I have a mouse.Grrrrrrrr
POut one of those expensive rentokill splat em traps down. Complete with chocolate yesterday morning. When I got back from work last night the chocolate was gone but no mouse in trap. So I put a smaller bit in. Guess what, within half hour that had GONE as well. So i tried again. This morning i get up and that has GONE as well. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Super mouse Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Now I have put chocolate icecream in it to see if it will try that and stand on the spring long enough for the trap to go off, and I am off out to but the good old fashined cheap mouse traps this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lea.

why not try peanut butter or strawberry jam... it sticks to the trap so the mouse cant nick off with it. it worked for me when i had a mousy problem :D

I have had success with pices of Mars Bar or bacon rind. I guess it depends on whether your mouse has a sweet tooth or not :D :D

Peanut butter has worked well in the past for us,but the best mouse trap by far is a cat,they usually get the mice before they get inside .

How did you know you had a mouse? Did you see the little critter out the side of your eye or heard it scuttling around?

I hate the filthy rodents with a passion,i can not fathom why anyone would want a rat or mouse for a pet! Those long slimy tails and beady eyes,eeewww the hairs are standing up on the back of my neck just thinking about them!

Ps can someone please point me in the right direction to find out how to do the emoticons?

Bindy,

Hold your mouse over the smiley you want to do, it will show you what keys are pressed for that smiley :D

There are a couple that won't show like :rolleyes: = : rolleyes : but with out the spaces, = : mad : but with out the spaces, = : confused : but with out the spaces, = : eek : but with out the spaces.

:D :) ;) :( :rolleyes: :P  there are a load more but can't remember them all!!!

Edit: just thought of this one :O !!!

My son recently heard a rustling noise under his bed in the middle of the night and turned the light on to find a mouse dragging one of his Cadbury's Mini Heros across the bedroom floor. :-D

The first time he set the trap with just chocolate and it got away with it so I told him to use a toffee/chocolate one and mould it onto the spike.  That did the trick ;-)

Kath.

Thank you so very much Natalie :D ;)

Well, I found mouse droppings on top of my tea towels in my tea towel draw :o :o :O
Well bought some little nipper mouse traps. Put one in my food cupboard where they were nicking the chocolate from the other trap. with the other trap, and one in my tea towel draw.
WELL, i got TWO this morning!!!!!!!!!!! one in the original trap lanced with chocolate icecream and a chunk of kitkat!!!!!!! And the other in the 99p cheap trap with kitkat. Hopefully thats all of them. dont tend to like walking down in the morning to murdered mice lol.
Fingers crossed!!
Super mouse obviously as super as I thought!!!!!!!
Lea :)

RIP meeses (sp)  :D

One of my cats has packed his case and is on his way :D INDOOR entertainment was too much to resist!

aww poor meeses. My boyfriend was clearing this bunker that I think was used to keep coal in and he picked up a carpet and underneath was a mouse nest with 3 baby mices in. They looked like little wriggly broad beans...they were so cute. i wanted to bring them in and look after them but OH wouldnt let me. Went to them the next day and they had gone!! I think mum moved them to get them away from me crushing them to death with cuddles!!

>I think mum moved them

Mum probably killed them after the nest was disturbed. They wouldn't have survived if you'd taken them in, either.

They eat them don't they?

You two have just ruined poor Tracy's day :P

Yes. In my youth I used to breed and show fancy mice, and any disturbance to the nest in the first week or so generally resulted in the pinkies being killed.

There's a simple way of catching a mouse.
First find a large stone. Then go to your cupboard and get some pepper. Sprinkle the pepper on the stone and lay the stone where you think the mouse will find it. When Mr mouse appears and finds the stone he will sniff the pepper and sneeze and while doing so will hit his head on the stone knocking him unconscious :D

Mice ~ nasty little buggers!  Stone and pepper?  Who gets to pick the nasty little creature up and toss it out while its still unconcious? lol

>Mum probably killed them after the nest was disturbed.

Why was that then JG? Was it Mafia style, in case they'd seen too much? LOL Poor Tracy, she'll never look at a mouse again. :p

>Was it Mafia style, in case they'd seen too much?

ROFL! :D

Seriously though, it's fairly common behaviour among rodents with newborn litters.

My chinese and Russian hamsters would regularly eat their babies if the nest was disturbed, my gerbils and rats though were obviously more trusting of me and never minded me having a poke around - ahhh I love the ickle baby rodents, especially when their eyes have just opened and they start tottering about the cage :)

We had trouble with mice, living out in the country as we do. Tried every type of trap going, no good. Eventually got one of those electric deterrents that you just plug in, worked brilliantly. Took a couple of months to sort the problem, but been mice free ever since, and the mice don't get killed! I think they're sweet, but not in my house!

Instead of catching and killing mice, my cats go outside and bring them in - live   I have seen evidence of "something" (could be a mouse, vole, shrew - I dont think it was a rat the poos were too small) living in my kitchen, one of the dogs kongs was "lost" under the unit and when I found it a little mouse had been living it it because it was full of poo ;)  They had also nibbled into a half empty bag of burns which was in the corner, I am guessing they have gone now, hopefully the cats got them proper ;)

I was once up in the middle of the night, stood in the kitchen, when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a mouse running across the floor.  Needless to say I screamed and ran into the living room.  Day's later I removed the cushions from the back of my sofa and discovered the little bugger had been chewing my sofa!!  Fortunately you can't see it when the cushions are replaced.  We got some poison and that appeared to do the trick.  I don't mind them normally (have hamsters at home) but when they start chewing my furniture it's a different matter!

I also live in the country and although we have had the occasional mouse in the house, last week I went to buy my 15kg supply of dry dog food for sam and pepsi and because I was so busey, left it in the car over night, only to discover the next day the little blighters had been helping them selves. Now every time we get in the car I'm sure I must have a extra passenger but still can't find it anywhere.

>Now every time we get in the car I'm sure I must have a extra passenger but still can't find it anywhere.

It's hanging on Keanu Reeves 'Speed' style under the car humming Mission Impossible every time you get in. :D

:D A wizz through the automatic car wash ought to sort that one out :D