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?
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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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A 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!
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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?
I'd say a cat, but I think we all know how that ends;[Tom and Jerry]
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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.
Good point; scratch that idea. Try bacon in the trap, if you're not prone to sleepwalking and grazing in the pantry at night...
Will Rogers never met me.
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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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We have miniature dachsunds. The cat brings them in and the hounds finish them off. We have no living vermin left around here now.
Rick York wrote:
We have miniature dachsunds. The cat brings them in
I stopped reading there, and felt embarrassed for the miniature dachsunds!!
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
pop their clogs two weeks after getting their leg over!
At least that's plenty of time to get to the pub and tell your mates.
I gave you five for that, despite the fact that snorting raspberry lemonade out of my nose was one of the more unpleasant experiences I have had !
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?
I use chocolate in the traps, next door has been empty for a while and we had an infestation last summer, the chocolate worked well. But someone also mentioned the placement of the traps. Mice run along walls, under cover if possible. Place the traps right up against the wall, preferably a wall you've found dropping along so you know they're travelling along that wall.
Pete
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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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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?
_Josh_ wrote:
Anyone got a better idea than traps and cheese that doesn't involve firearms?
I tried the Black & Decker Direct Plug-in Indoor Ex310 Pest Repellers [^] with great success a couple of years ago. It all begun with strange ruffling sounds coming in from the kitchen, then the droppings, then a sighting. Installed two regular traps (baited) first and the critters apparently knew how to read the labels as on one trap they managed to peel off the center label without tripping the thing... so much for the traps on clever NYC mice :wtf: Last resort before more violent methods was the electronic warfare. Installed two in the kitchen, one more in the dinning room and for good measure one in the living room. After a daily follow-up cleaning, droppings started to disappear until completely absent. Been mouse free since. -- RP
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Good point; scratch that idea. Try bacon in the trap, if you're not prone to sleepwalking and grazing in the pantry at night...
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