I've got mice!

[Yoyoma1910]

that... is... the.... best.... trap... ever....

Really?



Have you considered the consequences of inside usage?



Do you how hard it is to get dried mouse blood off indoor paint, much less carpet?

[Thermal]

we had them about a year back, we tried the 'humane' way first, ultraviolet waves that supposedly hurt there ears, but they were useless and didnt work so we went for the traditional mouse trap and put chocolate spread on them, it worked, not so great for my dad who had to clear them up, there were like 7 of them! and i hate rhodants

[Tristuskhan]

An hungry cat is the best way to go, definitely. Too bad mine is too busy chasing mice and birds and moles and rabbits in the meadows around. But let snow and cold come and the two mice wandering in the attic will die.

[Megas Methuselah]

Oh, I love that trap Louis presented. Awesome... And this thread is a great laugh, too. Seeing AS complain about needless cruelty only got me laughing again!

Anyways, we had a mouse problem at my house a while back. Killed off a whole clan of the scum-bags. My uncle came over with a bunch of snap-traps, and we got about 9 of them. I slapshot the first one with my hockey stick (heh heh, Canadians find many different uses for those), then realized we had a bigger problem as I noticed my dog was afraid to go eat his food in the kitchen (what kind of a dog is afraid of mice? What a coward...).

To continue the story, my uncle set up the snap-traps in the kitchen cupboards, and used peanut butter as bait. We ate lunch and supper amid the loud snappings and crackings coming from the kitchen. Afterwards, I nicknamed my gool'ole uncle The Exterminator when we were cleaning up the mess, as this one pregnant mouse he was cleaning up got its skull smashed in the trap and left a bloody mess.

Btw, I didn't lie or exaggerate this story in any way. This was a year ago, I think... Yeah, last winter.

[KukriKhan]

Had 'em last year. Frau Kukri noticed the signs first (nibbled fruit), so went out and bought the humane green li'l "here, mouse, eat me, and take some home to the missus and kids" cake-looking stuff.

No apparent reduction in population.

Next, she got the sticky-pad thingees, and caught a couple - but couldn't stand the noises (screams?) they made trying to extract themselves for hours.

Cue: the hubby, who disposes of the debris and gets a half-dozen old-fashioned neck-busters - baited with peanut butter.

That third night... *Snap!* "Ooh, ewww!" is the response.

Second *Snap!* = "Uuuuu, another one.".

Third, fourth, and subsequent *Snap!*'s got: "Heheh". Even a pacifist has her limits. :)

I left the corpses out all night as a message, then cleaned up at dawn, before Missus got her coffee.

No trouble so far this year. But Mrs. K has the rodent WMD's ready at hand under the sink, her squeamishness gone now.

[Megas Methuselah]

But couldn't stand the noises (screams?) they made trying to extract themselves for hours...

...I left the corpses out all night as a message.

[||Lz3||]

I once caught 4 mice in ONE rat sticky trap

[Hosakawa Tito]

We get the dang things every late fall/early winter. Peanut butter is definitely the best bait being so sticky they have to work at stealing it and eventually trip the trap. I forgot to check a trap in the basement for a few days and it seems the victim was cannibalized by his "friends", so I don't think leaving the corpses about as a warning is a good idea...just another food source. My old cat, Piss Pot, used to be such a killer. Now he's too old,fat,lazy to even be bothered when the mice are stealing his food. Probably just as well. I used to have to spend a fortune on worm medicine for him from eating/partially eating his victims. And I don't miss the mouse gut presents/tribute he used to leave me either, nothing like stepping on a pile of mouse guts in your bare feet first thing in the morning. I love that squirrel catapult vid that Louis posted. I wonder if it would work on woodchucks...

[{BHC}HolySpagetty]

I once caught 4 mice in ONE rat sticky trap

Woah..

Did one rat get stuck, call for his friend, then his friend gets stuck trying to help, then he calls a friend, and so on until there are no friends and they're all stuck?

All in all, I'm glad I live in Florida.

No rats here, just mosquitoes.

Darn bugs are soo annoying..

[Martok]

I grew up dealing with mice, living in the country. Even now, my dad (who still lives in that house) has no less than a dozen of the old-fashioned "neck-busters" (as Kukri so eloquently coined them ) scattered around his basement. There's probably not a week goes by that he doesn't dispose of at least one of the little buggers.

[Megas Methuselah]

I hate it when the kill isn't clean. Thankfully, I never had to clean up a bloody mess, but I sure witnessed one...

[Fragony]

Next, she got the sticky-pad thingees, and caught a couple - but couldn't stand the noises (screams?) they made trying to extract themselves for hours.

That's horrible

[Megas Methuselah]

Oh, come now, Fragoney. Put on some jackboots and enjoy it.

[LittleGrizzly]

Aww poor mice... sounds like they have been suffering a bit...

I have only ever once found one in the house, im fairly sure my cat brought it in, he was there playing with it at least, i saw the little mouse and he looked terrified so first i shooed the cat away, i then realised i didn't actually want to pick the mouse up with my bare hands (and it was a risk he would get away if i left to get some tissue to pick him back up with) so i managed to convince my cat to pick the mouse back up (he did see it more as a toy than as a meal) with a bit of encouragment and every time he'd pick him up i would get him to move towards the back door, he kept putting him back down so it took a few minutes, he then put the mouse down outside and i locked the cat up inside, he didn't move at first but when i went out later he was gone....

So only 1 humane (bar the fact the cat used his mouth to transport the mouse) mouse removal story from grizz

From the advice here those sticky traps seem the worst of all....

[InsaneApache]

Well here's an update...

It's been a good weekend for me, Yorkshires new champion mousekiller, but a bad one for our furry friends. Four crushed skulls and one broken leg versus one slightley bruised finger.

