I'm waiting for Nelson to up the ante this evening and bring a massive rat in
Behind the house?!! Naw!!! as HTS says, part 2 of this classic coming soon. 🙂
it is mice or rats (or both) that have no bladder control and piss everywhere?
Remember that when you sit on your mouse-wee stained sofa tonight.
Isn't it illegal to release trapped pests? Also illegal to torture them by trapping their tails under the rims of glasses. You're goin' dahn for a long stretch son!!
Rats use latrine areas. Mice are incontinent so are more of a risk with that form of disease spreading. Cats on the other hand are just selfish b*****ds.
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?
The theory is that mice are small enough to be sort of mummified quite rapidly by the desiccating poison. Rattsy, being larger, on the other hand, just dies and rots slowly. When we first move in here we found a desiccated rat carcass in the bathroom ceiling void, which was nice. I belt that ponged in its day.
The company line from poison makers is that the rodents flee your house in search of water and die somewhere else, but anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise
Watch my squirrel tap video and get the mouse version. Don’t mention it on here though it you will get slaughtered
I mentioned it already. Our A24 is currently sat in the loft eaves storage cupboard waiting patiently for the mouse to get hungry. However [disclaimer] I take no pleasure in killing mices, they are unhygienic, polluting vermin and make annoying scrabbling noises while they are eating bits of your house including electric wiring. Also, in all honesty, there are lots of them to go round.
Given the alternative seems to be lurking in the cupboard wearing night vision glasses and holding a glass like a slip fielder poised to strike, I'll stick with the A24.So far the bastard thing(s) seem(s) happy with a diet of Kingspan and whatever else they can find under the floorboards.
Do they not get thirsty though? Can't be much fluid in loft insulation?
Somewhat after the fact now, but a poster tube or similar is what you want - wait for them to enter and then quickly pick it up from horiztonal to vertical with a gloved hand covering your end of it. Source, having had to catch a few dozen jumpy laboratory mice.
Mice do indeed have basically no bladder control. With unlimited access to water they are capable of depositing a drop of urine approximately every 5 seconds iirc.
☝ Loving your work.
are you busy with commissions Binners?
I reckon you could do a good run of t-shirts with your stylised type drawings on of a northern looking couple staring at a mouse on a sofa while two cats sleep on the other end of it.
In Greggs colours, of course
We have just had this almost exact experience. Mouse (probably brought in by our idiot cat) just dashed across living room floor to behind sofa.
Cat completely disinterested. Moved sofa and furniture, mouse cornered against skirting board.
Even went so far as to pick up the cat and plonk him down in front of mouse - no interest whatsoever.
Mouse ran to other side of room, beneath tv cabinet - cat utterly bored. Moved tv cabinet and got it out - it ran back to first point. Cat manages a feeble run to corner but in presented with mouse, seems utterly clueless as to actually what to do.
Eventually managed to scoop mouse into a dustpan and let it go up the road. Cat still useless.
Dont be deceived. This fat **** brought in FOUR dead birds in 48 hours this week.
http://imgur.com/gallery/JKXk8c1
Used to live opposite an old church and we had a new kitten. After while it got used to jumping out the window into a tree and wandering the churchyard.
One day it came back with a dead bat. It must have been over the moon. Half mouse, half bird it ticked all the boxes. It wouldn’t let us take as it reran over and over the hunting and killing process. Eventually it got bored so we took the rigid dried out bat corpse that was probably a few months old and threw it in the bin.
From that day on it was a killing machine (in its mind).
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no need for this then.....
there nothing quite as satisfying as watch a mouse drowning ! 😉
Good fun reading that thread. Our one left is old and half blind now but I was regularly woken by the sound of it crunching b’fast up under our bedroom window at dawn (04.30 on) when it was younger. Worst present was a live grass snake, not good when that escaped under the sofa.
An ex of mine had a cat bring in a live blackbird once. Ex opened the front room window, managed to grab the bird and throw it out - straight in front of a lorry (terrace house on main road into Leeds)
It lay in the gutter for days....
Here's a picture of the lazy ****er:
Now you've opened the box, is it alive, dead or both?
theotherjonv
Now you’ve opened the box, is it alive, dead or both?
Other than the fact he consumes food at the rate of a small locust swarm, it would be difficult to tell due to sheer inactivity!
Ours are house cats (with an external run). They are excellent at removing insects from the house.