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Mouses in the houses - help!!!!
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Get a cat.
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seagullsovergrimsby
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send for Meggy ?
Gritt23
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We tried "humane traps" but they weren't interested. Phone the local council, and they send round the exterminators, but that does involve poison going down, and when you smell something rotten you are fishing out dead rodent(s) from behind your kickboards.
In our case, we'd seen a teeny tiny mouse scuttling around the place, but the exterminator reckoned something bigger was geeting in and staying hidden. The poison did for a ruddy big pregnant rat. If we'd left it much longer (as I was all for doing, but Mrs Gritt was going out of her mind) we'd have had a whole family of rats running around.
In our case, we'd seen a teeny tiny mouse scuttling around the place, but the exterminator reckoned something bigger was geeting in and staying hidden. The poison did for a ruddy big pregnant rat. If we'd left it much longer (as I was all for doing, but Mrs Gritt was going out of her mind) we'd have had a whole family of rats running around.
Whitterz
Mmmmm? Marvellous
Put basil in ratatouille
Thats should do the trick.
Thats should do the trick.
Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!
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Being "nice" may not be the best way of ridding yourself of these little buggers.
Their gestation period is about 3 weeks and new pups are sexually active in a month to six weeks. With litters of around 10-15, maybe even 20, they can soon be swarming all over the place.
A couple of weeks back we tried traps without success for just under a week and then resorted to bait; this has sorted the problem.
Their gestation period is about 3 weeks and new pups are sexually active in a month to six weeks. With litters of around 10-15, maybe even 20, they can soon be swarming all over the place.
A couple of weeks back we tried traps without success for just under a week and then resorted to bait; this has sorted the problem.
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
The humane tip-up type mousetraps with cheesy biscuits in work well,cost a quid for 2 in Poundstretcher etc.Once Mickey is in release him far away,or at your Mother-in Law's.If they come back,the bitch has read this too!
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I used sticky traps for a while when I had the bastards in my house in the US. I would peel them off with a bit of olive oil, put them into a cereal box and pop over to a piece of wasteland and dump them off there to live again.
However.... I counted 22 of them before I decided it was likely they were 'homing' and scurrying the 3/4 mile back to haunt me and the dog-food bag. So from then on, it was DEATH to them. DEATH seemed to work better, I thought.
However.... I counted 22 of them before I decided it was likely they were 'homing' and scurrying the 3/4 mile back to haunt me and the dog-food bag. So from then on, it was DEATH to them. DEATH seemed to work better, I thought.
Mr Burns
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Double barrel shotgun should do the trick
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They market a trap that electrocutes rats or mice. It has some door they go in to get to the bait, and stepping further....POW! they get zapped.
Then you can eat them.
Our cat is a right hard bastard. He ponces around thinking he owns the place. He's always giving me the evils as well with that "one day I'm going to kill you and feed on your festering carcass" look in his eyes. But if a mouse or rat gets within a mile of our place he's onto them.
Arthritic Toe
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The trouble with poison is that you end up with a houseful of slowly rotting dead mice under the floor boards.
Humane traps are fine, but you need to drive them miles away or they'll come back. We did this for a while, but got fed up with it and resorted to the nasty ones.
Humane traps are fine, but you need to drive them miles away or they'll come back. We did this for a while, but got fed up with it and resorted to the nasty ones.
brighton_girl87
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Please don't get the sticky boards they are horrible! I've seen a mouse with half its face ripped off but still alive because of these!
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I stayed up half the night a few months back to catch a mouse in our bedroom. I'd laid a sticky trap with a bit of peanut butter inside to tempt it in, but it just wasn't working. It was driving us NUTS, could hear it scratching around at night but as soon as we turned the light on it was gone. The missus was going FRANTIC about it and would go and sleep downstairs when she heard it scratching around. I wasn't as bothered as her, but the situation was clearly unacceptable.
So I set the sticky trap by the skirting board next to where we could see it had gnawed at the wood next to one of the bedside tables. One night, I sat perfectly still in the middle of the bed with the light on low, and like a Ninja, I waited....and waited. Must have been 45 minutes at least.
Eventually out of the corner of my eye, I saw the little bugger creep out from under the bed and make its way to its favourite gnawing spot. Tantilisingly close to the sticky trap, but totally disinterested in it. However, it was right next to the bedside table, which has a jewellary box on it - if I could carefully and silently lean over, I thought I might be able to push the jewellary box over the edge of the bedside table to land smack on the mouse. So I moved a fraction at a time towards the bedside table, and started sliding the jewellary box millimitre by millimitre towards the edge, right above the mouse.
Suddenly the mouse got spooked, realised its peril, and darted - STRAIGHT into my sticky trap. HUZZAH. Boy, it was going absolutely spacko in there. I picked up the trap, ran downstairs and thought about jumping on it. But that made me a bit squeamish. So instead I went outside, put the trap under the rear wheel of my car, started her up and reversed over it.
Job done. Trap and squished mouse binned. And I was treated like a HERO for the rest of the week.
Bit of a palava though.
So I set the sticky trap by the skirting board next to where we could see it had gnawed at the wood next to one of the bedside tables. One night, I sat perfectly still in the middle of the bed with the light on low, and like a Ninja, I waited....and waited. Must have been 45 minutes at least.
Eventually out of the corner of my eye, I saw the little bugger creep out from under the bed and make its way to its favourite gnawing spot. Tantilisingly close to the sticky trap, but totally disinterested in it. However, it was right next to the bedside table, which has a jewellary box on it - if I could carefully and silently lean over, I thought I might be able to push the jewellary box over the edge of the bedside table to land smack on the mouse. So I moved a fraction at a time towards the bedside table, and started sliding the jewellary box millimitre by millimitre towards the edge, right above the mouse.
Suddenly the mouse got spooked, realised its peril, and darted - STRAIGHT into my sticky trap. HUZZAH. Boy, it was going absolutely spacko in there. I picked up the trap, ran downstairs and thought about jumping on it. But that made me a bit squeamish. So instead I went outside, put the trap under the rear wheel of my car, started her up and reversed over it.
Job done. Trap and squished mouse binned. And I was treated like a HERO for the rest of the week.
Bit of a palava though.
You need to stick ( and I mean with glue ) chocolate in them. The bastards work out how to take the bait if it isn't stuck down. After I stuck the chocolate down I managed to rid my house of mice using humane traps. That said I now have two cats who are far better than the traps !!!!