Tips for catching mice please!

[Toaster]

Hi all,

I have a home in the country, resided in by me... Toaster... and my two burmese cats (both sitting on my knee as I type). As spoiled well fed upper-class snobs, they don't worry themselves with chores such as catching and ridding our home of field-mice.... which means wees and poos from mice on my new carpet and goodness only knows where else.

Oh, they bring them home to show me then let them go, bat them around a bit then leave them to eat the TV and computer cables. I caught one at 2am the night before but saw another race by at 6am this morning with a cat in hot pursuit. I turned the house upside down trying to catch the little terror but to no avail. I think this little bugger is inside the piano!

They seem to ignore the mouse trap.... tried cheese and peanut butter, but they don't even bite.

Do any of you have really effective ways to catch and kill hard to find, sneaky little mice?

[Toaster]

Your Fired!!!

[Big Dave]

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[BarBender]

Your Fired!!!

Just what I was thinking...

[Meekey_Mouse]

Lol, Burmese cats aren't mice slaughterers... get a proper farm cat and they'll get rid of them cute little mice very quickly.

If you really really want a good mouse/rat hunting cat make sure it's parents are good at it :yes:

[Toaster]

Just what I was thinking...


I chucked in a poll for laughs...



Lol, Burmese cats aren't mice slaughterers... get a proper farm cat and they'll get rid of them cute little mice very quickly.

If you really really want a good mouse/rat hunting cat make sure it's parents are good at it :yes:


Can I borrow yours?


(Cool, I just worked out how to multi-quote.... hehehe)

[Toaster]

That was brilliant Big Dave..... great laugh! ++

[onearmedbandit]

The Goodies, I grew up watching op British humour like that! Thanks Dave!

[BuFfY]

I remember when I was growing up in a lovely lil town in Southland and our cat bringing in mice. Mum would grab us (we were like 4 and 6 or something) and we would hide upstairs in her bedroom, ring dad, and he would come home from work to save us!!

Then when I lived up here my lil cat Blossom bought in a mouse.. we were trying to save it.. Blossom had gotten bored. My friend was trying to catch it and it was cornered.. so he was putting pieces of kindling to make a lil blockade so he couldn't get out. The cute lil mouse was pushing the pieces of kindling back out! He was so cute!! We named him Mr Jingles hehe

[BuFfY]

Oh so the moral of the story is.. don't get a cat to get rid of it.. get a manly man to do it for ya! :yes: Has always worked for me!!

[Drum]

Try laying down some poison under the hot water cylinder. They love it there for the warmth.

[Swoop]

According to Ronnie Barker...
All you need is a recording of (Barry Manilow, The Spice Girls, or something of equally bad taste) and a brick.
Simply play the chosen "music" and when the mouse comes out of it's hiding place with its front paws over its ears, sneak up behind it with the brick...:shit:

[Toaster]

Oh so the moral of the story is.. don't get a cat to get rid of it.. get a manly man to do it for ya! :yes: Has always worked for me!!

Oi!! I am a manly man!!!!

[jtzzr]

PM swantiger /Arnaru , he always brilliant advice for vermon extermination.He had a similar thread awhile back , can't be naffed looking for it , basically cause I'm a lazy focker.

[MSTRS]

Oi!! I am a manly man!!!!

Not according to your siggy....or does that refer to what pops up? :devil2:

[Toaster]

Not according to your siggy....or does that refer to what pops up? :devil2:

Chicken flavoured toast???!!

[tri boy]

Dollop of peanut butter on a mouse trap/s. They can't resist it. Or M60 machine gun.:2guns:

[kerfufflez]

Hi all,

They seem to ignore the mouse trap.... tried cheese and peanut butter, but they don't even bite.



Try cheese and honey, and/or sultanas. I've heard the wee critters have a nose for sweet things. (But I've never actually tried it).

[Toaster]

Dollop of peanut butter on a mouse trap/s. They can't resist it. Or M60 machine gun.:2guns:

Maybe they don't like crunchy??!!