One went off last night whilst I was partaking of a cup of tea in the kitchen. The trap was on the window sill and fell behind the freezer. I recoverd the cadaver with the aid of a sweeping brush and picked up the trap. My Samoyed went nuts and ran under the table to escape.

I disposed of the body with my usual panache, i.e. I fed it to the rooks. I think our resident vultures are warming to my garden.

When I went back in my Samoyed was looking furtively behind the freezer to see if any others were lurking there, ready to go for her throat! She's a mardy bugger.

Onwards and upwards to mouse armageddon.

[Gregoshi]

Onwards and upwards to mouse armageddon.

With Weapons of Mouse Destruction...

[Louis VI the Fat]

With Weapons of Mouse Destruction...

Yay! The micestro strikes again!

[Hosakawa Tito]

Uh oh, we might be in trouble....MM

[Vladimir]

Havermeyer!!!

My esteemed parent considered the best way to rid a house of mice was to wait up at night, trap one under a bowl, and then paint its tail yellow. His theory was that the poor blighter was so ashamed, and the potential social implications for its place in society so immense, that it would leave with its entire family that night for some foreign shore where it might one day find acceptance.

He claimed many times that this was the reason for the micelessness of our house. Personally, my money has always been on the cats.

Valuable insight on Banquo's upbringing. This will contribute well to the psychoanalysis.

I left the corpses out all night as a message, then cleaned up at dawn, before Missus got her coffee.

Interesting. Did you consider mounting their heads on pikes? (toothpick)

[Fragony]

Oh, come now, Fragoney. Put on some jackboots and enjoy it.

I killed a injured dove when I was 8 and it still haunts me

My mother told me that my father once went on a rabbit-hunt, he shot one and cried for 3 days because he couldn't get the sound out of his head. I'm his boy.

[Yoyoma1910]

Uh oh, we might be in trouble....MM

That was a weird series...

[yesdachi]

We had mice once at an apartment downtown. Thought maybe just a few, nope, a dozen! All caught and thrown out with the neck-snappers. We would be lying in bed and hear “SNAP” and know that we got another one. It was surprising how effective they are. With peanut butter as bait we got 3 in one night in the same spot.

I don’t know if it worked but my grand mother told us to put a couple ugly fruit in the corners of the rooms/closets where they were and the mice would stay away from the smell of the fruit. We put them around but I couldn’t tell you if it helped to keep them away or if we just killed them all. Either way we didn’t have anymore mice.


"SNAP"

[Maion Maroneios]

we had them about a year back, we tried the 'humane' way first, ultraviolet waves that supposedly hurt there ears, but they were useless and didnt work so we went for the traditional mouse trap and put chocolate spread on them, it worked, not so great for my dad who had to clear them up, there were like 7 of them! and i hate rhodants

Lol, I think you meant supersonic soundwaves mate Ultraviolet waves (or radiation) are really cancerous (and not only) and the no.1 reason for skin cancer, sent upon us by our beloved sun.

No offense here mate, just pointing out

Maion

[Thermal]

Lol, I think you meant supersonic soundwaves mate Ultraviolet waves (or radiation) are really cancerous (and not only) and the no.1 reason for skin cancer, sent upon us by our beloved sun.

No offense here mate, just pointing out

Maion

no offense taken, it made me laugh
i mean ...ahem---urr....it was a joke rlly, ur....

[Reverend Joe]

Wait... how about microwaves?

Mmmm... mouse popcorn... plus I hear it works with roaches.

[Megas Methuselah]

Devouring rodents is a barbaric practice.





And I would love to try it sometime...

[KukriKhan]

Devouring rodents is a barbaric practice.





And I would love to try it sometime...

Just add ketchup.

[LittleGrizzly]

If cooked rodent is good enough for Ghengis Khan's grandparents then its good enough for me!!

[KukriKhan]

Valuable insight on Banquo's upbringing. This will contribute well to the psychoanalysis.



Interesting. Did you consider mounting their heads on pikes? (toothpick)

Did, but there wasn't much remaining of the craniums. Then I thought "Tie 2 toothpix together at right angles and hang 'em on that." But, taking a smoke-break outside, I saw Venus & Jupiter hanging out together with the moon, and saw the Wise Men display across the street - and decided not to play P.Pilate. Just in case, yanno?

[spmetla]

I tried just about all methods of rat killing except poison. I'd say my favorite are cage traps, smear some chunky peanut butter on the the latch and you'll get yourself a rat/mouse. Because I used to have a cat I'd then call Speedy out and let the rat loose in front of him (outside of course).

Speedy of course was a good rat catcher but couldn't patrol areas in which I put traps (ceilings), in cabinets, etc...

As for snap traps, they're very effective but I'm not good at setting the damn things, for some reason those large snap traps go off in my hand just as I'm trying to ease them in place. It startles the hell out of me and frustrates me to no end after a few failed tries.

Glue traps work really well but I don't like them, nasty as they are I prefer not to see furry things stuck in glue. Also I kill them by drowning them in a bucket of water which is not much fun either. There's also the matter of cost, other traps you can use till they break and I don't feel like trying to 'reset' a glue trap.

Electric traps are also good but they do take batteries and sometimes they don't seem to be shorted or something and fail to kill as they should.

Reason I haven't used poison is that I don't want them dieing in some inaccessible location and stinking up the house. Also I didn't want my cat eating a poisoned rat.

@Hosa How can you not like the tribute?!?! I don't eat it of course but I enjoy being acknowledged as 'king.'

Interesting. Did you consider mounting their heads on pikes? (toothpick)

Didn't Vlad the Impaler do that to mice while he was imprisoned in Hungary?