Help - Animal invasion!

Rhonda9000 · 08-12-2007 12:52AM

l3LoWnA wrote: »

A neighbour had a mink in her hotpress a few months ago and her son had to shoot it because it was about to attack the dog.

Best / funniest sentence I've read in a long time

l3LoWnA · 08-12-2007 01:14AM

Rhonda9000 wrote: »

Best / funniest sentence I've read in a long time

It's true tho! :eek:

gcgirl · 08-12-2007 01:22AM

Mink are dangerous they deserve shooting! i heard one had killed a lamb on a friends farm just sucked the blood compleatly!

Rhyme · 08-12-2007 01:48AM

big b wrote: »

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What the Hell is Tusky/whiskeyman doing to poor Shelley Duvall?

gcgirl · 08-12-2007 02:40AM

Rhyme wrote: »

What the Hell is Tusky/whiskeyman doing to poor Shelley Duvall?

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l3LoWnA · 08-12-2007 01:04PM

Ok - both of the new traps are empty this morning. No food left on either. One of them snapped and caught nothing. The other one, the little blighter had a feast off it but it never snapped

So now I reckon it's a mouse, nothing else could be small enough to take the food without the trap going off surely?

Whatever is up there is now well fed for at least another few days though

gcgirl · 08-12-2007 01:07PM

what bout the box traps you see rentokil using! i'd say using them would be much better!

l3LoWnA · 08-12-2007 01:08PM

Yeah I spose they'd be better. Will try the other ones (only 1euro each haha) for another few days and see what happens.....

gcgirl · 08-12-2007 01:10PM

yeh you have to buy quality!!

togster · 08-12-2007 01:15PM

Remember that old guy while asleep who had his gums eaten by a weasel living in his attic. Id be ****tin it if i were you

l3LoWnA · 08-12-2007 01:17PM

togster wrote: »

Remember that old guy while asleep who had his gums eaten by a weasel living in his attic.

Yes

Id be ****tin it if i were you

I know.....but I'm a brave person, and youre not

Yeah, stories like that float around my head every time I hear it rattling about upstairs, but tbh it coudln't be much bigger than a mouse if it hasn't even set off one of the traps, yet ate ll that was on it! (hopefully)

griffdaddy · 08-12-2007 02:34PM

Watch out, i had a Gavin Lambe-Murphy in my attic for a few months, it used to make a terrible amount of noise, banging on the ceiling and writhing around trying to think of ways to raise it's profile, after a while i just ignored it and it went away though, good luck op!

Kipperhell · 08-12-2007 04:32PM

Chocolate is apparently the best things for traps. As you can melt it on the traps they can't grab it and run. You should buy the mouse traps with glue as the mouse can't get away they simply walk in and get stuck.
It sounds like a rat and rat trap is much bigger and likely to break your finger. They aren't cheap either. Borrow a Jack Russell and you'll find where it is up there better than any cat.
Putting down flour or slat will help you ID it by foot prints too.

It really doesn't matter if the attic door was open as these vermin can get into the attic easier through the walls

Kernel · 08-12-2007 04:45PM

l3LoWnA wrote: »

I know.....but I'm a brave person, and youre not

Have someone strap on a pair of balls and go up to the attic to find out what it is, will ya? I'd have been rooting around there as soon as I heard those noises. If it's an animal and it dies, it'll cause a stink and a maggot infestation.

pretty-in-pink · 08-12-2007 05:14PM

I'm dying to know what it is.....I kinda hope its a person.....Cause a rat/mouse would be gross and a dissappointment

jimi_t · 12-12-2007 10:42AM

So.....

