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[Waterloo]

Ask Skinny, he knows what to do...

I was just going to say that.

you mean the oven thing?

oh no...

[Kate]

Rufus is correct. Peanut butter is the way to go. They can't resist it. You really want to go with the "snap traps" as opposed to the glue traps. The snap traps are gross for the one second when you hear them snap. When you catch a mouse in a glue trap, you have to pick it up with the very pissed off mouse attached. And then what do you do? Honestly, I never understood the purpose of the glue trap. It seems much more inhumane. If you find out how they're getting in to the house, stuff the hole with steel wool pads. They can't get through them, and it'll keep em out.

[brobee]

Rufus is correct. Peanut butter is the way to go. They can't resist it.

You really want to go with the "snap traps" as opposed to the glue traps. The snap traps are gross for the one second when you hear them snap. When you catch a mouse in a glue trap, you have to pick it up with the very pissed off mouse attached. And then what do you do? Honestly, I never understood the purpose of the glue trap. It seems much more inhumane.

If you find out how they're getting in to the house, stuff the hole with steel wool pads. They can't get through them, and it'll keep em out.

i rent the ground floor of a pretty old wooden house. we have holes a'plenty. i tried calling the landlord yesterday to address the hole situation, but despite their non-jewishness, i was informed that they were out of the office "because of the holiday".

the glue traps allow you to dissolve the glue with oil and then release the damn things. anyhow, woke up this morning with no trapped mice and no poop. every time i come home i check. it's making me sick.

[Kate]

Dissolve the glue with oil, while you're holding on to a glue trap with a struggling mouse attached? No thanks. Plus, if you let them go, they'll just come back. And they'll get in the same way they did before. Get the industrial size box of SOS pads and start filling holes!

[Waterloo]

that just doesn't sound paranoid at all

[sKinnY]

There's ants in my pants!!

[Waterloo]

There's ants in my pants!!

deserves its own thread

[Rob Gordon]

Yeah, they go for the peanut butter. Sorry about not being humane but traps are the most effective. The worry you should have is "how did it get in?". And if you catch it in the open scurrying across the floor, watch out with the broom. Damn, they are fast fuckers and will climb just about anything. Anyone see the Baghdad High School documentary where the kidfinds a mouse in his house and thinks of him as a pet? Then mom buys poison and really bums him out.

[castaña]

I know it's not the best moment but selling the house is the only way to go.

[sKinnY]

just don't try charging them extra for the mouse.

[brobee]

I know it's not the best moment but selling the house is the only way to go.

not my house and they're selling it anyways. part of me thinks a buyer snuck it in to lower the price. next thing i know, i'll find a hobo in my breakfast nook.

[w. josh]

I know it's not the best moment but selling the house is the only way to go.

not my house and they're selling it anyways. part of me thinks a buyer snuck it in to lower the price. next thing i know, i'll find a hobo in my breakfast nook.

The peanut butter trick should work just as well on them.

[Petition]

Stand on a chair and shriek hysterically...."There's a mouse in my house!!!!!

[Complain]

I didn't realize you were renting. Technically, YOU are in in the MOUSE'S house. Hope you can resist peanut butter...

[brobee]

woke up this morning with a mouse in a glue trap. i took it behind my backyard, into a dumpster alleyway, and poured vegetable oil all over the trap. the mouse kept walking deeper and deeper into the glue. it was sad. but i got the little guy out without any visible damage, and he scurried down the street, probably into someone's garage. it wasn't too bad actually. for me, not the mouse. can't speak for him. what are the chances he was the only one? i'm tempted to get more glue traps on the way home from work tonight.

[Rob Gordon]

Probably the only one, but as I say, the concern is where did it get in.

[TJENZ]

get a cat

[sKinnY]

you should have picked up a cage and kept him as a pet. did you at least slip him a few bucks to help him get back on his feet?

[Finn McCool]

what are the chances he was the only one?

The chances are nil. There are no lone wolf mice, man. They can flatten themselves paper-thin, able to squeeze under a shut windowpane or your own closed eyelid. And they remember things.

[sKinnY]

yeah alan's right. fucker's probably back in your house now while your at work. just jacking off onto your toothbrush and making long distance calls...just laughin his mousy ass off.