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Mark Thompson said:

P.S. While we're talking about dead animals, does anyone know where to buy
mousetraps these days?

If you can find one, a /proper/ ironmonger's shop.

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Mark Thompson said:

Cycling home today I saw a new type of roadkill. Any ideas?

<url:http://tinyurl.com/yz6eaf>

Ferret?

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Mark Thompson

pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com said:

does anyone know where to buy mousetraps these days?

Ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-x-Traditional-Mouse-Traps-Just-add-Chocolate-Cheese_W0QQitemZ250039965352QQihZ015QQcategoryZ75581QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

or

http://tinyurl.com/y2zf4o

Tom
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Mark Thompson said:

P.S. While we're talking about dead animals, does anyone know where to buy
mousetraps these days? All I can find is poison. I could just leave my
cooking out for them if I wanted to poison them.

Robeert Dyers

Martin.

Mark Thompson said:

P.S. While we're talking about dead animals, does anyone know where to buy
mousetraps these days? All I can find is poison. I could just leave my
cooking out for them if I wanted to poison them.

Last one I bought was at Homebase, IIRC. M&D had tried a humane trap,
from which the Visitor removed the bait and escaped three nights
running, so as I was visiting I was dispatched to the local home
improvement centre to look for something less ethically sound but which
actually did the job. Next day, one rather late mouse... Peanut butter
is a more effective bait than the traditional cheese seems to be current
thinking, and it did its stuff in this case.

Pete.
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Mark Thompson wrote on 27/10/2006 13:27 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Cycling home today I saw a new type of roadkill. Any ideas?

<url:http://tinyurl.com/yz6eaf>

http://www.julianlewis.net/ ?

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his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
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Quoted message said:

P.S. While we're talking about dead animals, does anyone know where to buy
mousetraps these days? All I can find is poison. I could just leave my
cooking out for them if I wanted to poison them.

Mice are cunning [censored]. We went through a spate of buying mousetraps
just to find that they were making off with the food. When we did
finally catch one, it seemed to have chewed its way out of the back of
the trap. Another trap was found on its roof, as if the little
blighters had ganged up to free a fallen comrade.

The best one was a tip trap from B&Q, which has got a 45 deg. bend in
it and closes the lid when the weight of the mouse tips it up. I did
hear that chucking live mice into the wilderness is a bit inhumane...
they're quite territorial and you'll just be plonking a bewildered
mouse into another's patch.

They need to be checked daily too otherwise they're not humane.

Peter Clinch wrote on 27/10/2006 14:25 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Peanut butter
is a more effective bait than the traditional cheese seems to be current
thinking, and it did its stuff in this case.

Cheese is hopeless. IME a small cube of Mars bar best helps them work,
rest and die.

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Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Mark Thompson said:

Cycling home today I saw a new type of roadkill. Any ideas?

<url:http://tinyurl.com/yz6eaf>

Youre as daft as a brush!

Now if it had been one as used in shaving.... :-)
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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

Quoted message said:

The best one was a tip trap from B&Q, which has got a 45 deg. bend in
it and closes the lid when the weight of the mouse tips it up. I did
hear that chucking live mice into the wilderness is a bit inhumane...
they're quite territorial and you'll just be plonking a bewildered
mouse into another's patch.

I should point out that, whilst I do have a soft spot for mice, they'd been
pissing in the fruit bowl for some time before we discovered them.

We're not really looking for a live trap...

Simon L said:

The best one was a tip trap from B&Q, which has got a 45 deg. bend in
it and closes the lid when the weight of the mouse tips it up. I did
hear that chucking live mice into the wilderness is a bit inhumane...
they're quite territorial and you'll just be plonking a bewildered
mouse into another's patch.

I am informed by a cow-orker that meeces, being cunning [censored] and quite
territorial, are capable of finding their way some considerable distance
back to their own manor. In order to be permanently rid of the offender, it
should be transported at least two miles before being slung over some
unsuspecting householder's hedge.

NB: We do not advocate disposal of meeces by this method unless the
unsuspecting householder is an Enemy of the People. The Mgt.

--
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<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Mark Thompson said:

I should point out that, whilst I do have a soft spot for mice, they'd been
pissing in the fruit bowl for some time before we discovered them.

Have you been messing around with a UV lamp?
--
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Mark Thompson

pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com said:

Cycling home today I saw a new type of roadkill. Any ideas?

