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

catznine

Poor rat probably died of shock! Definately not expecting such a welcoming committee! they managed to wedge it between side of house and heavy plant laden plank! Couldn't of planned it if I'd tried!

Copjunk2

We've had problems with mice in our loft last winter. We used to have them in our garage but when we moved our CH boiler from the garage into the house I think the mice decided to find somewhere warmer. We have been using humane traps with peanut butter, but after a while they seem to get wise to them. Don't want to use poison - don't want a decomposing mouse in the walls of my house, so it looks like it will have to be the inhumane traps if they come back this winter !

Christeen

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

We found a mice nest behind the dishwasher yesterday :eek: OH cleared it and we caught another mouse last night bringing total to 7...how many more ???

They love their Mars bar and peanut butter

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

Bendybops19

Oooh i'm so squemish i think i would probably cry and not leave the house until they had all gone!

Had HUGEEEEE spider in my bedroom last night, was horrible!

squeaky

I leave spiders alone - they eat all the other creepy crawly things

lipidicman

Copjunk2 wrote:

.....using humane traps with peanut butter, but after a while they seem to get wise to them. .

They get wise - are you collecting the same mice time and again? Or do witnesses tell the others to be careful.

Seriously, where do you get rid of them so that they don't come back?

squeaky

The mortuary.

Or at least a mile away from home someone suggested earlier.

lipidicman

Yeah squeaky. You use a humane trap and then kill them? Great for sadists....but not for me. Also, if you catch a baby and then take it a mile away it will probably die without a nest and its mother.

A clean trap snap is probably the most humane way

nicki_2

My nan had rats when a housing estate was being built on some old playing fields opposite her house. You could actually sit in the livingroom and watch them run across the back fence in broad daylight! ONe weekend she asked me to clear up some rain water filled buckets and guess what I found :eek: There was this little black bucket near the birdtable that was full to the brim with rainwater so as I tipped it over to water the flowerbed it was in I felt a thud and looking inside the bucket thinking there was a brick in there I found a black, bloated drowned rat (now I know where the saying "looks like a drowned rat" means!) :eek::eek::eek: I just shouted my dad and had him deal with it :rotfl: Now my nan only has the occasional mouse problem. She's constantly saying "mind the trap" even though I don't think she's had a mouse in the house for months!

My IL's also have a mouse problem, but their is probably down to the fact that they live in a semi-rural area on the coast of Cumbria. They've found a half-burnt one in the fire one morning (they have a traditional open coal/log fire), I've seen one run across SIL's bedroom (converted loft) when we've been staying there and two Christmases back I had to remove a dead one that had been caught in a trap in other SIL's wardrobe while we were out at the pub for a Christmas Day drink - no-one else would touch it and the "men" were still on their way back from the pub! Before anyone asks, yes I did scrub my hands with antibac before I sat down to my Christmas lunch even though I had used 3 carrierbags one-inside-another to pick it up. :rotfl:

I can't deal with spiders bigger than a 2p piece. Just the thought of a big one makes my skin crawl.

Last night, about 11.30pm I was just getting ready for bed and decided I would spray some bleachwater on the kitchen worktop so I went in the undersink cupboard and a small fleshy coloured spider JUMPED out onto the floor just missing my bare foot :eek: I grabbed a glass and some card (I keep a sheet of card in the undersink cupboard for such emergencies so I know where it is!) managed to catch this jumping spider and headed for the front door to let it go. Now take into consideration I'm a bit bigger than a size 16, but I was wearing a pair of cycling shorts and a vest top ready to go to bed after doing some exercises so I wasn't exactly in a "let the world see me" outfit :rotfl: I open the frontdoor and gingerly step out onto the cold pavement, bend over and moves the card expecting the spider to fall out the glass and run off - it doesn't. I start shaking the glass and tapping it on the floor trying to encourage this spider to run away but its not moving. I then hear this male voice say "Are you alright love?" I just explained "Yes, just a spider that reluctant to leave the glass" while blushing madly due to my state of dress. "Oh, okay, Goodnight" and off walks this middle-aged man shaking his head I gave up, put the card back under the glass and took the spider back in. I found a used paintbrush (DD used it for glueing and I'd forgotten to clean it up so I kept it "just in case"), switched the hall light on by balancing on tip-toes on the third step of the stairs trying to find the little switch (it's the kind of fitting you usually find on lamps because we rarely need to use that light so no point having it come on at the same time as the landing light as they are on the same switch), finally managed to get switch it on and took the glass, card, spider and paintbrush outside onto the pavement (after checking there was no-one coming!). It took a further five attempts of me prodding the spider with the paintbrush to get it to come out of the glass and head for the road, at which point I dived back into the house and went to bed for another restless nights sleep:rolleyes:

Did I mention that I also hate fluttery things like butterflies (only when they're moving), moths, bees, other insects :mad:

amateur_saver

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=82778

2p for mice poison from Asda.....

A_S xx