[Toaster]

Try cheese and honey, and/or sultanas. I've heard the wee critters have a nose for sweet things. (But I've never actually tried it).

Thanks, will do!

[oldrider]

Never had mice while our old cat was alive, then we had the ginger applicant for residence catching them, now we have no cats around we have some new boarders!

These mice have been harder to evict than the mongrel mob but I got two of them last night. Yayyyyy. (just tasty cheese bait and hungry mice)

Suspect there may be more about so have placed a (personally modified) hair triggered trap in the ceiling, with tasty cheese "and peanut butter" as bait.

This trap is tricky to set and place, as my fingers will testify but tonight , if there are any mices there, they are in deep doo doo.

I feel all my old hunting instincts and skills bursting to be noticed and screaming, pick me, pick me but I shall remain cool and cunning in the face of the enemy.

Death stalks the invaders tonight. :kick: (Hunter) John.

[Delerium]

try using vanilla essence on bread for the trap, worked a beaut at my olds place.

[Jantar]

Your problem is that you only have two burmese cats. You need three as shown below.
Cat 1. (Petanbre Little Lady) is guarding the door to make sure that mice do not come inside.
Cat 2. (Petranbre Fluer de Lis) is not shown because she is outside hunting rabbits, mice, ducks or anything else within 1 - 6 kms of our property.
Cat 3. (Pimo Golden Amadale) would not lower himself to anything as belittling as having to catch anything. He will wait until one of the girls brings food to him, then he may or may not consider eating it.

You see it is simply a matter of a dominating male being waited on by his females. Otherwise known as proper training. :dodge:

[johnnyflash]

Maybe they don't like crunchy??!!

Hell, why dont you just leave out a Menu for em to choose from, (on the mousetrap ofcourse :-) these beggars seem to be a picky bunch of meeces, but as mentioned earlier put the baits/traps in the warm spots, set hair triggers, if all that fails set trap hooked up to shotgun with wide pattern shot.. if it misses it will atleast sho em the way out.... LOL

[Toaster]

Hell, why dont you just leave out a Menu for em to choose from, (on the mousetrap ofcourse :-) these beggars seem to be a picky bunch of meeces, but as mentioned earlier put the baits/traps in the warm spots, set hair triggers, if all that fails set trap hooked up to shotgun with wide pattern shot.. if it misses it will atleast sho em the way out.... LOL

Brilliant - like it.

The first mouse was sitting (shitting actually) on the computer the other night staring at me!

The seconds was sitting on the stereo inside the tv cabinet.

As for the cats.... asleep in one of the couches in the family room... useless.

[Toaster]

try using vanilla essence on bread for the trap, worked a beaut at my olds place.

Cheers, beer and chips didn't work (although I enjoyed it), so will try that.

[gunnyrob]

and the Lord sayeth "Bait thine mousetraps with PINEAPPLE LUMPS, and ye shall reap a savage harvest"

Yup, pineapple lumps, I shit you not.

Little feckers love em.:niceone:

[ali]

Perhaps having live mice may be the lesser of two evils

Come this time of year, our two cats will have left the headless remains ( god knows where the heads go ) of mice, rats and the odd rabbit.

Mice and rabbits i can live with but any form of rat, dead or alive, loosens my bowels and makes me let out a high pitched scream, much to the amusement of my wife and son.

[BuFfY]

They really just do it for attention and to show that they love you. One year our cat Jemima bought us in a bird, and put it under the xmas tree with all our other presents... I was the only one home and we had an open home like 10 mins later!!
That was actually quite weird for her though, she used to bring us in leaves!

[Toaster]

and the Lord sayeth "Bait thine mousetraps with PINEAPPLE LUMPS, and ye shall reap a savage harvest"

Yup, pineapple lumps, I shit you not.

Little feckers love em.:niceone:

I have chocolate fish....... I shall go forth and discover the depths of my pantry!

[caesius]

Stop feeding them. I'm sure they'll start to appreciate the taste of mouse rather quickly.

