Getting rid of rats/mice (merged threads)

Errata

Being a cheapskate and plagued with mice last summer, I bought re-usable traps from B&Q which worked like a dream. Baited mine with Cadburys Fruit and Nut !

gingerdom

I think I have located the source of my rat problem (my posting was merged about 100 posts ago - so the problem's been going on for ages).

I had the council rat catcher in again to lay down more bait - I'd already taken out a dead rat from the kitchen floor that had succumbed to previous bait.
The council guy suggested that I get a CCTV drain survey done.

Now I haven't done this yet but it got me to think logically about my drains, where they go now and what alterations might have happened in the past. This led me to pull up the right floorboard in the kitchen (we're about to renovate the kitchen and are on pause until we know that the rat problem is gone).

What I found under the floorboard was an old soil pipe that seems to go a long way under the 1960's extension. Therefore what the rats have is their own private tunnel and entrance into my home. I now need to find a way to permanently block up the this old unused drain.

Therefore my advice to all is to check your drains in some way.

Good luck,
Dom.

shy_at_the_till

I am terrified of mice and about a year ago I discovered one in our little appartment. My partner is a Budhdist so killing them was out of the way. We bought those electric devices that are supposed to drive them nuts and eventually get them out but they haven't worked at all.

The things is that now we have got 7 (seven!) mice running along and I am just fed up, specially because I have discovered that my partner gives them water and food at night. That made me feel very upset. I cannot possibly buy a trap as he would not dispose the body, he would hate me for killing them and I am not capable of touching it... the thought of it gives me me creeps! He said he will deal with the problem however I know he will never kill them and to him "they are a blessing". What shall I do?

dc

Get one of the "humane" traps that capture, but dont harm the mice. The best ones are about 2" square in cross section and about 7" long. The mouse triggers a dropping flap when they go in to eat the bait.
Caught 7 fieldmice who had decided our house was better than a field. Released them in some woodland about a kilometre away (as they can find their way back if you drop them any nearer.) And they are cute.

The B&Q multi ones are too small, imho, and the mice seem scared of entering.

dc

Just found a link to my fave trap, called Trip Trap, cheap too @ £2.95.

http://www.ratbait.co.uk/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=344

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halia

who has had success with the electronic thingies? traps just get ignored by our mice and we keep having to repoisen - with a curiuos toddler I'm not happy about having poisen left lying around.

(old house, large gaps under floorboards, big rodent problem in area)

dc

I had 2 electronic scarers, of different manufacture, sold on QVC and Ideal World. Seem to work with spiders but not my Field Mice;)

My mice seemed to like chocolate bits , biscuits, and cereal with fruit.

ukdutypaid

I've tried a couple of traps in my house.
Cardboard, triangular affair with glue on the inside..
Horrific it was. Found mouse several day later, thoroughly stuck to the inside.... Wait for it, yes still alive, so brick from great height on that one. Instant like a train crash....

Next bought little grey boxes that trip and trap mouse....
Little !!!!!!s won't go in, plus the tipping point on it means, I swear they can get the bait out.....
Eventually worked, but it had worn self out.... Sweating panting, exhausted. Put it outside, for it to recover, it wouldn't, it couldn't.... Next door's playful kitten had that one.....

Seriously folks. I think it's got to be a spring to the neck on them.....
To the fool who feeds 'em at night. Like WFT!.... Live traps, they ain't so humane if it takes 24/72 hours of panic for the mouse to die is it?

sophlowe45

shy at the till - you know 7 = many many more mice!

if you use normal traps you don't have touch the dead mice at all, just throw away the trap (wear rubber gloves while doing so and put into a carrier bag)....first one it will be hard but its suprising how quickly you get used to it...

dellboy102

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has used this item:
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/mice-repeller-whole-house-p-36.html

we've got a mouse problem AGAIN and its really started to get me down!, I dont mind paying the money but I need something that will definitely work, we caught a few using mouse traps but they keep coming back.

I have read the posts about mice problems but there doesnt seem to be much feedback about these devices.

Any help much appreciated!!