Tips for catching mice please!

[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]

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

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

(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

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!