how do you get rid of mice in your house?

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i dont have loads (or at least it seems i dont, i hope i dont) but came across one the other night and have found another last night
bought some plug in things that apparently emit frequencies to warn them off - hopefully this will work
also got rentokil but this hasnt worked so far - maybe im not putting it in the right places, but does anyone know a better way of getting rid of these horrible rodents?
im having trouble sleeping thinking they might be rummaging around my floor while im asleep
i hate mice, i really do
perhaps im making too big a deal of them though, i dunno
but help me exterminate these things please

― hmmmhmmmmmmmmm, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Do you rent? Call your landlord and have them call an exterminator. None of the sticky traps work (although the freq thing seemed to keep out of the one room it was in, they just went to other rooms AFAICT.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

The fucking traps you see on fucking Tom and Jerry.
Fill entry holes in walls/floors (cables, pipes, etc.) with plaster, copper wool or spray foam insulation.
The end.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Get a cat. The old methods are the best.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

You don't need an exterminator for a small mice problem. Just a willingness to clean this up:
http://mikuna.image.pbase.com/u/spider/small/85450.DSCN1119.jpg

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Snap their cute widdle necks, duh. (xposts)

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Depends on how humane you want to be, I think. I think sticky traps are cruel. Poison seems to be a good option, although I'm having second thoughts about it b/c if the mice run outside & another animal eats them for dinner . . . .

Anyway, humane mouse traps can work if baited well, if you have patience & if you don't have baby mice. The baby mice can slip in & out of the trap quite easily.

All that said, this honestly seems like a good option:

http://www.canadiancontent.net/en/jd/go?Url=http://members.ispwest.com/patrussell/mousetrap/Mousetrap.htm

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I have a mice problem as well. They're too cute to kill.

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm not paying for traps. I PAY RENT.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Humane traps are for pussies.

xpost. fucking bill your landlord.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

they aren't.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I've named mine (I'm assuming it's just the one) Penne. He's my pet now.

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

fucking bill your landlord.

Wait, you fuck your landlord, Bill, to get rid of mice? He should do that for free.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

i havent seem them close enough to see if theyre cute but the thought of mice fills me with dread
i have nightmares of them imagining there is some food up my leg and desperately going in search of it
i need to get rid of them
xxxpost - i rent, yeah, landlady is away right now though so will have to wait a few weeks til i get an exterminator
my flatmate said she would try calling the council though to see what they can do (they will prob be shit though)
i hate the idea of my flat having mice though
i hope not too many more are going to come out of the woodwork (literally)

― hmmmhmmhmhmm, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

"xpost. fucking bill your landlord."

Why should I do that when I can just get him to buy and SET the traps?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

ive been using the good old 50 cent traps. so far I killed one and had the bait stolen from two. now im using peanut butter though, which is harder to up and run away with.

Dude, there's NO WAY i'm getting Heineken for a mouse when I'm drinking Red Dog.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

those little spring traps are cheap enough

and it's so satisfying to hear them snap!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

ok i might have to get the traps
thought the rentokil palletes with toxic granules inside might lure them in but doesnt look like it
argh must stop looking at the floor in search of mice in paranoid fashion

― hmmmhmhmhmhm, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

You can get old school snap traps really cheaply at a hardware store or something. Behold their efficacy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/laurae55/mousey.jpg

Notice Jon's spray foam as mentioned above. Seal everything up so the mice are in or out. Then kill all the ones that are in. I recommend peanut butter.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Why should I do that when I can just get him to buy and SET the traps?

because you can set them up NOW

xpost

That reminds me, I need to cut down the spray foam.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

the thing with traps though is that they dont kill the nest do they? what if theres more mice in hiding?!

― hmmmhmhmhmhm, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

OK. I don't really mind it though. It looks like the Staypuff Marshmallow Man is expanding wildly in the apartment below and seeping through the gaps.
xpost

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

the thing with traps though is that they dont kill the nest do they? what if theres more mice in hiding?!

Umm, you kill them too? That's why the sealing is important, so that you're dealing with a relatively finite enemy. It's not like they're cockroaches.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

"because you can set them up NOW"

What kind of lazy ass landlords do you guys have?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

every extra night spent with mice in the house is another night of shitty sleep. sleep is important.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah, sealing holes is important.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

what the hell!!! They're not rats! Poor mice.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

totally

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Anything that comes into my house uninvited is fair game. This includes bugs, mice, rats, and cops.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

i recommend a basketful of kittens.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Why are rats ok and not mice? I know quite a few people who have had and loved pet rats. Nobody likes to kill cute things, but one's perspective becomes a little more pragmatic when one's home is overrun with vermin.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Because mice are so tiny.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm not saying it's rational. Though OTOH I wouldn't personally do some kind of violent mouse trap on a rat either, it's too gross.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

am i paranoid not being able to sleep with mice around? my flatmate seems to have no problem sleeping knowing there are or might be mice in the flat

― hmhmhmhmhm, Friday, 11 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Laura: because rats have ringed, hairless tails where mouse tails are tiny and soft and un-gross. Also, I know from "Lady and the Tramp" that rats are vile, malicious creatures with glowing red eyes who sneak into nurseries and bite babies out of sheer spite.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

do you eat in bed?

xpost

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

no, hmhmhmhmhmhm, you're not.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Mice are more scared of you than you are of them.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

still, if you're still in your sleep they WILL crawl on you.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

They are sexy like that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

mice be frisky

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

The mouse upthread weighed as much as a pear.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I think sticky traps are cruel.

