MY uninvited visitor

Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 40

I never had the heart to kill him Laughing

So wanted to use a live trap.
i used a empty 4 litre milk bottle in the bottom i put a blob of peanut butter.
left the body of the bottle over a hole ,so when the mouse went in the bottle tipped upright.
all i had to do was put the lid on the bottle drive miles and release him Very Happy

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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject:

awwe bless, great photo.
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Bob

Cornishman in exile.

Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 84

Great idea - can you develop one for slugs?

flo

Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 40

if you were to bury a empty 4 pint milk bottle and keep the nozzle about 2 cm above ground.
put a can of beer in to it the slugs go nuts and go into the bottle drink the beer and are to drunk to get out.so they drown.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject: Uninvited visitor

I had to chuckle about the mouse and driving miles to release him Smile

That means he left a carbon footprint having been taken away from his friends and family, not to mention the feast Sad

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We get huge rats in our compost bins but can't do much about them as they come from the brook that runs alongside the garden. They did start nesting in the bins though and so we had to resort to a Rat Trap, especially when they were running around the patio eating bread put out for the birds Shocked

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It seems we just can't win with a love of animals vs composting Confused

The same sort of thing drives me barmy when we put out bird seed and I spend most of my time weeding ears of barley from the cracks and crevices Laughing

As for mice - we had them in our shed and garage during this winter and I hated my husband using the guillotine/peanut butter traps, so I made him get live traps and then walk right through the woods to let them go, although I expect the same ones came back again. They ate holes in car rugs and several pairs of trainers became nesting boxes comlete with peanuts that they pinched from the bird feed store Confused