Sneaky Mouse

[wattle]

Ok who can help? A mouse has moved in to our house, and for the last 3 nights he has eaten the cheese off the trap, but the trap hasn't gone off.

He is so sneaky. How can we catch him?

(Here mousy mousy mousy.......)

[flower]

Just set an extra plate for breakfast , lunch and dinner...they dont eat much. Cant you just learn to share?

[wattle]

NO!

.........mouse kebabs, mouse pie, mouse casserole, chocolate mouse......hahahaha.


(Come to mummy little mousey....)

[flower]

That just goes to show you to clean up you troll....what kind of a mess are you bringing up these children in?
Pure filth.

[wattle]

Sure your name is CACTUS?

[flower]

And your's Hobbit?

Try placing some of your famouos home cooking on the trap.
That should stop him dead......

[reAllytee]

Have you tried chocolate ?
Cause seriously they prefer that much more so there is more chance they will try to devour it before trying to get it of the trap funnily enough ... weird hey.
Otherwise id offer my little furry girl as she is the best mouser out ! Comes from good breeding LOL guess thats what being a pure breed from ancestors of barn cats does to ya !
Otherwise when we had them at work eeeewww yuck we would pretty much cover the floor with them this at least got them in the end as they had nowhere to run !
Good luck glad its you not me :p

[wattle]

No mousetake about it, they'd be coming for miles to taste my cooking.

[flower]

You could try tossing your bedclothes everywhere all around the place...that should have it begging to be let out...

[bronny-jane]

we had mice that would eat food off the trap without setting it off......we solved our problem with poison:D , my dd's though it was hilarious seeing a mouse lying on its side slowly moving its legs.......what kind of children have i created:devil6:

i know poison is a last step but within a few days no more mice:yelclap:

[Harry&Max's Mummy]

Hi Cathy
We had a mouse in our house(and a poet and didnt know it LOL) last month and Dh put peanut butter on the traps caught 2 that night and havent had any since hope it works for u

[flower]

Thats such a lovely storey BJ....thanks........
Another suggestion: Try playing that revolting contraption you call a saxaphone..again...open all the doors..and watch that tike march out with its bags packed!

[bronny-jane]

we did the peanut butter thing, but smaller mice still wont set them off.

[Harry&Max's Mummy]

We got these little grey plastic traps from bunnings that have a handle on the back so you dont have to touch the little critter and they work brilliant on that

[wattle]

I might drag out the accordian and knock out a few old polkas.

Mousey will either be dancing or running after that.

Actually I was going to practice a little saxamophone today as I'm doing some studio work next week..... good idea thanks flour.

[Jem]

we had a few micies in our old house... they were too clever for the traps.
So we resorted to catching them by hand :eek:
dp would run round with a boot...
One day there was a lil bubba one behind the sliding door.. i got dd up when end to block the escape route.. and i had an empty coco pops box.. at the other end.....then dd shooed the lil mouse in to the box...rofl!! Round Em up!! :laughing:

[bronny-jane]

ive caught them by hand too, and when we had our dog i'd give them to her to play with, well kill:D

[Chickadee]

I'll also recommend the grey plastic traps. Called Safe N Sound or something like that. Our mice evaded and stole off all the other traps we used, but had their neck nicely broken the first night with the grey ones. We used a frozen pea and peanut butter.

[flower]

Maybe you could just try a fork and try running after it with that Wattle?
Spear it with a chopstick perhaps?
Gouge its eyes out with a toothpick?
Caustic soda....
Hydrochloric?


No, no....I think that accordian of yours is juuuuuust right.

[tickle]

Have you considered flushing?

[wattle]

No, I don't think the mouse is in the toilet E. :rolleyes:

Maybe I'll consider flashing though, in my current state I'll shock the mouse to death. :laughing:

[Bron]

We have recently discovered a mouse in our house as well. If your pied piper act with the sax doesn't work, go for the plastic traps.