To both mouse and man. We used a couple of these earlier this year in the kitchen. And they worked -- but "working" in this case means they caught the mouse in the glue and the mouse couldn't move but was still very much alive and completely panicked. I guess if you use these in the attic or somewhere out of sight, you can pretend the critters aren't either starving to death or tearing themselves to pieces trying to get away, but it's not something you want to watch in the kitchen. So in both cases I had to club the little things over the head, which is not a completely pleasant experience (plus it's hard to club something on a sticky trap without getting the clubbing implement itself glued to the trap).

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

"still, if you're still in your sleep they WILL crawl on you."

it was very cruel to type this

i dont eat in bed, not any more anyway
i dont even leave food out anymore either
although the side effect of this is that i have to be extra careful and on my toes all the time about leaving food or crumbs or whatever which is annoying

― hmmmmmmhmhmhm, Friday, 11 November 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Mice.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

i saw a mouse...........and other hallucinations
My roommate and I just spent an hour and a half trying to catch a mouse
what can you do a mouse is in your house?
A mouse in the house
MICE!
I saw a mouse
Killing mice

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

ILXors have a lot of mice.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Kill them. Kill them all.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

ILXors have a lot of mice.
It certainly seems so. There's no better example of the futility of giving advice on this board. HOW many people upthread have suggested poison? I use poison and I HAVE NO MICE. Until the next wave, then I get a different kind of poison. Just to keep from breeding SUPERMICE. Sticky traps are gross, and they and the snap-traps just kill isolated stupid greedy mice. Poison wipes out their entire civilization!
NOW GO FORTH AND KILL, MY CHILDREN!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

seriously, what sort of poison, where do you get it from, where do you put it? etc etc etc
many many thanks in advance

― hmmmhmhmhmhm, Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Just get whatever kind your local hardware store carries. Most grocery stores have it, too. Just One Bite is one kind I've used—it comes in cakes, looks like peanut butter bars. The last kind I bought was similar but green. Regular D-Con works, too. They ALL work, but you have to be super careful where you put it—out of reach of clever doggie's paws. I have a friend who lost a dog to rat poisoning. Plugging up their entry holes with fine steel wool is key, too. They usually get in where your plumbing pipes and electrical lines come in. In apartments I'd concentrate on under the sinks. You should stuff more steel wool in every year, as it rusts and compacts and they start shoving past it again.
Leave poison out in the crawlspace and attic, and way behind your fridge. I leave some on top of my kitchen cupboards—you know, where all the greasy vases are. They were getting into the closed cupboards, don't ask me how. There isn't ANY gap. I'd get it all cleaned up and the next day there'd be more turds. Fuckers. They must be the only animal that shits where it eats. Really poor hygiene.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

I could rent you my cat (pictured below), I suppose. Not only does she kill mice, but she decapitates them and leaves the bodies in neat rows in front of the fridge. Just in case you get hungry later.

She can also dissect the mice and arrange their major organs in neat piles for you (stomach lining intact!) but she hasnt done that for a while and the piles tend to be in difficult places - kidneys and stomachs behind the living room door, livers behind the tv, face skin w/ fur (also intact w/ perfect little eye holes) under the dining room table.

You'll have to leave the method up to her discretion. Its really not a good idea to piss her off too much.

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/4748/pyelooming4bi.jpg

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

The problem with poison is that the mouse is going to go somewhere inaccessible to die, and the cute little corpse is going to stink until it dries out. Sticky traps are crueller than neck snappers — the mouse starves to death if it gets out of your reach, and its corpse will stink too. Use snap traps. (xpost)

HOLY CRAP SCARY CAT

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

HOLY CRAP BEST CAT EVER

I'd be a little worried about sealing holes - if you trap a fair number behind the walls, what if they start chewing through electric and phone wires?

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Who knows if the poison works or not, but if you live in a small apartment (say, where there's no wall between your bed and the kitchen), you will most likely hear them chomping away on the stuff in the middle of the night -- almost as unpleasant as seeing them scurry around your floor. I've tried everything and the old fashioned kind worked the best. And Rosemary was right, when you hear the snap, it's like a load off your mind.

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

You seal up the holes AND poison. They feel too ill to chew the wiring, and their corpses only stink for a while. Leave a bowl of cut-up apples out, it helps neutralize the smell.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

You can starve them out by denying them food. Glass jars are helpful for this strategy. If you have food out in cupboards or on shelves, transfer the food into glass jars.

