The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on May 04, 2012, 09:17:54 am
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this morning I found a dead mouse outside my baking cabinet. It had nibbled on the bottom of the door, prised it open and gourged itself on self-raising flour. That will teach them ::)...just a shame that now I have to chuck the damaged bags and clean the whole cupboard out - have other things to do!!! ::)
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At least it was dead!!
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I had one in my bathroom yesterday. I set the dogs on it but they were being idiots so it hid and they gave up. Hopefully they gave it a big enough fright that it will go somewhere else. I did feel a bit watched on the loo though ;D
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Hope you didn,t bury it - all that self-raising flour might come back
from the dead :o :o
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can't have been a nice death having baking powder expanding in your stomach on body temperature....I prefer the traps as the cat's useless! :&>
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That's what I put down for rats and mice in my garage and near the duck house - with added baking powder. Don't have any sympathy for the dirty things I'm afraid
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I had a mouse in the kitchen and put a trap down before I went to work.
The trap caught the mouse but by its back half. Obviously the mouse had still been alive and tried to get away by going under the skirting board. The front half of the mouse got under the board but the back half, with trap attached couldn't make it.
By the time I got home from work the mouse was dead and rigor mortice had set in so when I tried to get the mouse out it snapped in half, leaving the front half stuck under the skirting board. ;D ;D
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Oh yuk!
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at least you got it and probably had a good feed before it expired.
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the other day I had to set a well hidden trap in the living room (as the cat is useless as I said ), imagine what she brought me to my bed in the morning as a present - a mouse with the trap attached ::) :cat: - and she wanted praise for it, too ! :&>
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What a clever kitty :D
My kittens used to add to the house livestock by bringing in mice, shrews and voles live and then letting them go. The house has 3ft stone walls, with a rubble infill. The wee beasties would disappear though a gap and just join in the party going on inside the wall ::) At least it used to keep said kittens amused, sitting by the holes listening, and waiting in hope :D
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I had a plague of mice in the kitchen after the farmer next door ploughed. I have a pet Jack Russell and he is spoilt rotten, but believe it or not, he killed everyone of then in a day or two, in manic fashion - I mean, I am talking about a dog who lives in the country and won't step outside if it's a bit cold or especially if its raining!! I am so proud of him :love:
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mice have feelings too you know!!
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ye they feel furry :D :farmer:
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Our Jack Russell X does a constant vermin patrol. He's damn fast when he sees a mouse - just a blur.
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The dogs are useless. When our old cats were here one regularly brought live voles and mice in.
Myself and OH would be franticly trying to catch the little vermin on our hands and knees with boxes and cups while the cats and dogs sat on the sofas watching in glee ::)
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What a clever kitty :D
My kittens used to add to the house livestock by bringing in mice, shrews and voles live and then letting them go. The house has 3ft stone walls, with a rubble infill. The wee beasties would disappear though a gap and just join in the party going on inside the wall ::) At least it used to keep said kittens amused, sitting by the holes listening, and waiting in hope :D
That's exactly what happens here! Fred brings them in alive, sometimes only as far as the kitchen, sometimes into the lounge. They then hide under the sofas so he sits one side Tabitha sits the other and they wait there for hours on end hoping it will make an appearance. I then usually find "bits" on the rug the following morning. Thanks Fred!!
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I use a lemonade bottle with a bit of chocolate inside the bottle is placed at a slight angle so that once the mouse is in it cant get out because of the angle and the slippy glass. Can be released safely well away from the house. Big softy but cant see the point in killing the wee thing.
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The dogs are useless. When our old cats were here one regularly brought live voles and mice in.
Myself and OH would be franticly trying to catch the little vermin on our hands and knees with boxes and cups while the cats and dogs sat on the sofas watching in glee ::)
Probably enjoying the show.