Cats (pets)

[lozz]

Im thinkin thats what these couid be Dormice.
theres no mess with them, its just the Squeaking Drives the hounds mental at night and they wake everyone up
as they try to claw a hole through the floor to get at em,

[steve_earwig]

Dormice, or something with sharper teeth...

I thought I'd resurrect this thread to ask you... there's a mouse in my pantry, what am I gonna do? A couple of days ago the wife called me to the pantry to tell me there was a mouse in a box on the floor looking at her, she had of course turned the light off and shut the door so when I opened the door again it had gone. Ok, so the mouse glue is out (it caught a cat, who had to be sedated to get it off him), the easy to use pheremone trap never caught anything, I'm not after anything humane because there are billions of the little squeaky feckers already so I went and bought a traditional trap with a spring. Blimey, talk about hair trigger, it's deadly! It took me 20 minutes to set it up with a bit of squishy sausage as bait, stuck it on the floor with the door shut and light off. 20 minutes later SNAP! So I rushed to it to find... trap set of, sausage missing, no mouse. Okay, next time something harder. So I got some cheese, another 20 minutes setting it up (SNAP! Bastard SNAP! Bastard SNAP! OUCH! Bastard) set it up and left it for an hour. When I went back to it the little bastard was standing there, with its front paws on the pressure plate, eating the damn cheese! I tried to grab its tail but it vanished. So this evening I got some more sausage, reached into the pantry, slid the thing along the floor in order to get hold of it SNAP!! What is this, Tom And Jerry?

[Welly]

In my office I use a 'Tomcat' mouse trap, it's black plastic with a yellow pressure plate, it uses some green gel stuff that mice like and I've had a lot of success with it.

One time I caught one but the trap flipped over and went under a table - 3 days later when I noticed and something had been eating the dead one (another mouse I assumed).

[Ares]

For best results at home,i find employing female cats to exterminate any threat to be the most efficient way.
They will do the job in a day or two.Man cats are lazy and dumb in most cases

[steve_earwig]

We have two female cats, they bring the mice in and release them just like the toms

In my office I use a 'Tomcat' mouse trap, it's black plastic with a yellow pressure plate, it uses some green gel stuff that mice like and I've had a lot of success with it.

One time I caught one but the trap flipped over and went under a table - 3 days later when I noticed and something had been eating the dead one (another mouse I assumed).

That sounds a bit like the pheromone traps, I'm told it's best to tie them to something with a piece of string because the mice don't always die straight away and can drag the trap off with them because it's very light.

Oooh, must go check me trap.... Nah, obviously still full up with cheese

[scotty73]

I have a vision of a cat stuck on glue and a mouse pointing at him with his other hand on his belly chuckling his arse off whilst rolling on the floor.

[lozz]

idont beleive in them Gel /sticky Traps,

Seems abit cruel,
whats the Manafacturers intention,? Fling the whole thing in the bin with the alive mouse on it,

tried them once, and had a good go at getting the live mouse off it, (its legs or feet came off)
the old type Snap ones are more Gruesome, but atleast its a Quicker end for em,

[highlander]

idont beleive in them Gel /sticky Traps,

Seems abit cruel

Our office has Rentokil traps. These are poison bait traps. The trap is designed to shut a little door after the mouse has gone in and eaten the poison. The reason you need the door? The poison takes between several hours and a couple of days to kill the little buggers. Dying slowly in a pitch-dark confined space with nothing to eat other than more poisoned food and having nowhere to sh*t or piss other than where you're standing? Yeah, that's real humane.

You're right - the traditional spring-loaded "your neck's f*cked now, Mousie" trap is probably the kindest way of doing it.

Cats aren't the best solution to a mouse problem, simply because they think the mouse is a game and they will play with it for a bit before they work out that it's edible, or just get bored and eviscerate it. I had to pick up a vole that one of our cats had brought into the house. He'd slashed its belly open from its neck to its tail with a single claw, and its entire intestinal tract had fallen out. It was a very warm, squishy, and smelly experience, throwing that poor little bugger out Can't tell the cat off either because as far as he was concerned, he was giving us a nice present. It's just in their nature.

[lozz]

Ithink its only Tom cats that seem to keep Mice at Bay,
They can most probs smell where theyve been Spraying,

Im not a big fan of Rentokil, ive seen some of there Anticts when iworked in the Transport industry,
they dont seem to have any Morrals, especialy with pidgeons

[lozz]

weve now got another cat,(Moggy!)

was driving down a country lane tonight (through a ford) 2lads ran out infront of me,
istopped and had a look what theyd been up too,
found a kitten in the river

was going to take it to the cat Sanctuary in the morning but the mrs told me it has to stay here

[Ares]

weve now got another cat,(Moggy!)

was driving down a country lane tonight (through a ford) 2lads ran out infront of me,
istopped and had a look what theyd been up too,
found a kitten in the river

was going to take it to the cat Sanctuary in the morning but the mrs told me it has to stay here

hahahaha cat just got lucky

[steve_earwig]

1 down, 8 to go

[scotty73]

1 down, 8 to go

I got a feeling it won't be long before Lozz makes stew out of it i can't see this cat lasting his 9 lives.

[lozz]

Ifound out why it got dumped!

its a evil little Bastid.
took it to the vets told them where ifound it etc,

its around 11 weeks old, No microchip,
its no ordinary cat, its a Bengal, aparantly they like playing in water,

He is ok with kids but if me or the mrs picks him up hes all claws, (nasty little bastid)
My lads have called him Rambo

http://www.bengalcathelpline.co.uk/bengalsaspets.htm

[trem1]

it appears some cats like water, i thought they all hated it, ours certainly does

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... tJJrBw7e-c