You can kill them. Popular methods: traps, cats, poison, small caliber weapons

You can plead with them in many languages until you hit on a language they understand. Serbo-croatian is often attempted for this. Once you hit on a language, work on their emotions. Make them pity you until they weep little mouse tears.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 12 November 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

And then snap their necks while they're blinded!

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 12 November 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

Glue traps = D. If you must, make sure you check them often -- mouse 1 will get stuck and die, and then mice 2 through n come along and eat mouse 1. Not good.

My wife saw some mice in our garage (which is detached from the house, so I don't care that the mice are there) and threw down some glue traps. A chipmunk got stuck in one. That was a mess.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

You can starve them out by denying them food. Glass jars are helpful for this strategy
I am not picturing the FOOD in these jars.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

move the house

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

The sonic repellent things are a big fat waste of everybody's time and money. The whiskery little cunts in my flat rave to the sound under the floorboards before coming upstairs and shitting on my WHITE SOFA.

Tomorrow I am buying snap-shut hurty traps which kill. And smearing them with Nutella. There will be no escape.

― j0e (j0e), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I had a rat problem a few years ago, and maybe they smell worse than mice, but the smell of the dead poisoned ones under the floorboards lingered putridly for about 4 months. I think you can get more expensive poison that dehydrates the corpses so they turn into husks and therefore don't smell, so investigate this option if you can. Also, snap traps with a spike you put the bait on are more "fun" as the cute little mice get their faces mashed open as well as their spines snapped.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 12 November 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, funny, the exterminator came by this morning. I told him about the screeing and clawing I heard in my walls. He dropped a poison pellet behind the sink and one behind the stove. I think the fear of rotting mouse smell is now going to be worse than that sound.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I am not picturing the FOOD in these jars.

Flour, nuts, dry beans, grains such as rice or bulgar. The cute little bastards can chew through cardboard boxes or plastic bags, so repackaging is in order.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

how do you get rid of mice in your house?

Lure them into your cunt.

― richarGer, Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

You'd have to go out on the lawn to do that, because otherwise they'd still be in your house!
Seriously, people, a friend of mine's house burned to the ground before dawn yesterday. Everybody's okay—parents and the three kids who were at home all got out. Miraculously, part of one wall was left standing, and a fireman went up on a ladder, broke one of the windows there, reached through and pulled out ALL THE FAMILY PHOTOS!!!! The heat had sealed the plastic on the edges of the album pages so they hardly got wet.
They think the fire started because of MICE chewing the wiring.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 13 November 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Pray to the cat god.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Two dead mice. Two dead mice. Let's see how they run now, the irksome incontinent bastards.

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 14 November 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

I genuinely thought this thread said "how do you get rid of mince in your house". Y'know, Christmas is approaching and all...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 14 November 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

In that case you should serve John Inman with his eviction notice

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.moviecitynews.com/static_images/images/2004/200x200/tom_jerry.jpg

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

does anyone know if its a good idea to just sprinkle the poison in an area where you think the mice travel or should you always use the bait trays? cos if i was a mouse, im not sure id fall for the trays.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 14 May 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

poison = dead, stinking mice turning up everywhere. i strongly urge using traps instead.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 14 May 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

i think the bait trays do work but yeah, poison means stink. they smell tasty so the mice go straight for them and eat up.

i was going to revive this kind of thread just now. this morning at about 6 i heard my little snap trap go off and then some rustling. i got up to look and found just a little trail of blood. the mouse had crawled into the space between the counter and the wall, where he came from, but didn't go all the way back. he was just sitting there, breathing hard. i didn't want to deal with it so i went back to bed for 4 hours, thinking he'd probably have a heart attack or something and i could just grab him later. so when i woke up and went to look, he was still sitting there, breathing. i think his nose was pretty broken. i waited 10 minutes thinking of what to do and in that time he crawled out of the hole and sat in the middle of my floor and just waited, obviously brain damaged. i coaxed him into a baking pan and put him in the freezer (quick death). the moral of the story is, use glue traps, snap traps leave you with nothing but brain damaged, bleeding mice. or they just somehow unset them without getting caught. with the glue traps i just wake up to the squealing and kill them as soon as possible. i really no longer care about being humane, sorry.

in the past 10 weeks or so i've caught 10 mice, 7 in glue traps, 3 in snap traps. the landlord doesn't care about anything and i can't reach the holes so i just set them up to block the pathways i know they're following and it works ok.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 14 May 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

well i dont know which is worse, fucked up mice half splattered from the snap traps or having to bash mice over the head after theyre squealing and caught in the glue traps. neither seems that nice to me! i have snap traps, which seem a bit tricky to set up, but im going to try and so that tonight, but ive sprinkled poison arond the fridge floor, i was gonna use bait trays but thought it might not entice them. but it might be neater at least. im thinking of maybe pulling the washing machine out to put some poison down there but dont feel like seeing the mice there (just in case they are actually there, they might not be, for all i know). i dont think i have that many mice, but for all i know there might be more than the two ive seen. im just pissed off theyve ben on my kitchen worktop, its put me off cooking the last two nights.

anyone have tips for what to put in the snap traps? grains? cheese?

