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[Misc] There's mice in the house
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AmexRuislip
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Two evicted this week via humane mouse traps and released on the golf course in Lewes. How TF are they getting in, been all around the outside of the house to check brickwork/holes etc but nothing.
If you release them, they'll just return.
Use poison
A mex eyecan
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- Nov 3, 2011
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put wire wool in any gaps around pipe entries into house, ie under kitchen cabinets etc
They don't need a very big gap....Two evicted this week via humane mouse traps and released on the golf course in Lewes. How TF are they getting in, been all around the outside of the house to check brickwork/holes etc but nothing.
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If you release them, they'll just return.
Use poison
Ah homing mice..... barstards.
Rescue cats are useless, I recently got one and I fell down my stairs this morning and landed on my back, I couldn't move. The cat walked past me at least five times and did nothing, I had to wait hours until my Mrs came home to help me back up.
Algernon
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Apparently a mouse can squeeze through a hole the size of a biro so not easy to keep them out.
Flexible little vermin.
Flexible little vermin.
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
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If you release them, they'll just return.
Use poison
They won't if you go more than 4 or 500 yards. (I tried half that and they overtook me on the way home.)
Rescue cats are useless, I recently got one and I fell down my stairs this morning and landed on my back, I couldn't move. The cat walked past me at least five times and did nothing, I had to wait hours until my Mrs came home to help me back up.
Yeah but they're not St Bernards!!!
Frankie
Put him in the curry
What am a gonna do
AmexRuislip
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I know the tree huggers on here won't like me saying this.
But we had an issue with them a few years back, coming in through our side shed and climbing into the dry wall, eventually ending up in the loft.
We tried the humane route, but didn't work.
Eventually used the poison, and ended up 20 mice less, starting from large to little ones, I didn't like it, but needs must.
Wires had been chomped.
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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It can't but it can limbo through a very tight gap by collapsing their rib cage.
Living in mice city and having experienced a number of infestations there are things that work.
1) Wire wool as suggested.
2) As a temporary fix (and I don't know why) they won't eat through gaffer tape. Eat through skirting board, but not gaffer tape. Possibly the smell of the adhesive.
3) There are good but expensive fillers that are mouse resistant. They tend to stay "wet" and are full of iron fillings.
I had a nightmare recently behind the boiler. There was a small hole into the brickwork behind from an earlier pipe. I eventually found it with a £30 endoscope from Amazon that works with a mobile phone.
Filled hole and went round the pipes at the bottom of the pipework with the mouse filler, using endoscope
They haven't come back.
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Or at least, sorted until the fluffy b'stard, deprived of a regular mouse supply, starts bringing half dead birds in. Flappy half dead birds that shit everywhere if you release them from the feline jaws or in any other way disturb them.
Use inhumane mouse traps. Cervical dislocation is swifter than the torment a cat would inflict.
Creaky
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Had the same sort of problem - used poison in the end which worked well. The stench though from rotting mice corpses was unbearable! They hide in the most awkward and difficult of places to die.
Wrong-Direction
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Just in time for Christmas [emoji849]Rescue cats are useless, I recently got one and I fell down my stairs this morning and landed on my back, I couldn't move. The cat walked past me at least five times and did nothing, I had to wait hours until my Mrs came home to help me back up.
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studio150
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Coldeanseagull
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Traps baited with peanut butter. Works and is fast