Although I'm having a real ethical struggle with the murdering element, I wanted a trap that just traps a live mouse so I can release it somewhere in the wild and it can run free, but the man in Bunnings looked at me as if I was mad when I suggested such a thing. *sigh*

[tickle]

Don't lose hope Bronnie, you can get them from produce suppiers and some pet stores. Good hardware shops (not bunnings), usually has them too. :thumbsup:

[Bron]

Thanks E!!! I shall set forth to try to find one!! And I'll be able to sleep at night knowing I'm not committing murder while I'm doing it.

Hooray for you! :yelclap:

[flower]

Blood on your hands................................*axe emoticon*

[wattle]

Hey flour, you'll be up to 2000 soon. So much helpful advice.....

[flower]

Just cant help myself when it comes to animal slaughter and fun.......:smiliedance: and you..all rolled into one big happy dance.

[Rainbowbrite]

Although I'm having a real ethical struggle with the murdering element, I wanted a trap that just traps a live mouse so I can release it somewhere in the wild and it can run free, but the man in Bunnings looked at me as if I was mad when I suggested such a thing. *sigh*

You get them at pet supply shops :thumbsup: Ours is a little metal cage with a hole in the top & metal prongs facing down & in. Just put dog food or something inside, they go in & cant get back out :smiliedance:

[flower]

Especially fabulous for the weekender or holiday house....so the mouse goes in...and 6 weeks later when you return...you have a pile of rotting fluff.
(True story....never used it again after that........)

[tickle]

They're the ones I'm thinking of RB, we used to sell them at the vet I worked at too. So it might be worth checking them out too.:thumbsup:
See no one needs to kill anything.

[Bron]

What a helpful place bubhub is. People come here for support about TTC, pregnancy, parenting and alternatives to mouse slaughtering.

Ooooohhhh 999 posts!!!!!

[mum2four]

Argh tell me about them, we had one now it's probably about five and we've been the setting the traps every day and most times they get the bait and don't set off the trap (yep the grey ones too). Caught 3 now, 1 DH chased all over the house and cought in a shoe and 2 via the trap, but we still have them :banghead: Doesn't help when our 5yr old stashed old sandwiches under her bed, in her toybox and anywhere else she thinks we won't find it :mad:
We found a nest today, 3 babies with no fur straight in the bin and the throw baits are now out, that will teach the rodents for chewing a hole in the material of my lounge :laughing: , chucked a throw pack down the hole it made...hehe...should be no more micies soon....but what to do about the child that stashes food....any ideas on that one?

[mummybeast]

you ladies do crack me up ...

seriously though, we have had some extremely sneaky mice & rats (urgh!) which are really cunning about taking the bait & not setting off the traps. We tried everything the "experts" suggested, but DH thought to use that stuff you use on top of icecream, that freezes to solid chocolate (Magic Ice I think???). We put a couple of drops on the trigger, and leave it out for a while, and it works pretty well:devil6:
They have to get right onto the trap to get it, and it smells strong enough to attract them. I have a problem with the murdering aspect as well, but I havemore of a problem with the mouse-smell they leave behind as it makes me nauseous.

[sugar n spice]

As some of you will already know we have mouse , mice or rat in our roof anyhow after talking to my mum and dad they suggested to use what they use instead of bait as i live in a rental and dont want them stinking if they dont leave before they die:devil6: . Anyway it is this plug in rodent repeller that you can place anywhere, im going to buy one today and put in the roof. It lets out some sort of sonic sounds that we cant hear but annoys them so they leave. My parents used it and have had no probs since. Not cheap though

[vanillabean]

try putting peanut butter on the mouse trap.

[~Me~]

The poison bates, eats out their stomach and helps to stop the smell.

anyway peanut butter has always worked well for us.

Those mice traps that mice can go in, but not out, I would catch them, then drown 'em, then make DH empty it

[Tam-I-Am]

This will probably be an unpopular suggestion given how many mouse-lovers there are on this thread, but one of our friends is an exterminator, and when we were having problems with mice about 12 months ago (mouse plague because of the hot summer - we live in a rural area) he recommended a bait call Tom Cat - its poisonous to mice only, not to cats or humans - and because its not poisonous to other species, they can't get secondary poisoning from eating the dead mice (cats, I mean, not humans:barf: ).

Also perfectly safe around babies.

BTW - mice tend to go outside to die after they have been poisoned - you don't really get a problem with them dying in the ceiling and making it stink.