I have mice eeeeek.

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We had a problem with mice when we lived in a stone cottage. Next door had a sonic scarer and it sent to blooming things to us. I tried using one, it just did not work. I resorted to using traps baited with peanut butter. One night the trap went off whilst I was in the kitchen cooking the supper!! I 'lost' 3 traps, they just disappeared, we did find one when we moved out, complete with mouse, snared by its tail, when my son moved the washing machine. No idea how long it had been in the trap but it had not started to decompose, so no smell.

The little beggars found the walnuts in the sitting room, I moved the settee and foubd a neat little pile of walnut shells, they also found the pantry in the hall and chewed through the bottom of a large bag of sponge mix. They also chewed through the plastic container containing the cheese biscuits, they did not get to the biscuits, hope they had belly ache from the plastic.

We eventually moved and left the problem for someone else!!

*~Zephyr~*

We had one a few months ago. I thought it was strange to only have one - don't the normally come in pairs? - but we never found a second.

It got into my larder and chewed through a box of Paxo - that's how we discovered it - stuffing mix all over the floor of the larder! I'd had a suspicion that something was going on for a few days as my cat was acting weirder than normal

Anyway, said cat caught the little blighter at 3am one Saturday morning. I woke to find him throwing it about my bedroom, having a wonderful time with his new toy!

Never did find out where they got in.. but I think they were attracted because of next door feeding nuts to the birds.

bargainhunterss

Bit concerned now you mention the bird feeder thing Zephyr, I've got a bird feeder in the garden which has seeds and fat balls, but it's way at the other end of the garden (and the garden is relatively big). But worried that's what's attracting them now!

*~Zephyr~*

I can't say it was definitely the bird-feeding, but the fact is that the mice got into my kitchen, which is only 3 feet away from the hedge defining the boundary and the bird feeders were hung in said hedge. It might be only circumstantial, but I think the evidence is pretty damning!!

LolaLemon

my neighbour watched a program on mce and their habits - he told me that the show said when they are displaced (for us the school got knocked down across the street, so we sort of expected them to come - and got prepared!) they seperate and go scouting for a new location, the ones that dont get a good enough place keep searching til they find the others - so could be why u only had one that time.

I've had mice twice, the first time i was up late playing world of warcraft and this tiny wee thing moved out the corner of my eye, i sat up straighter and the mouse froze to the spot, i realised what it was and i moved to go after it and it ran and disapeared. next day i went to the iron mongers and got the traps, possitioned them along the wall, and then got to cleaning, took about 5 weeks, of catching 2 a week and they got smaller each time, i kept setting the traps for about 2 months after just to make sure.

second time was when i was mega depressed, in a beeeeeeeep relationship, now im a hoarder, but he was clatty. would leave half empty dinner plates on the floor (!) anyways i got them back when he lived with me -(moved himself in, lasted 3 months before i kicked him out). told me one night he saved my chocolate from being nibbled on, i went mad at him for not tryingto see where the thing went - he said it wasnt doing any harm! grr. for alos eating my chocolate and leaving it on the flipping floor in the first place! so out came all the traps, set up etc, first one goes off that night when im in bed and he was still up, he tells me the next day when im looking for the trap that it caught one and was stil alive so he let it go outside the back door(!) next night with him firmly told to leave the fing to die, same thing happens again, this time he left the trap and mouse at the back door! load of other vermin started appearing for thier nightly snack! he was kicked out really soon after this, with me left to get rid of them, think their was only 4 or 5, but what i noticed was where they had been living this time was inside my couch! when i went to hoover down the sides of the couch, the mice had bitten through the matterial and ate the crumbs that collected their.

after that i got the plug in thing and hadnt had any since, but it broke so i need to get a new one.

armyknife

dizzybuff wrote: »

My house now has new residents of the mouse kind. I have traps down and have killed three. But they are still here and now destroying my plaster behind my radiator. I have just had my kitchen replastered. Can anyone helmand give some more hints to get rid of the !!!!!!s.

Damn, your place really must be some kind of warzone if you're comparing it to that place.

gayleygoo

We had a few this year, the big bag of bird food under the kitchen sink probably had something to do with it... Our landlady offered to get some poison, so if you rent your house you could ask your landlord for help. I used to think that poisoning mice seemed cruel, then I saw what our cat does to them :eek: Cats can be quite sadistic. Recently we found a teeny gut parcel, still warm, on the hall floor. Not a scrap of fur or anything else to be seen. It seemed to scare away the others though!

Someone once told me that mice don't really smell as they decompose, as they just kinda dry out, especially if they're small. Hopefully the council can help at least.

Spendless

We've had mice for the past 3 winters! Fortunately I live doors away from a pest controller, so bought some poison from him. They don't smell as the die and decompose, well only one did and that turned out to be because it had crawled on a ledge by the motor at the back (outside!) of the fridge.

Watching a diy programme last year, I discovered that they can't chew through wire wool so put it along where last years 'entrance' was. Unfortunately they found another, so a job for later this year is to seal up any holes, if a biro ca fit in the gap, so can a mouse.