Under Siege

[97RangerXLT]

I discovered that I have a mouse in my house today. woke up and my 14 year old son told me that he heard rustling in the Dorito bag next to the Lego build table and was wondering why the bag was rustling and moving. then he noticed a black shape dart out from it across the room. he was not sure what the heck it was and was concerned...

But in this moment of siege by the mouse kingdom, he rose to the challenge and went and retrieved his katana (yes, an actual katana that he got for Christmas a few years ago...) and was ready to do battle and defend the palace from this scourge of rodentry.

Going to get some conventional mouse traps from Meijer tomorrow to handle the problem, in the meantime, food sources have been removed.

Why me, Lord?

AJ

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I discovered that I have a mouse in my house today. woke up and my 14 year old son told me that he heard rustling in the Dorito bag next to the Lego build table and was wondering why the bag was rustling and moving. then he noticed a black shape dart out from it across the room. he was not sure what the heck it was and was concerned...

But in this moment of siege by the mouse kingdom, he rose to the challenge and went and retrieved his katana (yes, an actual katana that he got for Christmas a few years ago...) and was ready to do battle and defend the palace from this scourge of rodentry.

Going to get some conventional mouse traps from Meijer tomorrow to handle the problem, in the meantime, food sources have been removed.

Why me, Lord?

AJ

Best defense for mice was usually a German Shepherd. If you can find a cat that is a good mouser, that helps too.

It’s part of living on this planet. We have three cats currently and still trap mice in and out of the house.

Peanut butter is usually best for bait.

 

[RobbieD]

If you can find a cat that is a good mouser, that helps too.

got mouse?

 

[sgtsandman]

I hear Steven Segal is good in siege situations.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I discovered that I have a mouse in my house today. woke up and my 14 year old son told me that he heard rustling in the Dorito bag next to the Lego build table and was wondering why the bag was rustling and moving. then he noticed a black shape dart out from it across the room. he was not sure what the heck it was and was concerned...

But in this moment of siege by the mouse kingdom, he rose to the challenge and went and retrieved his katana (yes, an actual katana that he got for Christmas a few years ago...) and was ready to do battle and defend the palace from this scourge of rodentry.

Going to get some conventional mouse traps from Meijer tomorrow to handle the problem, in the meantime, food sources have been removed.

Why me, Lord?

AJ

I've dealt with mice a lot. Standard mouse traps work well. The plastic self setting ones work too. Don't bother baiting mouse traps, you're not trying to attract them! Set the trap up against a wall so they have to step on the trap in order to get on the other side. Mice naturally travel along walls and don't like to be in the open. Set 2 traps about 1 or 2 feet apart, just in case the first one doesn't work or only partially catches them, and set traps on more than 1 wall. Use traps in every room that has or had food in it.
I also use poison bait, but I don't have any other animals nearby, including other predators that could potentially eat a poisoned carcass.

 

[Brain75]

As soon as you said steven segal my brain instantly registered "The Seige (1998)" - movie came out 3 years before 9-11 details what would happen if america had a terrorist attack on us soil... Good Movie, Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub (as the good arab). I think it deserves a lot higher than the 6.4 rating that it got.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Rodents suck, I have a cat that is a rodent catching machine, but when he fails I bring out the mouse trap board(s) and wage war... I have a number of these boards and they work great the dumb part is finding wood mouse traps anymore, the tomcat ones work best but I'm pretty sure they don't make wood mousetraps anymore...

 

[SenorNoob]

Wow. The mice around here jump over the traps. I mostly use sticky traps. The best thing I've found for catching them is an empty storage tote. They get in and can't jump high enough to get out. I got 6 in about 30 hours that way.

 

[Snoranger]

As soon as you said steven segal my brain instantly registered "The Seige (1998)" - movie came out 3 years before 9-11 details what would happen if america had a terrorist attack on us soil... Good Movie, Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub (as the good arab). I think it deserves a lot higher than the 6.4 rating that it got.

