Mice how do u get rid of the little buggers

[Herbsman.]

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[Termite Man]

Am I the only person supporting the mice here ?

 

[spanglechick]

we has mice. ugh.

a family of them, no less.

Monkeygrinder hit one with his trainer yesterday until it died - but they seem impervious to the traps (in that, they scamper all over them and don't set them off).

anyway, they are coming in from underneath the back of the kitchen units, so we can't do anything... except kill them dead. lots.

 

[butterfly child]

Am I the only person supporting the mice here ?

Well, sorta.

If we could housetrain them, so they didn't shit and piss all over the place (and didn't get in the pigs cage and eat their food, which was the final straw for me) I'd have put up with them.

But they pissed and shit all over the place, and ate the piggies food, so they had to go.

Good old fashioned mouse traps were the most efficient.

 

[bluestreak]

Am I the only person supporting the mice here ?

Nope. The Hive Mind has a mouse. We've named it, and have started leaving our food waste on the floor so that it can thrive.

Or maybe that's just me.

You can't get rid of them easily, you might as well accept their presence and not worry.

 

[butterfly child]

we has mice. ugh.

a family of them, no less.

Monkeygrinder hit one with his trainer yesterday until it died - but they seem impervious to the traps (in that, they scamper all over them and don't set them off).

anyway, they are coming in from underneath the back of the kitchen units, so we can't do anything... except kill them dead. lots.

Load old fashioned traps with something like chocolate spread or peanut butter. If you put something they can grab and make off with, it aint gonna work.

It is messy, but I reckon it's pretty instant death and it's certainly less awful than being beaten to death with a trainer.

 

[spanglechick]

Load old fashioned traps with something like chocolate spread or peanut butter. If you put something they can grab and make off with, it aint gonna work.

It is messy, but I reckon it's pretty instant death and it's certainly less awful than being beaten to death with a trainer.

they are old fashioned traps, and the bait (smooshed chocolate) is painstakingly applied so that they'll have to have a go at it / lick it off. The problem is that most of the mice are babies, and don't seem to be heavy enough to set the traps off - even on their most sensitive "setting".

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Load old fashioned traps with something like chocolate spread or peanut butter. If you put something they can grab and make off with, it aint gonna work.

It is messy, but I reckon it's pretty instant death and it's certainly less awful than being beaten to death with a trainer.

At my old flat we had mice and set traps and one morning one was caught by the side of the head and was still alive. Can't really see how hitting one is worse than that tbh.

 

[co-op]

But now I want a cigar and some epaulets before I embark on my campaign.

I think aviator sunglasses are quite important too.

 

[butterfly child]

At my old flat we had mice and set traps and one morning one was caught by the side of the head and was still alive. Can't really see how hitting one is worse than that tbh.

Well, I can only speak from my experience.

But out of the 20odd that got caught in our traps, only one of them did not die outright.. this one ran away, with the trap still attached to it's leg.. trouble is, it's intended escape route was through a tiny hole between the skirting board and the wall.. too small to drag a mouse trap through!

My husband offed a couple of mice before that, when we used poison, and they were tottering around the floor in the throes of death..

 

[Wanderer]

Grrrr...

Came in today to check the glue trap and the sodding mouse had eaten the cockroaches that were caught in it without getting stuck itself!!!

I'm seriously considering napalm....

 

[May Kasahara]

Nope. The Hive Mind has a mouse. We've named it, and have started leaving our food waste on the floor so that it can thrive.

Hmmm, be careful with this. A friend's nutty mum encouraged the mouse that started nesting in her kitchen cupboard; a year later her massive house was completely overrun with mice, eating holes through her clothes, her books, the furniture, the cupboards...all the food was full of mouse secretions. A whole house of possessions was basically destroyed by the massive colony of mice that had bred and throve under her mad, kindly hand. My friend had to conduct some kind of genocidal campaign that lasted at least a week.

 

[Louloubelle]

I live in a Victorian house and all the houses in the street get mouse problems when a house is being renovated, like now.

