Mouse, intelligent or lucky?

[Dutch Guy]

The last few evenings we could hear a Mouse between the walls and ceiling.
So naturally I set some mousetraps (after kicking our useless cat ), the ones that are tensioned that as soon as the mouse trips the trap his neck is snapped.

But when checking the traps the next morning I found he had eaten the cheese but the trap was still live
I confirmed that the trap works, as soon as I hit the trap it sprigs close, so I loaded them again and the next day the cheese was gone again.


So, is the mouse lucky or intelligent?

 

[DJMK4]

Clearly the mouse steels the cheese with a stick, then reset's the traps.

 

[Dave****]

(after kicking our useless cat)

Reported to the Dutch RSPCA.

 

[4T5]

Don't use cheese use chocolate.

 

[Dark Sun]

murderer

 

[Jimz]

harsh for kicking that cat

 

[Azza]

Leave him be? Or catch him and have him as your new pet... it'll be the perfect story of friendship and love and will one day be turned into a major motion picture earning millions for both of you.

 

[stockhausen]

Peanut butter - strong smell and can't be snatched by mouse.

/mouse
/thread

 

[Sunbed]

I hope ^TANK^ doesn't see this thread

Don't use cheese for a start, chocolate and peanut butter are better. Also get better traps.


Edit: beaten again...

 

[PureAppleJuice]

No one seems to have suggested this yet, get better traps!

Oh wait.

 

[JHeaton]

You could try one of the live catching ones, I've heard of better results from them when friends have used them (and obviously, no dead mice, which is a bonus). As for how he's (she's?) getting the cheese, maybe it's being lifted very lightly?

 

[Vampire]

Don't use cheese use chocolate.

If its a trap with a metal pin to put the bait on, heat up the pin with a lighter then push a piece of chocolate on the end. As it cools it'll be stuck on there, and the mouse will be much more likely to set the trap off as it pulls on it.

 

[LOAM]

Humane trap. Seriously why does it have to die ?

 

[gort]

Humane trap. Seriously why does it have to die ?

It's because boasting on a forum that you've killed or are trying to kill a [insert innocent creature here] makes you more of a man and more attractive to the opposite sex.

 

[Rainmaker]

You could try one of the live catching ones, I've heard of better results from them when friends have used them (and obviously, no dead mice, which is a bonus). As for how he's (she's?) getting the cheese, maybe it's being lifted very lightly?

No dead mice is a bonus? What planet are you on? B&Q do their own branded spring traps which are just rebadged Rentokil ones. They're the ones you want OP. As others have said put a good dollop of peanut butter or chocolate spread in the bait cup, and I've found that a piece of hobnob in the top works wonders... Bye bye mice.

I say mice, because where there's one there's more... Get traps and poison down asap and don't mess about. Here speaks the voice of bitter experience. Good luck.

 

[Noel Gallagher]

Don't use cheese use chocolate.

or chocolate cheese.

 

[Rainmaker]

Humane trap. Seriously why does it have to die ?

It's because boasting on a forum that you've killed or are trying to kill a [insert innocent creature here] makes you more of a man and more attractive to the opposite sex.

Because they're non-indigenous vermin which live in houses not fields. I was made homeless by a horde of house mice last year, which invaded our property and destroyed all of our belongings and trashed the house in a matter of a couple of weeks. Why on Earth would you want to just let them go again to either return, or make someone else's life hell?

Spring traps + poison + anything else you can muster. It's the only way to be sure, and has nothing to do with being macho or alpha.

 

[Cosimo]

You have and intelligent and sneaky mouse. Get a cat.

 

[Sunbed]

You have and intelligent and sneaky mouse. Get a cat.

But what if the mouse looks like this:

 

[Noel Gallagher]

But what if the mouse looks like this:

They whatever you do, don't get Tom.