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

[Dizaster]

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....

[greynotsoold]

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.

[generalbulldog]

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.

[greynotsoold]

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

[No Contest]

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

[Dizaster]

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...

[0james0]

I used to work in an office at the end of two terraces, used to have a mouse problem.

I wanted traps from hell, but we had some tree huggers in the office that wanted humane. We settled on poisons.

Killed the mice, some of them. The problem was that with poison they don't die straight away, they pull a whightey and go off and curl up
somewhere random and secluded. Then die.

This is all well and good, apart from after a few days they start to rot. It might only be small, but when they die they fucking stink! One mouse reaks worse than you could imagine. A few dotted around and you've got a real smell problem.

If you do catch him in that 6 hour phone camera window, you'll have to post the video. What ever the outcome!

[Dizaster]

Finally got him! I recorded about 10 hours all up but don't think it even saw him once...

It was finally the cheese that got him... I knew after he took the first bit yesterday morning that the next time he was hungry, it would be snap time... and sure enough he got his just deserts.. Unfortunately no footage as it happened while I was at work...

Case finally closed..

Human always wins in the end..

[amat]

Now just hope it was a mouse and not mice.

[Gandalf]

You should cook the little bugger and eat him as a reward. I saw an ant in my kitchen area the other day and crushed it with a dictionary. Each and every one will get the same treatment. I don't want pets.

[CutMeMick]