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randomsquid · #16 Post by **randomsquid** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:40 pm

Willopotomas wrote:
randomsquid wrote:Except for the one that hid under the hoover. I'll never forget that sad little squeaky crunchy noise.
I laughed at this.. Does that make me sick in the head?

Noooo - lots of people find hoovers funny - backs away quietly

blinkey501 · #17 Post by **blinkey501** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:18 am

all seems quiet on the mouse front at moment traps still set though, so fingers and toes crossed

k1w1boy · #18 Post by **k1w1boy** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:39 pm

... lived in a nasty supply-teacher doss in Ilford for a couple of years. Mice were a new thing to me that winter so there was novelty value for a while... my humane-ness was tested when I caught one of the little buggers in my back pack eating a mars bar. I gathered up the bag, ran to the bathroom and tipped it into the bath. After watching it try to escape for a bit, I picked it up by the tail for a closer inspection. The devil looped itself around and sunk its teeth into my pinky finger, whereupon I whacked the thing several times against the bathroom mirror killing it.

The next morning, carrying two bags of trash out through the entrance hall, I met another one. Somewhat instinctively(?) I stepped on it ... and promptly ran outside to retch (I'll never forget the popping, crunching sensation under my boot).

Over the course of a few weeks I caught about six of them in a humane trap (the tilting one) baited with peanut butter. Initially, I euthanized them using a jar in the freezer, but after a crisis of conscience (and threats from my flatties once they actually realized what was in that jar in the freezer) I started letting them go in the churchyard of my school some 4 miles away.

Briefly had mice in my current place - bought a set of those ultra-sonic plug in vermin scarers and they work a treat.

flatlander · #19 Post by **flatlander** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:31 pm

I slays wondered if they worked gives me something else to eBay for lol if I find one of the little gits in my boots again ... Grrrrrrrr

snapdragon · #20 Post by **snapdragon** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:59 am

k1w1boy wrote:..-//-- bought a set of those ultra-sonic plug in vermin scarers and they work a treat.

That's the ones - the only 'problem' I've found is that they scare teenagers as well

snapdragon · #21 Post by **snapdragon** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:08 am

BikerGran wrote:I've used gaffa tape fairlt succesfully to block holes in cupboards.

(haven't tried squirting them with WD cos they move pretty quick!)

WD on the tiles under the backs of the cupboards - so they can't get a grip - Tom and Jerry styleee

MartDude · #22 Post by **MartDude** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:13 am

snapdragon wrote: the only 'problem' I've found is that they scare teenagers as well

Is that a bad thing?

k1w1boy · #23 Post by **k1w1boy** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:48 pm

MartDude wrote:
snapdragon wrote: the only 'problem' I've found is that they scare teenagers as well
Is that a bad thing?

...joking apart, apparently 'coz hearing deteriorates so dramatically the older we get, teenagers are like proverbial cocker-spaniels - able to hear (and presumeably be irritated by) the ultrasonic verminator.

ligloo · #24 Post by **ligloo** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:50 pm

randomsquid wrote:I've got a cat. It brings in live mice and lets them go.
Then it sits and watches me run after them.

I've got two different humane mice traps. They only work if you put a mouse in front of them and then poke it up the arse until it goes in.

Ditto with me, the only mice I've ever seen living in the countryside are the one's the cat brings in! Humungous spiders on the other hand.....

Falcorob · #25 Post by **Falcorob** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:38 pm

ligloo wrote:
randomsquid wrote:I've got a cat. It brings in live mice and lets them go.
Then it sits and watches me run after them.

I've got two different humane mice traps. They only work if you put a mouse in front of them and then poke it up the arse until it goes in.
Ditto with me, the only mice I've ever seen living in the countryside are the one's the cat brings in! Humungous spiders on the other hand.....

Don't steal your chocolate.

ligloo · #26 Post by **ligloo** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:34 pm

The one I killed last night actually crunched... a spider that was, not a mouse! I'm getting in training for all the evil beasties I'll face when we move down under lol

Not least Falcopops hehe

#27 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 8:30 pm

We use good old mousetraps. We do however vary the foods we use as bait. The mice upstairs used to prefer chocolate whereas the ones downstairs liked cheese and nuts. Picky little bastards all died the same..

We used to run a sweepstake on what time the traps would be heard cracking the neck and spine of the verminous little sods.

We usually send Becky in to get the spiders. Theyre bloody huge this year and wont fit under an upturned pint glass.

Aladinsaneuk · #28 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:31 pm

Spiders.....

Put a conker in each corner of every room - no more spiders

randomsquid · #29 Post by **randomsquid** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:56 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Spiders.....

Put a conker in each corner of every room - no more spiders

We'll have the key to the medicine cabinet back now please dear.

And lay off the Indiana Jones films as well.

Back to mice. This morning I woke up with a very happy cat standing on my chest. First thought was where's the bloody mouse.

Aladinsaneuk · #30 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:04 pm

Lol

I am right on spiders and conkers :)

And I think Martdude will be getting things that upset teenagers and put them off their stroke....