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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on July 18, 2009, 03:21:26 AM
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I have all the terriers out in the kennel as a do a MAJOR office and general spring clean and wouldn't you know it I have a mouse. Did you hear me scream when it ran past my feet?
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Ah... so that's what that was!
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I'm sorry, Diane, but we call it a moose where I come from. How ironic is that? Presumably your occasional moose visitor isn't a fraction as fearsome and terrifying as the rodent?
I'd suggest a cat...but I suspect it wouldn't last more than a couple of nano-seconds in your canine-infested household.
This is a tricky one. If only Peepsie were back on Tuesday...
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diane
i am afraid that you are going to get professional help for your rodent problem 'those little pest are almost impossible to catch on your own , they are constantly weeing and pooing,and unlike the rat they are not neophobic(hence the running buy your foot) they are fast and if you can get a ballpoint pen into a space, then a mouse can into it to , they are smelly and you probley have a nest, they eat little and often and i have seen traps with the bait eaten and not set off
sorry
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A wild guess here, Rob---you've had problems with mice before?
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I am a seasoned and practised mouse-killer. perhaps I can give some advice.
Our house is built on old farm land and we did have a mouse problem at one time. They were getting in through the garage and under the connecting door to the living area.
I put out mouse poison -green pellets in trays, but I had to kill the mice myself once they came to eat the stuff.
This is how you do it: You need a couch with a gap under it, not one where the base is flat on the floor. This offers the mouse cover while they nibble. Place your bait tray against the wall.
Imagine yourself kneeling facing the couch and putting a broom handle under it, sweeping the handle from side to side along the floor without hitting the bait tray. This is the principle used for killing the mice.
Lay the broom handle under the couch to one side of the bait tray and pull the far end back a little bit from the wall so that if it was swept across it wouldn't hit the mouse bait.
Leave the broom handle there until a mouse comes a-nibbling, then sweep it across as suddenly as you can (kick it if necessary). It will collect the mouse and fling it against the nearest wall killing it instantly. Mice are very fragile. This is a far quicker and humane way to kill mice than poison, which is effective but slow and painful.
I have also used the modern mouse traps, the grey plastic ones, which are effective too. They snap shut over the mouse covering its body (nearly) and if you want, you can just chuck the whole lot out and replace with a new trap, though that's the expensive way. I re-used them.
They look a bit like this, and the best bait is a little blob of peanut butter.
(http://www.giftsandgardens.co.uk/images/pre-baited-mouse-traps.jpg)
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In a two or three week period I klled about ten mice, and haven't had any mouse problem since (touch wood).
The little grey traps are good, as I said, but they don't kill the mouse instantly. One time in the pantry, a trap was set off and it clattered around for a few seconds before the mouse died. The broom handle method requires effort, but mice are pretty predictable, they'll be there eating away in the evening whether you're in the room or not, so you just time your schedule.
If you put effort into finding how they're getting in too, that helps. Sometimes the hole is tiny, sometimes (as in my case) it's where a garage door seal leaves a half inch gap.
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I think you are right Robbie - they are planning to stay alright. I found a stack of food (probably hid away for the winter) in the back of the crafts cupboard - there must have been about 100 pieces of dog kibble and a dozen unpoped popcorn kernals in a neat pile - probaly hauled one piece at a time.
Malc, thanks for sharing your couch and broom hunting story - if things get desperate I will pass it on - my couch is up about 4" off the floor so I would have to come up with a sheet of plywood instead. I can't put poison down because of the dogs but we have a few traps set. They must have got in through the basement somewhere.
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Lift corner of couch, pull pin from grenade...
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What with its fearlessness, and its superior rations storage capabilities ? I think this mouse would throw it back!
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I have a problem with Mice. Especially when it's got an "n" in it! ..0
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A wild guess here, Rob---you've had problems with mice before?
yeah roger it was work related..rats i caught but the tormenting little b*****D mice had me going for about a month
until the bosses called rentokill
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I have a problem with Mice. Especially when it's got an "n" in it! ..0
Nice?