[McJim]

Our moggie is a one cat slaughterhouse - a kind of feline Bladerunner if you will.

As for the mousetraps - I worked on a farm in Italy and they baited the traps with bread and olive oil.

I suggested cheese and they laughed at me and said I shouldn't believe everything I see on TV.

Worked for them.

[Meekey_Mouse]

I chucked in a poll for laughs... I like the Napalm idea :yes:


[QUOTE=Toaster;1090052]Can I borrow yours?

You could, but he isn't very much use now! He's 16 yrs old and only has one front tooth left. He use to be massive though... 8 Kg's! Awesome cat :love:



(Cool, I just worked out how to multi-quote.... hehehe)
Congrats!

[Toaster]

You could, but he isn't very much use now! He's 16 yrs old and only has one front tooth left. He use to be massive though... 8 Kg's! Awesome cat :love:


I could use an 8kg cat..... to sit on the mouse!!

[The Pastor]

Wild mice don't like cheese. Only once they have had a taste for it, i.e., tame mice eat cheese.

I had a cool little mouse trap, it was a oblong tube with one end raised, mice ran in to get the bait, trap tips over and door shuts locking them inside alive.

VERY EFFECTIVE!!!!! we caught the same 5 mice over 30 times each! Stupid mice lol.

Means you have to kill them your self tho. Also try mice poison instead of tradional spring traps, the boss killed all the mice (we wernt aloud to keep them as pets....) with mice posin, worked awesomely.

[Toaster]

Stop feeding them. I'm sure they'll start to appreciate the taste of mouse rather quickly.

Not feeding burmese is like starting World War III !!

[kevfromcoro]

i got 2 cats ..1 is a persian..couldnt catch a cold..the other is a small short haired 1..and he is a killer..u name it. rats, mice, small possums.....here is a tip for a cheap mouse trap...its not a joke,,it works....fill your sink up with water...get a bottle and rest it on the bench,with the neck over the water...stick a tatsy morsile on the tip of and neck and something slippery.....butter or simalar...mouse runs out to get the din din..,slips off and drowns in the sink...true

[Toaster]

Means you have to kill them your self tho.


You won't want to know how I killed the first mouse when I finally caught it hiding inside the sun umbrella.

Can't use poison - cats would likely eat it.... and I don't want dead mice rotting away in my relatively new home - only had it built 1 1/2 years ago!

[Toaster]

i got 2 cats ..1 is a persian..couldnt catch a cold..the other is a small short haired 1..and he is a killer..u name it. rats, mice, small possums.....here is a tip for a cheap mouse trap...its not a joke,,it works....fill your sink up with water...get a bottle and rest it on the bench,with the neck over the water...stick a tatsy morsile on the tip of and neck and something slippery.....butter or simalar...mouse runs out to get the din din..,slips off and drowns in the sink...true

I think with all these ideas, my house is going to look like a war zone by tomorrow morning!!!

[u4ea]

Oi!! I am a manly man!!!!

lmfao!!!! when I bought my home I had bees in the walls,a birds nest that was in the ceiling and caught fire by the chimey,and of course the wonderful mice.......mm now the roof fires put out and the bees are gone I have have what I think is honey comb in my walls and a year later after laying bait them mice are back...suggestions were to put bait in the ceiling but as I am not that confident climbing ladders into a 94 yr old roof I am stuck with my war of the worlds...oh and my 3 cats weigh 6 1/2 kgs approx each so maybe they are too well fed?????my territoraial training only taught me to kill human species so I totally sympathise with you Toaster........thank god for bourbon.....

[Chickadee]

Corner them yourself if you can?

We managed to corner one that had tried to set up home in our food pantry. It was in the back - behind some boxes - just need a cardboard shoebox or similiar box to stick over it and we managed to get it outside, didn't have the heart to kill it. We got Molly a few weeks later and she ate it when it tried to come back in.

She ate a preying mantis this morning, poor thing got chomped before I could rescue it. Don't mind her catching some things but preying mantis's are good for the garden eco-system. They take out the bugs I dislike more.