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 14 May 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

i too thought i had just one mouse. if you have one or two you probably have a lot more as they reproduce like once a month or so. i don't bash them over the head either, i can't handle that. i just grab the whole tray, put it in a plastic bag, and stick it in the freezer. they just pass out and die. but i guess snap traps and glue traps have equal advantages and disadvantages. put peanut butter in the snap traps, though.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 14 May 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

the thing with the traps is that apparently it just kills those mice, but the ones back in the nest reproduce at some abnormally rapid rate anyway. so its like you kill a few, but by that time, more are on their way. im not sure how to avoid this.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 14 May 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know either. it's especially horrifying since i live in a pretty big, old house with 3 floors and i'm on the third floor in a tiny little apartment. so if i've managed to kill 10 there must be thousands in the whole building and i've barely put a dent in the entire population. i have dreams about them all the time, about cutting them in half with knives, flushing them down the toilet, crushing them in my hands. it's really scary.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 14 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

me too actually. i had an especially good dream about mice last night. i dreamt i had a great big black cat and it was some sort of lethal mice murdering monster, who wouldnt stop killing them and bizarrely, would chase after them everywhere and just wouldnt stop until it found more. it was quite a gratifying dream but then i woke up, found more mice droppings, and realised i had no cat.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 14 May 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I had a pretty bad mouse problem in my apartment - we could hear them rustling in the apntry but never could find them/what they were living on. basically, all you can do is try your best to be super clean and make sure you're not absentmindedly giving them some carby food supply by say, leaving dirty plates out, or putting your bread in a place where they can get to it... we had to put all of our snacks in a big rubbermaid bin. It's also good if you can plug up holes with something metallic, like aluminum foil, cause they can't scratch through it. and of course, lots of traps. Once we found we had mice, we, day one: 1)cleaned pantry 2)plugged hole 3)set traps 4)caught one mouse. day two: caught five mice. day three: caught one mouse. ever since: no mice seen/heard/caught.

― val (notvalery), Sunday, 14 May 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

This is one of two mice we caught in our house last week. We got rid of them by luring them into a measuring cup and putting them outside in a dumpster. I'm afraid to put down traps or poison because we have cats (who will stare at, but not actually kill, mice). I called our landlord and he sad he'd call Terminex but he never did, which is about par for the course with our landlord.

http://static.flickr.com/46/144879789_05f77922df.jpg

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 14 May 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

out of interest, how do you lure them in to the measuring cup?

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 14 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

The first one we trapped in the space between a desk and the wall, and bocked one end with a book. I took a broom handle and herded him down the desk/wall hall into the measuring cup.

The second one was in between a bucket and a wall. I flipped the bucket over him, and scooped him into the cup.

They were bitty little baby mice, about the size of the first joint of my thumb, so I they were kind of slow and scared and squeaky. And yet... the cats couldn't catch them. Worthless furbags.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 14 May 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

peanut butter is good for the spring traps. most other things they'll figure out how to take without getting crushed.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 14 May 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

i have dreams about them all the time, about cutting them in half with knives, flushing them down the toilet, crushing them in my hands.
Add a video camera and you've just payed for college/grad school.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 14 May 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

or paid, even.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 14 May 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

there's the tiniest baby mouse crawling behind my monitor as i type! (it's on the floor) I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT HELP

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 15 May 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

ok i have him trapped between my cpu, the wall, and 2 books. he is so small that he fits part of the way underneath one of the books but his tail is sticking out. do i dare touch it? UGH HELP ME INTERNET

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 15 May 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

*crickets*

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 15 May 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

baby mice are cuet

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

very cuet but i've got him trapped in the bottom of a pint glass (it's the only container i have that he can't jump out of) and that's way too small and i don't know what to do with him at all, no idea

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Let him run home to mommy, or pick him up (in the glass if necessary and drop him outside in the grass. He'll probably die, but that's pretty much how all these roads roads end short of setting him free inside.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't meant to sound like guilt-tripping over the death of an innocent mouse-child, really. Just saying, you've got two options for him - live or die, and outside in the grass is the death that involves you least.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

i think the reason he's out at all might be that i killed mommy this morning :(

i guess the best thing is to take him outside. a baby won't make it back in anyway, and if he does, it probably won't be my apartment but someone else's.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

ok by the time i walked out the door with him he had panicked himself to death anyway :( oh well

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

I've never had mice but a while ago I woke up one morning to find this critter in my bathroom (who had peed all over the bath and floor and pooed all over the living room):

http://www.memorygongs.com/possum.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

ive found out the mice in my flat are still coming from the place i thought i had blocked with steel wool. not sure how but theyre still coming through there, the little fucks. oh well, my landlord is coming to check the rodent situation tomorrow. he doesnt believe we have mice and thinks i must not be a clean tenant or something (because the mice could never have been there before could they?) though so i have to leave all the disgusting droppings and not clean them up.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 15 May 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

hadn't heard our mice for months until the new neighbours moved into the empty flat. the day after and there they were, running around under the floorboards at 4am.

humane traps, baited with peanut butter. and don't just drop them in the grass outside or they'll just get back in - if they can make it onto the third floor they can manage a patch of grass.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 15 May 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

There's this mouse in my apartment. It won’t let me sleep. It ate my bread. Pooped in my bread!

