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Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

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  • greenbee
    greenbee Posts: 17,792 Forumite
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    Live traps are fine - but you should be careful if you're releasing them as you need to comply with the wildlife and countryside act. 

    We've had significant success reducing the numbers here by blocking holes with wire wool before filling them. There were masses coming into the house (and attic) via the garage and this seems to have stopped them. 
  • EssexHebridean
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    You do you with the mice Cheery - cats are efficient, but they do have a habit of either bringing the stuff they have caught into the house for you to admire before they've actually got to the stage of killing it, then releasing it to run free, or alternatively leaving you "presents" of small dead creatures which you then have to pick up while making admiring and encouraging noises...it's also incredibly difficult to get them to kill the things you want gone (mice) but leave alone the things you want left alive - ie birds! 

    I'd probably go the live traps route now if we needed to as well to be honest. The others can be perfectly effective of course but in my experience mice get very savvy to them, and I'd hate to return to a trap with a "bit of mouse" in it... 
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  • rtandon27
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    edited 26 January at 2:19PM
    An extra kettle is definitely in order! If the budget can stretch go for a new one!
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