[0arbreaka]

Get a co2 fire extinguisher and put the nozzle in the mouse hole, that should either suffocate the mice or freeze them.

[Toaster]

All my cats ever do is go out on the back deck and chew the grass on the bank (I call it cat-floss) then come back inside and spew on the carpet.

I might start using them as exotic feather dusters.

[mbazza]

Try some 'natural' rat/mice bait! Available at a stock&station agent. Refined corn . . . . . . Makes the rodent constipated to death. Easy on cats / dogs who eat the dead rodents or the bait. Just makes them constipated too, but not to death! Some tasty something to get the litltle so and so's to eat it. Works in our ceiling. Cheers.

[Toaster]

Try some 'natural' rat/mice bait! Available at a stock&station agent. Refined corn . . . . . . Makes the rodent constipated to death. Easy on cats / dogs who eat the dead rodents or the bait. Just makes them constipated too, but not to death! Some tasty something to get the litltle so and so's to eat it. Works in our ceiling. Cheers.

Thanks! Anything to stop them dumping on my carpet!

[Toaster]

Thanks to everyone who gave ideas. It is most appreciated. The Goodies video was fantastic - you can't beat british comedy - it's actually funny.

[one-speed]

well with the traps i found hard at times,
the buggers would eat the bate.
so i would find something sticky or hard to get off.and try and get the trap to the edge of goin off but watch the fingers.
once i came home to a rat still runnin around with it's head caught so out comes the 22,he he he
which=blood stains and a hole in the floor.not to good
well all the best

[kevfromcoro]

All my cats ever do is go out on the back deck and chew the grass on the bank (I call it cat-floss) then come back inside and spew on the carpet.

I might start using them as exotic feather dusters.

i hear they are quite nice BBQd..those burmese cats

[zooter]

The problem is they have no interest in the baits? Aside from fussy cats.

Are you putting the traps along the walls, in mice "safe zones"? Mind you sounds like the vicaious mouthing the cats gave these buggers has just made them feel at home.

Not going for peanut butter is weird, maybe it's rancid. Walnut is tricky to mount but worth the effort.

The traps with the four "tunnels" leading to the middle and the fuckers get strangled from below are dynamite. Easy to hairtrigger.

Or as most everyone agrees trade in them flash moggies for a couple of killers.

[zooter]

Oh yeah, poison (warfarin I think) makes them thirsty as hell so they go outside, easy enough to keep the bait away from cats and surely if they don't approve of fresh then they'll be safe from carcasses?

[Panther]

get an ex aussie SAS guy to come to your house and stalk the mouse, i have a number if you want it...

[Daffyd]

I caught 12 in a week using one of those grey traps from the supermarket. I baited it with Pams Super Crunchy Peanut butter. I also use Rentokil 'Squeak' for mice and 'RidRat' for rats. (Similar, but Rat's is coarser).

They don't die inside...they go looking for water 'cos the poison makes them thirsty.

[Swoop]

Send in "The A-Team"!!!

(there is a slight possibility that SARGE will want his pet back though)

[Pussy]

[QUOTE=Toaster;1090052]I chucked in a poll for laughs... I like the Napalm idea :yes:




You could, but he isn't very much use now! He's 16 yrs old and only has one front tooth left. He use to be massive though... 8 Kg's! Awesome cat :love:



Congrats!

So, he won't be able to bite the meeces, but will give them a really nasty suck

[roadracingoldfart]

We had the little bastards eat the main wires for the garage fridge and that ended in a terminal verdict from the insurance man so now i get at least 3 per week with the "Better Mouse Trap" available in shops anywhere.
Just make sure you have the set face of the trap against a wall or make a track for them with cardboard or whatever to funnel them past the trap. They always follow walls or edges ive found.
I use smooth peanut butter and get awesome results.
At work we dont have any traps and i can assure you that CRC Brakleen stops them in thier tracks . Then a painless finishing off is all thats required with a large tool / broom / workboot , whatever is at hand.
I dont have a cat and when my dog , all 45 kgs of him started to chase the pesky criters around i had to find a trap option that worked to prevent the damage he was doing as im sure you can imagine.

