robski

Simple anti mouse treatment

50% petrol 50% washing up liquid

mix them together, put in squeezy washing up bottle

and spray on mouse

light match flick and stand back

can be used on mouse holes as well, but may result in a rather burnt house, hehehehehehe rofl

robski

p.s. hi deano long time no see, maybe a trip to see the RS boys soon?

Dave T-S

Deano

Don't know about mice but they say about moles in the countryside; if you kill a mole, ten of its friends come to its funeral......

PS - haven't managed to flood the mole out yet, so far its mole 1, Dave 0, watch this space.....

dsmith

Think its "Mice" 2 "Family Deano" 1 at the moment. Wife went to vacuum underneath the hot water cylinder in the aring cupboard. Was trying to hoover a particularly stuborn piece of fluff when she realised it had legs .

One (long) dead mouse had to be prised out of the end of the hoover tools into the waste bin She wasnt too happy.

Robski - think I might hold off the "incinerate my house" method for a while yet

Deano

cement man

Oh dear!sounds like an epidemic.

Careful could be grounds for divorce.

Mark Jackson

We had big problems with Mice, little B*stards were taking over, used to go in the garage and see them scatter, dont know what was in there attracting them.

Just kept setting traps and catching mice, set one in the garage (they didnt really get much of a foothold in the house),then went for a pee in the loo next door and heard the trap go off !

Started by using the "Humane traps", make a mental note not to set them and go away for a week, how humane is that ? and really made me gag, it was still moving, but not under its own power.......

Caught 3 itty bitty baby meeces in one trap in one go, nearly called old Norris McWhirter to see if it was a record of some kind.

Got really P1ssed off catching 2 or 3 a day and having to wander out to set them free so the dumping distance got shorter, I was concerned that the neighbours may see me depositing live rodents outside their houses so I changed my method, FLUSH THEM DOWN THE BOG !, always used to whistle the Five o soundtrack, surfs up....

Got some proper traps and gradually after about two weeks the supply dwindled until there was just one Hyper Mouse that was raiding the kitchen cupboard and troffing Cadburys Smash (It swells !!!), Crisps and all manner of good stuff, had to leave a trap in the cupboard and keep an eye on it cos the kids would go and find it. It took a week before we got it and it was a MONSTER, more Hamster sized than Mouse sized.

And that was it, no more sightings or evidence since.

As for bait, Kelloggs Nutri Grain bars were popular, but ever since the merest sniff of a Nutri Grain makes me want to puke,

Anyway, Im off my wife just came in and caught me Mouse Debating !

cement man

LOL
MOUSE DEBATING,its a cracker.

chiark

Still having Mole troubles Dave?

I'm convinced I've slipped into a timewarp here.

(once more, images of Jasper Carrott in swivelling chair blasting at molehills come into my mind. But Jasper is replaced by the Canary Fairy )

fast bloke

Have had 2 mice in the house. Found the first (very little) one by accident with the Dyson. That dual cyclone technology and clear plastic dust collector are the business. Mouse looked like it was doing about mach 3. Second one got its front end stuck to some of that sticky fly paper stuff, then continued to struggle until it was just a ball of stickstuff. Had to put it out of its misery by stomping on it, just before wifey puked on it and me. Seems I have got a reputation now, cos the moussses don't call round any more

JoeyDeacon

Poor little mices...

I feel really sorry for them as we have 3 cats and they are constantly bringing mice home with them (3 last night alone). Trouble is by the time we rescue them they are normally half dead. Felt really sorry for one which we put outside only to watch it try and drag itself along by its front legs as its back legs were broken.

David_Wallis

we had them not so long ago.. We used a proper mouse trap and my finger still hurts. I could never set it properly.. We found one still alive on it.. so we hit it against the house wall before dropping it in the brown bin (non recycleable!)

Apparently thy can get through a gap the size of your finger... so they may have been coming in through the air bricks.. anyway where they were coming in the pantry.. we replastered a bit of the wall and put a skirting board on as well.. so they aint getting in now!

David

Shark

opps

Dave T-S

Nick

LOL

Sitting in a rocking chair with my Jordan overalls on, gun in one hand and garden hose in the other

NICKBG

our mainproblem with mice is the cats, they keep bringing them in for presents for me and Nick so don't go and buy one especially.

iain atkins

Do what we did, fill up all suspect holes with expanding foam, once you caught the little blighter of course

Seal round pipes etc.

This is the only problem with living in the country, and old houses

Dark

iTrader: (1)

Caught 13 mice during the last month! You can't beat a proper snappy trap for doing the job properly.

One of the cons of living in the country I suppose!

Might be time to buy a cat or a hawk!

Mark

WREXY

I'm with Mr Manchester on this one. Sticky stuff always works. They sell a special glue here in Greece for catching mice, rats, and insects. You put a bit of glue in straight lines, about 1 inch apart on a piece of cardboard, about the size of A4 paper, some food, (nuts worked for me), and then place it on the floor next to the wall. I caught 3 like this last year, including one which had just come in the house, caught around 5 minutes later. There are no more mice now. I don't know if this glue is available in the UK, but I think it was made in France. I haven't got a tube now to check, but I bought it from a hardware store here.

Cheers,

Wrexy.

dsmith

Well the good news is that since I evicted via the humane trap the first one and the wife found the other stuck on the hoover () theres been absolutely no sign or sound of any mouse activity so fingers crossed its sorted for now.

Hate to think of myself as some sort of lefty tree hugger but the glue traps sound distinctly cruel. The standard break their backs and kill them quick sound much better. It made the wife happy releasing our one live capture into a field a few miles away. I'm very sure that would wear off quickly if we had several

Thanks for all the suggestions and help. (except from Tiggs )

Deano

Mice_Elf

We don't really have a problem with mice. Well, not any more. Apparently the 9 houses in the village USED to have a major problem with them and the rats as well that lived in the stables at number 4... Then my 4 killing-machines moved in and wild rabbits, mice and rats are at an all time low..

One of my purr-machines bought home a rat so large he was tripping over it. I'm sure they sit in the field with an AT-AT gun, you know...

Cheers
Mice.

Mufasa

Careful if you do ever corner and shoot one in the house...
It's quite tricky getting a stapled mouse off kitchen lino!

dsmith

Did consider the air rifle when it was under the chair - but couldn't prepare an excuse for air gun pellets in the carpet for the wife

Mice_Elf

Air gun pellets - Big mouse poo? Hence why you need the gun to get rid of them....

GreenMachine

Possibly the most pointlessly entertaining thread I have read in a long time!

Keep it up!

PS I don't have a mouse problem yet - but I know where to come if I do!

Zagangaphile

Forget the recent thread about P's This is REAL comendy

Mice_Elf

My youngest cat is incredibly fashion conscious and has made it her personal mission to re-educate all the mice that she catches. Instead of just killing and eating, as per the other 3 cats, she kills them, strips them a little waistcoat from their own fur and then plonks the mouse down on the lawn outside the door, tunes herself for optimum Yowl-Effect (you can her her doing the scales and coughing from a good yard away) and then proceeds, in at least 3 octaves, to request your presence to view the mouse's new fashion statement.

Tiggs

sorry deano- i'll have to swat up on the common problems of living in vermin riddled dump for next time you need my help

Tiggs

skiddusmarkus

I watched a programme about plagues and on a farm in Australia there were literally several million mice in a field.The typical PC Aussie solution was to use flamethrowers-real ones.

Huxley

ahhhh




Huxley