Mice a-crapping on the bike? I don't think so!

tardington

Was half heartedly pootering in the bike room/cupboard (it would be a cupboard except it has windows. Cue occasional sly puffs of... cigarettes)

BUT not today OH NO

For VERMIN had chosen to poo! Poo upon the steed! Should they die? Of course they should!



And just on the slight chance this doesn't work, a proper one tucked round the corner...



Possible update tomorrow!

ADDS btw that is chocolate spread, with a bit of salad stuck in. Mouse heaven, apparently. :twisted:

DavidTQ

I had mice in the cellar for a while, I didnt have much luck with the traditional mouse traps baited with chocolate - only caught two in quite a while, and I got fed up of them managing to take the bate spring the trap but not get caught... I used some poison stuff as well which didnt seem to work so well, I ended up using rabbit food in a "humane" trap - one which caught them alive rather than killing them. Caught loads like that, put them in an old fish tank in the living room with sawdust for the kids. They stayed there until the kids managed to let them out for the third time at which point I turfed the mice out in a hedge near work.

woodyonthebeach

My parents used to super glue smoked bacon onto the traps. That seemed to work very well.

Or it could be time to get a cat........

DavidTQ

Might also be worth warning you that mice arent picky eaters, they WILL eat bar tape, tyres, saddles etc etc if they hungry. We had mice at work a good few years ago, and they were managing to drag of bars of soap from the toilets and eat them... they really were prepared to eat anything...

always_tyred

You could get humane traps, dude.

Personally, I have cats.

woodyonthebeach

DavidTQ wrote:

Might also be worth warning you that mice arent picky eaters, they WILL eat bar tape, tyres, saddles etc etc if they hungry. We had mice at work a good few years ago, and they were managing to drag of bars of soap from the toilets and eat them... they really were prepared to eat anything...

at least they were clean mice

Fireblade96

Sultanas are my bait of choice. You can stick them onto the trap well enough that mice can't just lift them off and scarper.

And humane traps ? WTF ?? The vermin have sh@t on your bike - kill 'em !!!

gtvlusso

It's Russian Hamsters!!!!! They are absolute b*stards!!!! And Bite allot.

shoulder_of_orion

Fireblade96 wrote:

And humane traps ? WTF ?? The vermin have sh@t on your bike - kill 'em !!!

+1

My bait of choice is butter it works a charm. It is a bit gross getting rid of the dead mouse or even worse a half alive one.

I think it's the breeding season. Traps are all well and good but I just can't seem to get rid of the little feckers.

I think I'm the market for a cat, but then I might have to get a dog to keep the cat in line and a wolf to look after the dog and a bear to keep the wolf in check and before you know it you need a crazed chimpanzee with a whip to control all the animals.... next thing you know the chimp is drinking your beer and shagging your wife!

I wish there was a mouse nuetron bomb that would vaporise all mice within 200 feet but leave everything else as it is...

Christophe3967

Pulling into the office underground car park this morning and there's a very large rat giving me a stare. The blighters are getting cocky. And someone's parked a Golf in my parking space :evil:

tardington

No deaths as yet!

Humane traps, hmm. Not aware of mouse shortage I have to say!

DavidTQ

Fireblade96 wrote:

Sultanas are my bait of choice. You can stick them onto the trap well enough that mice can't just lift them off and scarper.

And humane traps ? WTF ?? The vermin have sh@t on your bike - kill 'em !!!

I didnt use humane traps for humane reasons , I tried regular traps and poison first. I was just willing to give anything a go as the little beggars got smart enough to trip the traditional trap carefully first then raid the bait. They seemed to wise up to the poison thing fast as well...

As it happens I found the mice fell for the humane traps regularly, and even repeatedly - after the kids let a mouse escape it would still fall for the humane trap again :shock: ... You can of course kill a mouse even once its been caught in a humane trap. I just figured it was less messy to turf them out in the wilds and let the owls have a feast.

