Friggin' mice!!

[ccowden 0]

We noticed that we had a mouse getting into one of our kitchen drawers and storing dog food that he was stealing from the bag in the basement. So I went out and got a mouse trap and put cheese on it. From past experience, I knew a mouse could get cheese off a trap without springing it, so I really jammed it on there. The next morning I look and the cheese is gone without the trap being sprung. Ok, plan B. Peanut butter.

I smear peanut butter all over the top of the trigger and reset the trap the next night. Come morning, I check the trap to find the mouse has somehow licked ALL of the peanut butter from the trigger WITHOUT springing the trap! That little bastard!

So the next night I smear the peanut butter on the top of the trigger as well as underneath, figuring the mouse would have to really work at getting that.

I open the drawer in the morning and BINGO, one dead mouse!

Just as a precaution, I get another trap out and set it in the same manner just to make sure there isn't more than one mouse.

I check in the morning....... Another dead mouse!

To make an already long story short, I have now caught 5 mice in 5 straight nights! I mean seriously, how many can there be?!

Tonight will be the 6th trap in as many nights. Anyone care to bet if I get another one? Any clues how many one could expect to catch before it is all said and done? I personally would have figured on one maybe two more, but this is ridiculous!

So, are there any mice experts out there who might know how many little brown mice might keep coming into the same drawer for peanut butter? Will they just keep coming? If they are smart enough to figure out where that peanut butter is inside my house, inside a drawer, in the kitchen cupboards, then you would think they would be smart enough to notice that Henry, Bob, Frank, Charlie and now Betsy, have not returned.

[Rebecca 0]

Have you figured out where they enter your house?

Do you own a cat?

you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

They multiply like rabbits dude!

I'll take that bet..


slides 20 bucks across the table.....

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[ccowden 0]

Not exactly sure where they are getting in. And no, I don't have a cat. And the dalmatian could care less.

[simplyputsi 0]

recon is a bitch

Skymama's #2 stalker -

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

Put the dog food in a tight container. Remove the food source.



Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

get a cat..


here kitty kitty kitty......

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[ccowden 0]

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recon is a bitch

They are like little Al Queda operatives!

[ccowden 0]

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get a cat..


here kitty kitty kitty......

I'd rather have the mice!

[yardhippie 0]

What ever you do, dont get a poison. Cuz if they eat the poison, crawl back in their hidey hole and die, there they are for you to smell.
those little bastards are like roaches. damn near impossible to get rid of.
Good luck.

Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD
"What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me
"Anything you want." ~ female skydiver
Mohoso Rodriguez #865

[ccowden 0]

Nope, no poison for sure. There is just nothing better than the good ol', spring loaded, break their little necks trap.

[missg8tordivr 0]

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What ever you do, dont get a poison. Cuz if they eat the poison, crawl back in their hidey hole and die, there they are for you to smell.
those little bastards are like roaches. damn near impossible to get rid of.
Good luck.

We have huge Palmetto bugs here They are like roaches with body armor

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F LORIDA!

[Rebecca 0]

And what's up with giving those flying freaks such pretty names anyway? Palmetto bugs - sounds like it should be pretty or cute or at least not repulsive and scream-inducing!

Had one of those fuckers land right on my chest while I was sitting up reading a magazine - I became aware of something moving in my lower peripheral vision, and the next second I was a shrieking airborne spaz.

you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?

[yardhippie 0]

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What ever you do, dont get a poison. Cuz if they eat the poison, crawl back in their hidey hole and die, there they are for you to smell.
those little bastards are like roaches. damn near impossible to get rid of.
Good luck.

We have huge Palmetto bugs here They are like roaches with body armor

Ive heard stories about them. You can have you giant armored cock-a-roaches!

Chris, have you tried the glue traps? those are fun too!

Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD
"What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me
"Anything you want." ~ female skydiver
Mohoso Rodriguez #865

[JohnMitchell 16]

Nice job on the mice. I use a small hunk of bacon jammed in the trigger w/peanut butter to really nail the mice. It's impossible to get the bacon out without setting off the trap. Sounds like you should set out 2 or 3 traps. I think you have an extended family living in yur basement.

