mice under floorboards

thesultan

Can't sleep with them. How would I go about killing them?

DopeTech

Go buy some Storm.

stoplooklisten

Traps?

Birneybau

thesultan wrote: »

Can't sleep with them. How would I go about killing them?

I'd say they'd be pretty bloody tight. Loads of lube?

Kovu

Dress up as a cat and crawl around on the floor miaowing. That should scare them off.

recylingbin

Lift floorboard
Insert cat
Nail floorboard back down
Buy something to cover up the inevitable decaying smell in a month.

SEPT 23 1989

you hope they are mice

stoplooklisten

try and catch one, as it runs across your face, while you sleep

maudgonner

recylingbin wrote: »

Lift floorboard
Insert cat
Nail floorboard back down
Buy something to cover up the inevitable decaying smell in a month.

C'mere, did you ever know an old lady who swallowed a fly?

recylingbin

maudgonner wrote: »

C'mere, did you ever know an old lady who swallowed a fly?

Do you know why?

kfallon

maudgonner wrote: »

C'mere, did you ever know an old lady who swallowed a fly?

No but I knew one who undid my fly and swallowed.....GILF-tastic :pac:

smash

Pee on the floor and mark your territory!

thesultan

Poison?

maudgonner

recylingbin wrote: »

Do you know why?

I don't. But I've got her to sign her life assurance policy over to me, so fingers crossed my theory on what happens next comes true!

BorneTobyWilde

Need to find out how they're getting in.

Duggy747

Have you tried reasoning with them?

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABffYDM9EwU

Kovu

^ Won't the mouse chew through the bottle?

maudgonner

biko wrote: »

Mousetrap video

The cuteness!

smash

If one mouse goes in and then another tries to go in as the first mouse is coming out, will the 2nd mouse now get squashed?

PARlance

Is there a market for an humane mouse trap? Personally, I like my mice dead.

alchemist33

Have you tried a flamethrower?

Ruu

I have been watching the documentary 'Tom and Jerry', for years this cat has been trying to catch the mouse but to no avail. Worth a watch.

If all else fails, burn down the house.

maudgonner

Ruu wrote: »

I have been watching the documentary 'Tom and Jerry', for years this cat has been trying to catch the mouse but to no avail. Worth a watch.

If all else fails, burn down the house.

You should take a look at a recent groundbreaking documentary series that really turns all of our conventional wisdom about mice on its head.

It's called Pinky and the Brain.

RayM

biko wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABffYDM9EwU

I really want a mouse infestation now, just so I can try that.

fussyonion

Call Rentokil if you don't want to catch them yourself or you don't want to dispose of the mice yourself.

My parents had mice last year and Rentokil charged €200. They said they wouldn't leave until they were certain the mice were gone, no matter how long that was.

They put the poison boxes down all over the house and in two weeks they were satisfied the mice were gone.

No reports of any since.

Failing that, yeah burn the house down.

cowboyBuilder

Kovu wrote: »

^ Won't the mouse chew through the bottle?

He needs to grip against something tho, the surface is too slippy ..

Baggy Trousers

#1 - Find the food source.

smash

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

#1 - Find the food source.

Blow up your kitchen OP!

The Backwards Man

Play a Shania Twain CD at full volume for twelve hours straight.

osarusan

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Play a Shania Twain CD at full volume for twelve hours straight.

Or Springsteen, if they are Panamanian mice.

Baggy Trousers

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Play a Shania Twain CD at full volume for twelve hours straight.

That don't impress me much.

Demonique

Get a ferret

biko

RayM wrote: »

I really want a mouse infestation now, just so I can try that.

Go ahead and make it. You may have mice and just not know it...

rubadub

thesultan wrote: »

Can't sleep with them.

Ear plugs

biko wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABffYDM9EwU

Some animal welfare places consider those more inhumane than regular snap traps. This is since many instruct you to release the mouse in the wild, and house mice are not suited to the wild and slowly die in the new environment.

Dealz do excellent snap traps, 3 for 1.50. They are copies of an american brand with a large yellow bait tray.

If you use poison they may die under the floorboards and stink as they rot.

honreal

Flamethrower... your only solution

Esel

thesultan wrote: »

Can't sleep with them. How would I go about killing them?

Would you sleep if they turned out to be rats?

diomed

Do not use cheese. It gives you nightmares.
Use chocolate in the mousetraps (melt it to the trap).
One square will do for the mice. Eat the rest yourself.
Every time you catch a mouse eat a bar of chocolate.
You will feel a lot better.

TOEJOE

Ist locate where they get in, the smallest hole allows them to get into the house. You can purchase a humane trap like the one above but much smaller bate it and get a friend to empty it.Using poison can be problematic if they die under the floor you will get a smell which can last for weeks.
Borrow or get a cat.
Good luck

Esel

^ Bate them to death.

failinis

diomed wrote: »

Do not use cheese. It gives you nightmares.
Use chocolate in the mousetraps (melt it to the trap).
One square will do for the mice. Eat the rest yourself.
Every time you catch a mouse eat a bar of chocolate.
You will feel a lot better.

I always found nutella or peanut butter was great, makes them stay close to the trap to lick/nibble and it normally catches their heads so a (hopefully) quick death.

WoollyRedHat

Send down some rats.

diomed

I once caught about 55 mice at my parents house. The sister in law stayed there for a night and heard the mice running around in the attic. She told me. When I went to the house and told the parents they said there were no mice.

I was calling to the house in my spare time for more than a week. I put down four or five of the old style wooden traps, and was catching mice in the first five minutes.

Sheep Lover

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Send down some rats.

Then send down a cat to get to rid of the rats.

Then a dog to get rid of the cat.

You'll have to deal with a dog infestation then

WoollyRedHat

Then send down some sheep.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I had one last November. The second my cat heard the mouse, he'd walk over to the skirting board and just stare at it for minutes at a time. Mouse was too smart to show himself.

In the end a cheap mouse trap from the hardware store did the trick. Smoke a rasher and use it for the bait.

recylingbin

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I had one last November. The second my cat heard the mouse, he'd walk over to the skirting board and just stare at it for minutes at a time. Mouse was too smart to show himself.

In the end a cheap mouse trap from the hardware store did the trick. Smoke a rasher and use it for the bait.

All well and good, but how do you stop yourself from going for the rasher?

Arsemageddon

recylingbin wrote: »

All well and good, but how do you stop yourself from going for the rasher?

You need to convert to Judaism or Islam before setting the trap.

Stigura

OP; I don't know who you are. I have no idea what's under your floorboards .... But what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for things under peoples floorboards. If it's bothering you? Call in someone like me. We will find them. And we will kill them.

The Sidewards Man

Gallon of petrol and a maguire and paterson. Sure they are all at it.

The Backwards Man

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

Gallon of petrol and a maguire and paterson. Sure they are all at it.

That's cruel.

No self respecting man would suggest that, irrespective of what way he's headed.