Real time mouse crisis

[swansonj]

Having been woken up this morning by noises from downstairs, we've finally worked out what's happened. A mouse has set off one of the lightweight plastic mousetraps we have in our kitchen cupboards, but instead of the mouse being killed, it must have got itself attached to the trap and has dragged itself with trap attached off to behind the inside end panel of the kitchen units, where it is completely inaccessible short of (a) some sort of robotic arm that can go round two corners or (b) sawing a large hole in the kitchen units. We can hear it sporadically thrashing round with the occasional extra clunk as it bangs the trap against the units.

What would you do?

 

[vernon]

Having been woken up this morning by noises from downstairs, we've finally worked out what's happened. A mouse has set off one of the lightweight plastic mousetraps we have in our kitchen cupboards, but instead of the mouse being killed, it must have got itself attached to the trap and has dragged itself with trap attached off to behind the inside end panel of the kitchen units, where it is completely inaccessible short of (a) some sort of robotic arm that can go round two corners or (b) sawing a large hole in the kitchen units. We can hear it sporadically thrashing round with the occasional extra clunk as it bangs the trap against the units.

What would you do?

See if you can remove one of the kickboards. They tend to be clipped onto the unit support legs.

 

[welsh dragon]

If you don't do something it will die and then the smell will be horrendous. I think B is the way to go.

 

[Fnaar]

Is there a bottom bit to kitchen units that pulls off (floor height, i call it a kick board, as I'm always accidentally kicking it), no idea what they are really called. Pull that off, and get at the mouse (and put it out of its misery)

 

[TissoT]

Try buying a humane mouse trap next time !

 

[swansonj]

See if you can remove one of the kickboards. They tend to be clipped onto the unit support legs.

Had 'em both off. It's got itself between the inner end panel, which being structural goes all the way down to the floor, and the wall.

Edit: it's that inner end panel that I'd have to cut a hole in, and to be fair, because it's inside, it wouldn't be visible from the outside.

 

[GM]

Get @slowmotion on the case!

 

[Peteaud]

What would you do?

Buy a cat.

 

[vernon]

Is there a bottom bit to kitchen units that pulls off (floor height, i call it a kick board, as I'm always accidentally kicking it), no idea what they are really called. Pull that off, and get at the mouse (and put it out of its misery)

One TMN to me.

 

[Cuchilo]

The end panel will just be screwed on , kitchens are easy to dismantle and put back together . Unless its hand built/painted .

 

[NormanD]

Is there a bottom bit to kitchen units that pulls off (floor height, i call it a kick board, as I'm always accidentally kicking it), no idea what they are really called

Plinth

 

[byegad]

Poison the damn mice or buy stronger traps!

 

[Over The Hill]

Been there but with same thing under bedroom floor.

What I do-
Buy good quality traps - some have thicker wire and stronger springs, the four-for-a-pound ones are useless. I think the "splat" trap is the most humane. The ones that trap them alive give them hours of panic and suffering, they often just don't work and our mice seem to be able to eat their way out of them. Poison is cruel (it makes their stomach swell up and explode) and you have a rotting mouse hidden somewhere in the house.

Get a shoe box cut a hole in one end bigger than a mouse but smaller than the trap. Bait trap with peanut butter and or nutella. Set it up so that the trap is at the other end of the hole and the mouse will come in to it from the bated side and be under the right part of the sprung bar to dispatch it cleanly. Put the whole setup in place with the lid on the box.

Mostly then you get a clean kill, or if they do kick around they are contained in the box. Box also keeps the action out of sight if you don't fancy dealing with it before breakfast.

I dealt with about 8 mice this way last winter and it seems to work well for me.

Good luck

 

[swee'pea99]

 

[srw]

[QUOTE 3013819, member: 9609"]in a word - Napalm[/QUOTE]
Why use half measures? Just call in the US Military to nuke the kitchen.