last two weeks we are are catching two to three mice every day,
same every year in late oct early nov,small price to pay for living out off town.
Call me cruel but I used to train my cat to catch mice. I got a humane trap and baited it with Mars bar, when I got a mouse then I used to take the trap, mouse and cat out to the patio and let the mice out and watch the ensuing chase. After a while the cat realised that catching mice was the only game in town and the patio and drive was littered with mice, so much so that the neighbour commented on how he'd noticed a drop in mice sightings that year. Sadly we have no cat anymore, I would love another but we've lost them to the road etc and my OH can't bare to lose another.
Last edited by Rheghead; 29-Oct-09 at 23:28.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
last two weeks we are are catching two to three mice every day,
same every year in late oct early nov,small price to pay for living out off town.
I hate the traps that kill mice!
I seen a video of mice and sometimes birds stuck on the glue traps and I think it is one of the most hard to watch things I have ever seen!
So inhumane its unbelievable!
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No glue traps used here!
Just the snappy crocodile type that gets them dead good!
We caught our first one of the season last night, a bit of Mars Bar did the trick .
WeeBurd.
We had one of those crocodile type rat traps because I once had a particularly naughty and persistent rat on the farm that was chewing through the electric wires in the cake feeders for the cows in the parlour.
It was a very powerful trap and when I tried to set it, I dropped a small object on to the bait plate to see if it set it off, (a little plastic milk sample container) and it just sat there on the plate without triggering the mechanism.
I went to pick the bottle off the plate, AND WACK, it got me, cutting all my fingers and I did four laps of the farm screaming while simultaneously trying to get it off my hand.
The next day the the milk collection driver asked me why I had a plaster on each of my fingers and a very bruised hand, I can't believe how stupid I was to actulay show him step by step what I did and got my other hand caught in the trap.
The joke even made the parish magazine.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Bet that made wiping your bum difficult for a while
I had mice once and they ate all my suitcases and put holes in my fruit! Must admit I just let them crack on with it didn't lay traps as I'm a chicken for emptying them,lol.
I use jam
or Philadelphia cheese anything but proper cheese (such a waste)
I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore
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