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

We had mice a few months ago, and called the council to sort it out. The man who came round explained how the poison works. Apparently it's not poisonous as such, it's just loaded with Vitamin D, which makes the mice go to sleep and calcify from the inside out.

So put something down that's high in Vitamin D.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

that's brilliant Trayce. Is it the dreaded brushtail possum?

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Tracey, what the f*ck is that? And how did you not have a HEART ATTACK when you saw it?

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

we've got a mouse (or two) but reading this thread is creeping me out completely. i've made friends with a neighbor's cat, who comes in sometimes (i leave the door open, so it's not like catnapping). normally he's all chill and i hope the smell of cat might scare the mice, but he's totally freaking out right now, and this is normal mouse action time, so i wonder if he'll get one. go gingerpuss, go!

can you rent a cat for a few months?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

That cat is so excited to be alive right now. It's the most cat-like she's/he's ever felt in its life! My old cat would run up to me in my parents' backyard with a dead mouse in his mouth like "Lookit! For you, my love!! Lookit what I got you!!" So proud of himself. I'd scream like a little girl and run away, which, of course, made the cat run after me faster.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

that's brilliant Trayce. Is it the dreaded brushtail possum?

Its a ringtail possum! A lot smaller (large kitten sized, as opposed to the scary, more aggresive brushtails fatarse-cat size). It was cute and small and frigtened but dayum the thing could escape fast and hide in the smallest spaces. Took us ages to grab him and pop him back outside (we have a variety of poss living in the trees out by our windows. I guess one was cold).

Tracey, what the f*ck is that? And how did you not have a HEART ATTACK when you saw it?

Heh. See above - and yes I bloody well did! I walked into the bathroom to do my hair, doot doo de doo... ARGH WHAT THE FUCK!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 May 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

one of my mice came into the bathroom last night. which is weird cos i really thought they werent moving anywhere but my living room. i wish mice werent so curious. i bleached all my kitchen surfaces which seems to have worked somewhat, not sure if theyre taking any of the rentokil but i hope so. i really hate mice now. i couldnt sleep properly last night as i kept imagining it coming into my bedroom and crawling up the bed. i really think their nest is behind the washing machine now, or at least, below the kitchen or the cupboards. not sure i really want to find out though so i might just seal every gap possible.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

success!

http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html

i set this trap last night, and less than an hour later, had a mouse sitting in our bin. he looked pretty stunned, but didn't jump out or anything.

now we just have to hope that he doesn't come back.

he was really cute, i have to say. if there were mouse birth control and we could guarantee he's the only one, i think we'd let him stay...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

A week ago, a mouse was scuttling around by my computer dangerously close to my feet. It lived behind the filing cabinet for several hours only peering around the corner at sparse intervals. This wasn't enough to convince my parents we had a mouse in the house.

However, it decided to make a run for it into the kitchen... wherby I seized the chance to scoop up my groggy cat from the dining table and get the mouse into her eyeline. Despite being 15 years old she became fully awake and got the thing in an instant, doing things like letting it go and catching it again, and letting it run to the safety of under the filing cabinet.... to just about paws-length so the cat could suddenly claw it back. It was fun to watch, and due to the fact she has only one tooth there was no mess, just one mouse body to get rid of.

In the days when I was more humane (about 2 years ago). I witnessed this cat (and the younger, evil one) working in a team effort to get a mouse out from under a foot-stool. I rescued the terrified little thing, and put it in a big Tupperware sandwich box (with holes in) with "Jerry" written on the side, along with some grated cheese. I then put the box on top of a cupboard assuming that it was safe from a cat's clutches...... oh god how wrong I was. The next morning, I came downstairs to find the box opened on the floor with grated cheese everywhere, and a distinctive "crunch" noise coming from the living room..... Well, at least I tried......

― JTS (JTS), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Tracey, what the f*ck is that? And how did you not have a HEART ATTACK when you saw it?

I woke up in the middle of the night in a hostel in Australia with something that looked very like that inches from my face. I yelped and it jumped around the rooom before leaping out the window.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

A fat mouse just brazenly showed himself in my living room, running along the wainscot onto the top of the desk and scampering among the framed photos there. Then he saw me and retreated into the huge mountain of crap beside the file cabinet.
Yesterday there was one in the bin of dog kibble in the mudroom. My husband tried to catch him but he ran out the open door. They must be slipping under a poorly-fitting screen door. Tomorrow I buy POISON.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

POISON, yes, but with some light-hearted brand name like MouseBGone or MousePrufIt and picture of daisies on the label.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

and a little mouse with its little claws holding a cracker and chomping away happily but not realizing the cracker is laced with death

i have one too! i just moved here 3 weeks ago. it's the first one. it just came out and walked around a little and went back in its hole.

