― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 26 February 2006 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link
i just got a humane trap and they haven't even gone near it
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
probably snickering at your good-heartedness
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Put it hard up against the skirting board - they tend to creep along the foot of the wall for cover.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe i should have used something other than aged gouda and a skinny latte as bait?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
We had one recently, but had to reset it a couple of times when visiting kids stole the raisins from it.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Lol @ yuppie mice. Maybe try a PBR and a street hot dog, Tracer?
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
attached a poisoned glue trap to the humane trap. That may work.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
mice are ppl too
― ♥/b ~~~ :O + x_X + :-@ + ;_; + :-/ + (~,~) + (:| = :^) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
And the only real solution
A cat still works too. Even a lazy cat drives them away with pheromones or something.
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Find the holes and plug them up.
i heard that this stops the house from "breathing"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
houses are ppl too
― ♥/b ~~~ :O + x_X + :-@ + ;_; + :-/ + (~,~) + (:| = :^) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"breathing" is a euphemism for "being stuffed with mice"
― suddenly, everything was dark and smelly (HI DERE), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds like you need a humane house trap too then.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― ♥/b ~~~ :O + x_X + :-@ + ;_; + :-/ + (~,~) + (:| = :^) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Open a window. The house doesn't need a dime-sized hole next to the stove pipes or radiator to "breathe".
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
THERE'S AN ELECTRIC RAT-KILLER?? Holy fucking technology, that would have CHANGED MY LIFE at my last apartment.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
You need a smellier cat! (xxxpost)
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
That would have saved my roommate having to beat a rat to death on the bathroom floor.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
if you're renting, your landlord is responsible for taking care of pests.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Well yeah, he paid for the electric rat trap.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
A biologist friend of mine once referred to mice as "Nature's popcorn".
― Aimless, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Tracer you sucker, the humane traps don't work. If you eat meat, surely you can kill a mouse.
― going vogue (suzy), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
DOWN IN ONE
― suddenly, everything was dark and smelly (HI DERE), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Humane traps work just fine, but positioning is critical. You folks are just meanies.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
mice are quite clever at avoiding them too
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Houses need to breathe?
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 August 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
Eeee that's grisly all right.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Saturday, 17 August 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
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, 17 August 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Well, hopefully just one.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 August 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
MOUSE KILLAH
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 August 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Saturday, 17 August 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
ratatouille
― conrad, Monday, 19 August 2013 08:35 (ten years ago) link
>>> A cat still works too. Even a lazy cat drives them away with pheromones or something.
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.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 19 August 2013 11:04 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 19 August 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
haha
― No results found for "churl sweatshirt" (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 19 August 2013 12:59 (ten years ago) link
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
― 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.
― how's life, Monday, 19 August 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link