[hottstuff]

Sitting playing my xbox 2 nights ago in my bedroom , and in walks this little git , in front of my eyes as cool as you like , goes under my tv cabinet , and under my subwoofer and pokes his head out and looks at me.
It freaked me despite not having a fear of mice , i used to keep them as pets lol , pulled the room apart as there was no way out for him as he walked in the door.
After a few hours of scouring behind everything he came running out , headed for the door and couldnt get out as i had it closed.Ran back under my tv cabinet , and i gave up after 3 hours as he was too fast for me and my brush.
Layed a metal spring trap with some crackerbarrel cheese and within 40 mins SNAP!.We heard it from downstairs as the wife & child wouldnt be caught dead in the same room.
I layed more traps the next day as i knew there had to be more , sure enough came in from work the next day to find the cheese gone from the wooden traps i’d set , they really are crap.
Set another 2 in the spare room (where the cheese had gone from) and got up this morning and the cheese was gone again , and i did smear it into the trap so it couldnt just be pulled out from the trap.I am going to try a mixture of traps now for the final time and if that doesn’t work i will be calling Rentokill.
Any tips?

[Digger]

Not very humane but you could consider those VERY sticky pads, like giant PostIt notes. You know they worked when you can hear the critter struggling periodically to free itself. Not for me as I wouldn't have the guts to put it out of its misery.


Get a feline hunter-killer?

[Steven]

Second house in Liverpool, I was about 7 and we'd just moved in. Middle of the night, coming back from the toilet, I step on something. Pick it up in my daze and put it on top of the mattress along the wall. Back to bed

Next morning I saw a dead, curled up mouse on top of the mattress



Warning: this may be ever so slightly cruel and you may be offended

My step-dad laid mousetraps and used poison-laced cheese to entice them. Once found crawling around half-dead, he got a half-cut open empty soft drink bottle (2L size), got them inside, taped it up and left them to suffocate in the wheelie bin!

[steptoe]

hi
i believe you can buy a poison which works quickly they mentioned it on that how clean is your house program on tv try their website not sure what channel it is on
hope it helps

[RichardK]

I've also got a problem with mice. They've chosen to live in my kitchen.

I bought a humane trap and I've caught three mice so far. The design of the trap means that once the mouse has got to the bait they're caught so you shouldn't have the mice getting away with the bait.

The mice I've got seem to like kitkats, so I use a small piece as bait. So far I've used orange, mint and dark.

This is the trap I use: http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs...tNumber=121448

[hottstuff]

Thanks for the replies guys.
I'm not going to be humain when it comes to a family of mice and my 15 month old!!!

[kezza]

I had mice in my garage and bought something called a Rat Zapper 2000. It is designed to kill rats so works a treat with mice. You simply put some food in at one end and as they walk in to get it they touch a metal plate and are electrocuted instantly. I tried various devices including the humane traps and poison but found this to be the best solution by far.

Regards

[IronGiant]

Originally Posted by hottstuff

Thanks for the replies guys.
I'm not going to be humain when it comes to a family of mice and my 15 month old!!!

I would not consider buying poison if you have young children. I have tried the humane traps (caught nothing) wooden traps (they nicked the cheese) and a plastic version of the wooden traps made by Rentokill (got'em).

[Steven]

Originally Posted by RichardK

The mice I've got seem to like kitkats, so I use a small piece as bait. So far I've used orange, mint and dark.

This is the trap I use: http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs...tNumber=121448

Send them to heaven first with new and improved dark and mint kit-kat before bopping them on the head? lol

[hottstuff]

Originally Posted by IronGiant

I would not consider buying poison if you have young children. I have tried the humane traps (caught nothing) wooden traps (they nicked the cheese) and a plastic version of the wooden traps made by Rentokill (got'em).

Oh yea poison is out of the question , same for me the wooden ones are useless.
Thanks for the advice

[metropolis]

http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/mou...ouse-p-36.html


been using one of these for about a year and no more mice in the house.

[steptoe]

hi
maybe you need one of these
Cat pics

[metropolis]

Originally Posted by steptoe

hi
maybe you need one of these
Cat pics

cats are the work of the devil

[kingfats]

Hi
Had some mice in the back of the garage for years now,don't seem to cause me any problems.Of course don't want them in the house,that would be another matter.
Usually chuck them a bit of cheese now and again!

[Pat_C]

Originally Posted by IronGiant

I would not consider buying poison if you have young children.

I agree. Unless they're really bad.

[signs]

get one of these, it will sort the mice and the kids out

sorry for the predictable post

[Nimby]

Experts use chocolate not cheese.

Press it slowly over the spike on the trap and you will catch far more of them.

When we had mice on the stairs of our first flat we caught 4 mice at one go in one trap with a nice bit of Cadbury Milk!

I remember as a kid my mother had a single mouse get in.

It jumped up at me as I bent down to look under a cupboard!