[Pussy]

Get a hungry moggy with some street smart, Toaster. Would offer to lend you one of our four cats, but they would be as useful as a one legged man at an arse kicking party. Unless it comes out of a can, they wouldn't be interested

[Beemer]

Our older cat brings in mice for the kittens to play with, which really isn't what we want her to do but she seems to think she's teaching them stuff they would have learnt from their own mother! Unfortunately she does it in the middle of the night so we have to get up and catch them or we are driven mad for hours on end as the two kittens chase them and crash all through the house.

Living in the country doesn't help - they come in through the garage door and into the house that way. And they are definitely in the bloody ceiling right now so hopefully I can encourage Shelby to head up there and deal to them tomorrow. He's good at that - you often hear him crying when he gets lost up there!

Mice are annoying because they are so hard to catch, but disemboweled rabbits are worse - oh my, the smell!

[Meekey_Mouse]

Our older cat brings in mice for the kittens to play with, which really isn't what we want her to do but she seems to think she's teaching them stuff they would have learnt from their own mother!

Tigger (our old cat) has done that too all 7 kittens we've had! It's quite cute, he only ever brings baby mice for them too.


[QUOTE=Meekey_Mouse;1090315]

So, he won't be able to bite the meeces, but will give them a really nasty suck

He still catches them :yes: even caught a rabbit when we still on the farm 2 yrs back. Also managed to give the vet a pretty good sized bite :innocent:

[motorcyclesonline.net]

Go & get some of those plastic spring loaded mouse traps & bait them with peanut butter They can't help themselves

[Disco Dan]

Tigger (our old cat) has done that too all 7 kittens we've had! It's quite cute, he only ever brings baby mice for them too.


He still catches them :yes: even caught a rabbit when we still on the farm 2 yrs back. Also managed to give the vet a pretty good sized bite :innocent:

Would a nice steak meal, nice wine and a charismatic host be enough to catch your mouse meeky? :dodge:

(Joking!)

[Meekey_Mouse]

Would a nice steak meal, nice wine and a charismatic host be enough to catch your mouse meeky? :dodge:

(Joking!)

:shit:Lol! I think you killed the thread Dan :nono: :p

[Disco Dan]

:shit:Lol! I think you killed the thread Dan :nono: :p

Glad I could help :yes: :Punk:

[Smorg]

he is a killer..u name it. rats, mice, small possums....

native birds and mammals AWESOME!

[Toaster]

UPDATE:

Came home tonight to find the peanut butter trap on the kitchen floor untouched (until I stood on it wearing only socks), but the other trap in the garage had fresh poo nearby and the peanut butter and honey eaten - without setting it off!!... oh and the carrot was removed to the side and dumped.

My foot hurts.........

[tri boy]

Caught in your own trap.:shutup:
Lucky you wern't hunt'n elephants.:lol:
Sorry.....really:shutup: , no really........:rofl:

[Paul in NZ]

Peanut butter is a goodie - never fail bait in our place when the field mice come calling but I sometimes add a little knob of cheese for traditions sake!

Trap placement is crucial. The mice will have a regular route and you need to place the trap in a place near or along the route and in a place where micky will feel it's safe to stop for a nosh up. Under things, in corners, in a cupboard etc - not out in the open

Cheers

[Toaster]

Trap placement is crucial. The mice will have a regular route and you need to place the trap in a place near or along the route and in a place where micky will feel it's safe to stop for a nosh up. Under things, in corners, in a cupboard etc - not out in the open

Cheers

So the big neon sign in the middle of the floor saying "Eat this you little bastard!!" with big red arrows isn't a winner then?

[Paul in NZ]

So the big neon sign in the middle of the floor saying "Eat this you little bastard!!" with big red arrows isn't a winner then?

Erm - no unless you are really only pretending to catch them to impress the misus without wanting to actually hurt the little dears and deal with the sad little corpses...

