rat poison

[Dark Savante]

today i saw a tiny mouse in my room, my room is above my outhouse and some shoddy builders left a gap in the ceiling which was supposed to be plastered correctly (this is how the mouse (I hope it isn't mice) got in and out of my room.

I've got no idea how long this little fecker has been visiting my room as I've barely been home the past few weeks and only caught sight of the wee shite by accident today.

Anyway. I want it dead. How should I go about executing the little insurgent?

The problem I have is that between the outhouse and my room there are obviously floorboards, and if I put down rat poison and the mouse eats it, I am worried it'll keel over inbetween the floor boards rather than conk out in my room or in the outhouse... I don't want a decompsing mouse betwixt me floorboards...

So then, are any of you skilled and/or knowledgeable about such things? Is the rat poison floorboard thing a legitimate concern or have i got that wrong?

Aside from that method, what else is available to me outside of a rat trap?

:o

[MtP07]

Go with the rat trap. I'd get it before the missus sees him.

[Numquam Moribimur]

why don't you just hire a scouser ? :eek:

[Republic of Mancunia]

Saw a mouse in my kitchen around this time last year and ended up catching 4 of the little bleeders with a couple of mouse traps baited with peanut butter.

If you're gonna go down that route, I think it said on the instructions to place them near walls, corners or in front of cupboards where you've seen 'em as their eye-sight is poor and they often need the walls etc. to guide 'em. After a while they will continue to follow the same route instinctively as they can pick up their own scent and that of others believing its safe.

Should I be ashamed for knowing so much about this? :p

[barthez4]

http://beachcave.net/gifs/daemon_hammer.jpg


A hammer and some Converse's.

[Dark Savante]

Saw a mouse in my kitchen around this time last year and ended up catching 4 of the little bleeders with a couple of mouse traps baited with peanut butter.

If you're gonna go down that route, I think it said on the instructions to place them near walls, corners or in front of cupboards where you've seen 'em as their eye-sight is poor and they often need the walls etc. to guide 'em. After a while they will continue to follow the same route instinctively as they can pick up their own scent and that of others believing its safe.

Should I be ashamed for knowing so much about this? :p

I've seen the little bugger about 8 times now - having removed all our stuff and furniture from the wall that leads to his in/out access point. It's only about 5cm's, if that! If it wasn't vermin I'd think it was cute, even.

Beings as you sound like a seasoned pro.. :p .. I wanted to ask you about splatter.

How much mess do these little critters make when you actually catch one? I have a nice carpet laid and really don't want mouse brains on it!

Funnily enough, the mouse does exactly what you're talking about - runs along the same wall, in the same manner every single time, so I'll put the trap right in its path. I just hope he's the only one. :eek:

[barthez4]

With a big enough hammer (see above), all the splatter gets caught under the surface of the hammerhead. :)

[sdotsom]

Hahaha, this is hilarious. The same thing happened to me and my roommates last year, and we were stoned the first time we saw it. Therefore, we decided to have a contest to design crazy ass rat traps. Mine won - wasn't that crazy, just some peanut butter on the end of a ruler that was standing against a bucket - mouse ran up the ruler to get the butter, ruler tipped into bucket along with the mouse and that was that.

[Achtung]

If you don't want to make a mess, you could try a sticky trap. Basically just a large piece of fly paper that you can put a bit of food on. Of course if you want to kill the bugger, those won't work... you'd have to set it loose or do the dirty work yourself. :D

[Stud83]

Get a cat. I don't have rats, but mine killed about 5 flies and 3 bugs this summer already. She's actually not mean, she just wants to play with these insects, too bad they are not good at living after high fiving with a cat.

[three lions]

Get at heavy-duty rat trap.. Forget the cheese.. Load it up with a big ol' helping of peanut butter.. Guaranteed to see results in a day or 3..

[holytoledo]

Get a cat. I don't have rats, but mine killed about 5 flies and 3 bugs this summer already. She's actually not mean, she just wants to play with these insects, too bad they are not good at living after high fiving with a cat.

Actually not a bad plan, as that's the only thing cats are good for.

DS, if you have a friend with a feline, ask to borrow it for a few days.

If you're lucky, you may even get to watch the mouse get killed! :D

[Republic of Mancunia]

Beings as you sound like a seasoned pro.. :p .. I wanted to ask you about splatter.

How much mess do these little critters make when you actually catch one? I have a nice carpet laid and really don't want mouse brains on it!

I was gonna go all 'fbi files' or 'forensic detectives' here but couldn't pull it off.

Only got a bit of blood on one and that looked like it came out of it's nose after it was dead. Hardly any at all really. Still, depending on what trap you get I think its actually possible to decapitate them, maybe I was just lucky?

Next to none though here but if I was you, I'd put newspaper down just in case. Just don't blame me if it eats the paper and ignores the trap altogether. :D

[Dark Savante]

Oh, this mouse is good! I don't know how long he's been scouting out my room, but damn, he's moving around like a master tactician out there.

lol, if it wasn't for the fact it could carry disease I'd keep the lil fecker around and try to catch him all summer using my own acme acres hair-brained traps, much like sdots.. I don't actually want it dead, as cute and cocky as it is, but it has to go given the circumstances.

