Pi trap

Deportation is not on my list of options. I'd need to rent a car or take a bus to get near to the Pentland hills some miles away, then do some elementary hillwalking. Not on. And they're town mice, not country mice. They'd be owl food in no time. And leaving them elsewhere in Edinburgh (which is not 'the wild', except in some parts on a Friday night) would be antisocial.

No, the more I think about it, the more I want to see them then kill them quickly, not slowly as with poison (if it worked). Preferably without having to watch the process, though I'm sure some might say that in such a situation I should be forced to.

Poisoning should always be an absolute last resort anyway because unlike traps which kill the mouse where you can clean them up, poisoned mice go home to their nest under your floor/in your walls/etc and slowly rot.

Actually the last resort would be to nuke the house from orbit etc :)

But the EMP wouuld zap your Raspberry Pi.

You could build a Pi based cat feed/drink station ...

It could bottle feed the babies too.

They've always been a pretty crap service anyway.

There's long been a whiff if something 'not quite right' about them (even before google analytics).

Any site that wants you to register just to *look* is a big red warning beacon!

That was not Yahoo/Flickr's fault but the poster's who probably shared a private or otherwise restricted-view set. Normally, Flickr photos and sets are publicly viewable without any login.

I'd be a little skeptical that the electronics for a xenon flash tube could generate enough current for a long enough time to kill a mouse.

However, a pet-sized electric fence charger might work. Several years ago, I had an electric fence around a cherry tree to keep the raccoons from stealing the fruit. One run of wire was about

HTH

A few years ago I was repairing a Mecablitz electronic flashgun. After each test I would switch off, press the flash button, then discharge the residual charge on the capacitors using a screwdriver across the terminals of the capacitor.

On one occasion I forgot to press the flash button. When I put the screwdriver across the terminals, it blew a hole halfway through the screwdriver, and woke people up several rooms away.

There's a LOT of energy stored there. In this case it was 1000uF at

(Incidentally if you are ever tempted to work on such things beware of

I suppose it might have had some kind of heart defect.

As to the photoflash notion, I think there might be about 20 joules involved (but I'm on my second Bloody Mary). Sounds to me as though

If the little critters would just stick to occasional forays to find some food, I might not be so annoyed. But there seem to be mouse superhighways in some quite unexpected places such as behind the washer/dryer. The economy is probably to blame: a lot of empty flats with no heat and no food to help raise baby mice.

1. It's "Yahoo!"

1. Spend millions redesigning a logo which looks the same.

2. Mis-identification of ham as spam using stupid sledgehammer rules.

1. You could leave out every vessel you have filled with water or fill the bath. Few cats drink more than a pint a week if their food is moist (mice are > 50% water probably).
2. Cats eat mice. Not feeding would encourage hunting.
3. A large enough litter tray would be the worst problem!!!

When I lived in a 300 year-old country cottage and the harvest mice came in for the winter for warmth and food, cats were the only thing which kept them at bay. I had to leave the larder open!

A good humane mousetraps is available and consist of a bent square-section plastic tube which 'rocks' when the mouse enters and the door drops shut. It is recommended you remove a mouse within six hours of trapping to avoid death by trauma so you can leave a cat longer than a trapped mouse.