what can you do a mouse is in your house?

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i have a mouse - a real live mouse ... IN MY HOME. i wldn't mind so much but this is the only decent apartment i've ever had and it's too expensive to share with non-rent-paying rodents... what can i do to get rid of it?

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

If it's an apartment, is it something management/maintenance will take care of for you? There was a short-lived mouse problem at an apartment complex I lived in, and they asked people to notify maintenance -- they didn't want the mice to chew wiring, etc., but wanted to take care of them their way.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

loud sex, loud music, commemorative state plates, off-putting eating habits, tons of ideas right here on ILE.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever you do, don't use poison or it will crawl somewhere inaccessible and die, and then stink up the house with its fumes. Find out where it's getting in, set traps (snapping kind or the glue kind), after you get it block the access point.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Fully armed farmer's wife should do the trick.

― Judge Mentalist (Judge Mentalist), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

get an empty wine bottle, tie it to a table with the neck overhanging the edge, grease it up with butter. put a small piece of ham on the end of the neck. place a bucket of water directly below.

or get an air rifle and a six pack, sit down and wait.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

use a snapping-type mousetrap. bait it with apple (not cheese) anything else is a waste of time. don't waste yr money on "humane" mousetraps, the little fuckers will probably be back in yer house before you are. KILL IT.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

get an empty wine bottle, tie it to a table with the neck overhanging the edge, grease it up with butter. put a small piece of ham on the end of the neck. place a bucket of water directly below.

this = so heath robinson and fun it HAS to work!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

it actually didn't work for us. i think we had acrobatic mice...the ham was gone.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't do a mouse in my house for obvious reasons.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I always heard that it was peanut butter than mice liked.

What do you do if they always get in from other dirty bastards' apartments by squeezing themselves underneath the .5 mm gap between the floor and the door? I keep my place damn sparkly and some asshole's hygiene fucks me up!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing mice

MICE!

Mice :Evil Little Bandits or Nice Little Neighboors?

A mouse in the house

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a dramatic mouse sighting a while back and bought a little plug-in that's supposed to send high-frequency waves that fuck with the mousies' nervous systems and send them scurrying. Haven't seen the mouse for a while now so I guess it worked. But loads of people have told me these thing's don't work and they point at me and laugh when I say I have one, so maybe I'm living in mouse-infested self-delusion.

― jewelly (jewelly), Thursday, 31 July 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly it's mucking with *your* nervous system.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 31 July 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

My nervous system was already a wreck. How do you know it's not correcting it, Lee + e? Nyaahh.

― jewelly (jewelly), Thursday, 31 July 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

glue traps work too, but they're still quite alive so i put the whole wriggling mess in a plastic bag and drop it in the toilet for a few minutes. hey presto! then i chuck it, obviously.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 31 July 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

feed it, teach it to trust you, make it a pet.

no?

:-(

― donna (donna), Thursday, 31 July 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kcardinal.freeserve.co.uk/Tea_Bag_Folding/Tea_Bag_Papers/Tea_Mouse_TFP003.jpg

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Thursday, 31 July 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

he is kinda cute - i just don't want him in my house. bought traps this morning from jamaican hardware shop near me and the man behing the counter gave me a really animated lecture on how "fi kill" him - was worth it for that alone

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

A mouse? Where?

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 31 July 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

in my house!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

there on the stair...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Better a mouse than a ghost.

― R. Dean Taylor (MarkH), Thursday, 31 July 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

We've got a new mouse at the moment too.

Like Tracer Hand I'd recommend the glue traps, even if some people call them inhumane (but fuck it, they're vermin).

Personally I wouldn't drown them though. Last time I put the whole thing in a bag and stomped on it. Not a great way to go, but it's a bit quicker.

We once had one of those high-frequency things and it did absolutely nothing.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

just to let you know: mouse = no more...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

You should harvest its brain cells.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

it got killed - can't be too clever...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

But if you seed them in a petri dish, then hook it up to a robot arm holding a crayon in Australia...!

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

you're fucking mental - i'm quite scared now!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I am an artist... I am a visionary!

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ok - they are fucking mental!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Ahhh, I've been in this apartment for over two and a half years, and I just saw a mouse for the first time. It just crawled out from behind the refrigerator, looked around a bit, then crawled back. Fuck. I guess I'll be buying a trap tomorrow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 30 November 2003 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

traps are ghastley!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 30 November 2003 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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