<url:http://tinyurl.com/yz6eaf>

<url:www.flickr.com/photos/86862441@N00/280532617/in/set-
72157594346970347/>

P.S. While we're talking about dead animals, does anyone know where to buy
mousetraps these days? All I can find is poison. I could just leave my
cooking out for them if I wanted to poison them.

I got some Trip-Trap humane traps from a local pet shop a few years ago
- they were pretty effective when baited with chocolate chip cookies.
Strangely the traditional "Little Snapper" trap which was widely
available in traditional hardware outlets seems to have virtually no
presence on the web, but there are plenty of others. Search for mouse-
trap on http://www.froogle.co.uk or http://www.ebay.co.uk/ for a good
selection including some clever multi-catch humane traps.
Or you could do what we did, and adopt a couple of cats - except that
sometimes they catch mice outside and then release them in the house
unharmed. :-)

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Simon L said:

Quoted message said:

P.S. While we're talking about dead animals, does anyone know where to buy
mousetraps these days? All I can find is poison. I could just leave my
cooking out for them if I wanted to poison them.

Mice are cunning [censored]. We went through a spate of buying mousetraps
just to find that they were making off with the food. When we did
finally catch one, it seemed to have chewed its way out of the back of
the trap. Another trap was found on its roof, as if the little
blighters had ganged up to free a fallen comrade.

The best one was a tip trap from B&Q, which has got a 45 deg. bend in
it and closes the lid when the weight of the mouse tips it up. I did
hear that chucking live mice into the wilderness is a bit inhumane...
they're quite territorial and you'll just be plonking a bewildered
mouse into another's patch.

ITYF it's illegal to release them on someone else's property as they
count as vermin.

Rob Morley said:

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Mark Thompson
<pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

P.S. While we're talking about dead animals, does anyone know where to buy
mousetraps these days?

Quoted message said:

Strangely the traditional "Little Snapper" trap which was widely
available in traditional hardware outlets seems to have virtually no
presence on the web

That will be because it is the Little Nipper.

http://www.solwayfeeders.com/ProductsDetail1.asp?STOCK_CODE=3227
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Dave Larrington said:

I am informed by a cow-orker that meeces, being cunning [censored] and quite
territorial, are capable of finding their way some considerable distance
back to their own manor. In order to be permanently rid of the offender, it
should be transported at least two miles before being slung over some
unsuspecting householder's hedge.

I always drop them off in the next town on my way to work. Getting
back here then requires about a five mile walk and features crossing
the M25 and a river. I've never positively identified any returners.

regards, Ian SMith
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Never managed to catch mice with a trap, they just pinch the bait.

The only effective method is a special glue. They stick then starve to death
as they have to eat continuously. If they do still show signs of life when
you find them, duck them in a bucket of water. Probably a better way to die
than most wild animals suffer. Trapping them live then dumping on someone
else's property is a cowardly cop-out.

Haven't much empathy anyway as they've cost me a fortune in chewing damage,
including bike bags in the garage.

Peter Clinch said:

Mark Thompson said:

P.S. While we're talking about dead animals, does anyone know where to
buy mousetraps these days? All I can find is poison. I could just
leave my cooking out for them if I wanted to poison them.

Last one I bought was at Homebase, IIRC. M&D had tried a humane trap,
from which the Visitor removed the bait and escaped three nights
running, so as I was visiting I was dispatched to the local home
improvement centre to look for something less ethically sound but which
actually did the job. Next day, one rather late mouse... Peanut butter
is a more effective bait than the traditional cheese seems to be current
thinking, and it did its stuff in this case.

We have found that chocolate makes a tempting bait as well. However the
last one managed to remove about four pieces completely from the trap
before (s)he got careless enough to set it off.

--
Don Whybrow

Sequi Bonum Non Time

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Phil Cook said:

Rob Morley said:

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Mark Thompson
<pleasegivegenerously@warmmail*_turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

P.S. While we're talking about dead animals, does anyone know where to buy
mousetraps these days?

Quoted message said:

Strangely the traditional "Little Snapper" trap which was widely
available in traditional hardware outlets seems to have virtually no
presence on the web

That will be because it is the Little Nipper.

http://www.solwayfeeders.com/ProductsDetail1.asp?STOCK_CODE=3227

That could well be why. :-) I was only two letters out.