[NotaGoth]

Okay so some cats ain't fantastic ratters, or mousers.. Its okay..

If you decide to bait PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE choose wisely.... We poisoned one of my cats a few years back... Select something that doesn't cause secondary poisoning (in case your cat decides to eat a mouse/rat that has been baited) Just because the bait is put where your cat can't reach it doesn't mean that the ain't gonna eat anything that has gotten into the bait..

People have already suggested peanut butter.. Good bait for your mouse traps...... It usually does the trick... The plastic traps are good as they are more sensitive to "light" touches... We had some metal and wood ones that you'd whack it and they STILL would not go off..

They might be finding enough food else where in your house for them to not even need to think about going for whats on the traps..

Mum had some cats once that just used to gorge themselves silly on rats and mice............................................An d then go vomit them up all over my dads motorbike...

All else fails invest in another cat.. Can never have too many.. :shutup:

[oldrider]

Never had mice while our old cat was alive, then we had the ginger applicant for residence catching them, now we have no cats around we have some new boarders!

These mice have been harder to evict than the mongrel mob but I got two of them last night. Yayyyyy. (just tasty cheese bait and hungry mice)

Suspect there may be more about so have placed a (personally modified) hair triggered trap in the ceiling, with tasty cheese "and peanut butter" as bait.

This trap is tricky to set and place, as my fingers will testify but tonight , if there are any mices there, they are in deep doo doo.

I feel all my old hunting instincts and skills bursting to be noticed and screaming, pick me, pick me but I shall remain cool and cunning in the face of the enemy.

Death stalks the invaders tonight. :kick: (Hunter) John.

Score so far, three baits gone and and two fingers caught resetting traps! :sick: Fucking mice! John.

[hXc]

Watch Blackadder II...

"[Baldrick enters, wearing an apparatus on his head which is dangling a piece of cheese from
the end of his nose. Edmund begins to speak about something,then notices.]

Edmund: [calmly] Why have you got a piece of cheese tied to the end of your nose?
Baldrick: To catch mice, My Lord. I lie on the floor with my mouth open and hope they scurry in.
Edmund: ...and do they?
Baldrick: Not yet, My Lord.
Edmund: Well, I'm not surprised, your breath comes straight from Satan's bottom, Baldrick. The
only sort of mouse you're going to catch is one without a nose.
Baldrick: That's a pity, because the nose is the best bit on a mouse.
Edmund: Any bit of a mouse would seem like luxury compared to what Percy and I must eat
tonight. We are entertaining puritan vegetable folk, Balders; and that means no meat.
Baldrick: In that case, I shall prepare my Turnip Surprise.
Edmund: and the surprise is...?
Baldrick: ...there's nothing else in it except the turnip.
Edmund: So, in other words, the Turnip Surprise would be...a turnip.
Baldrick: [realisation] Oh yeah..."

[Ocean1]

Used to have a monster grey cat, used to bring mice and rats in all the time. He'd eat them on the kitchen floor, all of them except the kidneys, didn't like 'em apparently. Mouse kidneys look exactly like peanuts, untill you try to pick them up, slippery little suckers.

Clean traps in hot soapy water to get your smell off and use gloves to bait it. Bait: Chocolate, they love it. Tweak the trap for maximum sensitivity, melt a teaspoon of chocolate and drip it onto the trigger. Can't be plucked off, they've got to munch it in place.

Place the traps under fridge, in hot water cupboard, behind stove, anywhere warm, low and covered.

It's also worth finding out where the little bastards are getting into the house. If it's on piles there's probably holes in the floor for drains, water pipes etc. You can seal them up with space-invader type stuff.

[Beemer]

You bastards! While reading the latest posts, Smooch brought a mouse in and let it go in my bloody study! Andy 'caught' it in a box but miraculously by the time he got outside, the box was empty... and the mouse was seen runing behind my computer. So after turning the study inside out, the damned thing is still here - well, according to Shelby, who is sitting by the chest of drawers that at least one mouse had been under, judging by the amount of mouse shit that was under there!

