[Closed] Bastard meeces...

Look on the bright side.

He did you a favour.

Well I certainly saved time in not-cleaning my bikes...

I had that with a brand new bottle of wet lube. Nothing left of the bottle. Just a dark stain and a heck load of droppings.

Well I can't imagine eating that cocktail has been good for Mr. Mouse's digestive system.

I've just remembered, there was Stan's sealeant in the mix as well...

Is it meece or meeces though? I always thought one mouse is a mouse, more than one is/are meece. We need to get the bastard grammar correct. And eating Muc-off has probably done you a favour, your bikes will live longer. Probably not the mice/meece/meeces though. R.I.P.

We had a bag of sunflower seeds delivered a few weeks ago - it had split at some point and been taped back over. Shortly after, noticed some mouse droppings in the house - which is weird as it’s a new house, just done an air tightness test so no other means of entry. Droppings in the under sink cupboard and a few dishwasher tablets had been chewed. Bought some traps…first catch was an adult house mouse, followed by 10 baby mice. Can only assume that pregnant mummy mouse was in the bag of seed. Wasn’t quite as bad as the 60 mice we caught in our last place…

Or 60 meece… could they have hitched a ride in your suitcase?

Goodnature traps FTW. Being smacked in the head by a CO2 powered piston has a certain finality.

Being smacked in the head by a CO2 powered piston has a certain finality.

So does having your back snapped by a conventional trap.

True, but the GN traps are good for 20 dead mice before you have to reset them.

On the instructions (NZ company) it suggests the corpses will be removed by scavengers…

Or 60 meece… could they have hitched a ride in your suitcase?

We were living in a steading conversion with an open roof space and daylight under the eaves - the meece were simply climbing up the exterior stone walls into the roof space. You could hear them running around on the ceiling and they’d occasionally fall down behind the plasterboard walls. The landlord refused to do anything as it wasn’t ‘structural’.
We also had rats burrowing under the floor, but expanding foam, steel wool and Postcrete rammed into the holes put a stop to that.

It’s “meeces” as in “I hate those meeces to pieces” - Mr Jinx, vs Pixie & Dixie

[i]True, but the GN traps are good for 20 dead mice before you have to reset them.

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I bought the squirrel version which is a bit bigger and good for about a dozen squirrels. Got properly flamed on here for mentioning it so please don't tell anyone I have just redeployed it as the local squirrel numbers increase again

I've got most stuff in the garage inside 'ready useful' boxes with clip-down lids and other stuff hanging from the rafters via pretty slender steel rods, as the barstewerd meeces LOVE our house and detached garage (we're immediately into fields at the back).  That seems to be sufficient to stop them wrecking the most valuable stuff.

Maybe I'll leave a saucer of Stans out for them though 🤔

@worldclassaccident Where do you think I got the idea to buy mine?

They’re launching a Bluetooth version this year which will tell you if it’s fired without needing to check it, which is ideal for traps in out of the way places.

Also meets the STW “the car you need is a Unimog” requirement.

When I ordered bait this time, I had to order corn with it. Not sure how you are meant to use corn as bait in the trap and don't really want to attract rats and mice by putting it on the floor. At the moment I am sticking it to the top of the fence with peanut butter and they seem to like that. Only triggered on this week though. I got about a dozen a week the first time I deployed it. Mind you, we were properly overrun with them that time.

@WorldClassAccident any placement or baiting tips? Got a colleague that isn't getting the results he wants from some. He has had to shroud them as they are in a public space and stand out a bit too much otherwise.

There is never just one, so it's either meece or meeces, whichever, and peanut butter.

If an 'humane' trap, visit it often, and *crucially* relocate the meece very, very far away.

Even further than that. And then a bit more.

Placement is a challenge if you have to hide them. I initially thought the should be partially hidden but mine worked best when placed about eight feet up on the side of an oak tree trunk in plain view of everything.

I think squirrels like to be able to look around a lot before sticking their heads in a plastic tube.

Perhaps put up a sign near the trap saying "Squirrel Monitoring. Do not Disturb" or perhaps "Squirrel Tagging. Do not Disturb" to deter those with too much time on their hands?

I saw a mouse once,
right there
on the stair..

Had a fun weekend de-ratting our compost bin. I feel your pain, that was a stinky job.

Wasn’t quite as bad as the 60 mice we caught in our last place…

Well at least someone got it right 😉