i hate meeces to pieces

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John wrote...

 

in fact, anyone that peed and pooped on my food would be

>treated with a similarly ruthless zeal. bare handedly. there place is

>outside where there is plenty of food fullstop. if they cross the line

>and come insde, they are giving up their lives.

>i know at the time folks wittled on about ethical mouse traps but when

>you are in the food industry, either in a city or the countryside, it is a

>task worthy of King Canute to try and stop the little bleeders. sometimes

>you have to think of beasties as little people and ask

>yourself, " what kind of little people are these? " . vermin would be

>pretty nasty, drunken thuggish and self-serving yobs if they were. not

>the sort of folks you would have partying round you home, throwing up in

>your pantry, stealing your breakfast in their doc martens.

 

 

 

I had to laugh when I got an image of yobbish mice in doc martens, as an

animator I can see that would make a wonderful animation! ha ha!

 

But I have to agree with you on some of the points you made. I remember

discussing what to do about mice a while back. I tried several 'humane'

methods/deterants, but the meeces proved they were far too smart for that.

I've heard they can get too smart for the 'not-so-humane' traps too. I

couldn't have used one of those anyway.

 

I was at the end of my tether so, in the end I invited 'Louis, the studio

cat' round for...I hate to say it...dinner. In all fairness I left the back

door open just so the mice would have a good chance to escape back to the

field from where they came from, should they not want to stay for dinner.

Unfortunately they are not THAT clever! So Louis had a feast and I at last

had a poo free dinner that night!

 

It must have filled him up because he even left some remains for me! I had

to decline and explain that I was vegan. I'm not sure he understood but then

many people don't either!

I didn't feel guilty about the mice, because someone had forgotten to buy

Louis his food, so he had no option but to catch his own like cats are

supposed to anyway.

 

This probably sounds like really obvious advice, but it does help reduce the

problem. I found that once you do get rid of them, the best way to keep them

away is not to leave anything lying around that might attract them, ie-keep

all of your food in secure cabinets/containers/fridges, [esp. peanut butter,

that's their favourite!] mop up any spillages or crumbs, don't leave out any

dirty dishes and avoiding leaving bins in places where they can jump in

[also, if the bin has scratches on it they can easily climb up it]

 

It's amazing what they consider to be food, though. When I used to smoke,

they ate my tobacco, and they were quite fond of loo roll as well!

 

For some reason, after Louis' visit, I could still hear some mice running

around inside the walls of the house, but they seemed to stay in there and

not venture into the house, which seemed to suit me and them fine. I think

we came to some sort of compromise in the end! [although I could still hear

them fighting each other and disturbing the peace at night! But then what

else can we expect from yobs!lol]

 

Dee

 

 

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