Mouse in the House..more like mice in the hice

[Steely_Gunz]

I love vermin eradication threads, especially around the holidays. They really leave me feeling all warm and fuzzy, kind of like a... like a.............................little Christmas mouse.



Eric

Now you're making me feel bad, Eric Mouse-o-matic should be fabricated today. We'll see how that goes. I don't WANNA kill the little poop machines.

My wife and I had a Christmas mouse last year. Set a toilet paper tube trap and woke up with a trapped furball Christmas morning. I was sporting enough to let the ground warm up before throwing his little butt outside in the field a ways down the road on the way to the in-laws (we stopped the car first, of course).

I think word just got around to the mouse community that I am a softhearted fool that will go out of my way not to snuff out their little lives. Maybe if i put the poison in some left over thanksgiving turkey

 

[Lycosa]

Purchase the electronic rodent repellers, that you plug in. They work. Then install a screech owl box! The mice I catch in our Tin-Cat, I take for a ride up to an abandoned cabin in the woods.

 

[TomFetter]

Lots of mice in our neighbourhood - we've caught more than a few in live traps over the last couple of years. Heard more scrabbling in the walls too.

This year, I bought two packs of 3 of the little ultrasonic buzzers that are supposed to repel rodents. About an inch or so across, you plug them into outlets spaced throughout your house, and they squeal at a pitch too high for us to hear - but truly annoying for mice (and rats, and gerbils, and hamsters etc.). Doesn't seem to tick off non-rodent pets though. Space the buzzers close enough together that for a mouse, there's no "safe" place that's out of earshot of the din.

Worked beautifully. Haven't seen or heard a mouse for weeks, and this is the time of year when we always have them traipsing in to get out of the cold.

 

[Pshrynk]

another thing to consider is a domestic ferret. they can be de-scented (intact males especially STINK if they still have their musk glands) & they're hell on meece. cute little furballs and they can be trained unlike a cat. they also get into everything and fit into cracks and spaces a cat couldn't. they also use litter boxes and can be quite affectionate & cuddly - tho some do bite if they don't like you. they also are very hyper. they have a 6-12 year lifespan. they're quite a popular pet over here in the UK.

(found this image on google)

British ferret club linky

great... replace the mice with weasels

 

[Eric006]

I have a little sign out front that says, "By entering this abode, all rodents are deemed to have knowingly and voluntarily waived their rights to continued existence."

Eric

 

[FLACOMAN]

The electrocution traps work great, lent mine to the exterminator and he's gotten more of 'em No mechanism to steal bait out of and kills 'em deader than dead
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Jorge