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

ysoskint

Electro-Magnetic Ultrasonic forcefield around the house???!!!

We have one of these. It's meant to stop flys, mice & all sorts. It doesn't. I feel a bit like the Empour with his new clothes...... you can't see it, but they tell you it works!!! You pay £50.....& still the bugs & mice keep coming. £50 down the drain!!!

gravitytolls

years ago, we had mice, and decided to set a humane trap so we could release them.

It was the sodding cat who brought them in!!

We lined a baking tray with treacle, and planted a dog biscuit (they liked them) in the middle. The mouse(s) would go for the biscuit, get stuck in the treacle, and be saved.

In the morning, we found a little set of footprints going in, no dog biscuit, and a little set of footprints going out, and then all over the worktop and tea tray.

We bought spring loaded traps, and had a good cry when they went off. Well, husb didn't cry, he's far tooooo manly!

Hermia

I know someone who bought one that is supposed to deter spiders. He came into the room and found a spider sitting on it!

ysoskint wrote:

Electro-Magnetic Ultrasonic forcefield around the house???!!!

We have one of these. It's meant to stop flys, mice & all sorts. It doesn't. I feel a bit like the Empour with his new clothes...... you can't see it, but they tell you it works!!! You pay £50.....& still the bugs & mice keep coming. £50 down the drain!!!

Sofa_Sogood

If you lay traps down, (the non-humane ones at least), make sure you butt them up against the skirting boards. Apparently mice stay as close to the edges of a room where possible.

Btw, our mice were partial to bacon rind and wedding cake Not together though

AnnaV

We had mice and have to say the best deterrent was making sure they couldn't get any food.

lipidicman

gravitytolls wrote:

We bought spring loaded traps, and had a good cry when they went off. Well, husb didn't cry, he's far tooooo manly!

Oh you should have been round mine on friday night. At 2:30am (ok technically saturday morning) I was rudely awaked by crashing and banging in the kitchen. Ratty had sprung the trap which had almost beheaded him. However, he wanted to shake it off. Failing that, after apparently giving up the ghost he decided to take himself and the trap back down the hole. These things never give up unless you get a 'head kill' across the eyes. A previous rat got it on the nose and slipped the trap before trying to get away (he didn't)

I had to grab the trap with my molgrips and drown the rat in a bucket. I really did not like the feel of him struggling. I prefer to term this a 'mercy killing' (he must have been in awful pain) rather than a murder. I felt awful and got little sleep for the rest of the night.

We have tried everything, but living in a terrace there seems to be little you can do if the neighbours say they have never had a rat! Our kitchen is left clear, all food is in plastic containers, what more can we do?

toadhall

a couple of weeks ago i opened my airing cupboard and found a mouse sitting looking at me. It didnt even run just sat there, so picked it up by the tail and put it outside. then we went to focus and bought a mousetrap, put peanut butter on it and caught 10 mice over 3 days!!! Yet i had never heard them or seen any droppings??
the mouse trap is still baited in the bottom of the airing cupboard but so far no more mice

frosty

When we catch mice in a mouse trap(they are dead) :eek: we put them in a container and into the freezer my OH uses for his fishing bait ,we also keep our reptile food in there aswell , :eek: when we have about 20 mice we take them to our local wildlife hospital ,they are fed to injured birds ect,so a form of recycling. :rotfl:

lipidicman

Well, the better seal on our new bin seems to be helping. I do hate killing them. But when you hear them in the cavity walls at night it really does make you despair. I never knew how scary rats are until I saw one in my house. You wouldn't pick one of those up by its tail to put outside.

Sofa_Sogood

Thanks Addy. I'm back on track now

I don't like the thought of killing mice, but we had so many, in an inner city terraced house and before humane ways of killing were devised, the answer I put was all I could think of