A mouse in the house

*goes to sit in kitchen with slingshot

take it out for a ride next time

You should increase the distance gradually, and place "rewards" in your house for when it manages to find it's way back
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@dicki I would love a mouse egg for my cabinet of curiosities ;)

If you’re lucky it will die of a heart attack from being shaken about a bit, otherwise you need to get it well away. Pest control websites suggest a mile but in London with all the other options for food and shelter, you would get away with a shorter distance. Especially if you can go beyond a row of shops or restaurants. Bear in mind that these places will have traps down to kill the little thing so you might as well just kill it yourself and compost the remains.

After having read up, it seems that survival rates are pretty bad for released mice, so I think I prefer traps now.

They were causing massive upset in our house. I ended up using raspberry pi devices with IR cameras to find where the buggers were coming from. I got three, all of whom chose snappy traps rather than live-catch ones, filled holes and voids with a metric fuck ton of wire wool and now the cameras pick up nothing.

The downside of the snaps is that they are not as instant as you would like, and there is about a minute of clattering. I also now have some peculiar IR snuff movies.

raspberry pi devices with IR cameras

taking it to the next level
#rep

They work so well. I use motioneyeos on them, big IR illuminators and they cover a big area. Obviously the mice might be soemwhere else, but I don't think so.

The house looks to be perfect if you are a mouse

There's something on the (flat) roof / in the ceiling of our loft extension.

It sounds too big for mice, and we've not seen any droppings.

I suppose it could be rats, couldn't it.

Scurrying about above our heads while we sleep.

Our cats are useless.

I ended up using raspberry pi devices with IR cameras to find where the buggers were coming from.

I got three, all of whom chose snappy traps rather than live-catch ones, filled holes and voids with a metric fuck ton of wire wool

now the cameras pick up nothing.

How fast is the scurrying? Could be squirrels.

That reference wasn't lost on me as I started this process. I did wonder if I could sort some sort of gun

How fast is the scurrying? Could be squirrels.

no scurrying here

yet

squirrels

Bastards. I hate them with their long tails and their stupid twitchy noses.

Bats?

There's a cat that climbs over my lean to roof that makes a right old noise.

It's very different to the scurrying of mice in the house though.

The cat came in through the bathroom window one night in the summer, and twin one and I found it downstairs on the window sill the next morning. Having (hopefully) cured our mouse problem, I picked it up and put it outside

It sounds too much like little feet running to be bats.

I have an endoscope though.

Time to investigate!

Sure it’s not birds? Seagulls like a flat roof

That was my initial thought too - we get magpies on our roof regularly and it sounds like a toddler running across.

Could be an escaped ferret, check for any anxious looking flat cap wearers complaining about the price of beer.

I almost bought one of those for this problem

I do get a bit obsessed with things

Hopped out of the shower the other day to notice a small brown thing sitting patiently by the bathroom door as if waiting to be let out. It seemed seriously dozy so I trapped it with a bath toy.

Turned out it had either got into the neighbour's spice stash, had just woken up after a night on the gin or was on its way to shuffling off this mortal coil. It was self righting but seemed to lack forward propulsion. Chucked it onto the railway embankment to meet its fate. First one for a while.

trapped it with a bath toy

u wot m8

the rubber duck or the steamboat ?