Getting rid of rats/mice (merged threads)

hi everyone,

I am so annoyed, i havent caught any mice for over a week had the trap out.
Sitting here watch tv & dog keeps pricking his ears. i mute tv & can hear something scratching, go into the kitchen quite but dog going mad (jack russel) he's now sitting by the radiator pipe whinning because he knows there is something down there!

Now how do i find out how they are getting under my floors?

I live in a modern terrace, 7 yrs old. I have checked outside previously & filled holes with expanding foam, this is still intact & hasnt been touched.

Now if they are getting in somewhere around the gutters would they still be able to get under the floors?

I am so fed up with this now, every winter for the past 3 yrs. I have put all the food in glass jars so there is minimal for them to eat & i have never noticed anything getting eaten & rarely see droppings.

Anyone able to offer advice?

BB

Hey all,

I was lying in my bed last night when the undeniable sound of a little moose (mouse for the non scots, as opposed to great big brown horned beastie) eating its way through my cables, beams or such like came filtering down.

Now we have had mice before, it seems to come with the area (i'm just glad they're not rats!) but this one appeared (if my ears aren't deceiving me) to be in the loft. Fine I understand they can make their way round the in side of walls and the like but we had cavity wall insulation installed about 3 months ago and my understanding of this was that the whole cavity was filled so there would be no feasible way the moose could get anywhere other than the ground floor since it's probably coming in from the garden through the foundations or something.

Could it be that the company providing the cavity wall insulation have skimped a bit or is this perfectly normal?

Why the mouse is interested in my christmas decs as opposed to the food in the kitchen I am intrigued by unless it's sole purpose was to freak me out.

Traps are set and one unlucky moose got caught last night....:T Sounds cruel but we reckon they are causing the dog to poop and pee in the kitchen overnight to protect her territory since she can't actually get to them.....:eek:

Moneybot wrote: »

They can go up the outside of the house and then into loft through very small gaps - if you can fit a biro through a hole a mouse can get in.

One of the most horrible sights I have seen is a mouse that had started to go through such a hole in an air vent plate. It had put its front legs through, kicked away with its back legs and was caught - nothing left to grab on to to pull itself through or back. When Mrs Shadow found it, it must have been there for about a month at least.

We have mice but it isn't the dealing with the live ones I'm posting about since one of our cats does a vague job of keeping the down, our main problem right now is dead ones! We were away over Christmas for 9 days and have come home to the most hideous smell in the kitchen. Eventually we traced it to the back of the fridge-freezer and found long-dead mice stuck to the cooling element and in other inaccessible places in the fridge back. The OH attached it with an old toothbrush and anti-bac spray and removed the bodies as well as he could, but if anything this has made the smell worse. I'm not talking a bit unpleasant here, I'm talking completely vomit-inducing, can't bear to be in the kitchen! Is there anything we can spray aside from vile chemical-smelling air fresheners? We have no idea what to do since cleaning attempts seem to have resoundly failed! Thanks for any ideas!

If it were me in your shoes then id put bait down and be done, the little !!!!!!5 do exactly the same in my loft so thats what ive done. Nice tasty rodenticide and small pieces of chocolate, normally only hear em nibbling for a day or so then they goto sleep.....permanently