Getting rid of rats/mice (merged threads)

ebegee

Last few weeks we have had sleepless nights because rats/mice have been making noise under the floorboards. At first we tried traps but it/they would avoid them. So since Sunday we have been putting poison bait down, just one block for the first two nights then increased to two per night. Tonight is the fifth night and I can still hear them (and the baits is gone). According to what I've read it takes around 3 days to take effect but it/they are still going strong.
We reckon they are coming from next door as they guy has been leaving his bin bags all over his back garden. We have tried to talk with him about clearing it but he doesn't answer his door. After reporting him to the environmental health and even receiving a fine he has still left it. So unfortunately we are left with trying to sort the problem with poison just to stop any possible damage the vermin could cause.
Am I being too early with expecting any kind of result after 5 days ?


regards

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Get a cat. Ours is available for hire. He kills!

Biggles

Make them little carpet slippers?

Lobsta

We found that they can't resist peanut butter or chocolate spread. So try that on the traps. Also we had those ultra sonic pest/spider scarers and although it didn't stop the spiders it certainly helped the mouse problem.

If you've poisened them be ready to search for the source of the funky smell in a week or two as they decompose. Thats how we sometimes are reminded to check our traps in the loft :eek:

ebegee

Lobsta wrote: »

We found that they can't resist peanut butter or chocolate spread. So try that on the traps. Also we had those ultra sonic pest/spider scarers and although it didn't stop the spiders it certainly helped the mouse problem.

If you've poisened them be ready to search for the source of the funky smell in a week or two as they decompose. Thats how we sometimes are reminded to check our traps in the loft :eek:

We tried both of those on the traps.. they simply avoided them. I also had one of those electric shocker traps which again was avoided. I do realise the problem of using poison is the smell afterwards but I wanted a quicker result before they multiplied !
We have also had a sonic repeller too but a lot of people regard them as a scam. Its not worked for me anyway. The vermin were happily munching on the poison bait a couple of feet away from a sonic repeller !

tracey3596

We live very rurally (is that even a word? Sounds like my cold! :cool: ) and have a rodent problem EVERY year, from autumn onwards depending upon climate.
This works : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rentokil-PSBN804-Rat-Killer-1kg/dp/B000TAWHKM
We use it mixed with EITHER peanut butter or chocolate spread as previously suggested and it DOES work, for us anyway AND after multiple seasons. :j
Yes you have to search BUT no traps work here (after the first "casualty" of the season, anyway) and after trying a few so-called "sonic repellants" we wondered what exactly they repel? :mad:

Just remember please: if you are using poison, can you be reasonably sure that other wildlife will not try to eat your vermin before (or after) the poison does it's job? Or cats etc?
Personally I would say that if they're not getting the devils NOW, why would they once you've fattened 'em up on poison? :undecided

Homely

My last house was totally invested with mice, i'd walk into the kitchen, turn the light on and see them scatter across the floor, I tried everything and I mean everything and in the end the only thing that worked was to fill in every single tiny hole you can find, and considering they can get through a hole the size of a biro lid that is a BIG job. I had that mice problem for 4 years until I solved it completely.

The first night we used traps we caught 17 mice, we literally covered the kitchen work tops in traps and we could hear them going bang, bang, bang all night. The clean up operation the next day was grim.

After a couple of weeks the mice just avoided them but still managed to get the peanut butter!

We used a sonic device which worked for a couple of months then they got immune to it.

I used poison as a last resort because I have a small dog and also you end up with mice dying in random places and smelling but it didn't do any good anyway.

I had the council out and all they could suggest was to manually block every hole I could find. We used wire wool at first, they can't gnaw through that and then used a rock hard filler and that seemed to do the job.

It is a massive problem because they breed so quick, as soon as you've killed a load there's a whole new batch waiting in the wings and it goes on and on, so all you can do is stop them getting in in the first place.

ebegee

ok put the poisoned bait down for 5 days, just put the sixth down now, and ten minutes later i hear movement and its obviously eating it now under the floorboards. Seriously stressed with it all. NOTHING is working, cant see where they are coming in or i would block any hole straight away. Council not doing anything about the rubbish at neighbour next door. Feel like moving out !:mad::mad:

xpastelx

Sorry for the rhyme!! To my horror heard scratching last night, turned on the bedroom light and there was a mouse on my windowsill :eek: :eek:
It panicked when it saw me, and ran into the back of my mini fridge (has an open back) I dragged this outside, and shut the door (outside I mean out my front door) and didn't see it escape (!!). Thing is I've always heard you never get one mouse, but have stripped the flat and there's no signs of any other mice or even or anything this one did. No droppings, no food eaten/scratched at.

I'm waiting until my landlady comes home (I'm a lodger) to see about pest control. But is it possible he was one little guy on his own?

simpywimpy

I had two I think. I left a piece of chocolate on the fireplace (ours came from behind it) overnight and it had been chewed the following morning