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Deleted User X18H · Sep 1, 2013

Just got back from hols and we have tell tale droppings and nibbled Cif bottles under the kitchen sink.

Now, the cupboard is unopenable from the inside ( its sucker locked for the kids) there is no evidence any where else in the house . Is it breeding season? Might it / they have cleared off, if they realised there is no food.

Will it/ they die in a few weeks anyway?

Should I blame Lucas or Southern water? (the latter have been poncing around with their water meters in the last week apparently)

Barham's tash · Sep 1, 2013

Can't offer much help but currently have the same problem. Old Victorian town house with plenty of easy entry and egress points for the little googlers.

I'm leaving here in a couple of months and they generally do no harm but hearing them scamper around willy nilly in the middle of the night is a touch disconcerting.

Cheshire Cat · Sep 1, 2013

You called?

Thunder Bolt · Sep 1, 2013

Set mouse traps with chocolate on them. Don't ignore them as they breed prolifically.

Chicken Runner61 · Sep 1, 2013

Its the mice I feel sorry for

Barham's tash · Sep 1, 2013

Cheshire Cat said:
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You called?

Can I hire you for a week? How much do you charge?

There appear to only be two of them.

Barham's tash · Sep 1, 2013

Thunder Bolt said:
Set mouse traps with chocolate on them. Don't ignore them as they breed prolifically.

I heard this - mars bars over cheese any day of the week.

What gets to me is that they appear to be so random in what they'll nibble. As the OP said for him it's been Jiff bottles, and our menu appears to contain anything from bin liners to newspapers.

Chicken Runner61 · Sep 1, 2013

Barham's tash said:
I heard this - mars bars over cheese any day of the week.

What gets to me is that they appear to be so random in what they'll nibble. As the OP said for him it's been Jiff bottles, and our menu appears to contain anything from bin liners to newspapers.

HB &B's mice are younger than yours they go for Cif

wendy's tackle · Sep 1, 2013

Our cat brings in one or two mice a day, sometimes they get away under cupboards and such and can be hard to get hold of. Just buy a mouse trap, load it with peanut butter and place near where you see the mouse or its droppings. Give it up to 12 hours, job done every time. Quick, painless death for the mouse. Don't leave them, they can cause a lot of problems despite their rather sweet little faces.

Stat Brother · Sep 1, 2013

If they are drinking Cif, get the fook out:-

Thunder Bolt · Sep 1, 2013

wendy's tackle said:
Our cat brings in one or two mice a day, sometimes they get away under cupboards and such and can be hard to get hold of. Just buy a mouse trap, load it with peanut butter and place near where you see the mouse or its droppings. Give it up to 12 hours, job done every time. Quick, painless death for the mouse. Don't leave them, they can cause a lot of problems despite their rather sweet little faces.

That's exactly what our cat did. Usually they're dead when he brings them in, but one got away and escaped into a cupboard. It lasted just one day until we got the trap loaded.

Shropshire Seagull · Sep 1, 2013

Sometimes their nibbling is just messy, but when they nibble through electrical wiring the cost of fixing can be a lot more than just a nuisance.
I turfed one out of my garage about 2 weeks ago, last Friday my spaniel [good nose] was showing an overly keen interest in a cardboard box, dug it out and found FIVE baby mice inside, probably only a few days old [still blind, bald and not able to walk].

Ignore at your peril .....

Monkey Man · Sep 1, 2013

We have caught eight of them in our larder the past couple of weeks. We use peanut butter and a humane mouse trap which means they have to wait a few hours until we get up, drive them a mile away to open countryside, and release them.

Seems a shame to kill them when they could live to fight another day, well away from our house. Or at least provide a tasty meal for an owl or other predator.

We did use chocolate as bait for a while but peanut butter seems much more effective.

wendy's tackle · Sep 1, 2013

Peanut butter every time, I've tried loads of products but nothing works like peanut butter. Must admit I haven't tried chocolate, too good for mice. The dead mice get released at the bottom of our garden, where they're promptly picked up by birds for a good meal thereby completing the circle of life. I read somewhere that it's an offence the release live rodents, but that might be rubbish. I didn't find the humane traps worked very well and also they probably cause more stress to the mice than just killing them.

HAILSHAM SEAGULL · Sep 1, 2013

Chicken Runner61 said:
HB &B's mice are younger than yours they go for Cif

Not really, they come from Hove, dont you know, so they are cleaner.

Beach Hut · Sep 1, 2013

Perhaps it is Lucas revenge............

Pinkie Brown · Sep 1, 2013

Peanut butter has always worked better than cheese when I've set traps.

If you think you have a nest of several and are thinking of calling the Council, tell them you have rats rather then mice. At one time, if they came out to sort a mice problem, they would charge. If rats, they used to do it free. I'm not sure if thats still the case though? Chances are, with all the cuts, it isn't.

Thunder Bolt · Sep 1, 2013

Shropshire Seagull said:
Sometimes their nibbling is just messy, but when they nibble through electrical wiring the cost of fixing can be a lot more than just a nuisance.
I turfed one out of my garage about 2 weeks ago, last Friday my spaniel [good nose] was showing an overly keen interest in a cardboard box, dug it out and found FIVE baby mice inside, probably only a few days old [still blind, bald and not able to walk].

Ignore at your peril .....

Mice haven't got any bladder control so they trail urine wherever they run.

Fungus · Sep 1, 2013

hove born&bred said:
Now, the cupboard is unopenable from the inside ( its sucker locked for the kids) there is no evidence any where else in the house .

Have I misunderstood something here? If the kids get in the cupboard, they're stuck in there to teach them a lesson?

glasfryn · Sep 1, 2013

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