I've got mice!

[InsaneApache]

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!

[Strike For The South]

I use my man grip to break them. That'll teach for finding warm shelter.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The only way to kill mice is to sit in a dark kitchen with an air rifle, shooting at all shadows less than five inches long.

[Strike For The South]

The only way to kill mice is to sit in a dark kitchen with an air rifle, shooting at all shadows less than five inches long.

So Im guessing you do this fully clothed

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

So Im guessing you do this fully clothed

That was below the belt.

[Somebody Else]

Had some of the sticky traps a little while ago. They catch the buggers. They break their legs trying to free themselves. I found out about them (my flatmate 'phoned me from the next room whilst I was still in bed) hours after capture. They'd been struggling all night. I had to dispatch them with my boot. There's nothing humane about a sticky trap.

I don't like killing.

Best way to keep mice away is to remove the incentive. Surely? Trying to get flatmates to keep things in cupboards... Almost working.

Good thing I'm going into the profession I am. I'd hate for a killer to do so.

[Reverend Joe]

The only way to kill mice is to sit in a dark kitchen with an air rifle, shooting at all shadows less than five inches long.

Why an air rifle?

So Im guessing you do this fully clothed

And why clothed?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Why an air rifle?

Anything larger than a .308 may dent my cupboards.

[Banquo's Ghost]

The only way to kill mice is to sit in a dark kitchen with an air rifle, shooting at all shadows less than five inches long.

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.

[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)

[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?