― nazi bikini (harbl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps you should befriend it and teach it the ways of the samurai. be very very strict and harsh so when it fails your impossible standards, it will commit seppuku, then voila! no more mouse.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps you should befriend it and teach it the ways of the samurai. be very very strict and harsh so when it fails your impossible standards, it will commit seppuku, then voila! no more mouse.

WU TANG EXTERMINATORS

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

Another one spotted, running right past my husband's feet!
I decided on traps to avoid the festering corpse-stench.
I set six traps with peanut butter bait. I'm waiting for the snap.
Fuckers! I really lose all sympathy when I find their shit on the kitchen counter! Talk about shitting where you eat—they shit WHILE they eat!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

best poem ever

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

That may be.
But still no snap!
What the FUCK?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.memorygongs.com/possum.jpg

awesome

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know how to get rid of mice, but i think a cat would probably work. a squirrel chewed through our ceiling once and that's how we took care of it. actually, the cat took care of it without any direction from us. get a cat. borrow one, even.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

MICE IN A HOUSE

― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gonna try the toilet roll tube trap thing.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

Fuckers! I really lose all sympathy when I find their shit on the kitchen counter! Talk about shitting where you eat—they shit WHILE they eat!

Um, presumably they're up there cos you're leaving food out. Put food away and clean up afterwards and they probably wouldn't be all that interested.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

"on top of my kitchen cupboards—you know, where all the greasy vases are"

Beth Parker = genius!!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Beth Parker=murderer of ONE MOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

We had a mouse once in our house. My mum said it moved across the kitchen, stopped, looked ARROGANTLY at my mum and then moved on. hahahahaha An arrogant mouse...

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

one of my mice (hopefully gone now, but i've been too scared to spend a lot of time in the kitchen to find out) definitely looked at me arrogantly too. i think my neighbour might be a coke dealer so maybe he had been nibbling on his stash?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I hope I don't get mice, I fucking hate cats.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think there is a family of meeces living in the walls between our bathrooms. This mystifies me as we have two critter-loving dogs and a kitty.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

R.I.P. 2 more mice.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

DED MAUS GOOD. MORE DED MAUS BETTR.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose I should freshen up the bait.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 24 August 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe a little dab of Easy-Cheese could be applied without springing the trap. My nerves can't take those accidental trap-snaps.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 24 August 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

R.I.P. mouse #4. In the attic. My husband and son said they heard something up there. I put a trap up there just for the hell of it. Mice be EVERYWHERE.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

at least two in my gaff now. apparently peppermint oil, horseradish, garlic and cayenne pepper or some combination of all of the above are good mouse-bane.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

just reiterating the Dud status of the sticky paper.... i put some on the shelf last nite... DUCT TAPED it to the shelf two feet above the counter top and put a tiny slice of tomato in the center.... this morning the sticky paper was found in the tiny gap between the counter and the fridge, with some garlic peelings picked up en route stuck to it... no mouse.

i had thought it was a massive rat because it chomped half a roma tomato, so i got the LARGE RAT SIZED snap traps... three nights in a row it removed the bait without setting off the trap. last nite i put a much smaller amount of bait and made sure it wasn't just resting on the snare, but hooked on to it. it set it off, but got away...

going to try smaller traps and the toilet paper tube method tonite.

my girlfriend isn't sleeping a wink... we live in a studio so basically we sleep in our kitchen.

― grady (grady), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Use peanut butter! Just a tiny dab.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 26 August 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

i used ORGANIC peanutbutter and it didnt go for it. need to get the sugary stuff methinks.

― grady (grady), Saturday, 26 August 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

last night 4 baby mice came out to play by the fireplace after we'd cleaned up - they'd been eating into a hackysack filled with whatever those are filled with. hoovered all that up, leaving them wondering where the food stash was. could be as many as 10 in total. mass 'eviction' to follow.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 26 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I did. I got the smallest jar of creamy Skippy I could find.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 26 August 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

You need to make some special D-Con hackysacks.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

I got the smallest jar of creamy Skippy I could find.

Choosy vermin choose Jif.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I just ridded my apartment of the little bastard that has been raising hell for the last two months. this rat/mouse would gilde over glue traps, and eat the bait off snap traps with the greatest of ease. In the end, however, he met his fate:

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1850/objects/largejpgs/skillet.jpg

It took about three swings as he was crawling accross the counter. all cartoon-like. I couldn't stop shaking after doing the deed.

We are now vermin free.

― researching ur life (grady), Sunday, 8 October 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

the electonic plug-in i installed has worked perfectly in driving away the mice 'humanely' (by emitting a noise so high-pitched it bothers them but not us or nearby dogs).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

ive had limited success with the electronic one i got, how long did it take to work?

