Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

turfy6

Cherisong thats so funny :rotfl: I can visualise the bin in the front seat and you chatting away to them. We have always had a cat so dont get the problem very often, we are in the country and did have some in the attic once but put the fat old tom up there and the smell of the puss seemed to do the trick and they havent been back since. KC my DH says if you want to catch them though a custard cream in the trap does the trick!!;)

Pippajo

Mum and dad have mice, and she caught 19 in her car one Autumn. They have to be killed though as they learn a path which no amount of cleaning destroys.

Please please please have the wiring replaced asap. Mum and Dad had funny noises a few weeks back that they thought was due to the water heater. It wasn't - the electrician traced it to the space above the kitchen and below the bathroom.

When he took the floor boards up the cabling and beam had been on fire - but due to lack of air it had not spread. My dad was very shocked and upset. It took the electrician about half an hour to replace the wire and he only charged £100 for the call out, search and cabling.

MrsMoo2U

Pippa, I was at the point of starting to kill them for that very reason. Perhaps they knew because I went out and bought proper traps after somebody told me the exact same tale about never getting rid and somebody they knew having a cable fire in the walls or something. As soon as the "death" traps and the sonic beam thing arrived they disappeared! In a way I am so glad because I dont know what I would have done if I had found a dead one. I am a real wimp about things like that and it upsets me so much. I did have a cat for many years and it was after he went that I started having the problem. Perhaps he had been doing a good job without me ever knowing.

Karmacat

Blimey, they're a lot more common than I thought! My only experience with mice previously is in a bedsit in Birmingham. It used to squeak a lot, late at night, and I used to talk to it for a few minutes to get it to shut up

Cherisong, I love what you did! I'd be very happy doing that myself, nabbing them a couple at a time and taking them somewhere. Its a definite yes to washing the tops of the food tins for a while tho - actually, like Kittikins, I do that anyway

Scary thought about the fire ... since it was the electrician that saw it, I'm guessing it isn't in a dangerous state right now, but I'll check with him tomorrow.

Having lots of thoughts about priorities, and about health. I've just realised I've hit on my thing of "what I'm going to stop doing" - it does entail doing something, but its more about stopping what I'm currently doing.

I'm going to stop trying to prune the garden by snipping things up really small and putting them in the landfill waste. Instead, I'm going to get a Green bin - its only £50 a year, and somebody in one of the big houses between here and the station was telling me they were giving theirs up, because it costs so much now. But when I think of how the same amount of effort (chopping things up) could produce so much more result, its a no-brainer. I'll expend less energy, my garden will be transformed more quickly, I'll want to spend time out there, I'll plant food plants as a result, and the waste will be recycled into compost or mulch.... good news all round.

Karmacat

You know, I have two sonic thingies already - I just turned them on last Thursday .... I wonder if they'll do the trick? I'll check they're relevant.

gilligansyle

All this talk of getting rid of things made me laugh. Last year my washing machine flooded my brand new fitted kitchen, because 'rodents' had eaten the waste pipe.

I also bought a light to get rid of flies in the kitchen, don't know why I bothered; they thought it was a disco ball and invited all their mates.

Karmacat

Oh blimey! Entropy increases ..... it seems no matter what we do, its gonna get us! When I was at my sister's on Saturday, the rabbit bit through the wire to the plug in about 3 seconds ... but what on earth is in a waste pipe that they want to *eat* it? And why does a rabbit, which is supposed to only eat grass, have teeth strong enough to bite through a leccy wire?

MrsMoo2U

gilligansyle wrote: »

I also bought a light to get rid of flies in the kitchen, don't know why I bothered; they thought it was a disco ball and invited all their mates.

That is just so funny!!!!! I was going to get one of those lights. Maybe wont bother.

Good decision on the bin KC. If you also add in the time it takes to bag it up and take it to the tip if thats what you do the investment will pay for itself pretty quickly. Where I used to live had green bins, nothing like that here but they have collections for every other kind of recycling.

Karmacat

cherisong wrote: »

Good decision on the bin KC. If you also add in the time it takes to bag it up and take it to the tip if thats what you do the investment will pay for itself pretty quickly. Where I used to live had green bins, nothing like that here but they have collections for every other kind of recycling.

Thats the thing, cherisong, I don't take it to the tip cos I don't have a car - I've been sticking it in the landfill bin, which I'm not supposed to do if I can just use one of those Green bins for a year, or even six months, the garden will be cut back from the fair amount of overgrownness its now in, and I'll be able to get a compost bin going and keep it going. I don't feel I can do that now, because, like the house, everything is full - there's no spare space to put anything, between all the dratted rhodendrons in this tiny suburban garden, and the massive buddleias and the hazel tree and the laurels and the sedge. Oh dear, I'm on a roll :rotfl:

Okey dokey, shutting down now to have a cuppa tea and watch a dvd....

night night - hope everyone has a good remainder of the evening.
xxx

Pippajo

I wish we had one of those bins - I'd gladly pay £50 for it, we have dreaded conifers, costs too much to have cut professionally and are a nightmare, but we have 70ft length of them in the back garden and would also cost a fortune to fence.

Putting branches in the car to go to the tip also puts spiders in, which when the pop down in front of you when you are driving, is not a good idea :eek: