There's a mouse in the house
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I've been trying to catch a mouse that had taken up residence in our kitchen by setting a couple of mouse traps each night. The first night nothing happened but this morning I found both traps still set, exactly where I'd left them but minus the cheese bait. A mouse I don't mind so much but a smarty pants mouse that wants to make a fool of me in my own house? I'm not going to stand for that Anyone got a better idea than traps and cheese that doesn't involve firearms?
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Mice don't actually like cheese, it is not a natural food for them, try using a carrot or other vegetable or get a cat! Good luck with the little bugger...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I've been trying to catch a mouse that had taken up residence in our kitchen by setting a couple of mouse traps each night. The first night nothing happened but this morning I found both traps still set, exactly where I'd left them but minus the cheese bait. A mouse I don't mind so much but a smarty pants mouse that wants to make a fool of me in my own house? I'm not going to stand for that Anyone got a better idea than traps and cheese that doesn't involve firearms?
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I've been trying to catch a mouse that had taken up residence in our kitchen by setting a couple of mouse traps each night. The first night nothing happened but this morning I found both traps still set, exactly where I'd left them but minus the cheese bait. A mouse I don't mind so much but a smarty pants mouse that wants to make a fool of me in my own house? I'm not going to stand for that Anyone got a better idea than traps and cheese that doesn't involve firearms?
Quit buying Acme products. Wow, deja vu! ;)
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I've been trying to catch a mouse that had taken up residence in our kitchen by setting a couple of mouse traps each night. The first night nothing happened but this morning I found both traps still set, exactly where I'd left them but minus the cheese bait. A mouse I don't mind so much but a smarty pants mouse that wants to make a fool of me in my own house? I'm not going to stand for that Anyone got a better idea than traps and cheese that doesn't involve firearms?
A dab of peanut butter works like a charm they stay on the trigger longer
Frazzle the name say's it all
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What waste bacon
Frazzle the name say's it all
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I've been trying to catch a mouse that had taken up residence in our kitchen by setting a couple of mouse traps each night. The first night nothing happened but this morning I found both traps still set, exactly where I'd left them but minus the cheese bait. A mouse I don't mind so much but a smarty pants mouse that wants to make a fool of me in my own house? I'm not going to stand for that Anyone got a better idea than traps and cheese that doesn't involve firearms?
A five-iron works wonders
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A five-iron works wonders
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
We just had the kitchen floor tiled (part of the problem is that I'm lazy and still haven't replaced the skirting boards so there are small gaps to the sub-floor for mice to use), I'm not scratching it with a golf club and I dont think the mouse will sit still on a tee.
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We just had the kitchen floor tiled (part of the problem is that I'm lazy and still haven't replaced the skirting boards so there are small gaps to the sub-floor for mice to use), I'm not scratching it with a golf club and I dont think the mouse will sit still on a tee.
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We just had the kitchen floor tiled (part of the problem is that I'm lazy and still haven't replaced the skirting boards so there are small gaps to the sub-floor for mice to use), I'm not scratching it with a golf club and I dont think the mouse will sit still on a tee.
On a more serious note - we had a (native marsupial like a mouse) problem a while ago - and they were great at licking the traps clean, even with peanut butter. Unfortunately (for the rodent) the dog found it in the kitchen eating crumbs. I've found poison the only way to get rid of them from the shed and barn - but I wouldn't recommend using poison in the house, as a rotting mouse in a wall cavity does rather put one off lunch! The best success i have had with traps in the past is to position them with the bait toward the wall, with peanut butter smeared underneath the plate as well as on top, and using two traps, with a small gap between them. My theory is that if they survive the first trap, licking off the bait, they climb over it to get to the next one, and BLAMMO The teetering-tube-into-a-bin idea is not as daft as it sounds either - we had a mouse fall into the swing bin we use in the chook shed for rubbish. There was plenty of old chook food in there, and it lived quite happily for weeks (I didn't have the heart to kill it in cold blood, and eventually took the bin into the far paddock and let him go.
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_Josh_ wrote:
I dont think the mouse will sit still on a tee.
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The internet is such a fantastic place !!! great find!
Watched code never compiles.
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On a more serious note - we had a (native marsupial like a mouse) problem a while ago - and they were great at licking the traps clean, even with peanut butter. Unfortunately (for the rodent) the dog found it in the kitchen eating crumbs. I've found poison the only way to get rid of them from the shed and barn - but I wouldn't recommend using poison in the house, as a rotting mouse in a wall cavity does rather put one off lunch! The best success i have had with traps in the past is to position them with the bait toward the wall, with peanut butter smeared underneath the plate as well as on top, and using two traps, with a small gap between them. My theory is that if they survive the first trap, licking off the bait, they climb over it to get to the next one, and BLAMMO The teetering-tube-into-a-bin idea is not as daft as it sounds either - we had a mouse fall into the swing bin we use in the chook shed for rubbish. There was plenty of old chook food in there, and it lived quite happily for weeks (I didn't have the heart to kill it in cold blood, and eventually took the bin into the far paddock and let him go.
