Mice Killing for beginners

[Lobster]

My mice have regrouped.

They are now using kamikaze techniques.
Throwing themselves at unbaited traps.
I believe this is some sort of sublime teaching on
sacrifice that I have yet to fathom (my injection is on its way)

Regarding the missing peanut butter.
Mice often work in symbiosis with slugs
- A fat slug was also eating my trap peanut butter.
Our Out house is next to the garden and some slugs are getting away from the fox.

I do like mice (my recent murders have caused 'ghost mice' to appear in my guilty subconcious).
Mea culpa.
I may start placing some peanut butter in the hands of one of the Buddha statues in the garden. This will encourage the Buddha to feed the mice (he has just been sitting there up to now).

[obxjerry]

Rebaiting the the beer bottle is always on my to do list, unfortunately that doesn't mean I actually do it. I didn't get around to it until yesterday. I've switched to chunky peanut butter. If they don't choke to death on a wad of peanut butter the size of their head maybe they'll choke on a chunk of peanut the size of their fist. Mice have fists, right? Come to think of it, I know from cartoons they do. They're just short a digit. I don't know if it's a thumb or finger but, I know they only have four digits.

I don't think slugs got my peanut butter. As dry as it's been here I would think slugs would be very rare. The bottle is in a dry garage on top of a 4 foot (1.3 meter) tall table. If the mice have achieved that level of cooperation with another species, we need to send them to NATO. Hey, that's tempting. It would be an easy answer to how far I need to take these mice so they won't find their way back.

Edit- I checked the trap; no mouse, no peanut butter and some loose odds and ends that were on the table are in the bucket. When I set it up yesterday I set the end of the bottle 5 inches (12.7 cm) past the edge of the table, fresh cooking oil on the neck of the bottle. The garage is locked and I doubt there's a hole as big as an inch (2.5 cm) anywhere. At this point, I'm thinking about getting the pistol out of my underwear drawer and taking it with me when I go to the garage.

Edit- Edit- Today's newspaper said this happened within 5 miles (8 km) of my house;

Man charged with shooting another man 11 times

Sanders got out of the car, took a handgun from the trunk and pulled Walker out of the car with the gun against Walker’s head, the warrant said.
Sanders shot Walker 11 times, then got back in his car and drove off, leaving Walker lying in the 1300 block of Gilmore Lane, the warrant said.

Walker survived. I need to get a bigger pistol.

[WireWulf]

Best way I have found to catch mice is by hand as for getting rid of them I normal use a quick flick with a knife and put them in my ever expanding mice graveyard oddly next to where I have my cats (whom died of old age) buried and near where my dogs (also of old age god rest their souls) buried so if terrorizing mice is bad I am possibly going to HELL!

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
I once watched mice open, transport, and use spaghetti to set off my traps and steal the peanut butter...

I have a blow dart gun which threw a "monkey wrench" into their plans tho...

Then I got it...

@Ed, all rodents are allergic to oil of peppermint...not peppermint extract, that will just get them drunk...They dont dig peppermint...

Or, do as I do...let a snake loose in your house...Any snake, even a little one...its smell alone will repel mice, even long after it is gone...

For out of the way spots, Habenero extract repels nearly everything, even termites...

Fight nature with nature, I always say....(now)

[p310don]

... Habenero extract repels nearly everything.... hurts the next day too...!
Funny thing is, when I grew them, the chillis got decimated by snails. Who'd have thought, squishy snails eating chillis that make ur tongue feel like its inside a furnace?

[Lobster]

Ed, all rodents are allergic to oil of peppermint...not peppermint extract, that will just get them drunk...

Thanks everyone.
I do wonder if drunk mice are an improvement. Just as intoxicated humans become a pest to themselves and others . . . However after a heavy day of setting off traps with spaghetti perhaps the mice need to unwind with a peppermint . . .

I once saw what I assume was an intoxicated mouse. The mouse casually meandered over the floor doing a hand stand. (walking on its front legs only with its back in the air) I assumed it was trying to impress any potential predator as the intoxicant or old age had effected its balance

I like the snake idea (might see if I can get snake skin from a pet store or Santeria shop - we used to have one quite near). Actually owning a snake might be a bit much as I would have to buy dead mice or similar to feed it. Chili and peppermint oil should be easy to find.

Most people around here go for the cat option. In ancient Egypt cats were so important protecting grain stores, they eventually became Bastet, the supreme mouser . . .

I did start my 'unpleasant sounds for mice program' but I really feel I should use a cleansing mantra or similar instead.

Anyway I feel I am learning some important lessons about dealing with
bankers and terrorists. It is a case of transposing one problem to another pest infestation.

Thank you mice
You have not died in vain

Puppy Linux
Improbably Great

[sc0ttman]

Don't kill them!! If you need to kill a mouse cos you cant outsmart it, you got real problems!

You just need a demi-john (or similar) tilted up (45 degrees or so), with food at the bottom....

Leave it over night, wherever your furry friennds might find it..
Make sure it's easy for the animals (pests?) to get inside it..

Animals go in felling peckish, but *very* few animals have the right paws/feet/etc to get back out again.. They slip down to the bottom repeatedly..

If you never made your own alcohol, here's a demi john..



I always works for me, I got rid of about 3 mice that way in the last few years.. Chucked them out in a field near my place..

[hayagix]

We use moth balls in the garage to repel mice. Seems to work. They(mothballs) are pretty stinky inside a house, however.
Mothballs work well in the wife's flower garden to keep the neighbours cats from using it as their toilet.
Stuff steel wool into holes, cracks, and crannies.

[RetroTechGuy]

I did start my 'unpleasant sounds for mice program' but I really feel I should use a cleansing mantra or similar instead.

Perhaps the music formerly known as "prints"?...

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blog ... furry-sort