mouse
im sat in my attic messing on the computer, and this mouse jumps out, so i screamed and it ran off. well i know where its hiding, but im proper shitting myself in case it bites me, and id have to move some stuff, ive put some shoes on and tucked my trousers into my socks, i have a golf club too.
do you think it will just be one or do they move in packs?
do you think it will just be one or do they move in packs?
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Depends if it's USB or PS2.
i'll be looking for a travel lodge then.
i think its been here for ages, cos i swore i saw things moving out of the corner of me eye.
anyway i have mouse prooft my internal doors, so i think i will chase it into the basement.
I did that with my old house, nearly 20 of the critters in about 2hrs... :) My shooting has improved tho...
nah its was too small to be a rat. i live it a rural area and there are mice all in the field next to my house. it prolly came in cos of the cold snap.
good idea, i think i will set a trap for it tomorrow. i can't seem to find the little thing, maybe it went down its hole.
We used to get them all the time in his green house nibbling on the things he was growing.
interesting, how about using a little chocolate mouse. or would that just be surreal? hmm
Mile, don't worry, mice don't bite. Well, not hard anyway. Just draw a little blood really, they won't have more than a finger.
We had a rat in our basement, could hear it walking along the ceiling. I see a few dormice roam outside but i'm not worried by them. Theyre tiny things, the same with a mouse.
If it was a rat i would worry but not a small mouse. You'll start screaming like a girl next the second you see a wasp or a moth ! ;)
Now I've got a cat. He quickly went through the local field mouse and field vole populations before moving onto water voles (ratty in the wind in the willows) and the odd rat. Strangely enough we don't have many rats here but the industrial areas near by are absolutely rammed with them. Perhaps because of all the other rodents there are plenty of natural predictors and rats aren't exactly stealthy creatures.
Another good think about having a cat is you get to see wild life in your home. Normally slobbered over. He brings somethings to me and looks disapointed that it's stopped playing. Other things are defiantly a look at the little flitty thing I caught and a final offering seems to be a offer to share food.
Mice he always looks sad they stopped playing. Small birds he looks as proud as punch to catch even though those are the only ones I tell him off for but I suppose I hadn't noticed so many little goldcrests flying around until I'd seen them covered in cat spit. But he always seems to want me to share a pigeon with him. He eats one breast and plucks the other to offer it to me. Pigeons are a definite food offering he acts completely different when he presents one to me. Our parrot shits bricks when he can see the cat is in the mood for a little hunting. I can't leave the room without covering him up he doesn't trust the other members of the family to protect him. Mind you nor does my 15 year old Border Collie.
Get yourself a cat and learn about the local wildlife. By disposing of their little corpses.
Leave me out of this!
Me being the hippy when it comes to animals, i would get one of those humane traps. Its just a poor little thing looking for warmth etc !
Poor little mouse ! Shame Chris cant hear what i'm saying
Are you sure? They are quite a rare rodent and especially so in the North, and hard to spot anywhere. Dormice are mostly nocturnal and hibernate (the name stems from Dormir, to sleep).
So my friend, where there is one mouse there are likely to be more just waiting to move in. Exterminate, because if they get into the rest of your house you are in for cute yet incontinent little furries running all over your bread bin.
i will buy some of those killing traps at the weekend.
The rat we had i tried the humane trap but this fella was way too clever. I was actually okay with him living in the basement but the second he started going OTT and bit into water pipes etc then i had to get rid of him asap. Gave him a tenants code of conduct which he kept to for the first year but then just got to that age where he went off the rails so mr rat had to go.
no way, what if im letting him go and he jumps out and bites me. id hate to have to touch it, id rather kill it from a distance.
I never had mouse problems...well, once in my grand parents farm, a very small farm mouse came in to the house, I grabbed a magazzine, made the the mouse jump in to it, the poor guy was shaking afraid...I set him free in the fields, and after a few hours I went to see the spot where I had left him, and he was dead...probably heart attack...
ingratfull bastard!
I'm okay with killing things if i need to but i dont know, any animal i would hate to think of the agony if they drowned/poisoned etc. A mouse stuck to gluey paper and left there to die is just horrible.
If i had a mouse and it was stuck on gluey paper or a humane trap i would just drive a few miles and let it loose. The poor mouse is just looking for shelter and food. Because of less and less green land the animals have to try to adapt . Look at foxes, used to be wild as anything, now so many of them have had to manage in towns etc and adapt.
I'm not some tree hugger with matted hair or that, i just hate thinking of any animal in pain. Get a humane trap and put some food in it then just set it free somewhere. If that doesnt work then yes sadly use poison or something. Remember vividly seeing a squirrel get hit by a car once, poor thing didnt die straight away, was on the ground panting for breath and obviously in total agony with part of its head caved in, very sad. A member of the public actually came over and then strangled it which was the right thing to do.
Some chavs once saw a swan and its chicks cross a road, put his foot down and ran over most of them. Everyone was disgusted, the loud shreeks the mother swan was making was very sad. Damn sorry going on an animal rant again ! Apologies. Anyway back to my burger
If you want to kill one quick and humanely, put it in a pillow case or similar sized plastic bag, then swing it against a hard surface with a good, hard swing. It will kill the unfortunate mouse instantly. It's how I dispatch the mice the cats bring in half mauled.
Agree with that, just get rid of them quickly. Drowning anything is something i would never do, just very cruel and one of the worst ways to go (The worst is making the mouse sit in a sealed room with a Westlife cd/dvd on full blast). Just unimagineable pain that is and very cruel.
A neighbour at the end of our street insisted on feeding birds on the ground. Nearby was a large bramble bush. All the neighbourhood cats would lurk under this bush, for the easy pickings it brought.
I got home one evening and found all my cats looking intently into a corner of the lounge. On closer inspection, there was a very large black bird with a very dangerous looking pointy beak - which one of them had brought in and let go in the house. Not wanting bird feathers all over the lounge again I reached out to get the bird to take it outside.
Then it started squawking extremely loudly (which made me jump) and it took off. With all three cats in hot pursuit. I didn't know cats could run along walls, 6 feet up, 90 degrees to the force of gravity. But they can, it seems! The bird landed on a curtain rail, but only stopped there for a short while as one of the cats came barrelling up the wall and made a lunge for it. The bird then did a complicated aerobatic manoevre, shat on the ceiling, and flew into the kitchen and landed on the supports for the halogen lights. Since it was now dazzled by 200 watts of halogen lights, I made a grab for it, and caught it (being careful to avoid that nasty, pointy beak) and took it outside where it flew away...
Now those neighbours have left, I seldom find birds in the house. However, recently, there's been a constant stream of half eaten mice left on the floor.
Everyone says theyre surprised i'm not a veggie !