Getting rid of rats/mice (merged threads)

pegginout

I set the trap with peanut butter, yum at 11am....

O M G!

I've just heard a BANG from the cubby hole

IronMaidenFan

Doesn't take long does it? Now comes the hard part - getting shut of the little blighter, I had to get my OH to do it :eek:

PZH

pegginout wrote: »

I set the trap with peanut butter, yum at 11am....

O M G!

I've just heard a BANG from the cubby hole

Always a good sign :rotfl:

Seriously though - we had mice in the loft section of a bungalow a number of years ago - so reset and rebait the trap and see if there are any more - we caught 6 !!! in total before it all went quite. ( Good idea with the peanut butter - sticky enough that the mice have to pull at it - we used a soft centred chocolate )

Use a carrier bag over your hand if your squeemish ( but the ones I caught made no mess at all ), grab the trap and release the mouse straight into the bag. Tie a knot in the bag and dispose in the outside bin.
:T

IronMaidenFan

phoodless wrote: »

Use a carrier bag over your hand if your squeemish ( but the ones I caught made no mess at all ), grab the trap and release the mouse straight into the bag. Tie a knot in the bag and dispose in the outside bin.
:T

Good idea! When we caught our mouse OH was as squeemish as me so he put the mouse and the trap in the bin, not very money saving :rotfl:

pegginout

Husband has disposed of the dead body of Mickey Mouse!

Re-set the trap and ready for Minnie to show her cute little face

Let's hope they havn't got any babies!!!!!

IronMaidenFan

pegginout wrote: »

Husband has disposed of the dead body of Micky Mouse!

Re-set the trap and ready for Minnie to shoe her cute little face

Let's hope they havn't got any babies!!!!!

Excellent, bet you feel better already.

You will be free of mice in no time, just keep re-baiting, they can't resist the lure of peanut butter, lol.

pegginout

Well I was convinced we would have caught another mouse overnight but we havn't.

Is it possible I only had one mouse?

I was under the impression there would be a whole family in there.

Should I have washed the trap after the first mouse?

I was only asking becasue I wonder if it has the scent of dead mouse on it and any more mice won't come out to play now they can smell the death on the trap....or am I just being paranoid??

IronMaidenFan

Very possible you only had one mouse - I did!

Keep the baited trap in position for another week or so to be sure. No need to wash it, I wouldn't have thought mice were that fussy to be honest

TotallyBroke

I think I have a mouse problem....
my sitting room smells and I have droppings but not big enough to be a rat dropping I don't think.

I have cleaned all the droppings up and laid the snapper trap along the wall where the droppings were. I put chocolate on it but didn't set it for a few days.
I have also put a glue pad down under the sofa again in the middle of where the droppings were.
Last night when I looked I had droppings either side of the sticky pad but nothing on the pad.
I also have 2 humane traps that have droppings around and although I have found the trap closed there has been nothing in there.
My sofa does not appear to be damaged.

The thing is none of my food is being touched. My cereal boxes have been kept on the side and not so much as a nibble on them. Can they feed in one place and live in another or do food and nest need to be fairly close.

Nextdoor has just bought a cat so could they have just moved house.
I really don't know what to do now I heard them chewing through the plaster board of a blocked doorway last night because I had blocked their previous entry hole.
I'm worried about getting poison in case they then crawl off somewhere else and die and rot.

Please any advice I'd be really grateful

adouglasmhor

TotallyBroke wrote: »

Please any advice I'd be really grateful

Please don't use glue pads.