We've Got Mice-Help!!! (merged threads)

furrypig

bella123 wrote:

get yourself a cat.. :mad:

we had mice and enviromental health came out and put poison down and got rid of them.

Prior to this we had used traps then released the mouse a few miles away but we got a dead one in the trap once and it put us off!!

The E. health bods said that there was prpbably quite a few and that rleasing them a few miles away would not really help!!

We got a cat and guess what??? He catches the mice and brings them into the house and plays with them and sometimes they escape! We have had to call environmental health out again to get rid of the mice the cat brought in!!

Our enviromental health now charges though it used to be free.

Good luck!:D

idiot_3

bacon is good bait on a trap.

filigree_2

Unknown to me, ex-husband had left a huge sack of fishbait in a cupboard and mice got into the bag and gorged themselves! No wonder I couldn't get rid of them with a running buffet on offer :mad: I think getting rid of the peanuts was the single most effective treatment.

As you have discovered they can chew through plastic or paper wrapping, you need to store all food in jars, tins or lockable plastic bins. Storing food on shelves instead of on the floor helps a bit but you'd be amazed how high mice can climb if they think there is food on offer.

You need to position traps in popular mouse hangouts, I suggest under the fridge and behind your sofa/armchair if they are pushed back against a wall. They always run along the walls and seek cover if possible, so put the traps in their favourite hidey places. I'm in a two bed flat and I needed half a dozen traps to cover all their favourite spots, so I'm afraid you'll need several traps to be safe.

I got a plug-in mouse scarer, I can't remember the brand name but Homebase or B&Q should stock one. It emits a faint blipping noise that frightens them off, allegedly.

If you can find any mouseholes, block them with scrunched up tin foil because they can't chew through that.

Hopefully your local council will help you for free, mine don't! Perhaps it's because we're home owners, or our council are just extra stingy

I tried all these methods and caught about 8-10 mice and never saw any more.

margaretclare

Hi there

We had some in during the winter. They were outside, living under flower-pots and eating dropped bird-seed (we brought the bird-table closer to the back windows for the winter). Then we had some very cold nights and they discovered a way in through the air-bricks.

We can't use poison because of the birds - this is a wildlife garden. So we bought a humane trap from https://www.trap-man.com and re-located them a mile away in some local woodland or on the industrial estate on the river-bank. While in the trap B was feeding them bits of banana - they loved that. We also got a plug-in deterrent - it gives off sound-waves which they can't stand, apparently. Try https://www.pestmagic.com

We haven't seen any more since we re-located the last one months ago, apart from one wood-mouse I spotted one night when I happened to be putting the foxes' food out and I triggered the security light at the back. Huge eyes and ears, a long tail, brownish not grey, shading to sandy-brown underneath, definitely a wood-mouse. I only saw it the once.

Aunty Margaret

se999

We had problems when we lived in a London suburb, basically there were garages & shed at the bottom of the gardens & when the weather got cold &/or the food dried up they looked for a nice house.!

We used these traps http://www.pestfree.co.uk/livemouse.htm I think we used cake in them. Boys went for a walk the next day and dropped them in a hedgerow well away from houses, and according to the trap instructions far enough away for them not to be able to find their way back.

We dealt with the initial problem.

But in late summer we always put the traps down again, and occasionally caught a mouse, hopefully before he'd managed to set up home with wife & family.

Mice can get in through absolutely tiny holes, so trying to mouse proof is practically impossible, also everyone wants to leave doors open at times.

Pooky

A flurry of activity at 3am this morning as mousey was evicted through the cat flap attached to a cat.

He was laid out on the door mat as a peace offering this morning - needless to say i didn't accept it.

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi There

Thanks for all your help and advice.

Well 2 mice evicted so far :eek: They like Mars bars..lol. Bought 4 mice traps today for £1.25 (well OH did) we had one that we laid last night and caught one of the buggers. The other was captured today. Hopefully, there wont be too many more :eek:

Thanks

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

squeaky

What did you use for bait?

jen_jen_2

cats regularly bring mice in so i have a few strategically placed traps (behind the fridge) well being a lazy git i dont check them often, following a nasty niff i checked behind the fridge and found snack size toffee crisp half eaten and skeleton mouse (not the cause of the smell) - well it died happy

my suggestion was therefore chocolate but seems youve found it anyway

"If you can find any mouseholes, block them with scrunched up tin foil because they can't chew through that." - is that only if they have the silver fillings??

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

We used a piece of Mars Bar :eek:

xxx