Little mousey fuckers have eaten all the stocking fillers

[avocadoze]

One large Lindt bear
Four bags of chocolate coins
Two marzipan logs
One tube of smarties
Box of heroes
Tube of chocolate buttons
Tray of Reece’s treats
The cotton bag the coins were in

Little shredded bits of foil, plastic and paper all over the cupboard. Cat gives me a nonchalant look and goes back to sleep.

AIBU to fire the cat, go through all our food cupboards to check for recon mice and engage in all-our war with the little buggers?

KISSING CATS!!! I'M DEAD!😍😍

Male cat

Terror strikes the heart ( actually when I searched it says they have FIVE "hearts" ) of the local earthworms .

Mice need not apply .

Mine likes to sleep in unusual places, not the radiator bed she is ignoring in favour of the actual radiator.

Christmas cat and my little pony cat

A honeybee's heart has five openings, I'm assured by a book.

Mine has caught just one mouse so far. But she's only young, so has much to learn.

Also has endless patience...

Absolutely love this thread!!!! It's had me in stitches!!! 😂

anyone had success with smearing minty toothpaste in strategic places?

cat no option due to allergies.

the mousy fuckers have gnawed their way through plasterboard into the pantry.

I'm loving the cat pictures!

He's a gorgeous male speciman @70isaLimitNotaTarget although I'm not sure anyone but the birds will appreciate his worm finding abilities!

@sashh I couldn't put up with radiator cat in this weather, I need them to dry my clothes on. Unless you can put heated radiator cat on your person in some fashion to keep warm.

Ahhhh @FizzyIce so gorgeous in that 2nd pic.

@Shannith She's so sweet with the tinsel tangle!

Update on the little mousey fuckers.

DH went out and got some weapons-grade mouse poison. Put it in cupboard on Saturday. Yesterday there was a smell. Today there is a SMELL. The house is full of the smell of dead little mousey fuckers and I can’t even find where the dead little mousey corpses are so instead of cinnamon and nutmeg my house now stinks of dead mousey fucker.

DH will be sent out to get weapons-grade mousey fucker traps next.

One trap. Bait nibbled. Then mousey fuckers disappeared instead of dying in situ. The fuckers.

You have my sympathy!
The smell is awful and we only had one dead one that the cats had only maimed so it crawled off to die under the fridge .
Dh said I was “imagining” the smell but I just bloody knew it and pulled everything out till i found it

We found two dead ones behind the fridge once - the smell was horrendous 🤢

We got back from holiday one summer to a pungent wiff of dead something. We searched high and low and not a corpse to be found ... After a fortnight of all the windows open 24/7 and cursing the cats round the clock term started and l dug our DS's school bag - and the uneaten packed lunch that had been festering in it's depths for six weeks ...

I read somewhere that the professionals suggest the best thing to rid your house of the smell of dead mice rotting is to whack the heating up so they decompose more quickly.

Good luck with that.

I have been microwaving a mug of water containing a cinnamon stick, to mask the smell. I shall perhaps get some cloves and stick them in an orange...

@AllYouGoodGoodPeople oh holy Jesus , that’s the stuff of nightmares

The mice eat the poison and wander off to die.

I once worked in an old office that had mice. I was in a client meeting when a little mouse staggered across the room and keeled over right on the middle of the floor.

I asked the woman next to me if she was finished with her disposable coffee cup, she nodded and I took it and scooped Mousey up and popped the lid on and popped it into my bag - and continued with the meeting.

so instead of cinnamon and nutmeg my house now stinks of dead mousey fucker

Sorry, avocadoze; I know this isn't much fun for you, but that's just finished me off

Admittedly my cat eats her prey so I'm not up on these things, but I'm confused about the awful smells. Surely there's not enough flesh on a mouse for it to be that bad ... ?

@Puzzledandpissedoff oh you’d be surprised!
And once you’ve smelt it ,you never forget it

And once you’ve smelt it ,you never forget it

So it seems, Fizzy ... I guess I should just be grateful for the cats!!

The smell is truly awful. It's why I won't use poison. They can die somewhere you can't get them leaving you having to explain to guests what the problem is!

I present to you - Bob.

Being an indoor cat (‘cos it’s too bloody cold outside), she’s never met a live rodent but I’m sure she’d be a decent mouser. We’re rat free here (one of this province’s random claims to fame).

In the meantime she presents you with her hard stare....

Not sure where the random dinosaur photo came from!