Mouse In Xmas Tree
 

Small mouse in XMas tree, hiding around the trunk about 3/4 way up.

Cats patrolling around tree, miauing. Concerned they destroy tree/ornaments trying to get mouse.

Kids trying to get mouse into a jar w/ cheese, squealing. Concerned they destroy tree/ornaments trying to get mouse.

Tree fully loaded, no question of taking outside and shaking.

Suggestions?

My thought was to ignore, mouse either gets eaten by cats or survives until tree is put outside after holidays.

Scare mouse down tree, let cat catch mouse, chase cat outside, cat eats mouse:D

A shop Vac with a piece of cheese stuck to the inside of the business end.

Keep your finger on the trigger.

mouse trap tied to a strong branch.

reach in like a man and grab mouse and take mouse outside to be reunited with its family

have a heart trap.

tiny paper mache wings and halo.

hot glue gun.

release mouse back into tree.

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before and after.

go get some of those sticky mouse pad traps, and strategically place them at the trunk at different heights, throw some bait in the middle of them, when the mouse gets stuck you'll know it cause the cats will hear it "scream" and scuffle trying to get unstuck.....

Hahaha, this scene comes to mind....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdiXSsFp29s

Grab the mouse. Put gloves on first. If it gets loose in your house and the cats don't get it, life could be bad...

A Barrett 82 with a ballistics computer is overkill.

You should only need one shot:

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Seriously, what about unloading the tree and letting the cats have at it?

nothing in the world like the sound of a trap ( baited with peanut butter) snapping...
set it , go to bed, get up, throw it in the trash and be done with it!

Fire ! Fire ! Fire

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Fire! Fire ! Fire!

Would a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher aimed right at him be cold enough to turn him into a little furry ice cube in a couple of seconds?

Another approach would be to move the stereo speakers over near the tree and crank it to eleven with "Stranglehold" by The Nuge on repeat.

[QUOTE=Heel n Toe;4371823]Would a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher aimed right at him be cold enough to turn him into a little furry ice cube in a couple of seconds?


with the added benefit of a cool frosted tree.

My vote is let the mouse enjoy Christmas too. Grab him carefully and let him go outside.

I wouldn't use a glue trap with a cat in the house.

Sometime you have to destroy the village in order to save it.

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Ok You have a mouse in your tree, you have cats, I don't see the problem. The mouse will come out of the tree when you are not scaring it, or the cats will remove the mouse from the tree when you are not looking. Cats are hunters, cats kill things, mice are things cats like to kill. So you have to re-hang a few ornaments or the entire tree, just let your cats do their job. I live in the country and have 4 indoor cats, the life expectancy of a mouse here is about 8 seconds.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1229865904.jpg

about a 30% chance that the mouse is a pregnant female. gonna be fun if you don't come up with a solution soon

... "miauing".
Cow goes moo
Dog goes bowwow
Cat goes meow

Maybe it was a french cat. :D

Our tradition is bring tree home. Take garden hose and spray it from top to bottom repeatedly. Fresh cut bottom and leave outside overnight in bucket of water. That hopefully removes bugs, loose needles, and vermin.

I would get control of mouse now. He may take up residence and begin a family.

Surveillance photos of mouse. Enjoying bait that was supposed to lure him into jar.

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Mouse was safe as long as remained high in tree. But he chose to make run for it.

Found corpse in living room floor this AM. Multiple puncture wounds, appears to have be tortured to death.

good kill :)
treat the cats to some raw catnip :D

Gotta love a happy ending to a christmas tale..........

I hope your cat tried to make him talk first.

Rick, that was a Berkley cat,, you know waterboarding is illegal there.. If I were that cat I'd be lawyering up,, he could be in big trouble!!!

Ya had to know the cat would get em. Cats love to torture.

Cats like to 'catch and release'... Repeat until death.



KT

You guys who said grab the mouse maybe have never actually done that. A field mouse is pretty fast. I was trying to grab a baby rat in a tree once. That sucker fell to the ground and ran up my pant leg.
You talk about some kind of funny dance.... :eek:

I have to say, it's adorable in that picture. I would have liked to have seen it safely outside, but such is not always the case.

It's lucky it lasted that long with cats in the house!