There's a goddamn mouse in my house and its been there for about a week now. I'm pretty sure its just one, and the few times I've seen it, it looked pretty small and non-threatening, but its a fucking rodent nonetheless, and it must die. I've stuffed clothes in the gap under my bedroom door so I can at least sleep in peace, but everytime I'm in the living room or kitchen I hear this little bastard scurrying about.

I've cornered it a few times, but it is incredibly fast and nimble, and can fit into half inch crevices with ease. I trapped it in an empty coke box, but it ran out on my back swing before I could connect. I have a baseball bat, pool cue and tennis racket at my disposal, but so far all have proved futile.

Today, I went out and got a few traps. The basic kind where the put some peanut butter on a platform and rig the spring the snap down on the mouse, except I couldn't get the traps to set, and kept pinching my fingers in the process. I also got some glue traps that are extremely sticky, so hopefully he gets stuck in there sometime this weekend.

I know some of you are rural as fuck and probably grew up with mice in your house all the time so this would be no big deal to you, but its kind of freaking me out. Please share any tips or strategies for how to dispose of this most unwelcome intruder.

11/13/2009 2:14:42 PM

11/13/2009 2:15:06 PM

^ omg want to pet

11/13/2009 2:16:50 PM

11/13/2009 2:16:57 PM

Borrow a friend's cat for a bit.

11/13/2009 2:17:12 PM

Yeah I considered borrowing my neighbors, but haven't gotten that desperate yet

11/13/2009 2:17:46 PM

Sticky traps are the way to go. And if you're morbid its fun to see the little sucker SQUIRM!

11/13/2009 2:19:11 PM

I found one in my place last night. I couldn't let my cat kill it though because I am soft

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11/13/2009 2:21:41 PM

The guy at Target recommended the sticky traps, and he looked like the kind of guy who would live in a place where mice would be a regular occurrence, so I feel good about those.

11/13/2009 2:22:13 PM

d-con is pretty good...the mouse dies and its body becomes dessicated and never really smells

11/13/2009 2:23:34 PM

^^^^I LOLed

11/13/2009 2:23:54 PM

yeah but it wanders off and dies...I want it dead right there, not off and rotting in some nook of my floorboards where I'll never find him

11/13/2009 2:24:22 PM

kill it while it is still inside

11/13/2009 2:29:18 PM

11/13/2009 2:30:55 PM

those spring traps always worked for us. i never had a problem setting them. maybe you're just too urban.

11/13/2009 2:41:45 PM

You should get a pellet gun, then put some food out one night and turn all the lights off. When the mouse comes to eat the food shoot it. Alternatively you could strip down naked or wear a loin cloth and hide behind the couch with a knife. When the mouse comes to eat the food you need to jump out from behind the couch, let out a primal scream and cut it's head off.

or you could use a glue trap.

11/13/2009 2:42:29 PM

i lol'd

11/13/2009 2:44:03 PM

How in the blue retarded shit are you not able to set a conventional bail-type mousetrap?

I used to use those fuckers in cool little machines/projects I would build...use the spring action to power something. I had no problems setting them. You really that inept?

11/13/2009 3:53:10 PM

just turn the crank, and snap the plank, and boot the ball down the rubba dub shoot, which flips the man into the pan..

that was from memory btw

11/13/2009 3:56:04 PM

^I don't think I ever actually played the game as a kid. I just built the thing and sprung it over and over again.

11/13/2009 4:00:00 PM

^ That's exactly what I did.

Only child ftl

11/13/2009 4:00:39 PM

that was more fun than playing...to play the game, you built it up gradually as you went through the board...but inevitably, you'd lose the silver ball bearing...and you'd try to replace it with a marble or something and it just didnt work...wrong weight ratio and balance

one time I signaled the trap cause my opponents mouse was underneath it, and it only went partway down the pole so he won

11/13/2009 4:01:19 PM

The only viable options:



or preferably

11/13/2009 4:03:08 PM

I hope this fucker is stuck when I get home today

I'll post before and after pics of the ensuing mutilation

11/13/2009 4:03:20 PM

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"except I couldn't get the traps to set, and kept pinching my fingers in the process"

are you some kinda butterfingers bumblefuck? jk btw

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11/13/2009 4:04:53 PM

No the spring had to be put into the slot just so, and I thought I had it a few times but it would close after a few seconds and shoot Jif everywhere

My fingers aren't super fat or anything so maybe I'm just clumsy...I'll try to get my dainty fingered friend to try this evening

11/13/2009 4:11:11 PM

11/13/2009 4:11:12 PM

Had a mouse in my garage recently.

glue trap + bucket, AKA the Michael Vick Method:

11/13/2009 4:12:32 PM

Whats the point of the bucket

and they didnt have those big ice cube tray glue traps at Target, just these small wallet sized black ones

I got six of them and placed them strategically, with a dollop of PB in the middle of each

11/13/2009 4:14:06 PM

dynamite. mouse won't know what hit him

11/13/2009 4:14:58 PM

the glue trap doesn't kill them.

I didn't want the guy to die slowly in a trash can, so I drowned it in the bucket, and then threw it in the trash can.

11/13/2009 4:15:07 PM

the bucket of water is to drown the mouse. the glue trap won't kill it.

the glue traps suck b/c the mouse will often chew his own leg off and then leave a bloody mess before it goes and dies in a wall somewhere

11/13/2009 4:15:31 PM

11/13/2009 4:16:27 PM

^^ yeah but the chewing the leg off thing only works if just one leg is stuck in the trap. My friend pictured above did try to chew his leg off, but didn't think about where that would get him since the rest of his body was still firmly stuck in the glue.

[Edited on November 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM. Reason : asdf]

11/13/2009 4:17:03 PM

Stop being an idiot and figure out how to spring load the old school mouse trap.

It's not that fucking hard, just follow the damn instructions.

You probably have more than one mouse. I thought I had one and ended up trapping/killing about 6. However, my house is about 90 y/old and the basement is not well sealed.

11/13/2009 4:18:01 PM

^^^ fantastic mod of BattleField 2 btw

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11/13/2009 4:18:43 PM

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11/13/2009 4:18:55 PM

Man I hope my traps were big enough

I would hate a pissed off three legged mouse stalking me, bent on revenge

11/13/2009 4:20:01 PM

several years ago, i set out some glue traps

i came back to check them and one just had mice shit on it.

i was like you mother fucker

11/13/2009 4:20:08 PM

Quote :

" SHOOT JIF EVERYWHERE"

11/13/2009 4:25:23 PM

The one disturbing thing about the glue traps is that you'll catch very large spiders in it.

I caught the mouse with one of them, and left the other ones out for another week. Every time I checked on them, I found another gigantic mutant spider stuck to it.

11/13/2009 4:27:59 PM

Well this is in my kitchen, not my garage, so if I find mutant spiders I'm probably moving

11/13/2009 4:38:47 PM

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"I couldn't get the traps to set, and kept pinching my fingers in the process"

suck it up.. its not that hard to set the trap, put the peanut butter on first then set the trap..... the best place to put it is wherever you see mouse turds. mouse will probably die within an hour.

11/13/2009 5:00:41 PM

11/13/2009 5:01:58 PM

11/13/2009 5:05:49 PM

he just wanted to play some NBA Jam w/ you

11/13/2009 7:03:27 PM

put some rat poison in some peanut butter and leave it out a few days

done.

11/13/2009 7:08:18 PM

if only this was back in March, i would have had ample american cheese on that fuckin wendy's burger to give you to put on the trap

11/13/2009 7:09:35 PM