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Found out today my house is infested with the little f*ckers!!!!<br>
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Well one less now after one of my traps was set off and made him an ex-mouse.<br>
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It sort of explains why we have a buzzard that hangs around the back garden!<br>
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To the point, tip of the day, if you want to trap a mouse, forget cheese, mice love mars bars.<br>


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Our cat usually snares one every two weeks or so. It's about all that its good for.<br>
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Terriers are pretty good mousers. Ours is 15 and still goes after the little bleeders if they dare show their whiskers. Cats ok, terrier better<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->

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When I was a student I lived in a mouse infested house. We caught 27 of the buggers. Bread was very good as bait, and cheaper than Mars bars. You also have to set the traps so that you barely have to look at them to set them off, otherwise the mice will eat the bait without getting caught.<br>
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David

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is the bait of choice in my house. not had so much of a problem this winter since I uncovered the smuggling tunnel through the colapsed foundation. A bit of handy brick work and the jobs a good un, only bagged one mouse this year and one squirell<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :b --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... tongue.gif ALT=":b"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br>
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Cheers<br>
Mark

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Have an odd experience with mice and cheese. I have in no way exaggerated this either!<br>
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A year or so ago was sitting in front of the telly and saw something dart across the floor. Convincing myself it was just a mirage I carried on sitting down. Over the next few days I found some little mouce droppings all over the kitchen. This obviously meant war. I purchased a trap placing a small amount of cheese on the trap. Came home the next day to find no cheese and no mouse. I restocked with cheese and the same happened over the next few days. I purchased more traps and more cheese and the same thing kept happening. I then resorted to glueing the cheese onto the trap but again the cheese went but was left with no mouse. At more than one point I noticed that the cheese had gone so went to the fridge, took out some cheese, reloaded the trap and put the cheese away. On my return to the trap only a few seconds later I found the cheese had gone again!<br>
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Realising this was becoming stupid I tried smearing a little dairylea onto the upper part of the trap and again placing a small amount of cheese on the trap. Finally after 3 weeks and about the best part of a 1lb of cheddar later I finally caught the offending little mouse. Strangely though I never found another one.<br>
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Mark

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You killed Speedy Gonzalez you swine! What are all the mice of the world harangued by evil cats gonna do now? Call the A team?<br>
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We had visitors last autumn too, took a few days for us to believe we <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>were</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> seeing things. About 2 weeks of stocking saucers with bait got nowhere (except make the mice fatter I presume). One moved in behind the bookcase next to the bed so I decided on an alternative strategy. I put some bait on a metal tray, bent a business card in half and used it to prop a bucket on the tilt over the bait. Got a good book and settled down. Took about half an hour for curiosity to get the better of him. As soon as he was under the bucket having his supper WHAM. One trapped mouse. Took him for a walk to the nearest park and off he went. Found the dessicated remains of a 2nd one about a month later in my office. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :x --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/sick.gif ALT=":x"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br>
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Tinweevil

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39 anorak points on the Nicholas scale<br>
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The traps actually recommend setting them with chocolate, peanut butter or tuna! I've got very sensitive advanded traps from B&Q - you need to be really careful with them not to break a finger, especially the reat trap!<br>
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We have a west highland terrier, and he's bloody useless and hasnt been the slightest bit bothered that we have invaders!<br>
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Just before going to bed last night, 'SNAP', off went trap number 2. Mouse number 2 had met his maker.<br>
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Very unusually, our 10 month old, George, woke up about 3:30am and needed to be settled before getting back off to sleep. It was my turn to sit in the rocking chair. Within moments of sitting down I could hear scurrying in the floor. Then all went quiet. I reckon George was woken up by the mice. Within a minute I heard two traps snap in the kitchen, almost one after the other. Got 2 more of the pesky critters!<br>
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So far I havent heard anymore scurrying and no more traps have gone off, and the dog is still quite happy to lie asleep and pretend nothings going on.<br>
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I can't say I enjoy having to do this, especially having to take them out of the traps but needs must, we cant afford to let them start chewing through cables and risk fires - they have already wrecked the cable to my PDA charger.<br>
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I think I've found where they are getting in - our house has a suspended slab and the penetrations for the waste pipes in the kitchens are badly sealed. Some expanding foam should do the job.<br>
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They are driving me mad. Have you seen the Lee Evans film Mousetrap? That could be me by the weekend.<br>
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I have won this battle, but have I won the war? <br>
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I think this could make an excellent article for Dolly Mixture!<br>
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I nearly hoovered one up by accident when I was a kid. I was hoovering away when one decided to play chicken with the hoover and ran across right in front of it. They used to hide behind the skirting boards.<br>
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Have you considered gettinga boa constrictor Graeme? I'd lend you ours but it died last year.<br>
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it choked on a mouse <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->

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Scott you continue to impress, not only do you have impeccable taste in cars you also have bonkers pets!<br>
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I'd love to have a Boa but I'd be worried it would eat the dog!!<br>
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Back to the mice. They are still rife. The last thing to go through the mind of 2 more mice this morning was a sprung metal bar.<br>
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I've put some poisioned bait down as well now so I expect within a couple of weeks we'll have the sweet smell of rotting mouse carcass eminating from somewhere. Great.<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :x --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/sick.gif ALT=":x"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->

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I expect within a couple of weeks we'll have the sweet smell of rotting mouse carcass eminating from somewhere.<br>
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Followed closely by a fly infestation. Don't ask how I know.<br>
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David

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Foxes for instance; can't beat a load of dogs and posh blokes on horseback to 'search' for them in my mind. No cheese required and no fingers trapped...

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is the grey squirrel...which is nothing more than an invading american rat with a big tail.<br>
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"Mine" delight in trashing my lawn annually with the litter of hazel nut detritus and small holes to hide the cache for later. What do you reckon? Should I get an air rifle and try and get to be a good shot?<br>
Mmmm squirrel pie....bit like chicken with a nutty hint so I'm told...<br>
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Jonners

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Mr Tilson Sir<br>
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Let us not forget that creatures (the ones you call 'vermin') were on this earth in one form or another long before the most dangerous and destructive bipeds (humans) walked on God's earth.<br>
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What is your opinion on the people who usurped the Native American Indians off their land???<br>
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Without the majority of wildlife that we have the whole eco-system would collapse and man would be wiped out (not woman though ha ha!) I say live and let live. All those who are with me shout 'yea'! (deafening silence).<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br>
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I could of course come up with a new business venture - Rent-O-Cat! I have 5 I could loan out for a reasonable fee (you see Alun, I knew they would pay their way one day!). <br>
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Of course they would have to catch them and keep them alive so I can set the mice free (don't any of you have a heart or not ever watched Bagpuss? Those singing mice were ace!)<br>
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Alun - foxes? What is that all about????? <br>
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FYI I am a supporter of the RSPCA so no more talk of air rifles please and harming creatures or I will rip you limb from limb.<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> Just kidding of course, there is a term for that in psychology but I can't remember what it is.<br>
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<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p206.ezboard.com/bthetriumphdolo ... ybird72</A> at: 24/3/06 11:45 am<br></i>