mouse in the house what to do?

[treehack]

just been sitting watching telly and out the corner of my eye i saw something move accross the floo near the skirting board.i saw a mouse sat at the edge of it near the doorway.of course as soon as i moved it ran and hid.now i can't see it and the wife is freaking.
what is the best way to catch it?wife wants to know if there is a humane mouse trap?

[wolf1]

treehack said:

wife wants to know if there is a humane mouse trap?

Don't you just love a Womans logic! Tell her you'll humanely beat it to death with a nice gentle hammer

[vixpy1]

Shotgun and...



BOOM!

[planetdave]

Whoosh!

Staight off the deep end into a hi-jack.

'There's only one way to kill a mole.......

And that's to blow it's bloody head off!'

[treehack]

i would if i could catch the little fecker but it moves at the speed of light.i don't think she'll like it if i go on a hammer or shotgun frenzy around the house

>> Edited by treehack on Wednesday 12th January 22:09

[FourWheelDrift]

treehack said:

what is the best way to catch it?wife wants to know if there is a humane mouse trap?

Get a piece of cheese and tie it to the end of your nose, then lie on the floor with your mouth open and hope it scurries in.

[Karen182]

There's probably more than one too...

10/10 to the wife for suggesting a humane trap.

From a rodent lover...

[BliarOut]

Time to get a cat That's as natural as it gets!

[HughGabriel]

There is a humane mouse trap, but I cant remeber what its called.

It is possible to make using to empty (for example) baked bean cans.

You need: 2 baked bean cans, 1 coat hanger.

It works on the principal that the mouse is lured into the 2 cans (link together) with cheese (or similar) at the end of the first can it walks into a bar (piece of coat hanger) releasing a door (the lid from the can) and trapping it in.

Sorry for the awful description but HTH

[treehack]

cats outta the question as the dog would eat it before the cat ate the mouse

[planetdave]

Train the dog to eat mice

Get a couple of dozen from your local pet store and do a bit of dog baiting with them.

Lo and behold the dog will sort your problem out and errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[treehack]

just tried to get the dog on it's scent.i can now see why plod don't use dalmatains as sniffer dogs

[Pies]

Get a glass bottle etc with a neck bigger than the mouse.
Place some chocolate in the bottle
Lay the bottle on the floor,next to the skirting board,(mice like o run around the edges of rooms) at a slight angle
Place a ook or two at the mouth of the bottle so the mouse can climb in.
Due to the slope the mouse cant escape
Release mouse about 100yds away (it wont come back)

Alternatively a mouse trap one second a mouse is eating loverly chocolate a split second later its dead.How humane do you want

[planetdave]

Ok, here's what to do.

Get some tubing and block one end off.

Weld a razor blade across the tube about half way down.

Place *new improved rodent catcher* on the floor in a mouse pleasing position.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES PUT CHEESE IN THIS TRAP!

Meeces being nosy your pesky bleeder will wander into the 'trap', look over the razor blade and go

'where's the bleedin' cheese then?'

thus cutting it's own throat and leaving you smug since the moose commited hari krishna and you blameless

Excellent!