• How to get rid of mouses without a trap.
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Hi, I recently encountered the most terrifying thing I have ever saw, a mouse climbed up my clothes rack, well mainly my clothes and I don't even know how it got up there, I want to know if there is another way besides mouse traps since we don't have any at the moment. Also I want to know if a mouse can climb up cords, since that is the only possible way I think it can get up.
Fire.
cheese.
Cats.
[QUOTE=Xonax;44310854]Hi, I recently encountered the most terrifying thing I have ever saw, a mouse climbed up my clothes rack, well mainly my clothes and I don't even know how it got up there, I want to know if there is another way besides mouse traps since we don't have any at the moment. Also I want to know if a mouse can climb up cords, since that is the only possible way I think it can get up.[/QUOTE] If its not a thin, weak cord then yes, mice can climb cords. A long time ago we had a mouse climb up a standard brown extension cord into our kitchen cabinet. I gotta go with the cat suggestion. Mice would show up every winter until we got our cat. Last time I saw a mouse was 7 years ago. Dunno how it got in the apartment, all I know was it was dead in the middle of the living room when I got home and my cat was to thank.
I remember some simple trap design that involved using a deep bowl (like a large popcorn bowl or something) with a layer of cooking oil at the bottom. Maybe a small scrap of bait food to lure them in. What happens is the mouse falls into the bowl, then the cooking oil makes it too slippery for them to climb back out. Found the video, description says the method was discovered on accident. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tBO5JikbAs[/media] [quote=video author]Here's the story: Bowl with some extra Vegetable cooking oil that was going to be re-used was left on top of the stove. Turned out to be one hell of a mouse trap, as when I woke up the next morning I found these three stupid critters stuck in the bowl. Bowl was given to the super of my building, and God knows what he did to them. End of story :)[/quote]
Option 1: buy a cat. Option 2: buy a BB gun. [editline]21st March 2014[/editline] Option 3: wear large shoes.
[QUOTE=Wizudd bird;44310953]Cats.[/QUOTE] I agree. The only problem is with cats, expect to wake up at some stupid time whilst sleeping to the sight of the cats playing around with the mouse :v:
[QUOTE=BLOODGA$M;44311037]I remember some simple trap design that involved using a deep bowl (like a large popcorn bowl or something) with a layer of cooking oil at the bottom. Maybe a small scrap of bait food to lure them in. What happens is the mouse falls into the bowl, then the cooking oil makes it too slippery for them to climb back out.[/QUOTE] This is better done with a big bucket, then you leave it on the edge of your kitchen counter (next to/below the counter, I mean.) The mice drop in, can't get out. You can also do this with water instead of oil, so the mice will eventually get tired of swimming and just drown. Or stick with the food, and when you think you've caught all the mice, seal it up and let them eat each other, then kill the survivor(s).
[QUOTE=Hazardous Melon;44311066]I agree. The only problem is with cats, expect to wake up at some stupid time whilst sleeping to the sight of the cats playing around with the mouse :v:[/QUOTE] Could be worse. They could have ripped the mouse apart in the night and left its little head in the pair of pants you left on the floor that night. [editline]21st March 2014[/editline] True story, by the way. Head to peel it off the inside of my pant leg because the blood had dried. Freaked the shit out of me.
[QUOTE=TAU!;44311069]seal it up and let them eat each other,[/QUOTE] I hope you're not serious. I would catch them and let them out somewhere far away, like in the woods or something.
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;44311367]I hope you're not serious. I would catch them and let them out somewhere far away, like in the woods or something.[/QUOTE] So they can get eaten by other animals? Same difference. They might even find their way into someone else's home and become a problem for them. Rats and mice thrive obnoxiously in a human environment, and they become disgusting pests. They're on par with roaches when it comes to survival and how often they reproduce. They carry diseases, they shit [i]everywhere[/i], they move in and make babies like these truly are the last days on earth. They will live almost [i]anywhere[/i], and if they live long enough to reproduce, then they will become a massive problem. Living in a big city doesn't exactly teach you to be nice to pests. If I could relocate them all to a place where they'd be the equivalent of grass to cows, then I'd do it. But I can't. If you encounter mice and rats, or roaches, in a human environment then the ultimate solution is to destroy them. Keep rooting them out and exterminating them until there are none left. As cruel and "inhumane" as that might sound, I find it inhumane to allow them to thrive any further and make their way into any home, where they can spread like a plague. As long as they're out in the wild and nowhere near a house, they aren't a problem.
