Intelligent mice

[Conor Wright]

3 minutes ago, Bolt said:

I feel partially responsible.

 

We both should probably have been more aware of the potential for this to happen.

Don't lie,you can't cod us all, not in this plaice. you've been working in parallel to bring this series of puns here, you led us on and now you're trying to pull the plug. It's utterly unraisinable of you

(Yup, think I've got them all in there!)

[Steve Bullman]

4 minutes ago, Conor Wright said:

Don't lie,you can't cod us all, not in this plaice. you've been working in parallel to bring this series of puns here, you led us on and now you're trying to pull the plug. It's utterly unraisinable of you

(Yup, think I've got them all in there!)

Think you’re getting your wires crossed between this thread and the cod wood thread. You’ll only con fuse matters 

[Conor Wright]

9 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Think you’re getting your wires crossed between this thread and the cod wood thread. You’ll only con fuse matters 

You're right. Sorry, something must have tripped. It's time to phase this out. It hertz reading these puns anyway.

[Billhook]

Just going to jump start the original question from Conor

My mother would not let father use his airgun in the house to shoot mice for the damage it might cause, so he started having some success with matchsticks instead of lead pellets.  You might have some success with small hard seeds coated with heavy grease

[Paul in the woods]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to resort to shooting indoors, although I've only done that with rats.

 

As for the mice, have you positioned the trap correctly, i.e. with the baited end against a wall? When I've done that I occasionally get a mouse caught that's running over the trap rather than actually feeding.

 

You may need to put the trap into a pipe to stop the critter from volting over the trap...

Edited November 8, 2022 by Paul in the woods

[Bolt]

True story [bit of a departure for me].
 

My sisters cat caught and released a mouse in her kitchen a few years back, which promptly took refuse in a gap between the thick Devonshire cob wall and the waste pipe that passed through from the kitchen sink.

 

My brothe-in-law, was well annoyed, as he didn’t wan the rodent burrowing into the house walls / chewing through the wiring or causing fires (thatched roof, etc).

 

Having exhausted everything they could think of to get the terrified little sod out, he resorted to the .22 rimfire.

 

Unbeknownst to him, the gap also carried the main electric cable feed, and he shot right through it, resulting in massive arc, and loss of all power.

 

Bloody funny at the time (but maybe not for him).

[Sutton]

I don't know volt all the fuse is about!

[Billhook]

 

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