I've got mice!

I thought I saw one the other night but right now the little bugger just
scuttled out from under my sofa and hurriedly legged it to behind the
washing machine. I'm too scared to go over and look, he might jump out
and move very quickly.

 

Your living conditions rival India most likely!

 

I'd say there's no "might" about it - that's almost certain what the
little bugger would do.

Whatever you do DO NOT chase it round a corner - it's quite common for
them to wait just round the corner with a raised frying pan and,
despite their size, they can swing such an implement with enough force
so as to leave a clear relief of your face in it.

You may also wish to watch out for falling anvils, mousetraps being
relocated to your shoes/bed/bath and entire roast chickens being
removed from your fridge.

On the plus side after a record number of complaints ACME has been
NRU'd by eBay.

 

hahaha

 

Yup.

 

Good old fashioned mousetrap (1) and Maltesers (2) ... we nailed the
one living in the loft at the new place within a couple of hours.

(1) None of this namby pamby fluffy bunny humane trap business (and
yes, I'm an ecologist).

(2) Recommended by my partner in crime from uni who's a vegetarian,
bearded hippy who works for the Wildlife Trust.

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Well I'm a live and let live hippy as well and until just now I'd have
said fluffy humane trap but the fright I just got will lead to his
untimely demise.

Cheers.

 

Heh, I'm quite happy with mice running around outside, they don't
worry me and I think they're rather lovely little critters (1).

I'd be fine with them in the house too if it wasn't for the fact that
they pee on everything and nibble stuff they shouldn't do. With
several hundred quids worth of camping gear in the loft, I didn't want
to come to pitching the Ubertent next year only to find mouse-sized
holes in it ... thus the poor little furry creature met an untimely
death. He did, however, look reasonably happy with his little
incisors wedged into the Malteser ... at least his final thoughts were
chocolatey.

(1) We had a family living in the pedal/chain housing of Aaron's
go-cart on the pation back at the last house - lovely it was to watch
them going about their business.

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We have 3 of those. Original, Mark 1 Mousetraps. Also come with
purring, shredding of curtains and added cuteness.

Mind you I don't think two of them have *actually* ever done any
hunting. But the ginger[1] (figures!) one makes up for it and keeps the
house quota in sight.

Phil.

[1] Well ginga-and-white really. But he's a ginger at heart.

 

Heh, "death by chocolate".

I really like them as well but this chair is really starting to pong.
Now, I know I don't go out as much as I did but I'm quite sure this sofa
isn't supposed to smell like this for at least another 50 years.

Back in the days of living in the coontree, I used to like parking up
against a tree and watching field mice.

Arrrr, I'm still and old hippy. I wonder if there's any other ways of
ridding the place of them like putting down cat scent or something or
putting a bit of tiger dung out on the roses?

 

Tansy and mint are alleged to repel mice.

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Since this is a victorian house with holes the size of large fingers
between the pipes coming in and out of the house and the old gas pipes
coming from the floor I'll try stuffing some wire wool in the gaps after
liberally sprinkling mint (I suppose dried is ok, don't have any fresh
that's growing) and I can get some tansy when I go back home.

 

Perfect. Thank you.

 

Fill with a 50/50 solution of petrol and washing up liquid, ram a
tampon in the neck and store ready for the next riots. You'd make a
fortune selling them to the scallies for a tenner a pop.

 

I have 5 and between them all they seem to bring a never ending supply of
shrews, mice, voles, moles and assorted birds to the rear door for appraisal
and praise on their prowess.

One of them insists on mainly just leaving the internal organs and the head
all neatly placed at each corner of the door step.

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Whinging Courier wrote:

Wotcha.

The good old "fat necked milk bottle" - what pasteurised milk comes in, in
these parts.
Place food in bottle, lie bottle on the floor, mouse climbs in, then can't
get any grip on the slippy glass and is trapped. What you do with you
bottled mouse is entirely up to you.

 

If your in the midlands you can borrow my ferrets

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A cleaner burn !
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"AndrewR" <> escribió en el mensaje
On Aug 19, 3:23 pm, Whinging Courier

Whatever you do DO NOT chase it round a corner - it's quite common for
them to wait just round the corner with a raised frying pan and,
despite their size, they can swing such an implement with enough force
so as to leave a clear relief of your face in it.

Heh. I chased one rat recently (house in the countryside, ground floor, hole
in the wall near a water pipe). When the rat felt it had no way to escape,
it started crying and jumping about half a meter. It was the time when
having played some baseball as a child (and having a broom at hand as an
adult psycopath) helped me finish the bugger.

Found the hole, broke a glass and filled the hole with the broken cutting
pieces and obstructed it with metallic cloth. When some jobs on the water
pipes next to the hole be finished it will definitely be covered with tiles
and <dago>cemento</dago>.

 

That's pretty cool