[popsjumper 2]

I think Clay could set you up with some artillery.

Late night pot-shots are fun.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[j0nes 0]

when i moved into my new palce, it turns out i had some rodent roomies too. i ended up trapping 3 of them.

at first i wasn't sure i had mice, so i put out a glue trap. that's something i would never do again. the glue just immobilizes them and then YOU have to either kill the mouse or let it starve to death (i killed mine).

i got the other two with spring traps and peanut butter.

i still don't know how they got in my house, but i haven't seen any in more than a year. guess i'm just cleaner than the previous occupants?

[gemini 0]

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a shrieking airborne spaz

Me too! I go out the back door at night and the light automatically comes on which makes them fly off the wall! I've had one land on my head and one land on my shoulder and run over to my neck and down the inside of the shirt.

Nothing like a little screaming and jumping in the driveway under the neighbors bedroom window to startle them from a sound sleep!

Edited to add: I'm an old guy and can't stand excitement like that!

Blue skies,

Jim

[Rebecca 0]

It's not like you can just be calm when that happens - you have no choice but to jump around swatting at yourself, doing some kind of fucked-up shimmy shake dance. Tres amusant to onlookers, I'm sure!


The worst is when you're done with your gyrations, thinking they must have jumped ship, only to feel one still wriggling under you collar!

you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?

[missg8tordivr 0]

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And what's up with giving those flying freaks such pretty names anyway? Palmetto bugs - sounds like it should be pretty or cute or at least not repulsive and scream-inducing!

Had one of those fuckers land right on my chest while I was sitting up reading a magazine - I became aware of something moving in my lower peripheral vision, and the next second I was a shrieking airborne spaz.

EEWWWW .....that just gave me the heeby jeebies

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F LORIDA!

[aftermid 0]

Mice have been the bane of my existance. Clean everything with bleach before you put multiple traps down, then the smell of the food will be extra intense and alluring. I got these ultrasonic transmitters that send out a frequency that is suppose to mess with their nervous system and repell them. I don't know how well it works. I haven't caught one in my traps for a couple weeks but I've seen the occasional dropping.

Make sure you find one that changes frequencies or else the mice just get used to it. I have city mice not country mice. City mice have adapted to a wide variety of annoying noises cars, gunshots, random bar fights, dead beat parents yelling at their kids, half drunk toothless crackwhores screaming about how unfair life is, and bad music played from jucied car stereos; so it's hard to fathom a ultrasonic frequency would do the trick, but it's worth the $15 at home depot if it does have any effect.

Also when you're patching the holes mix steel wool in they hate chewing through steel wool. Also, put sticky pads by the holes.

[ccowden 0]

Holy crap, this is too much work! I think maybe i will just let them store the dogfood in the drawer.

[ReBirth 0]

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What ever you do, dont get a poison. Cuz if they eat the poison, crawl back in their hidey hole and die, there they are for you to smell.

Actually they have poisons now that somehow elliminate the decomposition smell when they die. I had an infestation of big city mice and used poison...didn't smell a thing and it wiped them out.

[ReBirth 0]

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have city mice not country mice. City mice have adapted to a wide variety of annoying noises cars, gunshots, random bar fights, dead beat parents yelling at their kids, half drunk toothless crackwhores screaming about how unfair life is, and bad music played from jucied car stereos;

Are you my neighbor?

[Nutz 0]

We had the great mice massacre of 2005 last week at my house. I bought four traps and set them all. Eventually, I wound up killing eight of the little bastards. The small ones can lick the peanut butter off of the trap without setting it off. A piece of hotdog did the trick. After I wasn't catching any more I bought some glue traps just to be safe.

That D-Con that is suppossed to dry up the bodies without smelling? Bull! There is going to be some smell from decomposition no matter what!

"Don't! Get! Eliminated!"