I've got mice!

[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

[{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..

[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...

[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....

[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.

[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!!