[Closed] How the **** am I going to get this mouse out of my front room?

Stand on a chair, pull up your skirts and scream “Thomaaaaaaaas”

Post video.

Wait until thursday and tempt it out into the open with the crumbs from your Greggs whatever and then take it with your crossbow.

Hoover.

With an ice cream tub and book, like you would with a spider. Only they're faster and jumpy-er, have fun 😂

The last one out cats brought in was with us for nearly a week. We purchased some humane mouse traps. Use peanut butter as bait.
We nearly had it with a heath Robinson Tupperware tub propped up with string around the prop affair. But the purchased traps won in the end.

I have no advice but I'm sitting here laughing into my IPA because today it's not me.

Our hunter doesn't lose interest but does have an unfortunate habit of playing with her catch while it's still alive and then wondering why it tries to run away...

The cat will probably get interested again after you stop entertaining it.

The cat is probably pissing itself...

Borrow another cat and it may catch it for you

Do you have any sort of business critical Zoom meetings today? A live Tom and Jerry show in the background would be memorable....😄

We had this a few years back - eventually found the mouse 3 months later when it had expired. It was definitely there for a while as it kept stock piling dog biscuits under the sofa!
Good luck...

This....

https://www.toolstation.com/pest-stop-trip-trap-mouse-trap/p60863

Plus peanut butter

Result!

Brilliant Binners, made me laugh that! Phone Hora round, then at least you'll have your theme tune. 😂

Sudocrem.

We have this situation on a fairly regular basis, try to block off the area with blankets etc so the mouse can’t get under other items of furniture when making its escape from your attempt to capture it. We then use a cat food box and a small stick to try and catch it. They tend to like to run along the skirting so putting the box next to that seems to work well. Good luck and keep stw posted with your progress.🐭🐱

Air rifle. Camouflage clothing. Huge lump of cheese in the middle of room.

Or just lock the unfed cat in the room with it for a few hours and see what happens?

Know anyone with a terrier? Way more effective than cats.

Cat update:

I was just awoken by the little sod coming in through the bathroom window, sauntering in and proudly depositing a dead sparrow next to the bed. I suppose I should be grateful that at least it was deceased. An ex-sparrow. I'm not sure if it was African or European so couldn't tell you if its average airspeed or whether two of them could carry a coconut

Anyway... the problem now is not just the mouse that's presumably still in the front room somewhere, but that one of my cats now feels the need to bring me 'gifts', some alive, some dead.

Nelson has always been a killing machine. He's a rescue cat and he was found feral. So despite being tiny for a male cat he's like all four horsemen of the apocalypse to the local rodent population. Birds are a new one though. He's never normally bothered with them.

He's never brought them in the house, preferring to leave them directly outside the back door for me to stand on as I go out.

Any suggestions as to why he's feeling the urge to bring his trophies indoors? I can do without this

Any suggestions as to why he’s feeling the urge to bring his trophies indoors?

He wants you to completely encase them in pastry.

A Tweety Pie, if you will

Buy lots of cucumbers.

It won't help you catch the mouse but you can scare your cat with them.

He wants you to completely encase them in pastry.

That will be post of the day!

For the mouse, some sort of complicated trap from The Acme Corporation?

He’s dropping them by you so he can compare their size to yours as he’s considering going after the big prize!

Last time we had this we used a guitar gig bag (any big black bag would do).

Scare mouse from behind couch and give it the bag to run into and hide, deposit bag outside.

Good luck! Our most fun bit was moving the piano that hadn't moved in 7 years with seized castors : (

Any suggestions as to why he’s feeling the urge to bring his trophies indoors? I can do without this

Ours used to do this when other humans were bringing gifts.. specifically BBQ's but insofar as understanding cats I think this was different to trophies. It was almost frightening how quickly he could find something to kill or maim and bring back.

Ours used to leave "trophies" outside and they were usually what I'd imagine was an actual trophy .. he went through a stage of squirrels that were decapitated and then laid out cruxiform on the doorstep but the two most bizarre were a mallard and a fox.. (not sure about the fox being him alone but he wouldn't let us wash the blood off and the eviscerated fox was left in our back garden)

I think as much as anything the trophies might be for other cats and a territory thing???
Who knows what goes on inside a cats head?

Any suggestions as to why he’s feeling the urge to bring his trophies indoors? I can do without this

He brought you a live mouse. You failed to catch and kill it, he realised you're a pathetic excuse for a cat and wholly unable to fend for your self. Now he's bringing you dead things in the hope you don't starve.

From today's farside, you binners, are the snake.

Call UB40.

They had some ideas about a closely related rodent species.

Hammer Bombers into your sofa.
Throw frozen sausages at the cat.
Feed the mouse sudocream.

Long term solution by the way binners is to go out, kill yourself a cow, eat its head and then leave the decapitated corpse in your cat's favourite sleeping spot firm in the knowledge the cat can't beat that.

