Food on a mousetrap

poodlehorse

I always have great results with peanut butter or indeed Quavers, DH was very sceptical but was amazed how quickly I could catch the blighters with some quavers, I HATE mice. Awful with DH is away and I have to deal with the traps all by myself. I prefer to scream until he comes and deals with them Sometimes they aren't dead and I can't deal with the wriggling and squealing they do, what if they wriggled free YEUCH

scrimpingbadger

One of my friends advised chocolae spread - they like the chocolate taste and because they can't grab it and run and they have to stand and lick at it they're more chance of......SNAP! Sorry to be so gruesome.

Saying that, the mice in our house must have been super intelligent cos they never went near the stuff. However, they weren't counting on me finding their little entrance into our bedroom (eeeeeeeek!) and filling it with bait/poison.

Wa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! *evil laughter*

Haven't been bothered by them since........

pigpen

Oh.. the problem with bait/poison is if you have pet cats they will eat the half dead mice and they can be poisoned by the dying mice..

I had a friend who smashed a mouses head in with a tin of corned beef because it was under her bed in her christmas stash! She beat another one to death in her kitchen with a tin of spam!!!

Rikki

Caught 2 again this morning.

That'll teach them to hide in my shed when its cold.

pigpen

Rikki.. If you were truly OS you'd have posted by now asking what to marinate them in and how best to cook them and how long they'd take in the SC.. lol

hazzie123

YAY My little mouse has been caught.:T And my snake has been fed for free!:j

I put a bite sized shreaded wheat on the trap,thought the little pests last supper should be a healthy one (They are whole grain ya know)

I`m going to put the trap out again tonight,just incase there is more than one.But this time I`m going to use some peanut butter.

I was expecting it to of been squashed across the back of the head but it got nobbled across the nose and mouth.There was blood allover too.

Personally I wouldn`t go for the humane traps,cos I`d only have to kill it myself to fed it to my snake.At least with the snappy traps it`s over and done with.

Pigpen you are a nutter :rotfl: :T :j

jayward

hi if you gave the mouse to the snake could you be sure it had not eaten somthing that would hurt your snake

trying-very-trying

pigpen wrote: »

Oh.. the problem with bait/poison is if you have pet cats they will eat the half dead mice and they can be poisoned by the dying mice..

Pigpen, if you have pet cats and you still have mice, maybe you should think about threatening the cat with the tin of corned beef:rotfl:

eryn_kathleen

I think there must be more mice this year - everyone I know has at least one (in Edinburgh). I get in to work before everyone else, so in the morning I open up the doors to all the offices really quickly and shout or hit books together to make a loud noise to scare the mice away so I don't step on one. I've never had to do that before!:eek:

Anyway, one of my friends had the council come to look at the flat, and they said no poison, no humane traps (no point in the city really), just set out the old style traps. Then they asked my friend to move all her furniture away from the walls and stuff steel wool into any gaps in the skirting boards so they don't come back. Seems time-consuming, but if you've got a real problem, like a whole family, it might help.

pigpen

I have at least 3 dead mice in the garden this morning.. I am the only person I know in the immediate vicinity who doesn't have them running wild in the house.. purely my cat is a killer.. he is sometimes quite wonderful to have around.. he brought a dead squirrel inthrough the cat flap last week!!!!!!!