Mouse, intelligent or lucky?

All these posts seem to be spot on. Get rid of it now, else risk it coming back. Peanut butter is the best bait, as it sticks to the trap and he can't just run off with it. If you use a humane trap (best is still just a garbage bin with smooth walls and a glob of peanut butter at the bottom), you have to run that thing 20 miles from your house minimum else it will find its way back.

A good Husky will take care of business quickly, also. Forget the cat.

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SourChipmunk said:
you have to run that thing 20 miles from your house minimum else it will find its way back.

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Utter nonsense, I realesed our rouge mouse approx 1.5miles away and the little fella hasn't come back.

Experts say release them approximately 1-2miles away, ie don't release it at the bottom of your garden if don't want it coming back :p

Beautiful dog btw :D
 
Lazy cat has been inside your mouse trap stealing your mice.

Then resetting the trap.
Hades said:
Cat nicked the cheese?

I had a mouse and set a live trap for it (a short tube with a door that drops closed when the mouse enters). The mouse refused to go for the cheese but absolutely loved some chocolate when I put it in there.
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Best thing I've found is double chocolate chip cookie.
 
Place a couple of sacks of grain in a garden a few doors down, stand back for 3 months and watch the fireworks :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOwinLWrEIw

On a more serious note, theres no point trying to kill them, you wont win, you need to make your house less attractive to them, obstruct holes in walls and board up gaps behind kitchen units, dont leave food lying around, bag up all your kitchen waste to minimise smell etc. Traps/poison alone will not make them go away whilst they have food and warmth.
 
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Dutch Guy said:
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 ;) :p ), 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 :confused:
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?
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Yes this has happened to us aswell.

We would lay the trap including the sticky trap with cheese on it. But in the morning that cheese would disappear with no sign of mouse. It is as if the mouse instinctively knew that cheese was surrounded by 'trap'

What we found was that mouse activity for food took place at night time (reminds me of creepy thread :p) and his movements were usually traced back to the store. So at night we would just shut the store door to prevent mouse from coming into the tv lounge.

After few weeks mouse activities stopped so we gather it probaby died of hunger!!:p
 
mattyfez said:
you need to make your house less attractive to them, obstruct holes in walls and board up gaps behind kitchen units
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My house was built in 1936, there is ZERO chance of filling all the holes.

We did however remove all stuff from the storage they can eat, we found a bag of catfood he (they) they ate thru the plastic packaging and ate all 500 grams of it as the bag was empty :eek:
 
Dutch Guy said:
My house was built in 1936, there is ZERO chance of filling all the holes.

We did however remove all stuff from the storage they can eat, we found a bag of catfood he (they) they ate thru the plastic packaging and ate all 500 grams of it as the bag was empty :eek:
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I used to keep rats as pets and mice (as food for my snakes), they dont really like cheese, its a commom misconception, something like a sugary cereal bar would be much more tempting.

And belive me they breed at an astonishing rate, thats how they work, I started out with six mice, and before long, they took more looking after than the snakes!! so you need to nip it in the bud.

Basically you need to get rid of any excess food you have, and keep what you need as secure as you can, be it in plastic containers, in the fridge, or a secure cupboard.

You best bet is to think, your not fighting the mouse, you are trying to make the environment unsuitable for it, so it will either die, or move on.
 
The problem is that you're trying to catch the cat with a mousetrap - the cat is too big for this to work. I find the best way to get rid of cats is to use bear traps - sure it might be overkill, but at least I am no longer troubled by those pesky cats.
 
*looks at location of OP*

It's because it's an imaginary mouse, and you are eating the cheese in your munchies phase.
 
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