smallholder
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Somewhere...........in this room is The Invisible Mouse.  It scuttled across the floor and I tried to head it off at the pass with a tray and hubholder tried to catch it in a waste paper basket....but the little varmint gave us the slip. Its just like Chicken Run in here at the moment as hubholder searches for it with a very powerful torch. Mousey Mousey...we're coming to get you! 
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mug!
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My OH is good at catching them would you like to borrow him? (you can keep him if you like)
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smallholder
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queenlit
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When I was a student I caught one in a bowler hat. Good luck.
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queenlit
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Have you caught it yet?
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nicolagraham
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Oh I know it sounds irrational but I would be too scared to try and catch it I think. I know they're harmless but I always get twitchy around animals that can move that quickly!!
Good luck!
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smallholder
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Nah. Too many books, nooks and grannies in this little old cottage! Will have to set the trap tonight.....Mousie - you have been warned.
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choccat
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Are you planning on killing it SH? I thought you were an animal lover! We have had a mouse for ages but have yet to catch little blighter, have tried everything in a humane trap from cheese to chocolate, peanut butter to bread and jam and no luck. It has chewed through a cool bag and several other bags, I have never seen it but it makes regular appearnances to OH.
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smallholder
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No. Rest easy choccat. I am still the person you thought I was! It's a humane trap. We do however draw the line at and kill rats ( sorry pink monkey if you are around!)
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queenlit
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is there someone else in your relationship who appears when you are not there sh?
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smallholder
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Now that is too subtle for me queenlit....me no understandee...I shall fall back on my old excuse and blame my medication!
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queenlit
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Sorry smallholder - I should have asked choccat that question!!
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smallholder
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IT'S UNDER THE TELLY!
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smallholder
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....slippery little b*****!
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wotton
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we bait our humane traps with peanut butter gets them everytime.........unless it's a shrew!
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Andrew Jeffrey
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All of which reminds me of the old saying about the wisdom of not always rushing:
'It may be the Early Bird that catches the worm, but it's the second mouse to the trap that gets to eat the cheese.'
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choccat
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| queenlit wrote: | | Sorry smallholder - I should have asked choccat that question!! |
Methinks it is the drink - he sees mice whereas other see pink elephants!!!
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smallholder
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Well. Mousie lives to scuttle for a bit longer.
Forgot to get the trap out of the barn and I'm not going in there now. There be monsters in the barn!
Time for bed.
Night all.
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wotsitagain
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| smallholder wrote: | | No. Rest easy choccat. I am still the person you thought I was! It's a humane trap. We do however draw the line at and kill rats ( sorry pink monkey if you are around!) |
Phew - I had been feeling guilty about our murderous attitude towards rats (sorry pm again, but then yours are not wild), although I concede they look cute when playing.
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gorgeous51
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Good luck with mousey today SH. OH and I were standing in the utility room last night watching a little mouse sitting on our garden table nibbling some breadcrumbs. He was very cute - strangely I wouldn't have liked him quite so much if he had been our side of the door!
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mug!
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Nothing gets rid! Grrr They won't oblige by walking in to humane traps. They love the poison and the more you put down the more they come to eat. Watch out gorgeous, when they are keeping you awake at night scratching about they won't look so cute. Then every noise you hear you think is a bloomin mouse. Reckon their sole purpose is to take over the world! blimin creatures.
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jenny_pest
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I would move out if I saw a mouse here! Hate anything that moves and runs
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smallholder
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That means I'm safe then! 
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tog
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| mug! wrote: | | Reckon their sole purpose is to take over the world! blimin creatures. |
"These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front."
(The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
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cofnchoc
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Oooooo smallholder - I'd be afraid.....very afraid!
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smallholder
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Thanks Tog - I'd forgotten about that!
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smallholder
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A few hours ago as I was working at my desk (which is just at the bottom of the stairs) I heard mousey scuttling around in the spare bedroom and mentioned it to hubholder. Just now I have heard it again. I asked hub- Did you put a trap upstairs? -No, he said- I thought I would wait and then if it ran downstairs you could give it a slap!
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queenlit
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Your roles just keep growing smallholder!!
At school fetes we have a game called Bat the Rat!! This will always remind me of you now.
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Rainbow_Bright
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I remember Splat the Rat from school and church fetes! Great fun.
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smallholder
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Traps are set and hidden amongst the boxes of apples in the spare bedroom and along the skirting board.
Come out, come out little mouse wherever you are! 
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smallholder
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GOTCHA!!!!!!!!! 
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mug!
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yey well done SH. Where did you put him? x
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jenny_pest
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 Well Done SH
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smallholder
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The answer is going to be far too soppy for you Mug! 
Hubholder took him to the far end of the smallholding and made him a little mound of straw to go in when he opened the trap!
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mug!
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Awww hope he is far enough away not to return. Still can't get rid of mine. grrr We did try the humane trap thing but resorted to poison but they keep coming back for more!!
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jenny_pest
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12 more posts to go SH - Almost back in the 7000 club!!
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tired teacher
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Poison- been down the route of catching them and setting them free. For every mouse you see you are likely to have another 6.
They are incontinent and wee all the time and spread salmonella.
Block up all holes with wire wool and then fill with plaster or something else on top. Any hole which is as big as a biro is big enough to let the buggers in.
Death to them I say. Have got rid of them 3 times in 3 years but autumn is always a problem and have filled in every hole or gap whaen got new kitche fitted last week.
Get neighbours to make the same attack as well.
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wotton
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our mice are usually presents from our cat........
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