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Mice - advice needed, I am going nuts
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Itsgottabedone wrote: »I wouldn't agree with this! My cats catch field mice and bring them in through the cat flap as presents for me! Then I'm faced with scraping up the blood and guts they haven't eaten or running round to catch the terrified little creature and return it to its outside habitat!
Oddly cats seem to like bringing people "presents" from outside their home but when the same things are in their home if they are trained mousers they get rid of them.I'm not cynical I'm realistic
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How do you train a cat to be a mouser?
Don't feed them? At least, it seems that if we don't fill the cat's bowl immediately on request, he goes out and fetches a mouse himself. He now has us well trained to leap into action when he requires his cat food...They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -- Plato0 -
And a cat has the by-product advantage of increasing the kids' immunity; research indicates that kids from homes with pets tend to be less prone to infection, respitory disease and excema, due to their exposure to pathogens- a bit like innoculations which cure you via a little bit of the bad stuff. The only downside is that cats live up to 20 years so you're saddled with the care responsibility and holiday cat-sitting expenses til the kids are grown up. We once loaned ours to a neighbour for a few days to scare the mice away... Have you any generous cat-owning friends?0
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Humane traps are only humane if you check them regularly, and that means at least every hour. Mice have an extremely high metabolism and if they don't eat regularly, they go into panic mode and will die of stress.
So overnight,leave a lot of food in the traps then, duh
We had a pet owl that had baby wols, so we set them free in the wood at the back of the house.
Now we cannot find a mouse if we tried!Stop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold"; if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn0 -
!!!!!! the humane traps, they sucks balls.
Get a bag of back breakers from B&Q for a quid and listen with glee as they snap shut.
As said, a small dab of peanut butter (crunchy) on the balance tray works well.Sealed pot challange no: 3390 -
I cleared the mice out of my office by leaving a cardboard tube (like you get with wrapping paper) upto an empty bin, it did the job nicely
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glue traps are very gruesome but very effectiveStop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold"; if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn0
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