I also tried a mouse repelling noise emitter thing, I wasnt at all convinced by that...

tardington

That is a good idea - the proper ones (ie not from tesco) seem to do the trick. Our friend in the country basically lives in a sea of mice - killer traps just fill up and the furry wave sweeps over them and into the food cupboard...

vorsprung

There are robins nesting inside our garage

The missus won't let me exterminate and expel them

They are crapping on all the bikes

boneyjoe

Perhaps if you bought some teeny mice bikes they'd leave yours alone?

tardington

Quite possibly the best idea so far.

lost_in_thought

@teeny mice bikes

I poisoned them. It's very effective. Very effective indeed.

However, if you go down the poison route, you ought to try and find either a) where they're nesting or b) how they get in. Dead mice do stink after a while, you see, but only ever for a couple of weeks while they dry out.

CiB

Shoulder of Orion wrote:

I think I'm the market for a cat, but then I might have to get a dog to keep the cat in line and a wolf to look after the dog and a bear to keep the wolf in check and before you know it you need a crazed chimpanzee with a whip to control all the animals.... next thing you know the chimp is drinking your beer and shagging your wife!

Blimey yeah, tell me about it... You'd think that the message would hit home first time round, but here we are on our third chimp in two years.

A gun. That solves it. Problem is, you've never got your gun when you need it, I always find.

shoulder_of_orion

ChrisInBicester wrote:

A gun. That solves it. Problem is, you've never got your gun when you need it, I always find.

It's funny you should mention this, cos my mum has a farmhouse in France and they had a snake problem in one of the barns. Her fella is literally petrified of snakes so he bought a shotgun. They don't have a snake problem anymore....

...last year, we thought we'd apply the same logic to the mouse problem that had developed after the snakes "left". The little buggers are hard to hit I tell ya! I think they have developed some kinda Matrix-like ability to dodge shotgun pellets. We got a few but we didn't get rid of the problem. :evil:

Bikerbaboon

DavidTQ wrote:

I had mice in the cellar for a while, I didnt have much luck with the traditional mouse traps baited with chocolate - only caught two in quite a while, and I got fed up of them managing to take the bate spring the trap but not get caught... I used some poison stuff as well which didnt seem to work so well, I ended up using rabbit food in a "humane" trap - one which caught them alive rather than killing them. Caught loads like that, put them in an old fish tank in the living room with sawdust for the kids. They stayed there until the kids managed to let them out for the third time at which point I turfed the mice out in a hedge near work.

Quick word of advise.

Dont use rat poisen with the traditional traps.

the poisen makes the mice die from internal bleeding...... the traditional traps cause a poping action if they get a near death mouse..... :shock:

cee

my faither has a squirrel nesting in his attic....he has tried 'scaring it' with a catapult...blocking off any gaps etc....it always comes back.

DavidTQ

Bikerbaboon wrote:

DavidTQ wrote:

I had mice in the cellar for a while, I didnt have much luck with the traditional mouse traps baited with chocolate - only caught two in quite a while, and I got fed up of them managing to take the bate spring the trap but not get caught... I used some poison stuff as well which didnt seem to work so well, I ended up using rabbit food in a "humane" trap - one which caught them alive rather than killing them. Caught loads like that, put them in an old fish tank in the living room with sawdust for the kids. They stayed there until the kids managed to let them out for the third time at which point I turfed the mice out in a hedge near work.

Quick word of advise.

Dont use rat poisen with the traditional traps.

the poisen makes the mice die from internal bleeding...... the traditional traps cause a poping action if they get a near death mouse..... :shock:

Sounds messy, will have to remember that. I tried the poison after mice seemed to figure out the traditional traps didnt try them at the same time. When the traditional traps do catch a otherise healthy mouse it was normally with enough force to flatten the point on their head where it caught them, literally squished flat. I did once find just a leg as well,possibly one got a bit careless when triggering the trap to get at the bait.

CiB

Bikerbaboon wrote:

Quick word of advise.

Dont use rat poisen with the traditional traps.

the poisen makes the mice die from internal bleeding...... the traditional traps cause a poping action if they get a near death mouse..... :shock:

PMSL. Do the mice take on the appearance of John Paul II, big white robe, red pointy hat, out-dated attitudes to all things modern, preachy manner?



Sorry.

tardington

I think my girlfriend is not taking this SERIOUSLY



Also this casts doubt upon the original poo...

lost_in_thought

Put out poison.... go on.... you know you want to...

tardington

Yes. In the cornflakes tomorrow. :twisted:

Lots of mice there.