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With a friend of ours having caught 25+ mice in the last couple of weeks and other friends either getting a cat or buying the hardware store out of traps there is definetly a 'rodent problem' in the Morzine valley!
Last week we had wasps everywhere - not usual for October!
But apparently according to Morzine locals this is the sign of a harsh winter with lots of snow!! We shall just have to wait and see.
Any others of you in the Alps have any other local snippets?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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my house is full of mice at the moment, caught 5 so far.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Cats are having a feast this week. Several half-eaten carcasses around the place, and in the garden.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| snowandtrek wrote: |
| But apparently according to Morzine locals this is the sign of a harsh winter with lots of snow!! We shall just have to wait and see. |
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| Headplant wrote: |
The mice come out in the evening and watch TV with me, a bit of a problem though, they are eating my underwear.
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Either they're really daring mice or you must sit really really still when you watch TV. Doesn't it tickle?
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There's certainly a lod of them this autumn. Cats had another two today. None currently alive in the house as far as I can tell.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Stabs range of mouse body jewellery required some working on.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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We are about the only occupants of our Alpine retreat at the moment, and there are a number of poor little stray cats around. I'm very tempted to feed them, but it would be daft, so I'm not. But I'm hoping they're hungry enough to see off any mice. There isn't any evidence of them indoors, though we have had them in the cave in the past. Still some sleepy crickets about; when do they pop their clogs for the winter?
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We have a lot of mice at the moment -I thought it was because we no longer had any cats 
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You know it makes sense.
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stab, Yep - chocolate is definatley the winner for bait. haven't had mice for a few years now but when we did 2 or 3 nights of chocolate in the traps did the trick.
Headplant, mice use EVERYTHING as a toilet - they pee on the move.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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peanut butter works well
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Poster: A snowHead
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Another local forecast today apparently if a certain flower (sorry can't rememebr the exact one) is taller than usual then this leads to a cold and snowy winter. This autumn they are particularily tall and abundant and so another good sign???????
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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stab, you barsteward, apart from risk of Salmonella, tapeworms , rat-bite fever, infectious jaundice/leptospirosis/Weil’s Disease , fungus disease (Favus) plague and murine typhus, Rickettsial pox lymphocytic choriomeningitis and possibly poliomyelitis (polio), whatever had that poor mouse done to you? 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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stab, this is how I catch mice. Lager is much better than chocolate! 
BTW it is a genuine photo.
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We don't currently have mice at my dad's house, but have had a lot of very large spiders.  Personally I prefer the mice! chris, aaawwww.
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chris,
He's a beauty
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stab, here is an int'restin fact:
Given ordinary rat food, a rat in a Skinner box (ie a cage featuring a lever which the rat can press in order to receive food) will feed itself a healthy amount of food and will not overeat. However, if you supply the rat with chocolate, it will eat and eat until it is nearly sick.
My, how useful a psychology degree is.
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| chris wrote: |
| stab, you barsteward, apart from risk of Salmonella, tapeworms , rat-bite fever, infectious jaundice/leptospirosis/Weil’s Disease , fungus disease (Favus) plague and murine typhus, Rickettsial pox lymphocytic choriomeningitis and possibly poliomyelitis (polio), whatever had that poor mouse done to you? |
it was a swiss one.
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Not just me then - Central London - and I spotted one last week in the fireplace and caught one (in trap) under the stairs...Crunchy Peanut butter the little blighters love it..
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| [b]cfc5mu0 wrote: |
Crunchy Peanut butter the little blighters love it..
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Yes, I heard that one on the radio one morning. Apparently they go mad for the stuff.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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We had mice here. I bought one of the "electronic" devices which send a pulse through the mains cables. So far, this appears to have kept them at bay. I was very doubtful that it would work, but based on my experience I would recommend it.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Caught six so far this week. They start coming into the house around about now every year. I'll catch lots for a month or two. The number will then tail off through the winter and from spring through summer I'll catch one or two at the most over the whole period. I mainly use unbaited traps, with a flat plastic board as the trigger. I set them up in an area where the mice like to run in a confined space. I also have a few baited traps in my eves space (baited with pumpkin seeds) as thats an area with wiring runs that I don't want the insulation chewed off.
I haven't bought any new traps for years, just remove the body and reset the traps in the same place.
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The cats have been leaving us lots of mice on the step this year (another one today when I got in from work) so it must be europe wide !
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Our cats have caught nothing much for the last 4 years...and this week we've had two mice on the back steps and we've got a very active wasp nest in our garden compost bin too....snow shovels at the ready in the Hautes Alpes....
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Poster: A snowHead
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The one in the bottle, looks like one of the edible ones. How many do you have????
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Last year I had a community of giant house spiders living at chez moi, prior to a warm winter. They became personal friends and were awarded names. This year, nothing, apart from those spindly small ones. I rather miss Sebastian and Sheila.
On that highly technical theory, we should be in for thirty foot snowdrifts and complete transport paralysis in time for Christmas.
Where's Stanton when we need him? I want validation of my theory from his interpretation of the twitching of Bergdolens' beaks and the amount of food hoarded in mountain dwellers' beards, or whatever it was he quoted in predicting a Catastrophic Winter for the Arlberg last year
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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paulmck, 
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jonesj71, it wouldn't be the 1st time I've eaten rodent. In the early 80's the KFC in West Hampstead Lane ( a regular stop-off point during my despatch riding days) was done for selling rat disguised as chicken. I didn't pass the Pepsi challenge on that one!
In answer to your question... how many do you want?
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, they have also started eating the rubber handles off my can opener. I thought I was safe upstairs until they started racing me to the top 
Lets hope that it means a good snow year here as well as the Alps. 
I'm not too good with dead bodies, this one was stiff, thought it might look good as a key ring. 