When I had one in my room in Angola ....it was running along the wall behind the TV unit......

I timed it's run and when it was about to go behind the TV unit jumped across the room kicking the TV unit into the wall with force....such that the guy in the room next door thought it was coming through

Needed a cloth to remove that mouse.

Ferret

Long term solution by the way binners is to go out, kill yourself a cow, eat its head and then leave the decapitated corpse in your cat’s favourite sleeping spot firm in the knowledge the cat can’t beat that.

I once went "hunting" with the cat... he used to come for walks anyway or just follow us on the way to the pub across the Heath. Basically following the cat at 1/4 mph ..So after numerous scowls from the cat when I crushed a leaf I parted some branches to see a adult deer... the cat just looked at me.

I think I lost his respect..
Can't help thinking he knew exactly what he was stalking and thought he was teaching me.

Or just lock the unfed cat in the room with it for a few hours and see what happens?

I'd guess what'd happen would be furniture rotting in rancid cat wee, and a murderous moggie looking for revenge.

You could always get another cat. Send them both in and keep the one that does the business. Failing that, the ^^ moose.

Trap with steak bake chocolate rasins as bait,never fails. 😉

Just so you know you're not alone... we sealed up the mouse-sized access hole that the bastard things were using to get into the one hollow wall in the house from the front room crawl space. Unfortunately at least one of the little critters was still in the house at the time and has been scrtichy scratchtying around following pipe and wiring routing.

I found mouse droppings in the under-eaves cupboard off our loft room this morning. The deadly A24, CO2 powered rodent extermination machine has been mounted on an indoor stand and deployed with lots of tasty chocolate-flavoured lure. I take no pleasure in killing the things, but I really don't want a colony of mice nesting in the floor-spaces.

You need to train your cat to reverse his normal behaviour, ie: kill the things inside and then take them outdoors 🙂

"Hoots Mon!" * there's a moose, loose, aboot this hoose *

[ written and performed by a lad from Elgin; who also wrote the string arrangements for some Nick Drake tracks ]

You need to train your cat

LOL

Thanks for the words of wisdom folks. No sign of the moose loose aroond the hoose. Both cats fast asleep and now the neighbours cat, due to them getting a dog yesterday, also appears to have moved in.

I’ll keep you posted if any of the three of them express any interest in tracking down the errant rodent

I have to say that I’m not optimistic

All that was missing was the Benny Hill theme tune.

Hora's ringtone?

Any suggestions as to why he’s feeling the urge to bring his trophies indoors? I can do without this

You're luck will improve but its a bit of a waiting game. When my sister-in-law's cat got too old to catch anything living to bring home as a trophy it still felt the need to bring something back. Somewhere it was managing to find pieces of Southern Fried Chicken and would lay them out on the doormat.

Somewhere it was managing to find pieces of Southern Fried Chicken and would lay them out on the doormat.

😀 😀

I'm going to unashamedly post up clips of Mousehunt now, just because.

Our old cat used to bring mice in and drop them in the bathtub and watch them do the wall of death leaving bloody tracks behind them. Then when they finished one of the Jack Russell's would wander in, grab the mouse, bring it in the bedroom and start crunching on it.

Joy.

Humane trap(doesnt harm the mouse) Bait with chocolate and leave overnight.
Nothing there its either gone or died from its injuries. In which case leave it two days then follow your nose.
Decomposing mice smell like a gas leak.

You can borrow our highly trained hunter if you want to binners?

Moose
https://imgur.com/gallery/dC5Nq5H

Mouse cannon?

Peanut butter. Always use peanut butter. Mice love it.

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Your mouse needs to up his game - a mates cat once brought home a still warm roast leg of lamb. Wouldn't go through the cat flap.

A neighbour had left it to rest on the window sill, apparently. 😄

Binners will train his cat to raid Greggs!

Buy a Cali King snake.

The mouse will soon be gone.

Then you can lure the snake into a tank with a pre-killed mouse and a heat pad, and then you'll have a cool pet snake, and a funny story to tell.

Winner winner chicken dinner. Or Mouse dinner as the case may be.

Surely a steak bake, or a vegan sausage roll, will tempt it out into the open?

Morning all. Mouse update:

I let the cats in this morning and the other cat (Che) who is the polar opposite of Nelson - a big fat moggy who rarely bothers with anything as taxing as movement - goes straight in the front room, jumps up on one of the sofa's and is sniffing away at the corner like a police sniffer dog.

Obviously he's sourced the moose loose aboot the hoose. So I prepare a suitable receptacle to try and catch the bugger in as Mrs Binners whips the cushions off the sofa. And there it is! The furry little bastard!

The next second Che continues his transformation from sloth into panther and launches himself at it. Unfortunately, he's shit at this hunting lark, he misses it and the mouse immediately finds that gap at the corner where all your loose change disappears down and promptly disappears.

So I now need to update the original question:

How the **** am I going to get this mouse out of my sofa?

