Eeeeeek I have a MOUSE help!!!

poet123

We had a couple of mice come in earlier in the year after the garden had been landscaped. I was adamant we had to use humane traps, but we put the traps down and baited with peanut butter and they must have been small enough to get in, get their treat and get out without the traps going off. So, I am afraid it was a set of quick kill traps that did the trick in the end. They were tiny and very cute, but we couldn't let them have the run of the house....

HPoirot

LIR We don't mix well, that I know, and I am trying to keep out of its space. No unhappy ending this time .

HPoirot

poet123 wrote: »

We had a couple of mice come in earlier in the year after the garden had been landscaped. I was adamant we had to use humane traps, but we put the traps down and baited with peanut butter and they must have been small enough to get in, get their treat and get out without the traps going off. So, I am afraid it was a set of quick kill traps that did the trick in the end. They were tiny and very cute, but we couldn't let them have the run of the house....

Oh dear this one was tiny! What to do, I am confused, u mean the quick kill ones as a metal spring right? Honestly I never want to see a dead mouse again in my life.

And I don't think I have a large bucket either. Grief, might have to get one tomorrow.

poet123

HPoirot wrote: »

Oh dear this one was tiny! What to do, I am confused, u mean the quick kill ones as a metal spring right? Honestly I never want to see a dead mouse again in my life.

And I don't think I have a large bucket either. Grief, might have to get one tomorrow.

Well, we thought originally that there was only one, but that deed was done during the night and so there we were watching tv with the other trap sitting in the corner, and suddenly, it went off.....cue me jumping up. We really did not expect that. The peanut butter was the draw, it could not even wait till dark.

HPoirot

poet123 wrote: »

Well, we thought originally that there was only one, but that deed was done during the night and so there we were watching tv with the other trap sitting in the corner, and suddenly, it went off.....cue me jumping up. We really did not expect that. The peanut butter was the draw, it could not even wait till dark.

If it has to come to this then I'm going away for the weekend and OH can deal with this on his own. :cool:

wallbash

Nope, Nutella over cheese. And if you cannot get Nutella , fruit and nut chocolate.



Put your traps right along the wall, that's where they run, long side to the wall. And relax. . Honestly, you'll live.

Use a humane trap and release it far away from your house, so it doesn't find it's way back again.

All great advice, the only thing I can add, when my girls were small, it was trap the mice. into the bucket so the girls could watch them and then a slow walk across the road to the fields so they could release them.

Prehaps if more people caught, observed then released mice, we would have less hysterical home owners.

stir_crazy

lostinrates wrote: »

Hahahaha, not true, Not true at all, cats here, and the cats bring them in and sometimes they get away. Other times they move in because its warm and comfy.

Outside everything smells of predator.

And there was me thinking that all the mice my cats have caught must have had anosmia

Did think it was a bit strange, but sometimes you never know with old wives tales!

HPoirot

stir_crazy wrote: »

And there was me thinking that all the mice my cats have caught must have had anosmia

Did think it was a bit strange, but sometimes you never know with old wives tales!

Grief, i even went to look up that word. I will end up dreaming of mice tonight I'm sure, fun times ahead...

calicocat

HPoirot wrote: »

Can't they climb back out? Will I need to slant it on something, but won't it move when the mouse climbs into it?

If you have it on a slant they slide down to get chocolate without any forward thinking about not being able to climb back out. Needs to be a bigger size bucket though. Deffo works, done it myself at ex's flat...except he decided to keep it in the end...lol.



Edit...i'm just as bad as you with spiders.

HPoirot

calicocat wrote: »

If you have it on a slant they slide down to get chocolate without any forward thinking about not being able to climb back out. Needs to be a bigger size bucket though. Deffo works, done it myself at ex's flat...except he decided to keep it in the end...lol.

Thank you calicocat, I'll get a bucket tomorrow and I might rest it on a small hamper or similar.