A mouse in the house

By the way, if you want to bait a trap, use malt paste, it's like crack for rodents.

If this is true, perhaps the original poster could get them hooked and monetise the infestation?

Maybe ours just has sensitive ears.
Which setting did you have yours on? I put it on the lower frequency. At first I found it annoying as I could just about hear it but quite quickly I forget it was there.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/30/contents/enacted

Also, using that term is a little bit racist.

perhaps follow the link's of which posts people have actually replied to.

Ah well, at least it's amused me for an otherwise dismal Tuesday morning.

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

"You promised me dawg or higher!"

Oh, I see.

Please - do tell some more black jokes.

Holy fuck, all that for just one shit racist joke.

Jeremy Clarkson >>>>>>>>>>

We had mice in my old house. Wooden floors with a lot of holes, cupboards with holes at the back of them and so forth. I lived with two vegetarians who were very keen on the idea of humane traps and humane methods generally. They tried the mint stuff everywhere, did sod all (but did smell nice). They tried wire wool, didn't even slow them down. They put a few humane traps down, went out for the weekend and upon their return found that they'd condemned a mouse to a long, slow, horrifying death. I discovered a couple of mice still alive in humane traps and also managed to catch one in a soup container thing after chasing it into the sink.

The ones I humanely caught I took out into the street, around a bit of a circuitous route then let them go near the cemetery up the road.

In the end I got bored of buggering about and just put out a few proper classic traps with peanut butter and this seemed to get the last of them. Was mouse free for a few months, then moved out and when I nipped round to pick up the post the new tenants told me they had mice again.

perhaps follow the link's of which posts people have actually replied to.

I thought it was a serious point about killing vermin with garden implements being illegal.
God I feel dumb now

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I don't actually get the joke, can someone explain it to me?

So not actually in contravention of a specific law then? Good job too, the police would be very busy arresting everyone who blocked holes with wire wool etc

hoefla said "doesn't your brother own a spade", implying that the previous poster should have hit a captured with a garden implement rather than putting it in a plastic bag and swinging it against a wall.

I made the rather crude and clumsy pun of interpreting that as asking whether the brother owned a black person and stating that the authorities frowned on that. This implying slavery.

However, my post arrived after people, including hoefla had returned to talking about peppermint oil. Rather than checking which post I had replied to someone argued that it wasn't illegal. However, they didn't mention the peppermint oil so, rather than clarifying the misunderstanding, I argued obliquely at cross purposes in order to make them appear to be stating that slavery, particularly of black people, wasn't illegal.

However, as no one else cottoned on to what was going on, only I was in on the joke. It wasn't particularly funny. I'm the sort of sad individual who find humour in ridiculous pun based accusations of racism and misunderstandings in arguments. That was silly really because neither of those things have every really had much traction on this forum. At all. Ever.

I don't think any of the methods are foolproof but at least this one is humane, and minty fresh. It may work for the OP

no one else cottoned on to what was going on

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Rather than checking which post I had replied to someone argued that it wasn't illegal.

I did check which post you had replied to, and I'd assumed that you were arguing that despatching a mouse with a garden implement was the illegal act based on some unnecessary cruelty aspect.

I thought you meant sending the vermin next door was illegal...

sad

I don't think you're a bad person.

I'm just glad I can continue to brain woodland creatures with a shovel and not have my collar felt.

Someone should check that out otherwise we might all be pathetic accessories to a mediocre crime.

If you brain enough woodland, or household, creatures you can probably have a nice felt collar.

I hope not. I lived in a shared house once and we agreed to get a cat to combat against the mice problem. About three days later out neighbours knocked on the door to ask if we were having a sudden mouse problem.

We politely feigned ignorance of the problem and drowned out guilt in cheap continental lagers.

My favourite image of the whole thread! @lowprowafer punching a mouse in hand to hand combat!

We sent them to Australia years ago...