AIBU?
to expect mouse traps to catch my mouse???
xXxspookyxXx · 17/10/2007 15:08
discovered we have a mouse on saturday this thing runs around in front of us has no fear and has managed to set off the traps and eat the food without getting caught!im not usually freaked out by mice ive had one before only heard it in the walls and only saw it when it was dead but this one comes out to say hello everymorning!!!
blazingsandals · 17/10/2007 15:13
Yeah, they are getting smarter, we used to use kill traps. Now we have these rentokil traps with poison in, they walk in, scoff the poison and leg it and then die an hour later. The ultrasound machines are crap imho at scaring mice though they do detune analogue radios remarkably well.
francagoestohollywood · 17/10/2007 15:19
I'll ask dh how much it was. it deos work, we caught 7 mice before buying it and since then we aven't seen one. it creates a magnetic field or whatever that keeps them away. poison is no good as they can go and die under the floorboards and smell.
LittleMissVampireSlayer · 18/10/2007 12:12
i have a mouse too! i dont want to kill it but it manages to get into the humane traps, eats the food and gets out again, its houdini reincarnated! i have ordered one of those ultra sonic plugin thingies on the net but its not come yet because of the postal strike
knowing my luck it will be a deaf mouse and the sonic rays wont affect it
PrincessAfterLife · 18/10/2007 15:57
Good tuna tip, PM, will remember that for future reference.
Effie's right. They do scream. Better to build up a lot of hate against them in order to be able to cope with it. But the aadvantage (if you can call it that) is that, if you live in the sticks, the screaming will attract a fox or cat pretty quickly and nature will do its thing.
imagineafullnightsleep · 19/10/2007 08:47
Had a horrid problem with mice in my old house (15 feet from a railway line - think they came from there), and they got really cocky. Would come out when we were all in the kitchen and sit next to the table ! I hate the damn things. Tried every kind of trap known to man kind - but the little sods used to pick the food up, or hurdle the traps !! Ended up buying one of those plug in things. Apparently, they send a signal type thing (apologies for the lack of technical speak here !) through your electircal cables. 24 hours later - no mice. Lived there for 4 years after this problem started, and never saw another mouse as long as the electrical thing was switched on. They cost about £50 but they are brilliant.
EmsMum · 19/10/2007 08:55
We don't get mice in the house... but regularly in the roof. Beats me how they get up there from the outside! Poison works (and is safely away from dog and child up there). I expect our insulation has lots of little mummified bodies in it. DH put a spring trap up there the first time, it must have caught just a leg or tail cos the next night there was this awful dragging and bumping - we felt so guilty.(and DH never found the trap again).
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