It's now a routine, I enter the kitchen at 7am, see mouse scurry across the floor, try to catch the fecker, fail, and watch it disappear round the back of the kitchen units where it then (presumably) gets under the floor and out of the house. I have 6 traps set with various baits - chocolate, cheese, raisins - and it avoids them all yet nibbles at the kit-kats in the cupboard (next to the trap, like he's deliberately taking the p!ss). He's clever I tell you!We have had mice many times in the past in different houses and traps have always caught them, but not this little fecker. Only option left is poison but I'm a bit reluctant to do it, unless anyone has any better ideas?
Why don't you........... </p> Take everything out of the cupboard apart from (humane) traps with KitKat as bait?</p> If he's reluctant to enter the traps you could use a tilted milk bockle.</p> Or fill the cupboard with cats.</p> Or an ACME mechanical mouse catcher.</p>
On a more serious note Buy yourself a dolls house that's an exact replica of your own (ToysrUs). Put a very small kitkat in the dolls house to attract said mouse and leave it in the garden. If possible put a tiny car on the driveway of the dolls house preferably one that looks like your own (V reg renault 5). It won't take long for the mouse to think that he's turned into a giant and he'll get cocky and pick a fight with a cat in the neighbourhood. Problem solved.
tarmac the kitchen floor mouse will get stuck in the tarmac. you end up with a tarmac kitchen floor everyones a winner
Good ideas there mate Do you think I could buy the doll's house on ebay? Should I get three, just in case like?
I'm going to try this http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html</p> I don't like cats. Miserable bsatards every one of them.</p>
Good call Might be worth it if you live on an estate where the houses all look the same, but then you'd have to invest in 3 tiny cars similar to your neighbours (ford capri, mini cooper, peugeot 104). Also, if the mouse is as clever as you say, it might be worth befriending the mouse first. Why not leave a tiny blackboard in the kitchen with unsolved maths problems on it, like Good Will Hunting. Paul D could probably help you out there.
RE: Good ideas there mate I reckon if you bowt a Barbie and Ken doll as well the mouse would bereally confused like. </p> Poor mouse would think that it'd put on a stack of weight and grown to 50 times it's size and surrender so that you could check it into the nearest obese clinic.</p> Or not.</p> Anyway, I'm off. Have a good Crimbo all.</p> </p>