[QUOTE=Hazardous Melon;44311066]I agree. The only problem is with cats, expect to wake up at some stupid time whilst sleeping to the sight of the cats playing around with the mouse :v:[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=The_J_Hat;44311088]Could be worse. They could have ripped the mouse apart in the night and left its little head in the pair of pants you left on the floor that night.[/QUOTE] I've had both situations happen. On one hand, I've found recently killed mice left in or in the vicinity of my shoes. On the other, the other cat I used to have has actually goomba'ed/squashed(he WAS heavy for a cat, wasn't always mine either)a mouse. I get called in at 3 in the morning to see what he was so excited about and lo and behold he is happily batting and tossing around a flattened mouse.
One simple, no-kill trap: Take three books (two, maybe four depending on thickness), and stack them. Take a Pringles can (or a Quaker Oats can. . .just has to be reasonably tall), and prop it diagonally up on the books, with the mouth of the can at the top of the books, and the bottom edge on the floor. Put a glob of peanut butter in the bottom of the can, and have a ruler leading up to the mouth, like a ramp, with little dabs of peanut butter along the length of it. Mouse smells the peanut butter, and runs up the ramp. It crawls into the can to get at the larger glob. His weight makes the can tip upright, and he can't get out. Take the can outside, and turn him loose a couple blocks from your house. Edit: Might be a good idea to stack up some books on either side of the can, so it can't fall over on its side. Edit 2: Of course, if you don't care about killing the mice, snap traps work just fine. Pieces of fast food chicken nuggets work well as bait. Peanut butter's better. . .it sticks to the bait plate, so the mouse can't just snatch it off without springing the trap.
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;44311367]I hope you're not serious. I would catch them and let them out somewhere far away, like in the woods or something.[/QUOTE] And let them get into someone else's house? I used to get the mice and toss them outside (I live near a forest, so I figured it wasn't a big deal). A few days later, they would always find their way back inside. It's just a pain in the ass. Killing them, as much as I hate it, is the only real option.
Tactical nukes.
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;44311367]I hope you're not serious. I would catch them and let them out somewhere far away, like in the woods or something.[/QUOTE] There's a reason why rodents in general are used for scientific tests. They are smarter than your average pest. As cute as they look, they ain't easy to get rid of
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;44311048]Option 3: wear large shoes.[/QUOTE] You forgot 'don't have any food in your house at any time'.
Mouses hate the smell of human urine and the pheromones it release, so if you piss everywhere they will automatically leave.
Spearmint.
Nerve gas [I]and[/I] cats, just be sure to give the cats gas masks first.
Remove all food from your house. Lock all doors and windows. Cut off phone and internet. Blacken your windows. Disconnect electricity. Basically sever yourself from the outside world. Engage them indirectly. This is a war of attrition. They will starve before you do, hold onto yourself and hope. If you see them cowering in their holes, mothers comforting their children, stare at them. Let them know you will dominate them. With time they will either starve to death or slowly turn on each other and engage in cannibalism until there are none left. That is when you are victorious. You have become dehumanised by madness and starvation but you are master of your dwelling once again. Worst case scenario is your rat eaten corpse is found 2 years later by the land lord under a covering of shit piss and starved rat corpses.
[QUOTE=IronLawnmower;44321449]Remove all food from your house. Lock all doors and windows. Cut off phone and internet. Blacken your windows. Disconnect electricity. Basically sever yourself from the outside world. Engage them indirectly. This is a war of attrition. They will starve before you do, hold onto yourself and hope. If you see them cowering in their holes, mothers comforting their children, stare at them. Let them know you will dominate them. With time they will either starve to death or slowly turn on each other and engage in cannibalism until there are none left. That is when you are victorious. You have become dehumanised by madness and starvation but you are master of your dwelling once again. Worst case scenario is your rat eaten corpse is found 2 years later by the land lord under a covering of shit piss and starved rat corpses.[/QUOTE] what the fuck
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Put a sedative into a piece of cheese. When the mouse takes the bait, and loses conciousness, set up a camera, rape the mouse, and post the pics/video to a popular revenge porn site, with the title "MOUSE SLUT ASKS FOR IT!" Send links to the Facebook accounts of all his mouse friends and family. The mouse will be shunned by all of his friends and family (it's a little-known fact that mice are by and large Muslim, and view rape victims as "tainted" in the eyes of Allah. If it's gay rape, doubly so), and other mice will think twice before taking up residence in your house. If they don't, repeat the process, as they're totally asking for it. No killing or traps required.
Keep them mice are adorable
Get some cheese and put poison on it.
[QUOTE=Blazedol;44325133]Keep them mice are adorable[/QUOTE] Adorable rabies spreading bastards.
[QUOTE=Blazedol;44325133]Keep them mice are adorable[/QUOTE] Domesticated mice are. Filthy, rabies infested, exponentially breeding, gross wild mice, not so much.
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