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

squeaky

Eek indeed! What a waste of chocolate!

dinkylou

My house is very old and so they find allsorts of ways to get in.

I tried catching them and letting them outside but they kept getting back in.

I bought traps and used both chocolate and strong smelling cheese (which did work for me) which got rid of most of them.

I also bought a quite expensive sonar plug in which they supposedly dont like but I could hear it beeping all the time and it didnt seem to stop them really. (maybe mine was faulty or maybe I have very determined mice?)

I have moved the food source which helped but they still come in occasionally, I ve just got used to it now.

lipidicman

You should try rats.....

Got a big rat trap......waited......

the trap caught the rat across the nose, not its neck. So it was thrashing around. My girlfriend had to kill it, using a piece of baton to crush its throat! Nasty

Penny-Pincher!!

Evening

Well number 4 has just been evicted :eek: Does this seem excessive? I am going to call the council & housing association in the morning.

Has anyone ever had posion laid down? Im worried that they will crawl off and die somewhere :eek: The Mars bar is working a treat!

Helpppppp.

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

Ted_Hutchinson

I hope you are not just evicting them from your property.

They will return from over a mile away so just taking them for a walk won't answer the problem. If you tagged them you would find they cross water and climb cliffs and follow hedgerow bottoms to get back to where they came from might take a week or so but they will return.

They aren't an endangered species but a pest and would be better dead.

I meant to say that 4 isn't an excessive number, could easily be 10 in the family.

MommaCC

When I had my little lodgers I was advised to use chocolate as bate by several people.
I put down various traps and poison - none worked
I borrowed my sisters cat - lost her & luckily found her again after 24 hours
I cleaned out all my cupboards - think they appreciated that
Eventually I worked out that they were getting in through the airbricks, my cousin covered them with a fine mesh and I have now got a cat of my own. She is no great mouse catching (great with moths though) but is a loving addition to our family and leaves an offputting feline scent in my home.

(Touch wood) I am now mouse free.

Try to work out where they are getting in otherwise as fast as you get them out they will either get back in, send out invites to friends and distant family or breed at the rate of knots.

Good Luck

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

I didnt want to go into gory details but all 4 are well and truly dead :eek:

Thanks

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

amanda40

We had a problem with mice a few years back, when a new estate was being build down the road. We caught 13 of the little bligters in total! We baited the traps with chocolate raisens tied to the trap with fuse wire, caught them every time. They got smaller and smaller the more we caught. They were in the loft and kitchen, but did pass one in the hall one night!!!! Had no problems since.

MommaCC

forgot to mention - sonic thingys with the high pitched sound - my sister had one of these, the cat hid upstairs but did seen to worry the mice!

Toothsmith

amanda40 wrote:

We had a problem with mice a few years back, when a new estate was being build down the road. We caught 13 of the little bligters in total! We baited the traps with chocolate raisens tied to the trap with fuse wire, caught them every time. They got smaller and smaller the more we caught. They were in the loft and kitchen, but did pass one in the hall one night!!!! Had no problems since.

I did well with choccy peanuts when we had an infestation around my compost heap.

The trap was a conventional 'Tom & Jerry' style thing, but in aluminium rather than the nasty wooden things that don't seem to work.

I heard the first 'SNAP' as I was walking back down the garden (And we have a very small garden!) after setting it. Second victim within 2 hours of re-setting it! It got about 8 in total over a 4 day period.

Little Bug**rs!