Mickey in the house!

andy700 said:
No obvious mouse activity to report this morning.
Maybe it was a lone insurgent, a one off terrorist plot designed to destabilise my semi rural tranquility - who knows?
Whatever happens, I am prepared for the next time;)
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You skilled the scout/messenger. You're supposed to send his head back to the main colony in a bag, as a warning to the others. :bat:
 
Llamaman said:
You skilled the scout/messenger. You're supposed to send his head back to the main colony in a bag, as a warning to the others. :bat:
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Or do as the old mole catchers and corvids shooters used to, hang them upside down from a barbed wire fence. Just blue-tac it by it's tail to the under side of a wall cupboard :D
 
Cobra said:
Or do as the old mole catchers and corvids shooters used to, hang them upside down from a barbed wire fence. Just blue-tac it by it's tail to the under side of a wall cupboard :D
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Allegedly, the modern variation on that theme is for the trapper to tell the customer that he/she'll "dispose of the bodies for you", At which point he/she does so and sticks one or 2 in the traps when they're reset elsewhere. "Well, I've caught a few but they may well come back - give us a call if they do..." Bloody "pesties"!!! ;) :P
 
I am picturing the opening scene from Pirates of the Caribbean, where Captain Jack Sparrow is on his raft (about to make his less than impressive arrival in the harbour), and passes the bodies of the pirates who have been strung up, with the sign - "Pirates ye have been warned" next to them.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzOu7UxlqU


I am sure that it could be adapted for mice:)
 
Apparently they are not very good swimmers, a fairly large empty flower pot we had sitting on the back step (no drain holes) had half filled with rain water, went out the other day to find a drowned mouse in it. It seems curiosity killed the mouse and left it looking like a drowned rat ..:)
 
They're quite good swimmers but have fairly limited endurance and very limited resistance to exposure/hypothermia. As the drownèd rat discovered, plant pots are hard to climb out of when you're cold, wet and exhausted!
 
One more thing, but apologies if this has been mentioned already, mice are grade A double plus, black belts at finding and using foods. Almost any food substance (and in my limited experience this includes soap) that is not secured will be eaten and therefore encourage them to stay around. The only things I have found, if left in unsecured containers, that they don't touch, are spices.

If you have not done so already Andy make sure there is no available food for them.

I agree that chocolate is a good bait but I have also found bacon rind (tied to the trap) works well.

Dave
 
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