Great, just what I need to chew on my new computer cables...

[kevfromcoro]

must be the cold weather bringing them inside......have heard chocolate is excell. bait for mice..love the stuff

[zooter]

Toast man, ignore zooter advice at your peril didn't you! Put traps up against the wall like I told you already.

The plastic ones with the red bit that you squeeze to arm it are what everyone is talking about. My flatmate tells me they are the shiznitz. Don't have to touch the mouse and they go off really easily. Supermarkets sell them. The trap bit springs down from above making a mouse and plastic sandwich before any mouse can jump clear. 100% success rate.

[sAsLEX]

native mammals AWESOME!

Don't think cats would be getting too many bats!

[Smorg]

Don't think cats would be getting too many bats!

did you take the "birds" out of that or did I forget to out it in?

[sAsLEX]

did you take the "birds" out of that or did I forget to out it in?

You did. But you mentioned native mammals of which there a two species of bat or something.....

[El Dopa]

Does anyone know where I can get one of those wire cage humane traps - rat sized?

One of the little bastards thinks our roof space makes a great place to get out of the cold. The cat got his two mates, so now he jumps from next doors tree onto the roof and crawls under the eves.

Can't block the holes, trim the tree or otherwise stop him getting in. Don't want to put poison down in case he crawls under the insulation and rots slowly - he'd be a bugger to find even dead.

I've tried spring-loaded traps with stuff-all success, even in different positions and with different bait.

So what I'm thinking is one of the cage ones - he strolls in to check it out, and finds he can't get back out. Then I chuck it in a bucket of water and laugh while he drowns.

So where can I get one?

[Conquiztador]

I lived in an ould dump with heaps of places for mouse to get in. I got sick of having the little fu...rs coming in to eat what little I had in my cupboards and leaving their shit everywhere (and I hate cats!), so I built an "Electric Mouse Executioner".

Quite simple and very effective. U have a round steel plate diameter about 8cm. You have another one diameter about 20 cm. You connect a wire to each one. Then U place the 8cm one on top of the 20cm one and between them U place a 9cm diameter cut out of a ice cream container lid. Now U place something they like in middle of the 8cm one. Then U connect the two wires to 230AC.

Then when the mice stands with back legs on the 20cm steel plate and reaches over to the 8cm one with it's front legs U will have electrocuted mice galore. And by using a 10 - 15 A multi plug box you will not blow the fuse in the electric cabinet.

The only draw back is the BBQ smell...

[oldrider]

I lived in an ould dump with heaps of places for mouse to get in. I got sick of having the little fu...rs coming in to eat what little I had in my cupboards and leaving their shit everywhere (and I hate cats!), so I built an "Electric Mouse Executioner".

Quite simple and very effective. U have a round steel plate diameter about 8cm. You have another one diameter about 20 cm. You connect a wire to each one. Then U place the 8cm one on top of the 20cm one and between them U place a 9cm diameter cut out of a ice cream container lid. Now U place something they like in middle of the 8cm one. Then U connect the two wires to 230AC.

Then when the mice stands with back legs on the 20cm steel plate and reaches over to the 8cm one with it's front legs U will have electrocuted mice galore. And by using a 10 - 15 A multi plug box you will not blow the fuse in the electric cabinet.

The only draw back is the BBQ smell...

Is your real name Heath Robinson? :shit: John.

[Conquiztador]

Just think that electrocution is under-rated as a solution to todays probems. ;-)

[u4ea]

Ive got an old gun butt I keep by my bed for "special occasions" (burglar baton):innocent: anyhoo lately Ive been using it to bash on the wall to scare the mice as he"s(bastod ..presumably male :dodge: )in the wall by my bed..sounds like an elephant in the middle of the night..hmm this morning I gave myself a fright as the butt was lying beside me when I woke up...haha.....oh I scare myself sometimes!!!!

[Chrislost]

Perhaps having live mice may be the lesser of two evils

Come this time of year, our two cats will have left the headless remains ( god knows where the heads go ) of mice, rats and the odd rabbit.

