I killed a mouse today with my bare hands

Happywanderer · The Master

I killed a mouse today with my bare hands

Ma · Guru

Seems everyone here is getting ready for the mice.

Have been to two supermarkets and they have sold out of all rat bait and traps and stuff.

Managed to get some mothballs.

Just hope there aren't any down in the compound to get into the van.

Guess I will know when we bring it up next week.

old briney · Senior Member

the hunter coming in you, good on you smile

you know over the last 2 months i have set 4 traps with peanut butter as bait, at home and get 1 mouse every 2 weeks, until last week, 1 of the traps has gone missing confuse i have turned the house upside down for 2 days, its still missing disbelief

DellieMay · Senior Member

You are a whole lot braver than me HW...... I would be the one on the chair.
Cheers Dellie

Happywanderer · The Master

Little furry things really don't frighten me, I was more annoyed at the inconvenience they have been causing.
Very few scare me. Have killed many a redback found in my potplants, Crickets inside the house in the last plague, picked them up and taken outside.

He actually looked quite cute, while still alive.

Happywanderer · The Master

Old briney, they grow them big down your way, carting the traps away, now thats a feat.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Hate mice - might have to get the bait stuff out and under the house - and in the van, currently in the back yard -already hace ****roach baits through the house - they're nasty, ugly things, though my daughter tells me they are incredibly clean - it is people who are dirty - so I make sure I clean up really well to keep them at bay.
There is no way I could ever pick up a mouse - dead or alive!!!! There was one time, I got up at 3am (years ago now), went down to kitchen, frightened a mouse who ran up the curtain, I jumped up on the kitchen bench - sat there staring at mouse till husband got up at 6am - he chased it an caught it - or I would have been out of the house until I knew it was gone!!!

petengail · Guru

I haved to wonder what you would do armed and dangerous lol

milo · Guru

poor mouse.. i hate killing anything , dont even like killing flies i have a rule, if you want to live, stay out of my house!

lilly31 · Guru

milo wrote:
poor mouse.. i hate killing anything , dont even like killing flies i have a rule, if you want to live, stay out of my house!

you sould like my dad milo he would say ..every thing has the right to life would pick up spiders and put them out side ..i suppose it was good mum had a tougher side

jimbo · Guru

I'm glad this is being continued on.. As it is very interesting.thanks H V

Ps Old Briney That was a rat that stole your Mouse trap I'll wager

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

FOR HIRE, my name is Marg (with a g) I can catch all of your mice and dispose of them for you biggrin

Happywanderer · The Master

Now that is one thing I won't go near wombat, snakes. Horrible things.

Jules, I have visions of you sitting on a kitchen bench from 3am till 6am. If it was already up the curtain and staring at you, probably as terrified as you, why didn't you just go back to bed and worry about it in the morning. It would have still been there.

milo, in normal circumstances I would have let it run, I don't make a habit of killing little things, except mozzies and spiders, but it was in my van and I have had enough problems in there to date without a mouse probably eating wiring etc and doing more damage. Didn't have much choice if I wanted my sanity back.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

It's ok Marg (my snake) HW does not really mean you, she really means all snake's in general

Happywanderer · The Master

It's all right Marg, you are safe from me and a big distance in between, just as well.!!

Beth54 · Guru

How on earth did you manage to catch it Marj? The little blighters are so quick! Or was it already a little woozy from ratsak?

I once found a nest of baby mice, all pink a new. Still makes me shiver thinking about it. Mice don't normally bother me either, but I think it was that I had to kill these little pink things.

I hate snakes too, and spiders. My b-i-l catches spiders and lets them go outside. Not me, they get sprayed or stomped on!

jimbo · Guru

It is with deep regret that my attempt with the Naphthalene Flakes to beat the bastards are as useless as Tits on a Bull..I put a Biscuit in their favorite spot and guess what............They carried the biscuit off...I'll try Peppermint Now...Or else It could be the End of Australia as we knew it

KayJay · Veteran Member

I am terrified of mice, so much so I refused to move into our newly built home until Kevin could guarantee it was a mouse free zone, I had spotted one in the linen cupboard just as I was about to start unpacking, so I slept at our daughter's for a week until I was sure the coast was clear. My only other fear in the animal kingdom is Magpies (the feathered variety, not the footy team) in their swooping season. They absolutely scare me witless; I would walk a kilometre out of my way to avoid them. Jan

ken thomas · Guru

Hello Marj

At Port Hughes SA at present and the mouse plague is here big time. The park mgt gave us natphalene flakes to put around the van and awning and seems to keep them away, as long as you can put up with that smell. If not all you can smell is dead mice