Then it dashed to the spin drier and was caught instantly in the drive belt.

The smell was awful and the spin direr had to be scrapped soon afterwards!

[CFC1]

We had some mice in between floors in the old house and set out poison to kill them. The trouble was, they had the poison, then staggered back between floors and died. After a couple of days, the stink was absolutely foul, as the critter started to decompose. Unfortunately for us, it was inaccessible, so we couldn't get him out. We ended up going away to visit friends for a week because of the smell... never again!

[Dynaudio Desire]

I mowed over a field mouse yesturday...not very nice...

Anyway, my dad had a problem of mice in his shed, so he got a mice and rat repeller thing and you plug it in the wall and works a treat! I think its safe for pets too.

[Knyght_byte]

as mentioned, get a cat....simplest way to catch them......

my cat gets bored when he's decimated the mouse population tho.....the other day he spent 5 minutes trying to drag a big wood pigeon through his catflap

oh that was after having brought back two other smaller birds....

he does so well considering he has a metal plate in his paw...lol

*thump*

[IronGiant]

So long as the metal plate isn't in his jaw

[Boris Blank]

I've used humane traps for a couple of years now. We live in the country and have fields at the back of our house so we get mice in late autumn in the loft space, Field Mice, really nice looking creatures when you see them up close.

Once caught, I release them a couple of miles down the road to continue their happy lives (likely in a barn or something). Killing them (to me) is just plain unnecessary. I'd rather simply evict them - kinder, cleaner, no smell and less hassle! To be honest I see no reason to kill a totally innocent creature doing its own thing!

The main thing is to stop the buggers getting in rather than have to deal with them once they are in. I recently went round the house and put wire mesh over the airvents (which is where I suspect they are getting in) and touch woould we have only had one little visitor in the past year (I ejected about 10 of them over a few months a couple of years ago!).

Malteesers seems to be the most attractive bait!
Paul

[Stuart Wright]

If chocolate is better than cheese, I wonder if a line of sprinkle chocolate (for cappuccino) leading into a trap might be the best thing.
I can recommend cats. We have about half a dozen to combat the rats which will inevitably be about because of our chickens. We get a dead rat/mouse/birdy being thrown aginst our back door pretty much weekly.

[Dynaudio Desire]

I wouldnt really recomend a cat to get the mice. They always seem to decide when they want to get it. And that may be a long whilst. Even more its probaly waiting for the mouse poulation to build up a bit for more fun!

[loz]

Originally Posted by Dynaudio Desire

I wouldnt really recomend a cat to get the mice.

And what more evidence do you need than Tom & Jerry that the mouse always wins

[johnscarlet]

Originally Posted by Knyght_byte

he does so well considering he has a metal plate in his paw...lol

*thump*

rename the cat Wolverine ?

[Knyght_byte]

Originally Posted by Stuart Wright

If chocolate is better than cheese, I wonder if a line of sprinkle chocolate (for cappuccino) leading into a trap might be the best thing.
I can recommend cats. We have about half a dozen to combat the rats which will inevitably be about because of our chickens. We get a dead rat/mouse/birdy being thrown aginst our back door pretty much weekly.

anything sweet tbh is better than cheese to attract a mouse as it has more energy which is what mice crave the most due to their predators size against them.....

altho they wont always go for something too bitter.....ie very dark chocolate, i forget the reason but it does something to them i think......perhaps it melts them like salt does slugs

[Knyght_byte]

Originally Posted by johnscarlet

rename the cat Wolverine ?

Thug more like....lol

in the morning, when he is hungry, he goes up in to mum and dads bedroom and sits on the chest of drawers that mum puts all her stuff on at night (watch, glasses etc).......he meows until one of them stirs and looks up at him, then, with his eyes completely locked on to theirs, he starts waving his paw around in front of him the way a blind man moves his white stick.....soon as it makes contact with something solid (ie glasses case) he swipes it hard and it goes on the floor......repeats this till the chest is devoid of moveable items.....then goes to the other chest and repeats.....if this still doesnt get one of them up, he either lies next to mums neck and any time she moves out comes his paw *thwack* on the back of her head or neck.....if she tries to shoo him away casually, out come the claws...heh......with dad he just sits on his chest (dad always lies on his back), facing his feet, tail end plum in front of dads nose....lol

even if he can get in my room (their door is warped and doesnt shut properly) he doesnt like to hang around on my bed too long as i tend to be a violent turner when i decide to roll one side to other, once launched him right off the bed while he was asleep and he was lucky the armchair is next to the bed...lol

[hottstuff]

Have caught 2 so far with Rentokill plastic traps.
Wife is happy now.

[Decadence]

The guys in the workshop near my brothers catch rats in humane traps and then blow them to bits in a metal box using miniature petrol bombs, gun cartridge type bombs, fireworks and various other incendiary contraptions they dream up and invent. It is not very nice but it is quick and painless and gives the rednecks something to laugh about.