A mouse in the house

i just got a humane trap and they haven't even gone near it

probably snickering at your good-heartedness

Put it hard up against the skirting board - they tend to creep along the foot of the wall for cover.

maybe i should have used something other than aged gouda and a skinny latte as bait?

We had one recently, but had to reset it a couple of times when visiting kids stole the raisins from it.

Lol @ yuppie mice. Maybe try a PBR and a street hot dog, Tracer?

Someone told me mice are mad for chocolate. To test if that was a joke I put some in a trap I had in my previous house and it worked!

attached a poisoned glue trap to the humane trap. That may work.

mice are ppl too

is that the logic that causes ppl to use humane traps to catch them?

you know what doesn't work? Those electronic noisemakers. And yet we have two going in the kitchen non-stop for the last year and a half.

Also try peppermint oil, the hardcore stuff, not the stuff you cook with. Fill cotton balls and place everywhere.

And the only real solution? Find the holes and plug them up. Foam and/or steel wool. If you find one, there's 6 more hiding. If you kill one, there's 6 more still hiding...and mad.

And the only real solution

A cat still works too. Even a lazy cat drives them away with pheromones or something.

Find the holes and plug them up.

i heard that this stops the house from "breathing"

houses are ppl too

"breathing" is a euphemism for "being stuffed with mice"

Sounds like you need a humane house trap too then.

hahaha tracer u should get a pied pipe and lead them all on a merry dance across town to an orphanage and tell them never to return

Open a window. The house doesn't need a dime-sized hole next to the stove pipes or radiator to "breathe".

A cat still works too. Even a lazy cat drives them away with pheromones or something.

This is definitely not true.

We got an electric rat killer, it's zapped about 15 of the fuckers (mice, not rats) over the last 2 weeks, at least the rate has slowed down now but they're still around I think.

i live in a big apartment building so i'm very dubious of my ability to plug all the holes - can't remember where i heard the "breathing" thing, it sounds pretty bonkers

THERE'S AN ELECTRIC RAT-KILLER?? Holy fucking technology, that would have CHANGED MY LIFE at my last apartment.

It rules, you just hear this BZZZZZZZZZT noise from the cupboard, then just go and tip the mouse in the bin, reset it, and back in the cupboard.

You need a smellier cat! (xxxpost)

That would have saved my roommate having to beat a rat to death on the bathroom floor.

cats are great for mice since they like to toy with them for hours before going in for the kill which means you can usually snatch up the mouse while theyre holding its tail and let it go outside relatively unharmed.

But I fear the actual solution is as said above, to block wherever they're coming in. We can't actually do this, since we're just renting. We'd have to tear out the cupboards/floor to get to where they're coming in I think.

xpost I had to kill a few mice before we got it, cos the cats just carry them around for a bit til they get bored then let them go.

if you're renting, your landlord is responsible for taking care of pests.

Well yeah, he paid for the electric rat trap.

mice are ppl too

yes! ppl who steal food and leave shit in what they don't eat and keep you awake at night with scuffling noises at all hours and never move away voluntarily or learn more polite habits. iow, the kind of ppl you want to strangle with your bare hands and nail their carcass to your door as a warning to others of their kind.

there was a mouse (and then about 5) in my house a few months back. someone (who doesnt like mice) killed all 4 with a brush. but then we saw one that somehow escaped the next day and it was so out of it it didnt seem to know what it was doing at all so i managed to capture it in a jar and then took it to the park. i wonder what happened to it. i dont hate mice, i just dont want them anywhere near me.

A biologist friend of mine once referred to mice as "Nature's popcorn".

Tracer you sucker, the humane traps don't work. If you eat meat, surely you can kill a mouse.

DOWN IN ONE

Humane traps work just fine, but positioning is critical. You folks are just meanies.

mice are quite clever at avoiding them too

Houses need to breathe?

I've never felt the classic snap-close mouse traps were too inhumane, the damn things die in less time than it takes to say 'dead mouse.' They do go through a more hellish experience dying while getting batted around endlessly by the capricious killing machine known as the domesticated kittycat.

Mice in my house once ate some of my oil paints and part of a bar of Ivory soap. If you ever see mice blowing colored bubbles, you know they've had a slumber party at my pad.

I just totally killed a mouse in the MOST GRISLY MANNER. Opening the basement door, I saw a mouse. It was running toward the door jamb. Because I am me, I screamed at the top of my lungs, freaked out, and shut the door ON THE MOUSE. Half of it was inside and the other half was outside. OMG. I killed the fuck out of that mouse.

Eeee that's grisly all right.

On one hand, I'm horrified by what I've done (even though I did it accidentally). On the other hand, bisecting the mouse in the door jamb was swift, decisive, and effective at removing the mouse. Today, I am a killer of mice.

Well, hopefully just one.

MOUSE KILLAH

No mercy. NONE.

Sphincter-less freeloaders unwelcome in my house, whatever the species. None for ages - I hope the mouse grapevine is full of news about the many perilous glue traps to be found in my flat, should one of their number ever cross my threshold.

ratatouille

>>> A cat still works too. Even a lazy cat drives them away with pheromones or something.

This is definitely not true.

What did seem to work was being infested with rats instead. Regular mouse invasions stopped dead after that one. Happily about a year ago my landlord decided to replace my kitchen cupboards and while the old ones were ripped out the workmen blocked up all the holes the bastards were getting in through so we haven't had either kind of vermin since then.

i've been slaying mosquitoes, or at least trying to. they have a weird ability to be squashed 'neath hand and then spring up unaffected

have sworn off killing any other species for now, even if they do sit athwart a particularly exposed branch

haha

On one hand, I'm horrified by what I've done (even though I did it accidentally). On the other hand, bisecting the mouse in the door jamb was swift, decisive, and effective at removing the mouse. Today, I am a killer of mice.

― no fomo (La Lechera), Saturday, August 17, 2013 6:14 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is awesome. I applaud you on the dwindling mouse population in your home.

I tried the bisection method with a shovel when I had to put a severely injured hamster out of its misery last fall (posts on this somewhere in the parenting board). A shovel is NOT a good tool for swiftly and decisively bisecting small mammals and everybody would have been much better off if I had just smashed its head with a hammer.