Was cleaning the kitchen this morning when I saw the tell tale signs of black cardumin seed like droppings on the window sill. So I go to the hardware shop to get some traps.

The guy was showing me all these fancy devices for catching them humanely. There were drop traps, sticky mats, that sort of thing. I informed him that I wasn't in a humane mood and that I wanted the little buggers dead. Not trapped, dead.

So I settled on the traditional 'little nipper' traps, with a refinement. They were made of brass. Fine I thought, I can wash the blood off them and use them over and over again.

I get home and try to set the traps. The hair trigger was too hairy and they kept snapping shut, narrowly missing breaking my fingers. Anyways, I managed to set them and put some nice chocolate biscuits on them. They like chocolate biscuits them mices.

I checked them from time to time, until I found that the biscuits had gone but the traps hadn't snapped shut. Little blighters. Anyroad, I was tired and so decided to go to bed, after I'd had one last peruse of the .Org.

The wife gets up and asks if I'd like a cup of tea. Of course I would, I'm an Englishman! I go down for my cuppa and lo-and-behold, one of the cunning little sods had wandered onto one of the empty traps. Dead but still warm, I took it outside and chucked it into the garden for some rooks breakfast.

Job's a gud 'un.

I felt the primeval power of the hunter surging through my veins. Drunk with power and bloodlust, I decided to make this post.

I shall keep you abreast of developements.

Any other mouse killers out there?

N.B. Christopher Walken, eat your heart out!