Originally posted by EastStand:
Someone told my Mrs there lately that if you get a figurine of a cat and leave it sitting in the kitchen, they wont go near the place.

This message has been edited - 08-nov-2010 @ 21:35

Originally posted by EastStand:
We are in the 3rd floor of a new complex and we had them there up to 3 months ago. The place was infested with them. The only way we sorted our place was to seal every hole they could come in. There`s a lad down the corridor and he has 2 sort of vicous dogs and they have a field day down there but they`re no good at catching the mice. They bark like mad and they`d wake Methusella but they`re no good to catch them. A 4th floor apartment is too high up for a cat as well. Someone told my Mrs there lately that if you get a figurine of a cat and leave it sitting in the kitchen, they wont go near the place.

Originally posted by spicy:
Peanut butter on the trap...lethal

Originally posted by EastStand:
I caught one in one of those plastic humane traps there one Sunday morning. Well if truth be told I came home Saturday night from the opub scuttered and the mouse was already caught in the trap and gone in behind the television and I could hear all this rattling but I was so drubnk it never dawned on me that a mouse was caught in a trap. The following morning the Mrs came up to make a bottle for the young lad and came flying back down to tell me there was a mouse caught. So I got up and put him into a shoe box and brought him outside. But I didn`t have the heart to kill him and I just let him off.

This message has been edited - 08-nov-2010 @ 22:05

Originally posted by BlackandWhite1976:


Jaysus ES was the poor hoor in the trap all night! That`s the funniest post i`ve read in a while - humane me hole!!

Originally posted by EastStand:


I had no idea he was inside in the trap. All I could hear was noise and even though i went over to investigate, I saw no mouse, I was loaded drunk, it never dawned on me that there could be a mouse even though i`d set the traps a few hours earlier. When I was summoned in the morning, I found the poor creatur with one of his hind legs caught in the trap. The trap was stuck inside in a clump of wires and he had it dragged from the washing machine over and in behind the television. I couldn`t bring myself to kill him after it, not if he bit me would I kill him.

Originally posted by EastStand:


I had no idea he was inside in the trap. All I could hear was noise and even though i went over to investigate, I saw no mouse, I was loaded drunk, it never dawned on me that there could be a mouse even though i`d set the traps a few hours earlier. When I was summoned in the morning, I found the poor creatur with one of his hind legs caught in the trap. The trap was stuck inside in a clump of wires and he had it dragged from the washing machine over and in behind the television. I couldn`t bring myself to kill him after it, not if he bit me would I kill him.

Originally posted by jack daw:
apparently, you also must release him/her at least a mile away or they will re enter the house! so i hope you didnt just open the back door and say cheerio to him.

Originally posted by jack daw:
apparently, you also must release him/her at least a mile away or they will re enter the house! so i hope you didnt just open the back door and say cheerio to him.

Originally posted by EastStand:
So I got up and put him into a shoe box and brought him outside. But I didn`t have the heart to kill him and I just let him off.

Originally posted by The referee:

I live in a 4th floor top floor appartment. I was niave enough 2 think that this made me safe from mice until I found one mooching around in papers near me bed in the early hours on sunday morning. In the chase that ensued he escaped into a mess of old clothes, at the end of the room.

I have since heard scratches in the attic and noted some gaps in the walls in the hotpress where pipes from the water cyclinder enter the walls.I suspect that this is where they enter me flat and then escape off into the walls\attic through the gaps in the walls.

I have set a few traps in the hotpress, bedroom under the sink and bedroom. Didnt get as far as the attic yet. i have a few of them plug in things that send out a signal that is meant to scatter the little -ers but i havent used them yet as i want a go at catching a few of em.

i invested 50 euro in traps, devices today. I rang rentokil who said they would threat the attic and appartment and sort it all out for €170. I am happy enough to have a go off it myself.

How are the rest getting on with the old mice??

Originally posted by The Horse McCool:


Yes, and if you`re bald just get a tattoo of a spider on your noggin and it will keep the flies off you.

Originally posted by backintheday:


You sure it was the mouse......stranger things have happened when chaps are in the cups?

Originally posted by flattythehurdler:

That is the best line of the year to date.
Chapeau.

This message has been edited - 09-nov-2010 @ 11:17

Originally posted by EastStand:
I caught one in one of those plastic humane traps there one Sunday morning. Well if truth be told I came home Saturday night from the opub scuttered and the mouse was already caught in the trap and gone in behind the television and I could hear all this rattling but I was so drubnk it never dawned on me that a mouse was caught in a trap. The following morning the Mrs came up to make a bottle for the young lad and came flying back down to tell me there was a mouse caught. So I got up and put him into a shoe box and brought him outside. But I didn`t have the heart to kill him and I just let him off.

Originally posted by twiceasnice97:
if you have no problem with mice and then start to hear scratching in the attic and mice appear the possibilty is that you have rats in the attic.

unless you have a ton of mice you generally wont hear them.

rats hunt mice so their arrival drives mice out into areas where they wouldnt normally be seen at times they dont like.

incidentally rats do not come in to houses looking for food, they are generally only looking for shelter to nest.

dont screw around with mouse traps get rentokill in there and be done with it particularly if like east you have small kids