Catching a mouse!

Well it's been 2 weeks now and our little 'live catch' traps have not worked.  The mouse is still here, even spotted last night by my houseguest!  How embarassing!     Luckily she was not bothered and thought it was cute.  So who has suggestions on how we can rid ourselves of the little thing?

 

Get a cat! 

Get a cat! 

   Oh belindaloo.....I wish that was an option.  DH says no......

LOL!

But, seriously, could you borrow a friend's cat for a day? Just a couple of hours even?

http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html

 

Hiya !
Cue Mission Impossible music -

We live in a 1930's semi, lots of extensions (its de riguer for Indian's!!) and every now and a again the little blighters get in. We have moustraps, poisons, and electronic repellants etc which combined seem to keep most of em away.

I do remember seeing one in the extension we have as our utility room. Mum freaked and 'sent' me in to catch it. The room is relatively clear so it wasn't long after staying quiet it popped it's nose out. Only one part of the skirting was broke and that's where it was trying to get back to. However I blocked it. I then retreived the hoover and got a piece of cheese. As I moved the door the box I'd used to block his escape/hideout moved and he darted right in. So I told everyone inside to keep as quiet as a mouse ! (pun intended!) and waited. 3 mins later he pops his nose out to get a whiff of that Edam and I slowly moved the hoover pipe near - he darted back in. Phase 2 setup - I kept the hoover pipe right by the piece of cheese and he popped his nose out again, all quiet, he pops out a little more, all quiet he goes for the cheese, instant switch on of hoover and 'phlump' he goes straight into the hoover!! - By the way the hoover is one of those bagless, cylinder type things, so up the pipe and into the plastic drum. I reckon he was probably a little dazed though. Pop a rag into the end of the pipe and drive over to the park. Take hooeve rout , pull rag out, and the little guy goes scootling off into the foliage!

mission accomplished!

Dennis! West London & Slough UK!

  Genius... if not just a tad bit terrifying for the wee mousie. *also had a mouse problem* we set up live traps but to no end... mousies are SMART. So instead we just put a cinderblock in front of his mouse hole. chew through that you little....  Plus it makes a nice foot rest. Very feng shiu.

What you do is get a plastic/metal bucket, and put some cheese, bread, honey etc. in the bottom. Place a rod/plank going up the side on the outside, so that the mouse can get to the rim of the bucket. Once he falls in, he won't be able to climb out due to the smooth surface of the bucket. Then you take the bucket to a park etc and let mousey loose.

Whatever you do, don't take the bucket out so that your daughter can take it to the park when she comes off from school. Especially if it starts raining. That happened to my mom and me (years and years ago), and we ended up nursing a half-drowned mouse back to life, giving it all kinds of treats and making sure it was ok before taking it to the park the next day...

What you do is get a plastic/metal bucket, and put some cheese, bread, honey etc. in the bottom. Place a rod/plank going up the side on the outside, so that the mouse can get to the rim of the bucket. Once he falls in, he won't be able to climb out due to the smooth surface of the bucket. Then you take the bucket to a park etc and let mousey loose.

That sounds nearly as complex as that Mouse Trap game! 

Not cheese. Well-fed mice don't particularly like cheese. They have that reputation because cheeses were once kept in the pantry, and little mousey toothmarks are quite visible (hungry mice will gladly eat anything. I once saw a bar of soap with bites taken out).

Peanut butter is the crack cocaine of the rodent world.

We bought electronic mouse replellers...I think my flatmate bought them at HomeBase...you plug them in and they emit a noise that we can't hear but drives away mice...we didn't see ours after putting them in.

I really like Coffeebean's suggestion the best - it is clever and also harmless to the mouse.  HOWEVER, I have already tried peanut butter!   Good old American style!  Do you think British mice like British peanut butter more?

So now I will see about the glue traps I think... :\\\'(  Except DH the peace lover will be very unhappy about it.  Dennis your idea is too gross - I wouldn't suck up the mouse in the vacuum!!

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So now I will see about the glue traps I think... :\\\'(  Except DH the peace lover will be very unhappy about it.  Dennis your idea is too gross - I wouldn't suck up the mouse in the vacuum!!

ewwww The glue traps we used in Burma were really cruel. It was real sticky, the mouse would go to center to get the food you left in the middle of the tray of glue. Then they would get stuck and couldn't move, they would struggle and eventually their head would get stuck, they called feably for help, their sad little eyes would follow you, and eventually they would die through starvation. It was near impossible to remove them from the pan.  And you didn't dare throw the damn thing out for fear of catching a cat. We used it once, caught two and never again. 

Good old shot gun took care of the rest of them little critters, bit messy but not as messy as the glue. Nothing like 00 buckshot to pick them babies off at a 100 paces. Please note that we used enviromentally friendly tungsten-polymer (lead free) shot.

I thought the hoover idea of Dennis!! was really humane. They get a free rollercoaster ride and a spared life, you get a mouse free house.

btw the shot gun line IS a joke before any mouse lovers report me. Although I don't see why. They are vermin. We aint talking about cute little ones reared in clean enviroments for pets.

I hate glue traps also. They do sell humane traps and I found peanut butter inside of them work the best. I hate to tell you but you probably have more than one cute little mouse!

I know I have more than one.  I don't mind but just want them out of here!!  So far peanut butter has not worked.....