The next second Che continues his transformation from sloth into panther and launches himself at it.

Pwoud. Vewy, vewy pwoud.

Unfortunately, he’s shit at this hunting lark, he misses it and the mouse immediately finds that gap at the corner where all your loose change disappears down and promptly disappears

Not so pwoud.

When I was a kid I caught one in my dressing gown. It was in a corner of the lounge and I thought I might be able to grab it. It was a bit quick though and ran up the sleeve of my dressing gown, across my back and then back down the other sleeve. Before it could escape I pulled the cuff tight round my wrist and went out in to the garden and out it dropped and ran off.

How the * am I going to get this mouse out of my sofa?

It may help it may not...
I once sat on a sofa in a grotty bar in NYC that I rapidly determined contained no stuffing, only live rodents and cockroaches.
Some of those inhabitants scarpered fairly fast once I seated myself, some simply ran around inside the sofa.

Needless to say I left the establishment fairly sharpish, though obviously finished my [s] pint [/s] 16oz glass of beer first.

So maybe sit on it. What ever you do though clench for the duration of your sitting on the sofa. You do not want to go to A&E to have the rodent removed, "I sat on it by accident Dr" isn't likely to wash.

Awaits "How the * am I going to get this mouse out of my back passage?" thread

I feel I should be providing a commentary to this in hushed David Attenborough tones. Che has remained camped on the sofa, circling it then sticking his paw down the hole the mouse disappeared down. He seems to be enjoying his newfound 'Big Cat' role.

Nelson, who brought the bloody thing in, has been completely disinterested throughout.

I feel I should be providing a commentary to this in hushed David Attenborough tones.

We've never met, but in my head you're more David Bellamy

A fair point 😀

Humane trap(doesnt harm the mouse) Bait with chocolate and leave overnight.

What are you then planning on doing with a live mouse?

Ordinarily I'd say snap traps are the only way, Rentokill ones are good. But with cats in the house you'd want to be placing them somewhere the cats can't get to so that might be a non-starter.

You could, I suppose, bait the sofa with peanut butter to lure it out into the open to face kittygeddon so long as the cats don't eat the PB first.

What you want is a Rentokil Clean Kill Tunnel trap.

Stops cats / birds / kids / dogs accidentally getting their paws / fingers / wings / tails caught in it.

I can't see we've had any input from WCA, which worries me of he's been playing with power tools again....

After laughing at Binners' misfortune, today my cat directed me towards a mystery scratching sound in the kitchen. Which turned out to be from inside the bloody flat roof...brilliant...

Why do the buggers like the taste of Kingspan, anyway?

At least the mouse our cat brought in today was dead.

Why do the buggers like the taste of Kingspan, anyway?

More to the point, why did Kingspan evolve to be so delicious?

More to the point, why did Kingspan evolve to be so delicious?

Natural selection innit.

The mice that didn't like it all froze to death.

Natural selection innit.

The mice that didn’t like it all froze to death.

Excellent!

Have you thought about reading it a choice selection of your Corbyn posts?
The first thousand or so ought to do it. 🙂

And more to the point, buy an RC car to take your mind off it.

Put the cats into the sofa, they can catch the mouse. Then you put a dog in to chase the cats out .....

Watch my squirrel tap video and get the mouse version. Don't mention it on here though it you will get slaughtered

Not read all the posts.
We got one out with a cardboard poster tube sealed at one end, mouse ran in, sealed the other.

Put the cats into the sofa, they can catch the mouse. Then you put a dog in to chase the cats out …..

*awaits "How the **** am I going to get this horse out of my front room?" thread*

'Gerry, there is a horse in my pennine suite'

Just poison it. Way more effective than traps.
Oh, and just hope it doesn’t have worms which then eat the insides and eventually hatch into a room full of blue bottles. Happened to us two months after the cat had died. One final gift. Took a year to find the fossilised mouse 2 years later when I emptied the entire room for redecoration.

If you poison it and it then runs off and dies somewhere inaccessible, 6 months later you'll rip half the house apart trying to find out what that bloody awful smell is

I'm told by some that the poison desiccates it so that it doesn't smell. I've never quite believed it, anyone know for sure?

Poison aside, a dead mouse will stink out the place in days rather than months.

Good Morning all. Heres todays mouse update:

We're sorted. Last night he decided, probably spurred on by the ambivalence of the cats, to come out from the sofa and go for a tour of the house. Mrs Binners flicked the kitchen light on and there he was in the middle of the floor, like a rabbit in the headlights. Cue the Benny Hill theme tune again as we both pursue him around the kitchen. Eventually, we cornered him where he had nowhere to go (there are not many things to run underneath in a fitted kitchen - in fact there are none) and managed to pop a glass over him.

So, after his 24 hour holiday in our house, we managed to safely release him back into the woods behind the house, apparently none the worse for his experience

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The little bastard will be back in by now.