Thar's a wee Moose in the Hoose!

[vsquizz]

Mickey has invaded...and his mates...so far eluding my peanut butter laden traps...

Battle Plans please..... I wish to avoid baits but I do have a shotgun!:D

Cheers

[Gumby]

They'll breed faster than you can trap them. Ratsak works for me.

[Tikki]

Roll up little balls of white bread and add a few drops of vanilla essence ... you're sure to have more looking to get in for the party!

Or, dare I say it ... get a cat! :D
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[Zed]

mix flour with plaster of paris and leave it out for them to eat. the plaster will go off in their stomachs and they'll die.

bit cruel though. and they may die in the walls. stinky.

[ozwinner]

Cat??
Weve got one at the shop, Im not a cat person but this one is feral, nothing is safe from it, mice, rats, bunnys, snakes, dogs, small children......

Al :)

[vsquizz]

Tikki, If I brought home a Cat to Flea I'd be out living with the dog in the laundry:eek:

Cheers

[craigb]

As Tikki says, get a cat!

Maybe you can borrow one for a couple of weeks?

Once the meeces smell cat around they'll bugger off somewhere else (the ones that the cat hasn't got around to that is :rolleyes: ).

PS
You posted while I was typing :) Are you sure she prefers mice to cat?

[Driver]

Vic

Tikki and Craig are right on the money. Borrow a moggie - even if only for a day or so. The mice will shoot through in no time!

Don't bother with one of those puncey little designer fashion accessory pussycats. You want a bloody big boarding-house tomcat with holes in his ears and a scar on his nose. If he's still got most of his tail he's probably a wuss.

Col

[ozwinner]

Vic

Tikki and Craig are right on the money. Borrow a moggie - even if only for a day or so. The mice will shoot through in no time!

Don't bother with one of those puncey little designer fashion accessory pussycats. You want a bloody big boarding-house tomcat with holes in his ears and a scar on his nose. If he's still got most of his tail he's probably a wuss.

Col
Sounds like the shop cat.
You can rent him for $3500 per week, plus expexses.
He comes with his own personal trainer, ( God I need a holiday in the West )
He expects first class travel and ***** hotels, thems stars, not swear words BTW.
He likes a nice drop of Cab Melot each night.
And a tickle under the chin.
Drop me, ahhhum, him a PM

Al :)

[Gumby]

The answer to all your problems........

http://www.catrental.co.nz/index.cfm?CED62990-96B7-11D1-2ABE-EB631D673DF3

[Tikki]

Tikki, If I brought home a Cat to Flea I'd be out living with the dog in the laundry:eek:
Nothing like a bit of company when you're in the doghouse! ;)

[vsquizz]

The answer to all your problems........

http://www.catrental.co.nz/index.cfm?CED62990-96B7-11D1-2ABE-EB631D673DF3
Last time I went there it cost me about 30 Grand:( .

Cheers

[DanP]

Cat??
Weve got one at the shop, Im not a cat person but this one is feral, nothing is safe from it, mice, rats, bunnys, snakes, dogs, small children......

.....Dan's leg..... :eek:

[ozwinner]

.....Dan's leg..... :eek:
Ahhh yeah, forgot that one. :D
Anyone within CLAW reach......:eek:

Al :D

[bsrlee]

Get/borrow a ferret. Really. Or a bag of fresh ferret poo. Drives rats & mice $%$*&*! Standard 'ratting' team in the 19th Century was 1 ferret, 40 terriers, 40 blokes with pick handles & wheel barrows.

Standard method: 1) chuck ferret into infested warehouse. 2) listen for rumbling noise. 3) start whacking terrified rats & mice as they evacuate. 4) fill wheel barrows with dead rats & mice, take to tip/harbour/hole in ground. 5) retreive snoozing fat ferret full of eaten rats.

[echnidna]

ferrets work great on rats but they can't get into mouse holes.
Best idea is to alternate between traps and baits. So by the time they start to wakeup something no good for them they are gone.
I use the wax block baits as they are less likely to be eaten by birds.
If I lay baits outside I tie them in the middle of a bit of plastic downpipe to keep them away from the birds and dogs etc.