― -- (688), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

only a few days. we did combine it with some trays of poison elsewhere, but they didn't seem to be working on their own so i attribute the success to the gadget. i've seen one mouse since in our kitchen which is fairly distant from the electronic device (in our bedroom) and it's been fitted for about 4-6 weeks now.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

have you tried chasing them out with a broom?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

We had a sudden mouse problem in our flat about 2 weeks ago. We bought 4 (real) traps, used crunchy-nut cornflakes as bait. Between 3:30am on Saturday last week, and the Monday night when I got back from work we caught 5 mice. Haven't seen another one since, the bait remains on the traps. I'd say they operate with pretty decent success based on our results.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

good shot, grady!!!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

there have been some mice in our building (a neighbor told me they got into her apartment, and i think i've heard some squeaking down in the parking garage at night). supposedly they came up from under the street when the city was doing sewer maintenance on the next block. i have traps out, but i don't have much faith in them.

― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

It was EXACTLY like that scene in Pulp Fiction where Bruce Willis gets free in the pawn shop and he looks at each weapon for a split second until his eyes finally fall on the Samurai sword on the top shelf. The little bastard was clibing down from a shelf on to the counter and my eyes went to a few other cookware items until looked up at the heavy iron skillet that we never use sitting on the top shelf. It would not the first time I chased him around the apartment with something meant for preparing food, but as I got up on my tippy-toes and wrapped my finger around its handle, I knew it would be the last.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds horribly messy, but good effort!

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Monday, 9 October 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

The next half hour was spent sanatizing the area, needless to say.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 9 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Watch out, they're getting smarter!

http://www.webpark.ru/uploads34/09_podborka_87.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 9 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

AND CUETER.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 9 October 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

So what's the verdict on the supersonic/electromagnetic thingies you use to drive them out? I'm getting this but I'm concerned it might cock up my homeplug network thing.
The electric shock one looks pretty cool, that's next on my list if this one doesn't work.

I don't give a stuff about killing them humanely or not, I just don't want rotting mouse corpses fragrancing my home; and also if this thing works (I'm dubious, it looks like witchcraft) it should stop other mice nesting.

I live in a very old flat and blocking up all holes etc is out of the question. I've only seen the little bastard once and he scared the living shit out of me. Since then I've notice droppings (GROSS) and using a clever trick I learned from comedian Russell Howard, scattered flour on the floor near where I saw it that time. Next morning there were tiny pawprints around the edge of the flour. However I can see myself getting obsessive over this and ending up living in a house permanently carpetted with flour...

― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 13 May 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

colette's method sounds brilliant and it appears to be very effective, judging by comments:

http://chrisglass.com/journal/images/2005/0920-mouse.jpg
http://chrisglass.com/journal/images/2005/0920-mouse2.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

probably been addressed but local councils have a guy, i think, who comes round to do the killing.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

I moved to a house that doesn't contain mices! Win!

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:29 (eighteen years ago)

How to rid flat of flies? They went away over the weekend but I think that was just that generation dying off. There were 2 smaller ones in the kitchen this morning so I expect there are maggots somewhere that will result in another Amityville Horror situation in a couple of days :(

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

So what's the verdict on the supersonic/electromagnetic thingies you use to drive them out?

I've had a mouse for at least six months. First time I noticed was just before Christmas when I left a bag of rubbish near the door overnight, and woke up to hear something inside it. I screamed a bit and in a panic opened the door and just booted the bag outside.

Then I didn't see anything for a few weeks and got blase until I left a rubbish bag on the floor once more and the mouse got into it again. This time I just started throwing coins at the bag and I saw it run out of the bag and somewhere into my flat.

I don't see droppings anywhere and it doesn't get into food in cupboards or on the kitchen tops. But sometimes I wake up at 5 am to hear it moving across my floor (or it might just be in the walls or something). So I sleep with the light on and take my keys to bed & when I hear it I jangle them furiously and it shuts up for a while. It is crazy.

So about two weeks ago I bought one of those supersonic gadgets, despite intensive internet research indicating that they absolutely do not work. I haven't heard the mouse since then, although to be honest this may be because I've been drunk most of the time and I don't wake too easily then. (A few days ago I came home drunk and put a pizza in the oven, fell asleep, and next thing I know I'm outside surrounded by neighbours and firemen who had actually had to knock down my front door when the smoke alarm went off... and if none of this woke me then nor, I think, would a tiny little mouse.)

But I was away over the weekend just now, so I left the supersonic repeller on and also put a peanut on the floor nearby. I came home half an hour ago and the nut is gone. That's science for you. Dunno what I'll do now.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

OMG that supersonic thing repels peanuts!

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Your search - "peanut repeller" - did not match any documents.