Echuca is still having problems with mice and hard to get bait

still not catching fish

Ken

-- Edited by ken thomas on Thursday 5th of May 2011 08:12:22 PM

Happywanderer · The Master

They are everywhere Ken, Reading a Maryborough paper today, all hardware stores are out of mouse traps and poison, so a problem up this way too. Unbelievable the plagues we've had, locusts, mice, crickets, the list goes on.
Beth, you've caught me out, this one was so slow I could have put a lead on it and taken it for a walk, must have eaten so much Talon to stupefy itself. It did try to get away from me but at a slow waddle.
Kayjay, birds don't worry me, love them. My mum had a pet maggie when she was a girl. It would wait at the gate for her to come home from school then tell her all the news of the day walking home. Yes it talked.

ChiChi1 · Guru

They have come as far as Yass. Was at Maccas tonight and as we pulled up saw them running along the front wall in the headlights. Didn't see any along the Hume from Albury though.

gubby · Guru

If you're driving through them just be careful, I remember years ago when the mouse plague was in the Wimmera there was that many squashed on the road that vehicles, even buses if they had to brake hard just slid off the road. That was on the main highway between Horsham, Stawell & Ararat. cry

Thlippery liddle thuckers

DellieMay · Senior Member

BLOODY HELL WOMBAT!!!!!!!!! Hyperventilating just looking at Marg. Tell her to look out for my 410 Dero bought me.
Cheers Dellie

Sheba · Guru

Wombat, Marg is beautiful !!!!!!!! How long is she ? What do you do with her when you're on the road ?

Cheers,

Sheba.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Sheba wrote:
Wombat, Marg is beautiful !!!!!!!! How long is she ? What do you do with her when you're on the road ?
Cheers,
Sheba.

Hi Sheba,

Marg is almost 1 mtr long, we are usi=ually on the road during her down time, she sleeps fro about 3-4 months and does not eat during that time, little wombat (son) calls around to check if she is awake and maybe need a feed and change her water.

Name: Marg, this is because of the Simpsons tv program, little wombat (son) has a male called Hommer I have the female called Marg because they are both Stimpsoni python.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

DellieMay wrote:
BLOODY HELL WOMBAT!!!!!!!!! Hyperventilating just looking at Marg. Tell her to look out for my 410 Dero bought me.
Cheers Dellie

Hi DM, she is a real sook, crawls around me whenever she comes out for a walk, well not really a walk more of a slither, mrs wombat stays out of the way when Marg is out of her cage.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

milo wrote:
poor mouse.. i hate killing anything , dont even like killing flies i have a rule, if you want to live, stay out of my house!

Hey Milo, I see you have just passed Guru status, congratulations

jack biggles · Senior Member

Wow, I have just read what sort of a tough character our very own HW is. If you go near her van she may attack you with the same murderous intent.....poor little mouse.

Firefly · Guru

We have just returned from a trip to Rockhampton to pick up another van. We stayed the first night on the way, at Nindigully. We were by the river having happy hour when I noticed a mouse. It was scurrying here there and everywhere, which was all fine.

I felt something run up my leg and jumped accordingly and stated the mouse had run up my leg. Of course the Other Half thought it was my over active imagination confuse from having just seen one.

Next thing he seen it scurry under my chair and disappear. The little blighter was on the back of the chair near my shoulder. It played this game all night. We were in a tent, knowing we would probably return with a van. I suggested he do the back of the ute up securely just in case Mickey decided to hitch a ride.

"She'll be jake."

So into the tent for a good nights sleep to hear Mickey run up the side of the tent then slide back down, by his toenails, for half the night, I kid you not.

Got up the next morning to half the stuff in the ute chewed to bits, little sh it.

"Hes gooone." Famous last words from the Other Half.

Pulled into Theodore that night, campfire going, dinner bubbling, bourbon long and cold and who should peek out at me from the ute back, Mickey!!

Sooo in the dark we had to pull everything out of the ute to chase the buggar of a thing. Mickey won, but hopefully has vacated. biggrin biggrin

Below is a picture of our camp, my chair is the red one and the tent to the right.

Great night though. wink

jimricho · Guru

Someone was asking about Theodore recently, can't remember who but it may have been Helena, she was going to contact Banana Shire Council for an update. Can't recall whether it was here or on the Campsites forum.