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Caught in the trapline Mouse Count: 1
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Caught in the trapline - Mouse Count: 2
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Mouse count: 3
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Be careful, Diane. It's around this stage that the mice start arming themselves.
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Watch out for possible flanking manoeuvres.
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Guess why I am up at 2:00 in the morning?
Right behind the headboard! It is just as bad down here in the office, but at least the dog is lying on my feet here.
Mouse count: 6
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Go back and look at my solution Diane. It's the only way. You have to kill the ones who habitually visit "pour encourager les autres" and you'll find there aren't thousands of the little buggers out there.
As I said, I disposed of seven myself and three or four were killed in modern mouse traps. I've had no mice since for over three years.
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Maybe you could put a big sign up on the drive saying, "MOUSE FARM".
That way it'd look like having mice was intentional, and you wouldn't have to bother going to all the trouble of getting rid of them!
Simples!
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...and as a farmer you'd qualify for all sorts of grants and subsidies.
I'll warn you now. They're a bugger to milk.
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...and as a farmer you'd qualify for all sorts of grants and subsidies.
I'll warn you now. They're a bugger to milk.
And you try getting them to pull a plough! Next to useless. (Unless they're in a gang.)
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...and if they are, they'll demand their own exit. A mouse gang Ausgang.
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;D ;D ;D ;D
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Good advice there - I may end up having to clean up the house (hubby's suggestion).
Mouse count:9
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How do you know it's not the same mouse or meeces, Diane? Do they run around in packs? My mother would have a fit - the one thing she was absolutely terrified of - little mice - not much else scared her.
I lived in a student flat in Cowgatehead in Edinburgh for a while. They gutted the top three floors of the building and turned them into flats, but left the ground floor - a dirty old pub and various dubious shops. Of course, all the mice just moved to the bottom floor while the renovations went on and then moved back up when we moved in. My room mate and I were lucky - our door was flush with the carpet. The other two had a gap and the mice used to love cavorting in there. Running over Marj's pillow in the middle of the night, etc. She hated them. We came home one night and there was one in the kitchen, so Marj took her shoe off (clogs were all the rage then) and threw it at it - direct hit! On the other hand, came home with friend Andy once to discover another one in the kitchen and he insisted on getting a jar, catching it, taking it downstairs and letting it go outside. No doubt it found the nearest pipe and came straight back up again. We tried everything, but it was a losing battle - this was just below Greyfriar's cemetry, beginning of the Grassmarket - not the most salubrious of areas in those days. The mice population had probably been there for centuries.
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The mouse count is the count of the dead mice in traps. They do have a family resemblance for instance they all have bulge-y eyes.
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The mouse count is the count of the dead mice in traps. They do have a family resemblance for instance they all have bulge-y eyes.
:D :D :D
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Oh, I see - it's the dead mouse count. Do you take them out, Diane? I've never been able to - always put the whole thing in the bin. Not that we've had any for a while.
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Do you take them out, Diane?
Of course she does. Last week they went to the cinema.
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My husband takes them out and re-uses the traps. If he isn't around then I would have thrown the whole thing in the garbage in a plastic bag - I would have but my niece offered to do that so I let her.
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Couldn't you solve this all with a simple "No Mice" sign, placed prominently outside?
Honestly, some people need to be led by the hand...
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Nothing is ever simple in an official bi-lingual country...
Non Souris! ? No Mice!
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Nothing is ever simple in an official bi-lingual country...
Non Souris! ? No Mice!
There's three blind mice that can't read signs anyway.
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I think we do have the blind mice Nige ? they leave each other messages in Brail.
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I love it when you two get together. :D
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I think we do have the blind mice Nige ? they leave each other messages in Brail.
You've clearly left a letter off. You mean they leave messages for each other in Brazil?