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which particular
_Maxxx_ wrote:
native marsupial like a mouse
? bryce
MCAD --- To paraphrase Fred Dagg - the views expressed in this post are bloody good ones. --
Our kids books :The Snot Goblin, and Book 2 - the Snotgoblin and Fluff The Snotgoblin for the Ipad -
I've been trying to catch a mouse that had taken up residence in our kitchen by setting a couple of mouse traps each night. The first night nothing happened but this morning I found both traps still set, exactly where I'd left them but minus the cheese bait. A mouse I don't mind so much but a smarty pants mouse that wants to make a fool of me in my own house? I'm not going to stand for that Anyone got a better idea than traps and cheese that doesn't involve firearms?
You are using the wrong type of cheese. Try using a nice Camembert or Brie instead of the cheap Cheddar you been using. Thanks.
L'enfer, c'est les autres - Jean-Paul Sartre
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein - Friedrich Nietzsche -
You are using the wrong type of cheese. Try using a nice Camembert or Brie instead of the cheap Cheddar you been using. Thanks.
L'enfer, c'est les autres - Jean-Paul Sartre
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein - Friedrich Nietzsche -
A dab of peanut butter works like a charm they stay on the trigger longer
Frazzle the name say's it all
frazzle-me wrote:
they stay on the trigger longer
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L'enfer, c'est les autres - Jean-Paul Sartre
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein - Friedrich Nietzsche -
I've been trying to catch a mouse that had taken up residence in our kitchen by setting a couple of mouse traps each night. The first night nothing happened but this morning I found both traps still set, exactly where I'd left them but minus the cheese bait. A mouse I don't mind so much but a smarty pants mouse that wants to make a fool of me in my own house? I'm not going to stand for that Anyone got a better idea than traps and cheese that doesn't involve firearms?
Wrap the cheese around a bare copper wire attached to the hot lead from the mains. Set it on a ceramic or plastic plate or saucer. Set the plate, in turn, on a larger sheet of metal to which you have attached the neutral lead from the mains. Place the whole assembly on the tile floor, which should be a decent insulator - don't want any leakage currents flowing through the floor to your toes now, do we? It is essential that you size things such that the metal sheet is close enough to the hot dairy product that the little visitor will be in contact with both at the same moment, of course. A ceramic poker chip would probably be better than a saucer, come to think of it, but few households have one handy. One of the nice things about tile floors is that they're easy to clean icky bits of exploded mice from. Wear slippers when you fetch the coffee in the morning...
Will Rogers never met me.
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which particular
_Maxxx_ wrote:
native marsupial like a mouse
? bryce
MCAD --- To paraphrase Fred Dagg - the views expressed in this post are bloody good ones. --
Our kids books :The Snot Goblin, and Book 2 - the Snotgoblin and Fluff The Snotgoblin for the IpadA fine question for which I don't have an answer - probably an antechinus [^]of some sort - but there are a lot of different ones. interestingly the males live for exactly 11 1/2 months, then pop their clogs two weeks after getting their leg over!
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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I've been trying to catch a mouse that had taken up residence in our kitchen by setting a couple of mouse traps each night. The first night nothing happened but this morning I found both traps still set, exactly where I'd left them but minus the cheese bait. A mouse I don't mind so much but a smarty pants mouse that wants to make a fool of me in my own house? I'm not going to stand for that Anyone got a better idea than traps and cheese that doesn't involve firearms?
Don't worry, it's probably a rat. :-D Make sure the bait is securely fastened to the trigger and even then it might take a little while. Like others have mentioned, peanut butter and slim jims work well.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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may be this method[^] helps :-)
Yusuf May I help you?
I might have to give that a try with some critters outside my house. I'm after the rats, but I don't want to kill off the other critters.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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Wrap the cheese around a bare copper wire attached to the hot lead from the mains. Set it on a ceramic or plastic plate or saucer. Set the plate, in turn, on a larger sheet of metal to which you have attached the neutral lead from the mains. Place the whole assembly on the tile floor, which should be a decent insulator - don't want any leakage currents flowing through the floor to your toes now, do we? It is essential that you size things such that the metal sheet is close enough to the hot dairy product that the little visitor will be in contact with both at the same moment, of course. A ceramic poker chip would probably be better than a saucer, come to think of it, but few households have one handy. One of the nice things about tile floors is that they're easy to clean icky bits of exploded mice from. Wear slippers when you fetch the coffee in the morning...
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
Wear slippers when you fetch the coffee in the morning...
My partner gets up about 4 times a night to feed our twins, usually quite blurry eyed. There would only be one result and no way the police would believe it was a mouse catching device.