I was getting desperate as these mice are bait shy and I saw one on and off for a while and then suddenly there are 2 possibly more

so I borrowed a "ketchall" mechanical mouse trap, not holding out much hope, got up this morning and there were 2 little mice in it

apparently, once it's caught one mouse, others are attracted to it, so I just left it where it was with a few seeds in for the caught mice and, another one came to visit this morning


The only problem is that they look so very cute once caught that it's horrible to have to kill them

I was considering releasing them on hampstead heath but apparently they are so full of poison that they would poison any bird of prey that caught them so I sent them down the watery whirlpool of death

Oh well, I couldn't stand living with mice any more so this thing is great.

Once my mice have gone (possibly now) I'm lending it to another neighbour

Anyway, if you can bear to dispatch them then I'd recommend a ketchall

 

[The Groke]

Monkeygrinder hit one with his trainer yesterday until it died

Your phrasing seems to suggest this was a long and arduous task.....


Monkeygrinder a little under the weather, or are his shoes made from balsa wood?

 

[mattie]

It's a real hassle but the only way to just guarantee no mice is to go round and fill every hole in the house. It can be done, I've done it, But there will be loads - and you've got to do them all. Over a number of campaigns, I have found that all other methods have proved to be merely temporary.



Be warned however. Mice Commanders will counter-attack with re-boring raids in established Theatres of Operations whilst simultaneously opening as many new fronts as they can. Mouse cadres are dedicated and unit morale will be high - all propaganda efforts (eg psy-ops eg using cat poo as a deterent smell) will probably fail. Individual mice appear to be powerfully ideologically motivated and Black Flag operations or other attempts to subvert Mouse operational unity will likely fail. Likewise counter-guerilla anti-personel techniques (eg mouse traps, land mines etc) have proved of little value.

But this is asymmetric warfare Gentlemen. Resources and assets are grossly unequal. This means that victory will go to the party that is able to deploy assets over the widest field of operations and for the longest timeframe. There can only be one outcome.

*bites end off cigar and spits it out*

In the end mice (although a noble adversary) are basically blaggers, they choose targets of opportunity. When confronted with a serious counter-plan that is implemented with stern resolve they will seek out areas of least resistance, and your city locale is a target-rich environment. I would expect a typical low-intensity counter-Mouse operation to last several weeks.

*lights cigar and stares slightly psychotically into the distance*

This suggests that baiting your neighbour's house may be a good option. Can you drop some cheese through their letterbox or something?

 

[Termite Man]

Nope. The Hive Mind has a mouse. We've named it, and have started leaving our food waste on the floor so that it can thrive.

Or maybe that's just me.

You can't get rid of them easily, you might as well accept their presence and not worry.

I don't believe you've only just started leaving food on the floor

 

[Louloubelle]

I was thinking that I'd got on top of the mouse problem.

I'd caught and dispatched a few mice with the ketchall trap and for the last 2 days nothing

I've lent my ketchall to a neighbour a couple of doors away who's having terrible problems with them.

Anyway, today I met one of my other neighbours on the stairs, one of the girls who live in the flat next door, as I was on my way taking the ketchall to my other neighbour.

"Do you have any unwanted furry little visitors?" I asked her

"yes we do!" she replies cheerfully

"I'd recommend one of these!" I say, showing her the ketchall

"ooh, no, I don't want to kill them!" she says

I explained that the trap catches them live and that you can then decide whether to kill or release them but not to release then close to home or where birds of prey will eat them

"ooh, but I like them!" she says. We have our favourite one called Harold and he's so cute! You'll be telling me not to put food out for him next!"

*cries*

 

[Gingerman]

Ive got one of those Mouse sonic repellents which works a treat
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/mo...ce=googleads&gclid=CMK58tjWspECFQg_MAodAjKUNw

 

[longdog]

I quite liked my mousey visitor really but the had to go.

I did nothing more than be totally scrupulous about cleaning up dropped food and he buggered off. If they ain't getting fed they ain't gonna stay.

A word of advice re the blocking up holes. Make sure the mouse is on the other side before you do it or Mickey will be erecting his tent behind your fridge

 

[butterfly child]

Ive got one of those Mouse sonic repellents which works a treat
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/mo...ce=googleads&gclid=CMK58tjWspECFQg_MAodAjKUNw

Wouldn't work for me though, having guinea pigs in the house.

That article says "put them in a shed" whilst using the appliance - my pigs aren't going in the fucking shed!

