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Original poster

Ok, so where IS the f***er? Mousey, mousey....

28 replies

madamez · 03/04/2007 14:19

So I bought an ultrasound blaster and plugged it in, bought a couple of mousetraps, primed them with peanut butter - no mouse. No dead mouse in traps after 3 nights of using them. Have cleaned kitchen more than it's ever been cleaned in its live. No mouse. Dislodged huge spider and screamed for about 5 minutes and wished there was some gin handy but...
Torned out cupboards, cutlery drawer, looked behind fridge, no mouse. No mouseshit anywhere as far as I can see, and no nibbled biscuits, cereal, or shredded paper anywhere.

WHere IS the litte furry f**ker? Can I honestly hope it's gone away?

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motherinferior · 03/04/2007 14:21

Hope is always a possibility. Why not. The alternative is Fretful Insomnia. I'd stick with hope.

RanToTheHills · 03/04/2007 14:21

round at mine? Even though we've got cats,sure we now have a mouse. Suspicious niddle-marks on choc bar in cupboard didn't look human/feline ones!

pesme · 03/04/2007 14:25

do you have poo? the little critters can't move without pooing everywhere.

when in doubt POISON the feckers.

RanToTheHills · 03/04/2007 14:27

oh get cats, cuddlier (apartfrom the corpses) and far more efficient!

RanToTheHills · 03/04/2007 14:28

mind you mine haven't been much good,so maybe not!

Original poster
madamez · 03/04/2007 22:25

No poo in cupboards, no nibbling of cereal/organic corn snack/fruit bar packets (everything else edible in glass jars or the fridge anyway)... No chewing noises, no little squeaks, no scampering sounds.. SHeesh I wish it *would reappear so I could hit it with a brick or something.

Can't have a cat, Ranto: rented house, no-pets lease. And I'm allergic to them. Pesme, don't reaslly wnat to use poison in case DS (who's 2) gets into it, also don't want rotting mouse carcass under floor...
Oh well, am stuck with a kind of wait-&-see thing...

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Swizzler · 03/04/2007 22:27

Peanut butter doesn't work IME. Get some cheese. And those cheapy spring traps with the BIG BIG SPIKE

We have a mouse - again - Victorian flat in London - hate the fecking rodenty things.

Swizzler · 03/04/2007 22:28

like this - the cheese conceals the big spike

MrsWho · 03/04/2007 22:35

I used chocolate!

Swizzler · 03/04/2007 22:38

That didn't work for us either. Eat the chocolate and use the cheese. And don't get those plasticy traps that look a bit more humane - they don't work. Our mice started using them to store food in

Swizzler · 03/04/2007 22:39

and don't forget the spike

PanicPants · 03/04/2007 22:42

If you haven't any evidence it might have gone away.

I'm in same boat as you. Our kitchen fitter saw a mouse, we bought shed load of traps and poison, caught one in a humane trap with peanut butter, and have since seen nothing resembling a mouse.

Dare we hope....?

Original poster
madamez · 03/04/2007 23:15

Erm, swizzler, what,. exactly, has the mousetrap got to do with creationism? Do I have to pray for the fecking rodenty bastard's soul?

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Swizzler · 04/04/2007 08:30

I wondered about that too . Found it on Google but didn' want to look into the site too closely...

Nbg · 04/04/2007 08:32

Awww dont kill it
The only thing that needs killing is a Rat.

Buy a human trap and stick a Rolo in it.

Swizzler · 04/04/2007 08:40

Human trap?

and yes, do kill it, little nibbly bastards...

Nbg · 04/04/2007 08:42

Pmsl human trap!
I wish there was suc a thing.

Awww the mice are ok really. Annoying yes, but they are sooo cute. All they want is somewhere warm to live and food.

Rats I could undertand. Now theyare nibbly big bastards. Ruined my bloody dishwahser it did!

purplemonkeydishwasher · 04/04/2007 08:43

surely if you have a ultrasound blaster doodah then the mice would vamoose? (i say hopefully, cause we have a couple plugged in after the unfortunate r-word incident)

NoodleStroodle · 04/04/2007 08:46

PMSL human trap with a rolo in.
What size human does it take?Can I use it on DC running riot .

Leave traps down with the chocolate (dont't be tempted!). Have you left them in corners and along the sides of walls?

Nbg · 04/04/2007 08:47

I was thinking more for my dh really.

NoodleStroodle · 04/04/2007 08:53

What would the lure be nbg? Beer?

Nbg · 04/04/2007 09:03

No, he doesnt drink.

Probably would be Rolos.

Original poster
madamez · 04/04/2007 13:02

Noodle, am putting the traps down against walls every night once DS in bed (mice nocturnal, DS inquisitive and I don't want him getting his fingers severed).

It's perhaps possible she says v hopefully that the ultrasound blaster has frightened it away...

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cleaninglady · 04/04/2007 13:58

we had a mice problem but used the ultrasonic plug in things and never heard them since (we used to be able to hear them in the walls at night [shudder] ) so if you have no signs of them then you should be okay ! we were reliably informed that they "run a mile" from the ultrasonic things

ohsmellyeasterbunnies · 04/04/2007 14:00

try tuna as bait - worked for my mouse!!