Mice and rabbits i can live with but any form of rat, dead or alive, loosens my bowels and makes me let out a high pitched scream, much to the amusement of my wife and son.

i once woke up and saw a rat on the floor in the middle of the room! i sconned it with the bedside clock and then put a bin over it and went to find the cat.
i shit you not it was pretty dam funny locking the two animals into the same room(untill the cat got exited and nailed it)

[Chrislost]

Just think that electrocution is under-rated as a solution to todays probems. ;-)

electrocution is fun!

i however prefer to put said victim into a fertiliser sack and tie the end over the exaust pipe and leave the car running for 20 minutes, worked fine for stray cats/possums when i lived on the farm.

[Grahameeboy]

I used a humane mouse trap in UK once over the weekend and I went away which was a bit silly..I forgot..anyway, got back and the mouse trap was gone........!!

[alecks69]

inhumane assholes! have a couple of litle mice in the work shed got them so tame they no when smoko is and come out for a feed :yes: cut litle buggers

still i cant wait for the day they get to close and end up with a foot stamped on em
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[Toaster]

Well, the standard mouse trap is crap... but the 'better mouse trap' (plastic with a spring - works very well. Between that and the cats (who finally got the idea)

My lovely home is mouse free.

Thanks for all the good and also amusing suggestions.

[Mom]

Well, the standard mouse trap is crap... but the 'better mouse trap' (plastic with a spring - works very well. Between that and the cats (who finally got the idea)

My lovely home is mouse free.

Thanks for all the good and also amusing suggestions.

I saw this thread back and was a bit concerned the vermin had devoured all your kai, and you had given up!.......LOL

dont feed those pussies mate......leave them hungry and wanting to be fed, that and the plastic "mice will die" traps......very effective :yes:

Yay to the mouse free home..........hope you dont get Rats now :shit:

[Skyryder]

Have not read all the posts on this but I'd stop feeding the cats. Keep them outside for a few days also.

I'm serious on this. Any animal that is too well fed will not hunt. take away its tucker and just watch the change.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

Is your real name Heath Robinson? :shit: John.



There's a name I have not heard in the long time. There was a time when he lived in most parts of the country. Nothing was a bother to him. He had the right attitude. Would give anything a go. If it did not work so be it. Heath would sit down and try again. I always thought he had a bit of the Scotsman in him as he disliked spending his hard earned dosh but in truth I think his middle name was Bruce as in the spider thing. Try try and try again. It wasn't pretty but it worked. I heard a rumour some time ago that both the legal profession, OSH, LTSA and just about every Government department were gunning for him. Collectively they were known as the PC possie and poor old Heath had to go underground. Occasionaly he raises his head but the Tall Poppie gang(that's the sycophants of the pc possie) run him out of town.


Skyryder

[Toaster]

I couldn't not feed my cats or leave them out overnight, they are much loved!! And I really look after the things I love.

[Beemer]

Our cats did us a favour last night - they brought in a mouse. What's so great about that? Well, if I hadn't got up to dispose of that I wouldn't have heard the sheep bleating and got the torch to see what was going on. And we wouldn't have found the third triplet that had just been born and who had fallen through a hole in the fence to the other paddock! Mum and three babies are now all safe so thank you cats - but don't make a habit of it at 3am!

[jrandom]

This morning I got up at 5:30am, walked to the kitchen, and trod in a pile of half-digested catfood the bloody moggy had thrown up in the hallway.

Motherfucking feline's going down.

[ManDownUnder]

Motherfucking feline's going down.

Your cat performs oral? Ethical issues aside... don't the teeth hurt?

[jrandom]

Your cat performs oral? Ethical issues aside... don't the teeth hurt?

Pussy don't go down on me; it's usually vice versa, to be honest.

[ManDownUnder]

Pussy don't go down on me; it's usually vice versa, to be honest.

So ethi... actually - no I can't put the ethics of that aside.

(yeah I know - it was a stretch)

[Indiana_Jones]

don't feed your cats, they'll get hungry enough lol

-Indy