A better mousetrap...

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SO... Short story long...


We're remodeling our kitchen. We ripped up the old tile counters & back splash and had new granite installed.


Well this morning Tha. Mrs' notices a hole underneath an electrical outlet?!?


Then she finds a hole in the bag of bread...


The kicker was the mouse poop on the new granite counter top!


"I WANT YOU TO KILL THAT F'er!!!"





AHHHLLright...



I built a *better* mousetrap!






and women say men are worthless in the kitchen.



Ride'on,

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[RAT]

Somethin tells me that is going to go WAYYYY wrong...

[sarah]

HA!! I was going to suggest a pink BB gun, but that is way betterer!!

[VVjeepfreak]

Wow that is the greatest trap I have ever seen.

[NAILER341]

nice...
lets see the mess when that bastard comes out of that hole.
back in the day before my many hours of therapy, i had a mouse in my house that i chased around the house with a wire brush.
i wanted to kill it with a thousand stabs at once.
i swear it taunted me. it would come out and stand on his two little hind feet and rub his hands together until i got up with the brush. then the chase was on.




i digress....

[paulhead]

one word, saaaweeeet!!!

[Roger]

I once killed a mouse with a cast iron skillet. Got'em with one blow.

[paulhead]

nice...
lets see the mess when that bastard comes out of that hole.
back in the day before my many hours of therapy, i had a mouse in my house that i chased around the house with a wire brush.
i wanted to kill it with a thousand stabs at once.
i swear it taunted me. it would come out and stand on his two little hind feet and rub his hands together until i got up with the brush. then the chase was on.




i digress....

thank you for getting therapy
(I'm one to talk)

[Kodiak Spirit]

I love it!!!

[Old Fart]

thank you for getting therapy
(I'm one to talk)

Yes Eric, thanks for getting the therapy - and please remember that the conditions of that Restraining Order keep you on "your" side of Bellflower Blvd

[Black & Tan TJ]

Rather humane I would say, one shot and goodbye mouse.

I always liked the glue traps, at least you'd get to see the little bastards chewing a leg or two off thinking the escape. Ah, the good old days.



DON"T SHOOT TIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES!

[Giffer]

my job pretty much makes me a farmer without a farm and they other day i was working on one of our pea augers. well i got it all fixed up and started it. 6 mice came falling out the other end. all in more peice then what they should have been. so if you want a really good mouser all you need is a good ol' kohler auger.

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Tha Mrs' laughed when she got home from work and saw my *trap*.

"I hope you took pictures!"

<psshh> It's already posted on MJR.

She saw the bigger picture though.

"You'll hear the trap *go off* in the middle of the night and then return fire from the bedroom and shoot the house all to hell!"

Hmm. She makes a good point.

So we went with the sticky trap placed right below the hole. That worked well and it appears as though our mouse problems are over.

Although I like Erik's technique. Very zen like!



Ride'on,

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[Deamer]

I like it! You need to post that on Calguns.

I had a few mice move into the apartment I lived in last year. Set out the glue traps and caught three. The fourth was pretty smart. He would run from behind the filing cabinet along the wall. I set up a trap and then I caught him jumping over the trap when he exited the filing cabinet a couple times. Set up second trap 6 inches from first and he landed dead center the next night. That was the last I ever saw.

[Mitch]

When I lived on Lopez Island (Washington State) I had several small mice to dispatch. It would scare the crap out of me to open a drawer and have a mouse jump out. Well the ole .22 single shot using a .22 shotshell wrks perfect. Too bad I couldn't use that system when I was Assistant Manager at ARBY's about 30 years ago. The rats love the buns!!!

Mitch