Getting rid of rats/mice (merged threads)

e00c

glad I cheered you up with my heath robinson trap! worth a try I suppose!

I'll be talking a drive to B&Q later on to buy a modern mousetrap - see what other things they have on offer too..

The mousetrap i've got is an old wooden one... it is very sensitive... must just have a clever mouse :mad:

MX5huggy

Do you have a plan as what to do once he is in the bucket?

Magnolia

Dont need plans - he wont stay there long as they are very good jumpers :rolleyes:

e00c

Apparently - mice can only jump 12'' from standing... advised to put an inch or 2 of water in the bucket.... to decrease the jump!

If he gets in there... he wont be coming out

We'll pop him near the trees 30 metres away! hopefully he wont come back o_0

basmic

I'd just flush him down the loo when you've caught him.

Somehow I don't think the world will notice one dead mouse?

greyteam1959

Your old wooden trap should catch the little sods ok.
Just set them a little bit finer.......and make sure they don't get your fingers first.

wallbash

We'll pop him near the trees 30 metres away! hopefully he wont come back

I think thats too close!

andrew-b

I like the naming but watch out he doesn't escape in a Trojan horse ("And as when ancient Troy fell into the ashes" etc ...I studied Virgil's Aeneid for GCSE latin years ago but forgotten most of it now.

I'm not convinced Virgil is a mouse though..from the proportions of it's body and tail he looks a bit like rat-like to me.

As well as traps and poison (which are more a cure than prevention) and shoring up point of entry, i would make sure your kitchen is kept immaculately clean and don't leave washing up overnight etc. Also don't leave your kitchen door open during the daytime and empty any kitchen bins very regularly. Even a few crumbs will attract them like sharks to blood.

No offence meant to your cleaning but we've experienced this first hand. We saw rats in our kitchen 5 floors up in our old flat and after adopting an intense cleaning regime and no longer leaving washing up overnight they seemed to disappear(probably better food on offer in another flat!). Before i worked out the point of entry (via a hole in the wall where the water supply entered the flat) i did manage to trap one which was disposed of down the rubbish chute!

Andy

kitschkitty

Mice will very happily eat laxative chocolate, and sadly it will kill the little chaps (but at least they'll die happy), safer than poison too!

KaratePigeon

They say for every mouse you see, there are another 10 with it...

I love the home made trap :rotfl: do let us know if it works! If not, the humane traps are good - we used one in our shed, put some cereal in it and within a few hours had 4 little mice in there! Then another 3 the next day, haven't seen any since :cool:

They do have very good homing instincts though, so I would take them on a bit of a drive to relocate them, 30m does sound quite close!