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Sep 6th, 2006 at 3:39 pm by Susie

My traps caught another mouse - except this one got caught by the leg, and it’s squealing loudly and flinging itself around my kitchen. It’s making me VERY TENSE and I don’t want to go in there…

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8 Responses to “Mouse No. 2”

on 06 Sep 2006 at 3:53 pm1Mike Gutierrez

Don’t let the poor thing suffer! You have to whack it with a pan or something. Or just throw it 0utside!
on 06 Sep 2006 at 3:56 pm2Everyman

Bait your trap with rat-poisoned stuff next time. If the trap doesn’t get the rat, the poison will.
on 06 Sep 2006 at 4:24 pm3James Guglielmino

Better yet, send in the cat…Sorry. What would you expect of a veterinarian? You can tell that we are laughing (not at) but with you…Heh heh heh.
Gug
on 06 Sep 2006 at 4:47 pm4Susie

My neighbor removed it for me, thank God.
on 06 Sep 2006 at 5:26 pm5brendan

best thing when that happens is to take a cinderblock and drop it on the mouse. it’s messy, but it kills the poor little thing instantly, via massive cranial crushing.
on 06 Sep 2006 at 6:04 pm6Sir Oolius

I know of a few other ways of killing mice. Let me elaborate…eh, sorry, maybe not right here right now.
on 06 Sep 2006 at 9:06 pm7Jo Fish

Two words:

Havahart Traps They’re like $18, last forever, and you can catch your critters, then release them in a park or something. No squealing, no infirmity and no TENSION.

Be human. Havahart.
on 07 Sep 2006 at 1:13 am8garampani

If the mice are naive enough to be caught, use a cage type trap. Its ideal to have three mice but not essential. Let them go discretely at a crossroads ,four roads not a t junction.

Something should happen a little bit later, a crow may decide it likes your window sill ,an appliance might develope a vibration or whatever. Don’t immediately try to deal with any new events unless they are worse than the mice.

Repress your housewifely instincts for a while just wait and see how the mice feel about the changes.

I tried this simply to oblige the person who was kind enough to suggest it. I didn’t really believe anything could help. But it it worked.

If you don’t like this idea, friends or friends of friends can probably suggest others.

Santaria,high and low magic, folk Catholcism are full of spells and routines to get rid of mice . Apparently even priceless texts from Arabia give some. Arabs were merchants and rats in the hold or in your packs were constant dangers.

I’ve read that Ashmole who founded the Asmoleian (sp) library was considered a pracitising high magician in his day. But later scholars doubt it . They think he just collected texts as all they have in his own hand
are an few signals to drive away rats.

Here is something that maybe similar from a book “Ancient Christian Magic”

A Sixth Century Christian Amulet. tranlated from Greek.-

Amulet to protect the entrance of a house from vermin

The door, Aphrodite, Phrodite, Odite,Dite, Ite, Te, Te, E,
( the above written out in the form of a wing)
Hor Hor Phor Phor, Yao Saboath Adonai, I bind you artemesian scorpion, Free this house of every evil reptile and annoyance, at once, at once. St. Phocas is here. Phamenoth 13, third indication.

annoyance=pests=mice and rats

It would be interesting if lurking demons from other dimensions were really here to catch rats. M.R. James could make a terrifying story from that. Lovecraft probably wouldn’t like the idea.

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