Evicted our lodger yesterday!

[Hector]

get a cat. maybe 2-3 of them.

More pests?

I have tons of stray tomcats peeing and pooing all over my yard...I want to assassinate every single one of them...

[Zemo]

Oh man, I love the way you make this sound as if it's an actual person.

"CRAPPED IN A DRAWER???"


Well, at least you were humane about it.

lol, me to! That would make do a lot more than draw a line.

[Meule]

Oh man, I love the way you make this sound as if it's an actual person.

"CRAPPED IN A DRAWER???"


Well, at least you were humane about it.

Yeah, up till here I thought it was a person too

[vintage spideyfan]

Stay vigilant. You never know when they may start borrowing your socks.

HA!!!!!!!!!

[Mikey]

Cute mice (and rats) killed almost half of Europe at one time.

Kill them on site.

[Duncan]

Use the old fashioned snap traps with peanut butter on them.

So, I have meeses out in my garage. I recently set 4 of these traps w/ peanut butter, and damn if the little bastages didn't lick 'em clean without setting off a single one.

[fallensaviour]

I would never recommend poison. They go off someplace in you walls and die, then stink and rot for a few days, then breed who knows what all molds and decomp buggies.

Use the old fashioned snap traps with peanut butter on them. As soon as you start catching smaller ones you know you are beginning to win, as the young are venturing out looking for food, since monny and daddy didn't come home.

I am not some viscious killer, and I generally have a soft spot for critters, but after numerous battles with these pesky and determined guys, I find that total war is the most effective methodology if you really want to get rid of them. And there are always more than 1.

I couldn't agree more I have battled these vermin for years across many provinces I've tried to be humane but in the end snap trap and peanut butter is what it boils down to.
Kill,kill,kill...
Get a cat that's as humane as I would get now.Mother nature knows what to do.
They spread disease and are filthy little buggers.

[fallensaviour]

So, I have meeses out in my garage. I recently set 4 of these traps w/ peanut butter, and damn if the little bastages didn't lick 'em clean without setting off a single one.

Try putting a wire or paper in the end of the trap and cover with peanut butter that usually ends that trick real quick.
I had that problem once.Only once.

[steelcouch]

I am opposite of your situation. My neighbor three houses down has like twenty cats and they all come to my yard for some reason. Some of them mill under the house. We have no mice. Now have to figure out how to get rid of the cats.

[saildog]

We have no mice. Now have to figure out how to get rid of the cats.

A dog, then a goat, then a horse....don't know what would come after that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC_xO...eature=related

[Gorn Captain]

I ruled out poison, because:
A. It's a terrible way to die, they bleed to death on the inside
B. I have a Jack Russell (retired mouse catcher), who would eat dying mice (RIP, doggie)...

I ruled out those "snap traps", because I'm a big softie. If the mouse were still alive, I'd probably nurse it back to health.

Which leaves the little cages with a treat on the inside.
I've caught two now, but I think they're getting smarter....

I can always beam them to a Klingon ship, though....

[Gorn Captain]

How exactly did you know that the other guy was his cousin?

When he came for a drink, my lazy Jack Russell just stopped him and said: "Let's see some ID first, mister!"

[Sandman9580]

If the mouse were still alive, I'd probably nurse it back to health.

I had a mouse problem a few years ago. They had gotten into the food cupboards and I decided snap traps were the way to go. I felt a little bit guilty but rationalized it by thinking it would be quick and painless. One morning I was in the kitchen, about to rush out the door to a doctor's appointment, and I heard squeaking from the trap-loaded cupboard. I thought, "That mouse is walking through a minefield", and left the house.

I came back maybe an hour and a half later, and heard the exact same squeaking coming from the cupboard. I opened the cupboard door, and right in front of me there was a little mouse, with its little foot caught in the trap, and the trap was upside-down, and the mouse was dangling over the edge of the shelf. He'd been trapped in the space between the shelf and the cupboard door for who-knows-how-long. I was horrified, and immediately went into pre-adolescent girl mode, blurting out something like "Oh no! Did you get your foot trapped Mr. Mousy?!?" I grabbed a plastic grocery bag, threw on a pair of gloves, put him in the bag and went to the backyard. I carefully lifted the wire bar, and the little guy scurried away through the grass... dragging his flattened, lifeless leg behind him.

Well, I'm pretty far from being a vegan, but torturing small animals has never been high up there on my list of hobbies. Humane traps are the way to go.

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Yeah, stuff like that is why I'm willing to use poison, though I don't feel good about it.

Here's something that struck me as ironic: when I went to the grocery looking for mouse traps & poison, I found those products on their 'seasonal' aisle. So...at this time of year, they keep deadly poison just down the aisle from Halloween candy. WTH?