A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

Byatt

I have a mouse in the house! In my bedroom. Its blatantly
Walkking about and making a right noise. Its tiny and too fast to catch. I cant sleep!! Onmy phone writing this. I cant believe how daring it is.

meme30

Byatt:-:rotfl::):rotfl: Sorry for laughing, but you really cheered me up! I would have been standing on the bed! Big box of Mouse bait needed I think. I bet you didn't go back to sleep.

mardatha

I had one run over my feet in the loo at 3am. I love mice but not living in my house with me lol - get a trap and bait it with chocolate. Mind your fingers though!

Byatt

I haven't slept; honestly it's so noisy, chomping on my floor boards I think. I nearly trapped it in the waste paper bin, but it was too fast. I'm off now to get a humane trap! It's been doing a circuit of my bedroom and sounds like it has clod hoppers on!!

lucielle

It proves the saying wrong, as in quiet as a mouse! They are noisy critters!!
L

boultdj

Byatt wrote: »

I haven't slept; honestly it's so noisy, chomping on my floor boards I think. I nearly trapped it in the waste paper bin, but it was too fast. I'm off now to get a humane trap! It's been doing a circuit of my bedroom and sounds like it has clod hoppers on!!

Sorry to tell you, but if you use the humane trap and relise it, it'll just come back, I gave up in the end and got a old fasioned snap trap, trust me that got rid of it.

GreyQueen

Oh Byatt, I know I shouldn't laugh, but I know exactly what you mean. A pal of mine had a groundfloor flat on the edge of some woodland and mice used to climb up the creeper outside and get in where she had her tip-and-tilt windows ajar. Daft mice, as she had a very lively tabby boy. And then there were the mice that he brought in and let escape the jaws of death. I used to get endless very funny stories about how she'd spend most of the night moving furniture in her bedroom trying to catch the blessed things.

Anyway, with that back-story, I wasn't overly surprised with what happened one evening. Pal was away on holiday for a fortnight and I was feeding the mog. She'd asked that if I wouldn't mind, would I spend some time at her flat every evening, and pet the cat? She didn't want him to be lonely, you see. There I was, lying on her couch with the mog lying on my chest being royally-fussed when he suddenly sat bolt-upright and stared upwards.

I followed his gaze and there was a mouse on the curtain rail, looking down at us, aghast, insomuch as a mouse can be said to have a facial expression. Cat went ballistic and started pogo-ing to try and reach it whilst it was frozen in terror. I shot into her kitchen to find something to catch it with as I didn't fancy chasing it all over her flat. Grabbed a teatowel and a colander and the chair and stood on it, knocked the mouse into the colander with the tea towel and shot it outside so fast that it didn't know what hit it.

The funniest thing was, I was so quick, the mog didn't see where Mousie went and carried on looking for it. My friend killed herself laughing when she heard about it.............:rotfl:

PS Mardatha is dead right, bait with chocolate. A mousetrap in my Nan's larder wasn't getting any results with cheese so we baited it with an Elizabeth Shaw choc mint crisp and that did the trick, although it grieved me to hear of good chocolate being wasted on vermin.

Laters GQ x

Memory_Girl

I agree with boultdj - as far as I am concerned a "humane" trap is one that kills the beggars with the first snap.

I am proud of my store cupboard - an NO-ONE messes in there but me!!!

MG

Byatt

I'm back, and too late, I got the humane trap ...partly because I want to see it caught (and afraid there might be more!)...I am using peanut butter, I couldn't bring myself to use chocolate :eek::D
...oh no, I think it must be between floorboards upstairs and ceiling downstairs as the stuff in the old ceiling is falling through!

GQ, so funny. I had a cat who would bring mice in, and just forget them. One sauntered passed his basket one day and he didn't bat an eye!

I even have those plug in thingys that are supposed to deter rodents, and it was just sitting next to it.:cool:

I'm kna...exhausted...

edit, well it's gone quiet now. How long before they take to the trap? Nothing yet.

smileyt_2

Popping on quickly to say to Byatt - it might not go into the trap until tonight, I think mice are more active at night?