Anyway, yesterday after logging off, I'm up and scouting out the room - mice are nocturnal, so i've read/researched, and sure enough, the little chap pops out shortly after 12... Flies straight past the open space and attempts to hide behind the tv panel stand... So there I am with a broomstick handle at the ready, firing the pole into the general area of the mouse, it flies out of the hiding place and actually goes forward rather than back to it's in/out point, much to my surprise. It then hides itself amongst the myriad of cables around that side and waits... I laughed at this.. "he's cocky, I like him." I muse... so instead of probing that area I pretend to watch TV..and sure enough, the little blighter advances itself further along the wall to the right of my peripheral vision to the point where I can actually see him fully. They move so steathily and the thing is bloody rapid once spotted. I spring a surprise and look straight at it... it flies off behind the TV again, I fire the broom stick at it; too late, it's gone back to its in/outlet.

So now that I know without any doubt that the mouse is definitely coming up through the hole those cowboy builders left, I proceed to block off one side of my room. Unfortunately, the hole it comes out of is right next to two big clothes wardrobes that I can't move anywhere else in the room without causing an even worse blindsiding for the mouse to have free reign behind.. our bed isn't far from these wardrobes...along the same wall actually... so with the usual outlets into the room blocked off by yours truly, the mouse, i have named it Stealth, decides to test out my wits and reflexes.. going the foreign ( I assume) route of the 'clothing lane' to get across my field of vision. I hadn't prepared for this level of gall and bottle, seems I had underestimated Stealth.. anyway, my eyes are trained forward, towards my little assault course and I'm feeling quite proud that I've made Stealth hesitant.. so then I see a little dot to the peripherals of my left eye... my bed... and I whip my head fully to the left and see this mouse running parallel with my GF at about waist height, naught but a few inches away. I swing a backfist at it, lol, it FLIES off the bed and back down the clothing lane.. I wake my girl and tell her the cheeky little ********er knows no bounds, does she want to sleep in the room tonight? She's non-plussed, foolish women, only respond to 'ugly,' because the mouse is 'cute' she doesn't seem much fussed at all, to my disgust.. (sorry saph, but I'm sure you and any other women follow the 'cute' script, heh) I tell her I'm not sleeping in the room, Stealth would probably take a dump in my mouth for the inconveniences caused...he's cocky..

I decide to give him this day. I get some biscuits and throw 'em down in front of his in/outlet; "eat, rodent. Enjoy this meal, tomorrow the day will be mine." I think.. with this diversion and the amount of food, he shouldn't be having his wicked way with my girl tonight at least.

6am. I go back upstairs maybe expecting "you'll never catch me." to be written in mouse faeces on my lovely carpet, alas, I am merely regaled with stories of how the mouse came out into the open, eyeballing my gf whilst eating my finest biscuits in full view. Clearly, he feared my predatory instincts :rolleyes: and saw no threat in the woman, She seems entertained by all this. For me, the mouse is now a mortal enemy, well not really, but i do find its antics highly amusing... shame I will have its defeated body in a bin bag by tonight...

I went to the hardware store at 8am.. there truly is a brilliant assortment of oddballs working in those stores. The guy that served me, a 40something, by the name of Steve, seemed to be aroused by the tale of my mouse troubles. He quickly hurries me to the back of the store to an isle full of mouse extermination utensils.. hmm, this guy has to be a virgin, I think to myself, but he sure knows his mouse killing methods. See, Steve's beard was of exceptional quality. One of those absurdly dense, full-on monstrosities, I was impressed, I'm not sure I could even grow a beard of this mass. I digress, Steve creepily tells me how each of these mouse traps work, and was steady trying to convince me to get an oddity that suffocates the critter as soon as the trap activates.. hmm, I feel Steve isn't a man to cross. I smile outwardly, but Steve's clearly a strange man. He was disappointed in my choice of three generic traps; two devices that apparently catch and keep the mouse, and one standard neck-breaker/decapitator. Steve told me to use peanut butter, I'm not sure if he was referring to me or for the mouse, I didn't ask.. hopefully I'll not see him again unless he ideas of doing me up Dexter style. I'm on a mouse mission. One way or another, Stealth..

So here I am, typing a load of nonsense for y'all before setting out again in a few. I would like to write the mouse diaries...but there will sadly only be one more entry.. and it'll most likely be four words long.. then again, if Stealth does in fact get trapped in the non-killing device I may keep him in a glass cage or something and get to know the little fella on my terms, nothing kinky like, lol.

[barthez4]

I am moved by your compassion.

[Karloski]

This is Hilarious.

I can't believe your gf is non-plussed. Mine would probably stay at her parents house untill I did my man duties and disposed of it.

[Sapphire]

Man versus beast -- who will prevail? :D Oh yeah, I'm predicting this is going on to at least Day 4.

I'm with your GF too, mice are cute.

[JC7rox]

http://www.komix.it/img/tom-jerry-02.JPG

Classics never get old.

[prymetyme]

i believe there was a article on redcafe on killing a fish, they are experts on the execution of small animals. You could probably ask them.

[weeds]

If you're going to use a slam trap, make sure you get some string and tie that trap to a bed leg or something else in the room. If for some reason the trap springs and only catches a leg or something, the little bastard will drag himself somewhere out of your reach and die. You're back to the "rotting corpse in a non-reachable place" issue at that point.

Yes, I had to tear open a wall recently to dispose of a decomposing mouse. The smell was hideous.