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Another weird suggestion from Down Under - get a diamond python. They love mice. A lot of Aussie farmhouses have a tame python just hanging around. Mind you, they can't do much for a mouse plague. If you want to see something horrific, Google "mouse plague" and "Australia" and see if you get any photos or film. Don't show her. But maybe show your son - he will never tease anyone again, especially if you threaten to send him to drought-ridden Australia.


And a more sensible Aussie idea - if your daughter is worried that the mouse will 'get her' in her sleep, a suggestion from mouse plague experience is to put each leg of the bed in a dish of water. Then keep the bedclothes off the floor so there's no bridge. Not that the mouse is likely to get on her bed (only in plagues, folks) but it should reassure her, if she's already fretting about it. If she isn't, don't suggest it or she won't get any sleep.


And yes, where there is one there will soon be more, if another of the opposite sex made it inside. Or if what made it inside is a pregnant female (50:50 chance). Fecund little beasts...


And I do agree, sticky traps are absolutely awful, because YOU then have to dispose of the rodents - they're not dead, just stuck and desperate. husband & I had to rescue a little old lady on Easter Sunday - the exterminators had come in on the Thursday and put down sticky traps (in some STUPID places, too) and had NO plan in place for disposing of the captured animals. This ninety year old woman and her daughter are vegetarians - no way could they hurt the rats that were caught. Baby rats - poor woman was in hysterics. My vote is also for the spring trap in a cereal box (love the bait idea - we haven't got that stuff, we have to use peanut butter and bacon rind. Or the snake).


Marg


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