There's a moose loose aboot the hoose!!!!

[MJH]

Originally Posted by Scubee

Oh dear... i still can't green you, helen! I think my green button is broken!

I given her a green from both of us - made me laugh too

[Hickdive]

You need a Quackenbush

Quackenbush Air Guns

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by Scubee

,.... remove it (without killing it) from my house.

Why not? You'd be doing it a favour; how would ytou like to be a mouse?

Get one of those live-traps from the hardware/DIY store/supermarket. Once it's got one inside, you just drop it in a bucket of water and go and have a cup of tea.

[scuba steve irl]

best soultion .

go find "not my cat" he was agressive and would do the job rather than the lazy mogies you have

problem solved

[Garf]

the cats will win in the end. I watched my wife once dismantle the living room looking for a mouse one of the cats had brought in. When she found it she lovingly and carefully caught it and took it to the far end of the garden, far away from the cats who were watching her with a bemused expression from the house windows, and put it down on the ground, safe in the bushes.

The moment she opened the door to go back in, two monsters teared past her and dissapeared into the bushes. Five minutes later there came a howling form the back garden as one of the cats wanted to show for us the modern art she had created on the patio entitled "mouse eats hand grenade".

since then my wife just lets the cats get on with it, they usually get bored playing in the end and take it out into the garden to diembowel/fling around.

[warmwaterdiver]

Originally Posted by DIVE BUDDHA

dont talk to me about any form of chocolate !

o that reminds me a call to gary for tommorows diving to make sure he has copiuos amounts of choccy in the car lol!

thought you was on a diet?

[Scubee]

Well.... I have been out all morning, and when we got back both cats were having a snooze in their favourite spots.
that means one of two things.... They either found, caught and removed it and had a well deserved snooze afterwards or they are lazy bu88ers and have slept away the whole morning.

My money is on the latter. Ho hum. I hope they haven't put it in a shoe like my sisters cat did with one. My neice didn't realise until halfway through a netball match that her shoes were a bit uncomfy

[frosty the snowman]

Originally Posted by purple vonny

I'm sure there are some mouse catching experts on here who will be along soon.

Hello yes and here I am. Having lived in an old farm building in the middle of Dartmoor, I have considerable experience in this area! I'm not in a position to say too much about the use of cats in mouse eradication since, as I've mentioned before, the best use of a cat, in my opinion, is as a key component of a Davey Crocket hat (there being insufficient meat on them for a decent Sunday lunch).

I've tried all sorts of mouse solutions. Poison works well but you run the risk of coming home from the pub and mistaking it for instant coffee. Those snappy traps are also not without risk, particularly if placed close to ones nocturnal route to the bog and even more so if such a journey is undertaken without slippers.

To be honest, the most effective method was to use electric traps which lured the mouse in with bait, then when it stepped on two metal plates the current flowed, instantly zapping the creature.

I tried the humane traps that catch the mouse and hold it so that you can set it free outside and if baited with chocolate or peanut butter they work very well but the mice just kept coming back since they'd found a source of their two favourite foods!

[Big Kahuna]

........but stream it live so we can all have some ammusement

[purple vonny]

Proof that they caught and ate it is usually that bit of squiggly bowel on the carpet isn't it?