Eeek!! Have you got mice?

Col_Decker

So there I was asleep in bed last night, it was about 1:30am and I was basking in a post masturbatory glow. Anyhoo I heard a rustling from under the bad. Balls I thought to myself, the dog must have snuck out of his cage. So I fumble for the light switch and turn it on, only to see a small grey streak of something dive for a gap in the skirting board.

 

I guess we've got A mouse, but then again if I've seen 1 it probably means we've got 50, that means its trapping time. So as a guitarist what is your favourite mouse trap bait? Cheese like in cartoons or something crazy like peanut butter & raisins?

 

By the way I'm trapping to kill not catch & release. Fuck 'em they're only mice.

 

(do we want pictures?)

Iamnobody

Chocolate. And little traps cheap from Wilko.

mike_l

Hempseed works really well for trapping mouses.

OR my cat Charlie, who seems to find every mouses in the county, while never leaving the garden.

VimFuego

we have 2 hunting cats, of course we have mice. And we have several rooms full of boxes, lots of places for mortally wounded rodents to escape into and subsequently die (and rot).

Col_Decker

We used to have two cats who used to bring in lots of mice ... then let them go.

 

 

Ahhh good times. I remember grabbing one mouse by its tail as it ran off. It kept going leaving the tail in my hand, I felt a bit bad about that.

not_the_dj

Col_Decker said:

 

Ahhh good times. I remember grabbing one mouse by its tail as it ran off. It kept going leaving the tail in my hand, I felt a bit bad about that.

Were you re-enacting a Tom and Jerry cartoon?

Just watch out when the mouse picks up an iron!

lloyd

Many moons ago as a young, dirty, scruffy little oik I lived in a terrace house in Moss Side. We  had mice and trapped them (cheese IIRC) however one morning making my toast, the toaster wouldn't work and had been on the blink for a few days (still working though) to my disgust when looking inside it was a dead, toasted mouse.....Must have been toasted a few times along with someone's toast..... 

Phil_aka_Pip

Mice like nuts and cereal grains. peanuts are a favourite, you could spike one on the spike of a mousetrap for a fast & relatively painless end to his furry little life. I prefer not to kill them, but if you don't want them peeing on the worktop of your kitchen and leaving their droppings in the bread bin, you may not have the choice.

They are only into cheese as a last resort if they can't find anything else.

equalsql

Iamnobody said:

Chocolate. And little traps cheap from Wilko.

This... Those little back plastic traps in Wilco get the mice every time. Much better than the cheaper wooden versions. I bait them with chocolate or stinky old Stilton cheese (I get them trying to set up home in my garage during the winter months).

dafuzz

Block up their holes with steel wool (inb4 crude joke) and put dishes of peppermint oil around the place to ward them off.

Or get a cat

Moltisanti

don't get a cat! they just find mice that were perfectly happy outside and then bring them into your house.

and mine doesn't like the head or guts so they get left in a little pile on the kitchen floor

imalone

I found the best bait is rat poison. Mice seem to be able to live on it, but put a trap next to it and suddenly you're collecting mice.

randomhandclaps

My first move would be to hide the van keys.

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a579/imadray/CamperMouse_zps3b60d369.jpg

VimFuego

there is no way on Earth that is deckers van. It is clearly capable of motion.

mart

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Mice like nuts and cereal grains. peanuts are a favourite, you could spike one on the spike of a mousetrap for a fast & relatively painless end to his furry little life. ...

+1. When we had mice a few years back we just used peanuts on a traditional trap and that quickly dealt with the problem. I'd have preferred a more humane solution, but the rest of the family were more concerned with solving the problem quickly.

chillidoggy

And what's more it appears it's being used as a wedding carriage. Ideal for the bride who doesn't really want to get married; she'd never get to the altar on time.

Snap

VimFuego said:

we have 2 hunting cats, of course we have mice. And we have several rooms full of boxes, lots of places for mortally wounded rodents to escape into and subsequently die (and rot).

lol,

our youngest cat is a killing machine. Not long ago we had friends staying and that night she brought in about 5 mice. SHowing off.

Its calmed down recently, that's due to the snow, but before that it was about 3 or 4 a week, alive and dead. Then there's the birds, pigeons usually. The last one, she ragged so badly, I had to get the pigeon and wring its neck. It was beyond help. Thing is, I've never wrung a neck before, and I pulled the chuffing head off.

Which was great, being a vegetarian, yeah, I felt really good about that. BLeeding claret everywhere.

scrumhalf

I had some unwanted visitors a couple of years ago.

Peanut butter as bait on a real bastard of a mousetrap did the trick.

VimFuego

we've currently got at least two mice under the cooker, mrs f is trying to coax them out with hazel nuts. And we had a baby rabbit living under the larder cupboard for a few nights. That was fun getting that out I can tell you.

sticker

I get them coming in to my garage - tried the humane traps at first - they're shit .

I use 2" Little Nipper" traditional style mousetraps and peanut butter and that does the trick .

FelineGuitars

Tigger presented me with a mouse last night on the back step (looked very pleased with himself too!)