Kazu · 12-12-2007 11:27AM

a rat or mouse?

buy a kitten tomorow and leave it up in the attic for a few days.

best thing about this plan is once the kitten kills the rat, you don't have to feed the kitten any more

how long would a little kitten last against a rat about ten secound
lol what no point in feed the rat :rolleyes::rolleyes:

option 1 rat poison (there maybe a smell for a few months)

:p
option 2 steel rat trap
option 3 get a cat

option 4 get jack Russell dog

Wompa1 · 12-12-2007 11:33AM

I'll kill him for a 100 and gut him for free...Also have you sent a Mongoose up there?, if its Snake that should do the trick, a cat if its a mouse,a dog if its a cat, an owl if its a rat, a fish if its plankton or a girraffe if its an overgrown bush of some sort...I'd say your best option is to send up one of each and watch the hillarious consequence unfold

l3LoWnA · 12-12-2007 04:33PM

Wompa1 wrote: »

I'll kill him for a 100 and gut him for free...Also have you sent a Mongoose up there?, if its Snake that should do the trick, a cat if its a mouse,a dog if its a cat, an owl if its a rat, a fish if its plankton or a girraffe if its an overgrown bush of some sort...I'd say your best option is to send up one of each and watch the hillarious consequence unfold

Good plan!

We caught ONe little field mouse but the noises haven't stopped. They say (they being who? I don't know Just "they") that wherever there are mice, there won't be rats so I'm now safe in the knowledge that there is probably a number (?) of mice up there, but field mice and small, with cute little ears, I don't mind them. Only problem now is that I think they're knawing at the electric wires so we better get them all...and soon...:(

Binomate · 12-12-2007 04:34PM

Maybe it's Maddeline McCann.

Lands Leaving · 12-12-2007 04:34PM

l3LoWnA wrote: »

Good plan!

We caught ONe little field mouse but the noises haven't stopped. They say (they being who? I don't know Just "they") that wherever there are mice, there won't be rats so I'm now safe in the knowledge that there is probably a number (?) of mice up there, but field mice and small, with cute little ears, I don't mind them. Only problem now is that I think they're knawing at the electric wires so we better get them all...and soon...:(

You need to poison the cheese in the trap. They can't be clever enough to avoid that.

l3LoWnA · 12-12-2007 04:37PM

Lands Leaving wrote: »

You need to poison the cheese in the trap. They can't be clever enough to avoid that.

Poison might cause a more prolonged sufferring than a quick snap of a trap though - wouldn't like the poor guys to suffer, they're only after a bit of warmth after all.....

Lands Leaving · 12-12-2007 04:39PM

l3LoWnA wrote: »

Poison might cause a more prolonged sufferring than a quick snap of a trap though - wouldn't like the poor guys to suffer, they're only after a bit of warmth after all.....

I suppose. but when the heating stops working because they chewed through your wires you might regret that.

Can't you get traps that just keep them there and you can release them into the wild - what about that?

Bob in Belfast · 12-12-2007 04:39PM

Somebody has already mentioned baiting the trap with chocolate.
I find chocolate the best bait, make sure it's a Mars Bar.

Lands Leaving · 12-12-2007 04:40PM

Binomate wrote: »

Maybe it's Maddeline McCann.

Bob in Belfast wrote: »

Somebody has already mentioned baiting the trap with chocolate.
I find chocolate the best bait, make sure it's a Mars Bar.

Kids love chocolate alright...

l3LoWnA · 12-12-2007 04:40PM

Lands Leaving wrote: »

Can't you get traps that just keep them there and you can release them into the wild - what about that?

NO they'd just find friends and come back!

Lands Leaving · 12-12-2007 04:41PM

l3LoWnA wrote: »

NO they'd just find friends and come back!

I mean the local park, not your garden!!

You're too picky about getting rid of them, getting attached? would you miss their pitter patter above your head?

l3LoWnA · 12-12-2007 04:41PM

Binomate wrote: »

Maybe it's Maddeline McCann.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ROFLMFAO!!!!!

You should do stand-up!!!!

:rolleyes:

And to reiterate ........ :rolleyes:

Binomate · 12-12-2007 04:43PM

Thanks for the advice. You should do school.

Genghiz Cohen · 12-12-2007 05:14PM

If you have caught a mouse then it can't be a rat, mice will NEVER live near rats, so it must be....
Smurfs?
Maybe they saw your avatar and thought, "Hey, lets be really clever!".

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