Mice

[Simster]

Yes it's that time of year and I've got mice running amok in my house.

When I first saw it, I was in the lounge at 10pm and it skuttled across the floor, so I had to get back out of my jim jams and into my clothes and go and find some mouse bait. I've got two 24hour hypermarkets on my doorstep, and they were among the 8 shops I tried and not one of them sold mouse bait. What a waste of an hour.

Luckily I got some yesterday morning though for the princely sum of £3.99 and laid it all out. This certainly seems better value than the £80 that Rentokill charged when we had this problem 2 years ago, although he did advise / assure me that mouse rarely venture upstairs in houses so we should be safe from them up there.

Imagine our horrer then, when we heard rustling from our bedroom bin (about 3 feet from the bed) at 2am this morning. My wife is terrified but in all honesty I'm not feeling much better. I haven't got the heart to tell her that I suspect that they're nesting under the upstairs floorboards and coming out through the kids bedroom (the only room upstairs with floorboards and a rug rather than a carpet)

The good news is that they've had a nibble from 3 of my 6 bait trays overnight so dead mice should be popping up all over the house soon (and smelling of cabbage). Another bright point is that at least they're not rats - truely my room 101.

 

[aftershavedave]

I've got two 24hour hypermarkets on my doorstep, and they were among the 8 shops I tried and not one of them sold mouse bait. What a waste of an hour.

no cheese in wimbledon then sim? i'm going to get some in for the weekend before there's a rush down at tescos church road...

 

[Simster]

Re: Re: Mice

no cheese in wimbledon then sim? i'm going to get some in for the weekend before there's a rush down at tescos church road...

Last time I checked, cheese didn't kill mice. In fact, it actually does them good.

 

[Yorkie]

If you have mousetraps then chocolate works far better than cheese.

The main problem with that is that you then have to dispose of the dead bodies afterwards.

I have a brilliant cat I can loan out at a reasonable rate. She can catch anything.

 

[aftershavedave]

yorkie it appears that the mouse killer is in to poisoning the buggers so they die a painful lingering death rather than "thwack" on the back of the neck with a trap.

they deserve each other i reckon if that's his attitude

 

[Simster]

If you have mousetraps then chocolate works far better than cheese.

The main problem with that is that you then have to dispose of the dead bodies afterwards.

I have a brilliant cat I can loan out at a reasonable rate. She can catch anything.

My mother in law has just used the mousetrap and chocolate trick to good effect in her house. She's coming over with 3 mousetraps today. My wife has always said she doesn't want a cat because of the responsibilty - funny how she changed her mind this morning about that though. I suspect she'd change her mind again once the first £1500 vet bill comes rolling in after a car accident (which is what just happened to my brother)

 

[Yorkie]

Cats are brilliant and can be expensive.

My main problem with ours (3) is that they like to contribute towards the household food bill.

When they catch they mice or whatever, I have found the dead body left on the doorstep for me as a present and even at the side of my bed.

Don't ask me how I ended up with 3 cats (all neutered so not the natural way)
One of them is 19 and refuses to die. She's living just to spite me.

 

[Bozza]

I suspect she'd change her mind again once the first £1500 vet bill comes rolling in after a car accident (which is what just happened to my brother)

Well that's where you're going wrong - if your brother has another car accident - take him to a hospital instead - the NHS should cover all costs.

The same tactic can be used for other humans.

 

[Braders]

I have a brilliant cat I can loan out at a reasonable rate. She can catch anything.

any chance she can play saturday

 

[CHAPPERS]

Cat's are brilliant.

One of my parent's cats used to go and catch frogs in the summer and bring them into the kitchen and place them on the same tile every time. He would then lie next to it and call you in and them look rather pleased with himself. Of course he always got shouted at by the folks but i thought it was a gift from him so would thank him.

The frogs would always be unharmed as well, showing the cats skills as a hunter.

 

[Gary Nelson]

Well that's where you're going wrong - if your brother has another car accident - take him to a hospital instead - the NHS should cover all costs.