[Pat]

When the mooses invaded our little castle, MBGitW sent me to fix all the holes. What a fun job, crawling under the 'ouse with gap seal and chickenwire. She got these no mess traps, a little spread of KRAFT Peanut Butter(picky mooses), and 5 min later SNAP! "Pat go and get rid of it!" was the cry. Within a week of traps and patching holes, no more moose on the loose! :D

Preparing to knock on wood (head) now! :D :D :D

[speedy]

I can't keep a cat up here in the rainforest, the native white tailed rats are so big they chase the cats. After one day the cat has packed his bags and shoot through. :(

[Wood Borer]

Vic,

You are thinking about it all the wrong way.

I have a couple of pet snakes and I feed them mice. Pet shops sell frozen pinkies for $1.50 each! Fuzzies are more expensive.

When you catch them, wack them in the freezer for a month (to kill the worms and other parasites) and then sell them to the pet shops. Flea won't mind if you promise to buy her something with the proceeds.

In no time your new shed will be up and full of heaps of good toys from your profits.

Anyway, didn't you buy a CAT recently - you posted photos of it? Don't tell me it isn't pulling it's weight! :(

[vsquizz]

Hey Mr Gonzales...you sure your on the right thread:rolleyes:

Just got back from taking the Flea out for Birthday dinner and my cunning plan has failed Baldrick. I put out 2 traditional type finger buster traps with peanut paste and two of the plastic springloaded jobbies with Jam...Zilch Speedie Mooses:( The shotgun is looking good.

The ring leader has the happy knack of setting off the plastic traps without getting snapped. I think he has gone and told all the other meeces to stay away from them...dammed rodents...sufferin suckertash.:o

AReeba

Cheers

[flea1607]

Vic,

Anyway, didn't you buy a CAT recently - you posted photos of it? Don't tell me it isn't pulling it's weight! :(
Not around this houseee it is not!!!!!;)

[vsquizz]

Anyway, didn't you buy a CAT recently - you posted photos of it? Don't tell me it isn't pulling it's weight! :(
Brother Borer...The FlatCAT paid for the nosh-up tonight and a couple of Bottles of Plonk...of which I didn't partake being the duty driver an all....just a couple a schoons of Newcastle Brown for me:cool: .

Cheers

[Harry72]

Best bait for traps is blu-tac... just roll in sesame seed, they cant resist the smell of oily seed!(and its hard to remove from the traps...*snap*)

[Driver]

and then sell them to the pet shops. ? (

Pet Shop Story (Hi-jack alert!)

A cute little blonde - about five years old - goes into a pet shop and says to the owner:-

"I'd wike a wabbit, pwease."

The owner is charmed to his bootstraps. He drops down on one knee and says:-

"Would you wike a white wabby or a bwack wabby, or maybe a nice cuddly gwey wabby, just wike dat one over dere?"

The little cutie-pie shakes her golden curls and says:-

"I don't fink my pyffon weally cares what colour it is."

[vsquizz]

SNAP!!

Alas poor speedy, I knew him well

Score Squizzy 1 - Meeces Nil :D

Cheers

[Driver]

Ayeee! Caramba!!

[Barry_White]

A bit late but I find the best bait on a trap is a nice fresh pumpkin seed. They love them and are very difficult for them to get them off without setting the trap off. Another one is choclate.

[scooter]

Bit of flywire wired to the trap, with peanut butter wiped on/in it.

Supposed to be the goods.


Cheers.............Sean, who lives next to a paddock & feels your pain :)

[kiwigeo]

Try leaving a nice letter outside the mousehole politely asking the mice to vacate your house.

[Daddles]

Do what they do on that ad and have Derren Hinch stay for a fortnight.

Richard
well, it'd drive me away

[vsquizz]

Do what they do on that ad and have Derren Hinch stay for a fortnight.

Richard
well, it'd drive me away
I'd be out before he got in....have to check the bags for meeces.

I think there must have been only one...Its gone rather quiet on the moose battlefield.

Cheers