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I just take the mouse off my cat before he can lose it under a sofa.
After that i've never had any problems with humane traps, usually if i lay it, the mouse is in it by the morning.
After that i've never had any problems with humane traps, usually if i lay it, the mouse is in it by the morning.
You whack it into orbit to be nuked with fire?
Got a pic somewhere of our typical mouse killing at xmas time. His cat always brings one in, which which then runs around the boxes and rubbish. We usually corner him in the room with barriers and kill him with the samurai sword, but last year he got away and ran out into the corridor and then into the small downstairs toilet. I managed to hit him with a long sticky thing, then as he pounced up the skirting board, my mates brother skewered him to the skirting board.
A lot of effort, a lot of fun, and a dead mouse. Then we prayed for the children and whipped ourselves
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Hopefully this brings an end to the Stuart Little films.
Maybe they should make one last one where he encounters the device from the OP.
Maybe they should make one last one where he encounters the device from the OP.
I caught a mouse in one of the old spring loaded mouse traps the other day, but the damn thing didn't kill the mouse and just broke it's back, I took it into the back garden and kindly squished it, was horrible seeing the mouse sat there unable to move, it was even cleaning itself, I tried to let it go outside but it was completely paralysed from where the trap had hit it down to it's tail
I felt horrible afterwards
I felt horrible afterwards
I felt a bit guilty throwing it down the bog. I really didn't want to kill the thing but it left me with no option as it was obviously too cautious to investigate the other traps
Zapping for the win \o/ Anything that interrupts my slumber deserves death (especially as I don't get much sleep as it is)
Bahaha
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It sounds pretty harsh to me, but fair enough you need to get rid of it, just seems like you could have given it a chance to escape in the friendly way if you had more patience, perhaps I missed that bit?
Nearly two months of failed attempts with live-catch traps and being woken up randomly by scratching noises seems patient enough to me
You whack it into orbit to be nuked with fire?
No. I bring the hockey stick down onto the mouse whilst it is on the carpet. I usually lay down close to the cat whilst it is playing with the mouse. I wait, hockey stick poised, ready to thump the mouse when it is a few inches away from the cat. Sometimes, I manage to miss the cat!
You need to alpha up a little, it's a mouse for pitty's sake not some poor old granny or disabled child. It's vermin destroy it.
Do cats do this as some sort of affectionate gesture... ie: are these "presents"?
There are different schools of thought on this:
One is that the cat is bringing a present to its owner (ie the cat has adopted the human into its social circle and is trying to be affectionate)
Another is that the cat is showing the human that it is a capable hunter, ie recreating kitten-like behaviour and seeking approval from its surrogate-mother (the human).
A third, and my favourite, is this (quoting from wikipedia):
" anthropologist and animal scientist Desmond Morris suggests in his 1986 book Catwatching that when cats bring home mice or birds they have caught, they are teaching their human to hunt, or helping their human as if feeding 'an elderly, inept kitten' "
last year we heard mice in the house, we set two traps (snappers that break the mouse his neck instantly) and caught 5 mice in a week and that solved the problem.
Our cat has caugt >10 mice in the last year, all very small ones, together with 5 frogs and 2 birds.
Our cat has caugt >10 mice in the last year, all very small ones, together with 5 frogs and 2 birds.
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Had mice problems the past few weeks, bought some of the traditional traps and laid then down at night. Next morning i came downstairs and found one set off with the mouse dead in it.
It must have struggled because i set the trap at the back of the cupboard on the top shelf, i found it on the bottom shelf near the front of the cupboard. THose traditional traps are lethal lol, they jump a mile when you set them off. No mess at all though from the mouse itself.
The mess came from all the crap it ..literally left behind in all the kitchen cupboards, drawers and how it had nibbled through several packets/boxes of food. I'm a student i can't be affording to lose precious food from mice
It must have struggled because i set the trap at the back of the cupboard on the top shelf, i found it on the bottom shelf near the front of the cupboard. THose traditional traps are lethal lol, they jump a mile when you set them off. No mess at all though from the mouse itself.
The mess came from all the crap it ..literally left behind in all the kitchen cupboards, drawers and how it had nibbled through several packets/boxes of food. I'm a student i can't be affording to lose precious food from mice