The same tactic can be used for other humans.

sooooo predictable that I was going to do that joke!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

My former cat (RIP) was a mousing expert. Unfortunately, rather than catching house-dwelling rodents and eating them, he preferred to catch them in the woods outside and then bring them in, to either lie lifelessly on the doormat or run amok around the kitchen.

We never knew a mouse was inside until we saw the cat peering intensely under the fridge or cooker, tail swishing, at which point my mum would take the place apart to find the thing.

One day he let a live one go and it shot up the pipes in the boiler- a fatal mistake in mouse terms- from where it spent the best part of the next month slowly cooking. The gas man said there was no way to retrieve the now crispy creature, so we had to put up with the smell of toasted rodent filling the house for weeks.

Mmmmm, burning fur....

 

[Faldo]

Yes it's that time of year and I've got mice running amok in my house.

I will put my hands up and admit that I have little experience in mousing (my only experiences with mice has been: a) when they run amok on the tubes... and, b) I once closed a cupboard door on one, thus discovering and solving a mates mouse problem in one fell swoop), but I didn't know mice had a "time of year"?

Am I reading too much into a figure of speech, or are they seasonal creatures?

Yours nervously

Faldo

 

[Simster]

Mice come into houses more often in the winter when it's damp outside and their nests get easily flooded.

There is bugger all you can do about entering in the first place, since they get through holes the width of a small pencil. London is crawling with them, and of course on average in London, you're never more than 6 feet away from a rat (even if they are usually in the sewers)

 

[chips and gravy]

My cat prefers catching game than eating Felix. The upshot is that our neighbourhood is totally devoid of rodents and birds smaller than seagulls.

Luckily she always eats (whole) what she catches!

 

[The Large One]

Do you live in Amsterdam Yar? Did it have clogs on? Or did you have to double-click it?

 

[Marc]

This is true but dramatised a little:

Just over 10 years ago now the Local Council gave planning permission for a Supermarket at Holmbush in Shoreham, the local resident mice compained about Bat - Shopping Trolley collision and set up their own NIMBY branch. Alas Tesco's got the thumbs up so the bastard little mice decided to attack the Herb Estate (where one Crabtree resides), they spent a couple of mnths running up and down the cavity walls, popping out to say hello on his bedroom floor at 3am and even watched TV once...one of the little bastards ran into the front room and just sat there for 10mins staring at the TV before running off to another hole next to the plastered one.

Eventually after many breeding months they suddenly vanished forever.

Also had Squirrels living in my loft area which was also annoying at 6am every bloody day

 

[Easy 10]

This is true but dramatised a little:

Just over 10 years ago now the Local Council gave planning permission for a Supermarket at Holmbush in Shoreham, the local resident mice compained about Bat - Shopping Trolley collision and set up their own NIMBY branch. Alas Tesco's got the thumbs up so the bastard little mice decided to attack the Herb Estate (where one Crabtree resides), they spent a couple of mnths running up and down the cavity walls, popping out to say hello on his bedroom floor at 3am and even watched TV once...one of the little bastards ran into the front room and just sat there for 10mins staring at the TV before running off to another hole next to the plastered one.

Eventually after many breeding months they suddenly vanished forever.

Also had Squirrels living in my loft area which was also annoying at 6am every bloody day

You seem fairly blase about sharing your house with them though Crabbers. One of them sat and watched TV with you for 10 minutes ? ? I think I'd have at least attempted to twat it with something, rather than letting it see the end of Coronation Street before wandering off back down its little hole. Or were you cowering in the corner ?

 

[Marc]

You seem fairly blase about sharing your house with them though Crabbers. One of them sat and watched TV with you for 10 minutes ? ? I think I'd have at least attempted to twat it with something, rather than letting it see the end of Coronation Street before wandering off back down its little hole. Or were you cowering in the corner ?

lol nah me and Mother we're eating dinner and just found it funny, after finishing I was way too bloated to move so just left the little bloke there to enjoy The Simpsons with us, made it more funny when he ran off right when the end credits came up

 

[Simster]

Well at 2am I was shitting myself. I'd rather have a loose snake in the house.