Never! I shall fight them in the cupboards, I shall fight them on the countertops, I shall fight them in the dark corners of the cellar...I shall never surrender!
(But I'd take a draw -- they agree to stay outside, and I agree to leave them alone.)
RCB
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River_City_Bantam Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant P.L. 20/21 Top 10Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...Bronco and Idlebantam like this.
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Most of our local cats are too well fed to bother eating mice, birds etc.
They just enjoy teasing them till they are dead, then leave them.
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And so the situation remained, until about 15 minutes ago. Mouse appears, has some toast, or tomato, or apple, or wooden spoon (!), and disappears again, for days or even weeks on end. As my electronic traps had all been ignored, on Saturday I bought some old-fashioned snap-traps, baited them with Dorset Drum cheddar, and awaited developments. And yes, there were developments...today I saw that the mouse had managed to nick the cheese off all the traps, without getting caught itself.
Small furry rodent with a cheese fixation several gazillion, RCB nil.
No more cheddar in the house, so rebaited with peanut butter and apple pieces, and yet again awaited developments. Snap! Clatter! RCB goes to investigate, and finds a mouse that has ceased to be, has gone to join the choir invisible, has snuffed it... T]he old ways are still the best. But what do you do with a corpse at 0030 in the morning? Bury it in the garden, of course... Well, no, not quite -- far too dark out there, and the neighbours might get suspicious. So I just moved it with trap outside, and will bury it tomorrow.
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A nice juicey piece of melon peel always works on an old-fashioned trap. No electronics needed.
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The mice will always win in the end,
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Frank Castle CaptainModerator P.L. 20/21 Entrant Supporter
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Have you killed any yet?
Or still being humiliated by little rodents?
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Aaaah....very enigmatic Sir.
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Curses and other naughty words!
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Don’t bury it, just leave it somewhere for the local fox/cat to feast on
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Our cat is the main cause of any rodent problems we have. It's very good at catching them, but prefers torture to killing.
Invariably it brings the little buggers in through the cat flap, then they escape and we have to deal with catching them.
The half dead ones are easy to catch but not a nice situation. The ones released unharmed we then have to get with traps. We have a humane trap with a pressure plate trigger which is pretty successful.