY COFFEE CUP! Funnily enough the traps didn't work- I caught it by the tail when it was running around the office

[Patrick]

One mouse you will see... probably 5 mice you are actually seeing, since they all look alike...if you have one, you have at least 5... peanut butter and nothing else on the spring neck breakers is the way. We had a small invasion, they all loved the stuff. I set one in the cupboard under the laundry sink and closed the door. Stood up and snap! Thought I set the thing off by closing the door. Opened the door and there was a real fat arse, R.I.P.... Bugger them shitting in my coffee cup! Now have 2 cats, no problems. :banana:

[Krayy]

....inside the bottle is a nice big bit of pizza crust...
Now heres something I didn't know until i went to my brothers place the other week...apparantly what mice love most in the world is Pineapple Lumps. Sounds weird, but their canteen had a mouse sized break in and the only thing they ate were the Pineapple Lumps. I suppose it's the rodent version of the Chocolate Fish - everybody likes them and will virtually anything to get one. So I can only conclude that they're daring each other to try to get it out of the trap.

[pyrocam]

so tony. did you get the little bugger?

[Sniper]

Did it work Tony?

[HDTboy]

Bump for Toaster

[Krayy]

According to a no-expense-spared Air Force study, it was found that the ultimate mouse trap bait is.........


Pineapple Lumps

Weird, but it works (apparantly they caught 5 in a weekend after the new bait was introduced)