Thread: Me vs Mouse... The little bastard is winning....

Somehow I think on Friday, a mouse has got into my bedroom... I layed out a couple of traps Saturday night, but it just won't touch them... I cleaned out some mess that was under the bed so that there is no where for it to hide, but it appears it has made a nest inside on of my drawers...

He is such a little shit... Over the past 4 days I have added another 6 traps, totaling 8.. They are all placed around the set of drawers that he inhabits, but the little bastard literally keeps running around them.. I have a couple under upside down shoe boxes so that he feels a bit more hidden, but still the little prick has avoided them...

The biggest insult was about an hour ago... I saw a little spot where he could creep out from under the drawers.. I have a literal mind field of traps at every other exit, but there was one little gap I figured he could get out.. So I put down my most prized trap loaded with cheese right at that exit...
I come back no less than 5 minutes later and the f'n cheese is gone, trap still loaded... I was so mad about that... Now the bastard is probably full and won't need to feed for another day..

But i've reloaded that trap with better cheese that will be harder to remove from the trap.. And i've also made it a little bit more sensitive so it will go off easier, but so far he hasn't gone back for it.... I'm always one step behind this little bastard and it is now turning into a battle of wits..

I have now added technology to my side though, and set up my camera phone near the cheese... It can record for something like 6 hours before going flat, so if he comes out again, I will witness it.... Either his crafty ways of removing cheese from my trap, or his glorious demise... But the waiting game sucks.. And I have to stay out of my bedroom which is further proof of his current victory over me....

You must be a young man, or you would know better than to mess with a mouse. People of my generation grew up on cartoons and we know just how dangerous a mouse can be.
Are you familiar with Sylvester the cat? A stout and manly cat was Sylvester until he encountered a mouse with bad intent. Humbled was Sylvester. Jerry the cat was no match for Tom the mouse, nor could Jinx the cat withstand the onslaught of Trixie and Dixie.
Once, I was confronted by mice. I opened a cupboard and one ran across my foot; lucky for him I had no shoes on. I leaped upon a chair, screaming my war cry: "Eek, a mouse!!" He escaped my wrath but, the next day and in open combat, I slew one with a well placed shoe. After that, I let slip the dog of war- my collie Belle, and she slew many....
I could go on and on, but, unless your Bugs Bunny (or maybe Daffy Duck, on a good day), you mess with a mouse, you're fucked.

I had a mouse problem once, I just used one of those sticky mouse traps and put a little food on it. The fucker was dead.

BTW, Tom is the cat and Jerry is the mouse to the other poster.

See? That's how bad a mouse can mess you up.

At least its not a rat. I hate those meeses to pieces.

Originally Posted by No Contest

At least its not a rat. I hate those meeses to pieces.

When I went to stock up and traps and saw the size of the rat ones, I was thinking the same thing.. Thank god it's not a rat the size of my foot... The traps are about 15 inches long! You could catch a Jack Russel in one...

I knew it the moment he took that piece of cheese earlier.. Hasn't peeped his head out since... I'm going out for a couple of hours now... Hopefully I come back to find a dead body...

One good thing about having rats...You know you don't have mice!

would you like to borrow my cat? she's a killer

I had a mouse problem. Moved into my new home about 5 months ago and heard little scrablings above me coming from the loft. For the longest time I convinced myself it was old rickety pipe work until my Cat had caught one!
Had to pay the council to come and put a ton of poison in the loft and a few other places. There dead and gone now thank fuck!

Bait the trap with peanut butter.

Originally Posted by Ghost

Bait the trap with peanut butter.

I've got 6 peanut butter traps and 2 cheese.. Seems to be ignoring the peanut butter though and going for the cheese... I'd never heard of peanut butter until I read it on one of the traps I bought today...

Hopefully over night it gets hungry and eats... Now about 7 hours since it took that piece of cheese straight off the trap... It's got a massive chunk sitting on a knives edge with this one trap.... If he manages to get it off that one without taking damage then i'll give him that..... But it's a shit sleep hearing him banging all the time...

Any of your friends have a Jack Russel? Let one of those loose on him, they'll put an end to his mousely shennanigans once and for all. There are a number of dogs that were bred to hunt mice and rats...the Rat Terrier for one.

Funny story about my dog (he's a hound mix by the way), but when he was young, maybe a year or 2 we had a mouse in my parent's house and they had cornered the mouse in one room though they still couldn't find it. Well my mom was on the sofa and she saw the mouse run across the room and like a Tom and Jerry cartoon she stood up on the sofa and shrieked and my dog, the killer that he is jumped up on the sofa right behind her as if he was just as scared as she was .......I've since taught him better, though he still doesn't have a clue about how to sneak up on a squirrel or rabbit and I doubt he has a clue of what to do with one if he ever caught one...probably because I keep him so well fed, the spoiled little doggy.

The thing is now you have shared these moments with this mouse it will prob upset you when you eventually do kill it.

Cats are great mouse catchers... lend one for a day thats all it will take.

use chocolate in the traps and if you don't want to feel evil buy a humane trap and release it outside.

Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy

use chocolate in the traps and if you don't want to feel evil buy a humane trap and release it outside.

Preferably somewhere far away. Maybe even your place of work.