:-(

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

A friend of mine used to have one of those things and I COULD HEAR IT when I stood near it - it drove me absolutely insane, like I was in Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan or something.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Well I can't hear the supersonic noise. I tried recording it & then pitch-shifting it down to get an idea of what it sounded like, but it seemed to be out of my mic's range too. Then I got paranoid, cos how would you know if you'd bought a faulty one that made no sound?

What I can hear though is the little click it makes every five seconds (supposedly when it changes frequency). This is hardly noticeable in the daytime, but for the first couple of nights I'd wake up in a panic thinking it was the mouse itself.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Words cannot do justice to the sheer insane-making abilities that thing had on me. It was like a knife inside my head, trying to get out. I'm surprised that torturers have not simply thrown away all their expensive and cumbersome equipment and just replaced it with a battery-powered Mouse-B-Gone or whatever.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

i bet eyeball jinks's meeses would enjoy some reese's pieces.

― estela, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

They just had the Tracer-B-Gone model. (xpost)

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

It's barbaric, but in my experience the only thing that worked was glue traps. When we tried more humane methods, the mice just seemed to laugh and say 'ha ha you're not fooling us with that old one'.

Glue traps give the mouse a slow, gruesome, terrified death, but from the human's point of view they're easy enough to get rid of, and so much less gory than Tom and Jerry style traditional ones. And, as I say, they actually work.

― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Don't they, like, peep loudly ( ... --- ... ) while they're stuck on there?

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

Listen to some loud music... Getting rid of vermin is a nasty business

― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

so is it true the lil dudes hate cloves?

― blueski, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

do mice die outside? i caught one today and chucked it out. just wondering if it will die.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 14 November 2008 14:26 (seventeen years ago)

We've got them in the office! Well, one at least! He/she comes out every evening, after 6pm when hardly anyone's left in the office.

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 14 November 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

lol, at my old apartment my lol-goth-phase-roommate was freaking out about mice and laying all kinds of traps, and this guy that just moved in was secretly (AND VERY CAUTIOUSLY) removing the cheese and peanut butter from them to get him all worked up, it was great. Even though it's not actually true I kinda wish I still lived there.

― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Friday, 14 November 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

at least they don't have wings. i once walked into our bedroom and found a bat fluttering about. the fun part was that my daughter -only a few months old at the time- was napping in the room. the bat's flight itinerary brought him within inches of her nose several times. good thing about that sonar.

― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 14 November 2008 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

Man I love bats. Every summer, growing up, we'd watch 4th of July fireworks from our roof while being divebombed by the countless bats intercepting mosquitoes all around us, it was great.

No, but mice, they're easy, just set traps. If the one you let go lived, it'll come back, and there will be a trap. Every time you catch one, set another, and eventually you'll have one final inactive trap sitting for over a month and you can just toss it. It's not a tough problem.

― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Friday, 14 November 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

We got one of those supersonic noise thingies and it worked fine. I could hear it when I first turned it on but it soon went out of my hearing range, and it doesn't seem to bother our cats. But we haven't seen a single mouse since then.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 14 November 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

Can dogs hear 'em?

― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Friday, 14 November 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

Probably not if cats can't although I am not an authority on dogs' hearing ranges.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 14 November 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Trying to work out what to do about this problem. myself. Tried bunging peppermint oiled cotton balls around the place last night. But found a mouse in a cupboard I'd put one in this morning.
Had really hoped that would work, had one squeaking loudly over last few days so I'm worried how many there are.
Had laid poison some months ago and found 2 dead and hoped that might be it at the time.
But also getting really musky smell from back of the shelving unit a couple of feet to the left of my computer set up. Behind printer etc. and been sneeezing heavily/coughing to a point where I'm near choking so worried taht they're having drastic effect on my health.

― Stevolende, Saturday, 29 September 2012 11:51 (thirteen years ago)

Best advice I had was to make sure there's nothing for them to eat and they'll bugger off. You have to really strict not to leave anything out: put the trash out everyday, no food accessible, plates washed up etc

― Bob Six, Saturday, 29 September 2012 13:32 (thirteen years ago)

if you have to kill them, I've had a lot of success with the battery-powered traps that shock them. it's an instant death.

― gyac, Saturday, 29 September 2012 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

Having zero food for them to eat is the best way.

Live capture traps can work. I've caught plenty in the past with tip-up traps baited with peanuts or peanut butter.

One silly, but reasonably effective, way to catch them is by putting a piece of wood next to a steep-sided bucket with bait at the bottom. They run up the ramp, jump into the bucket and can't get out again. They're easy to release as well.

― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 29 September 2012 18:55 (thirteen years ago)

I'm terrified of mouse traps. Siberian Husky is ruthless at killing them, better than the cat, who can't be bothered half the time.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Saturday, 29 September 2012 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

I achieved a mouse-free household by using glue traps baited with chocolate, followed up with a swift hammering once they were stuck. Not very pleasant, foe me or them.

― Eno's got a new generative music app out for the iPad (Matt #2), Saturday, 29 September 2012 22:44 (thirteen years ago)

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