I would humbly suggest that the OP goes out and buys a pair of size 18 construction boots and gets drunk. Then in your imbibed state, start jumping around kangaroo style until you hear a sound similar to throwing an orange at a brick wall.
Oh, pffftt!! Creepy, schmeepy … look, get a trap or two, some peanut butter, and happy huntin’, SmileyDeath!
This from one who … sniff … had to recently send a murine menage a trois to their little furry eternities with this method. [blows nose and sniffles pathetically].
We had a mouse in our house a few months ago. Hubby bought some of those glue traps – worked like a charm. We put the 'lil guy in a tiny glass tank until we could take him out to the park behind our house – kind of like a catch and release program. He was a cute 'lil bugger. If I coulda been sure about him not being diseased I prolly woulda kept him. I used to have mice as pets once upon a time. Anyways, the glue traps work fairly well. They’ve got little bits of seeds in the middle, and if you’re careful you can manage to free the 'lil guy with a minimum of stress. If you put some olive oil on a q-tip you can use it to unstick 'em.
I discovered him months back while in the downstairs bathroom, and found his cute little scamper across the floor endearing. Of course, I didn’t tell my roomates because they would want to kill him cruelly.
Unfortunately, the holes in the bread gave him away and soon after I started finding little boxes of blue death lying around for him… Now, the problem is that I own two rabbits. Rabbits are stupid. Boxes of blue death probably look like the perfect treat! Heck, the box itself is made of a yummy plastic cardboard…Mmmm…cardboard! And in their little rabbit brains they probably equate blue graniles with those blue cable cords that are oh so tasty!
So, I’ve been tossing the blue boxes of death as I find them. Shh…hopefully my significant other won’t find out that I’m the one who does that!
Next order of the business…how to convince the mouse to jump into the mouse cage instead of making a nest in my oatmeal bath products…
Given the topic of the Prehensile Rectum thread, I don’t wanna keep company with it during August. PU! :eek:
And ** SmileyDeath ** can pay his own way, he don’t need no damn allowance. Let him mow lawns, or deliver papers, or wash cars, or peddle his ass on the Sunset Strip or something.
May I suggest NOT using gluetraps. I had a mouse recently. Actually, I saw one then quickly rubbed him out with a snap trap. However, months later his friend apparently came looking for him. Mouse #2 was apparently some type of ubermouse. He managed to lick peanut butter out of the snap traps without getting caught or often without even setting them off. After a few weeks of refilling the traps I realized I was making it too easy by feeding him regularly and I changed to glue traps. I came home to find a glue trap stuck beneath the kitchen counter with a tail attached. Now I was stuck witha pissed-off, hungry, tailless, superintelligent ubermouse. What else could I do? I moved! Farewell my little mutilated friend-the apartment is yours. You win!
Well… When we had mice, we went to the hardware store and bought a trap called a ‘mice cube’. It’s a plastic tube that the mice can get in and can’t get out. A little piece of cracker with some peanut butter in the back caught us about 4 of the little buggers. Then just take the outside, turn the trap over and let them run away.