He’s referring to Under Siege with Steven Segal and Erika Eleniak VS Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey. It wasn’t bad as far as 90’s action movies go.
Or Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. Which I wouldn’t recommend you watch.

 

[Rick W]

Best defense for mice was usually a German Shepherd. If you can find a cat that is a good mouser, that helps too.

It’s part of living on this planet. We have three cats currently and still trap mice in and out of the house.

Peanut butter is usually best for bait.

German shepherd?

I don’t think so!

Pay attention:

“The Miniature Pinscher originated several centuries ago as an efficient barnyard ratter.
They were used traditionally to hunt mice, lizards, small birds, rabbits, pests and vermin. They are hunting dogs. Shipmasters sought out tiny examples of the breed for wooden sailing ships to control the mice and vermin as they required little other maintenance and provided excellent service.”

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Rin Tin Tin!

- Lincoln

I’ve been single in the house (over crawl space) alone about a dozen years. I only eat in the kitchen. I’ve never seen a mouse, but I used to see the little pellets on certain pathways through the downstairs. Add Lincoln, no pellets.

Now that he stays on the property, we’re working on the shed of miracles, the shed, and the yard. outnumbered, and the hawk and the owl are tough competition..

- Rick

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

German shepherd?

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I don’t think so!

Pay attention:

“The Miniature Pinscher originated several centuries ago as an efficient barnyard ratter.
They were used traditionally to hunt mice, lizards, small birds, rabbits, pests and vermin. They are hunting dogs. Shipmasters sought out tiny examples of the breed for wooden sailing ships to control the mice and vermin as they required little other maintenance and provided excellent service.”

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Rin Tin Tin!

- Lincoln

I’ve been single in the house (over crawl space) alone about a dozen years. I only eat in the kitchen. I’ve never seen a mouse, but I used to see the little pellets on certain pathways through the downstairs. Add Lincoln, no pellets.

Now that he stays on the property, we’re working on the shed of miracles, the shed, and the yard. outnumbered, and the hawk and the owl are tough competition..

- Rick

That little terror is after anything that moves and some things that don’t.

I’m not denying that there are other breeds that will work as well or better. But I know the German Shepherds myself and my parents owned were very good at controlling pests. They never ate what they killed, but they knew we didn’t want certain critters in the yard including mice so they hunted them regularly. Our old house had a mouse problem and moms GSD used to like to lay in the garage where the mice typically tried to get in at when the weather would turn cold. Dog would take naps out there and patrol it randomly. He caught a few getting in then the mice would smell him and stay away.

 

[Rick W]

That little terror is after anything that moves and some things that don’t.

I’m not denying that there are other breeds that will work as well or better. But I know the German Shepherds myself and my parents owned were very good at controlling pests. They never ate what they killed, but they knew we didn’t want certain critters in the yard including mice so they hunted them regularly. Our old house had a mouse problem and moms GSD used to like to lay in the garage where the mice typically tried to get in at when the weather would turn cold. Dog would take naps out there and patrol it randomly. He caught a few getting in then the mice would smell him and stay away.

I’ll concede that a German Shepherd could get some if them…

 

[sgtsandman]

Rodents suck, I have a cat that is a rodent catching machine, but when he fails I bring out the mouse trap board(s) and wage war... I have a number of these boards and they work great the dumb part is finding wood mouse traps anymore, the tomcat ones work best but I'm pretty sure they don't make wood mousetraps anymore...

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The last I looked, my local hardware store still had wooden ones. Maybe not that particular brand but they had them.

 

[sgtsandman]

Best defense for mice was usually a German Shepherd. If you can find a cat that is a good mouser, that helps too.

It’s part of living on this planet. We have three cats currently and still trap mice in and out of the house.

Peanut butter is usually best for bait.

One of my ex girlfriends is a Doberman breeder. A few of them were looking for mice, moles, and shrews all the time when they were outside.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

The last I looked, my local hardware store still had wooden ones. Maybe not that particular brand but they had them.

You have to watch how the staples are in the wooden ones. Some of mine get loose after one or two snaps. It seems the ones with the metal pad are better, but much harder to find.