Also, what they say about killing a mouse creates a vacancy is bollocks, we used traps to kill the mice we had and we haven't had any since.

 

[May Kasahara]

A word of advice re the blocking up holes. Make sure the mouse is on the other side before you do it or Mickey will be erecting his tent behind your fridge

Yeah, that happened when my brother had rats coming into his flat The landlord blocked up the offending pipe hole, not realising that a rat was already lurking in the kitchen. There was an extended scene involving a trap-injured rat flailing around the kitchen spraying blood everywhere before my bro had to despatch it with a shoe Not nice.

 

[admirablenelson]

Any readers of this thread who may be considering a cat as a solution to their mouse problem, should make sure they get a proper cat.

Our big cat is 18lbs of prime mog. He kills mice effectively and enjoys some sport with the wood-pigeons that seem to be eveywhere.

The other cat is a pedigree Bengal. It is utterly useless. It catches mice, carefully brings them into the house and releases them unharmed. Likewise frogs.

You have been warned.

 

[hendo]

But this is asymmetric warfare Gentlemen. Resources and assets are grossly unequal. This means that victory will go to the party that is able to deploy assets over the widest field of operations and for the longest timeframe. There can only be one outcome.

*bites end off cigar and spits it out*



*lights cigar and stares slightly psychotically into the distance*

I love the smell of Whiskas in the morning. Smells like..........

....victory.

 

[Jazzz]

There is surely no substitute for the cat

Can the OP not borrow a cat for a few days?

 

[co-op]

I love the smell of Whiskas in the morning. Smells like..........

....victory.

The smell of Whiskas is pretty revolting of a morning...

 

[Louloubelle]

also, any people using their beloved pet as a mouser should take care to ensure that their pet does not actually eat the mouse

city house mice have very high levels of immunity to poisons, gained from generations upon generations of being fed poison with the result that city house mice, even if not being fed poison by someone nearby (unlikely) are little furry bundles of poison. Predators further up the chain including cats can very easily be poisoned by eating mice. Birds of prey are extremely sensitive to these poisons, one reason why you should never release captured mice into a park or rural area

 

[hendo]

There is surely no substitute for the cat

Can the OP not borrow a cat for a few days?

I've never heard of them being successfully lent out for a job like this.
It would freak them out, I think.
No, the only solution is to get your own.
Infact, get two.
Then post up pics here.

Thanks to LLB for the tip on poison mice; I didn't know that.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

i believe that i have litle mice visitors again i thought i blocked up all the holes successfully but i have seen a few droppings in my cupboards(they've been in there before) and they've even opened a couple of packets
now, what shall i do. the bit under the cupboards is blocked up but i am thinking of unblocking it and letting my kitten have a look. do you think he is a bit young to catch mice? (ask a silly question.....)

 

[Louloubelle]

Thanks to LLB for the tip on poison mice; I didn't know that.

You're very welcome

Your cats are lovely and I would hate for any harm to come to them

I only found out because I know some people who keep lots of reptiles and I offered to send them my live mice for snake food. They said that even if I had not put down poison myself that you should never feed house mice to predator species for the reasons I described earlier. They really are full of poison accumulated over generations.

Also a neighbour might have put down poison for them recently. Modern poisons work by dehydrating the mice over time so that they leave to house to look for water. They then die and mummify, so you don't get the smell of decomposing mouse. very clever, but it does mean that the mouse running across your floor may have recently ingested a high dose of poison.

IIWY I would consult a vet about antidotes for different poisons so you are prepared should your pet ingest a mouse and start to show poisoning symptoms. IMMIC vitamin K is the antidote for warfarin type poisons and is very effective if administered in time.

 

[Louloubelle]

also, forgot to mention

a great strategy for poisoning mice with no risk to cats is to mix plaster of Paris with chocolate powder and water. Allow to set and leave where the mice will eat it. They love the crunchy chocolatey goodness but once they eat it the plaster of Paris will start to absorb all the moisture in their stomachs, thus dehydrating them without poison. Just like with toxic poisons the mice will go off to try to find water and then will die and mummify.

Obviously this strategy is not recommended where there is a risk of dogs or children consuming the choco-plaster mix