Vermin!
 

AGH! We have mice in the kitchen :mad:


Little furry beasts have come in from outside somehow, & seem to be coming up into the kitchen via a hole on the side of the step into the kitchen.


Put some traps down, currently baited with bits of Mars Bar.


Bloody things...

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Sounds like you could do with a visit from my dog - she catches mice, rats, flies, wasps (ouch) and always brings the evidence to show you! :sick:

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we get those in our garage, best bait we found was cat food and fat balls that you feed birds with

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and the odd peterborian

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Buxom woman tells me that she used to have pet rats and mice!!!!

I am so glad she doesn't now...

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Do you mean me or my dog? ;) and who are you calling odd :PP:

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I don't hate mice themselves, it's the thought of them all running around the kitchen, leaving their evidence behind, & getting into the food.

Thought about using poison, but then you don't know if they actually have been killed....unless they crawl off somewhere to die & you get a plague of flies...


So we've got some nice simple traps. Set the trap. Splat. Bin the mouse. Re-set the trap...

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i thought all peterborians were odd but apparently not in your view ;)

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eeewwww reminds me of the Flour in the Chris T house!

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One made itself a nice little nest in my housemate's box of weetabix last night...one of my other housemate's heard the noise, opened the cupboard, & screamed her head off.

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yes - peanut butter works and is easy to apply

- chocolate should be melted onto the bait tray......

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Cheers Gaz :)

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Yeah - all very well in theory - but those mice are cunning, they can remove food from traps without harming themselves! :Yikes:
When I had 'visitors' a few years back I started out with the traps which failed dismally - and after a couple of weeks I put the poison down, carefully because of the dog catching them (!) You will soon know if one dies and is hidden somewhere - the smell of rotting mouse is - erm - distinctive to put it mildly! :sick:

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Speak as you find, that's what I say! ;)

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Yuk. Hopefully these mice are stupid, & we won't need to use poison.

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The "Little Nipper", probably the best mousetrap there is!

Other than a few occasional vibration trips, it never allowed it's victim a chance to escape - test the trap setting by tapping with a ruler, and be careful whan putting it in place, if you jog a well set trap, it WILL fire.
If it works correctly, it should kill the trapped mouse with a broken neck, loading bait other than on the spike may result in a mis-hit.


How about those pest eliminators on the TV shopping channels - that are supposed to drive them out?

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We had mice once (gone now, in case anyone wants to come round for dinner :)). We got a bloke from the Environmental Health to come round and track them down. Cost £50 but not that bad. He found they were coming in through a rusted grate in a ventilation brick, so we patched them, and traps caught the ones aleady inside. They can apparently fit through holes the diameter of a man's thumb. You have to wash and disinfect everything, because mice leave a constant stream of wee whever they walk.

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I've just done a Google for the "Little Nipper trap". Sounds interesting. Might try one if the current traps don't work too well.


We've thought about getting the council's Environmental Health people in. Does sound like a good idea. Certainly worth £50, if ours charge similar to yours, especially when split between the 4 of us.

The wee, oh yes....filthy beasts like to mark their territory, I guess :mad:

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If only we could charge the mice, pigeons, squirrels, and other animals that come onto our property some rent, we'd make a nifty little proffit, seeing there is atleast one bird on my lawn at anyone time.
Each time they touch down, my bank balance would go up.

However, mice seem to like making holes which technically means you could charge it with "breaking and entering" so you could sue the little evil thing.

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:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

Sorry but there is no way on earth I could hold a straight face with that lmao. :D

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Well our last resident ate two boxes of poison and said can I have some more more please. :(

I never found a body but it disappeared after 6 months of me trying to catch it.

I dunno,the wildlife round here keeps trying to muscle into this house.The snails and slugs are the most persistant. :(

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Get yourself a pussy cat, they love to get those pesky mice. My girly cat Mildred used to bring the dead ones home for me but minus their heads :erm: She brought one home one day and dropped it on the doorstep but it was still alive and was then running round the kitchen with a big hole in it's tummy and it's guts hanging out :sick: I was stood on the windowsill screaming at my b/f to get rid of it..........

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No I don't want another cat.It was gut wrenching having to have the last ones put down. :(

Mind like you say they are terrific for keeping mice down....and frogs...and goldfish....and porkchops.....and chicken joints......and dragonflies..... :D

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:rofl: pmsl Debsy. Needed that. :D

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This 'summer' say a proliferation of Wood-pidgeons in the area I live in.

While they may be nice to look at, being woken at 06.00 or so every morning by a nesting pair, in a tree less than 50' from you're open bedroom window is not my idea of fun. I think next year will see me starting a campaigne of genocide against the neighbourhood's feathered rats. Plus they taste great in a pie. Yummy. :D

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Caught two so far :D


I'm hoping there aren't many more....

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Agreed. We used to have a problem with mice. Now we have a cat, and the mice don't come anywhere near.

Trouble is, because the little sod has run out of mice, he goes out catching crows now.. Not just any bird, just crows..

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which bait was most successful?

- good news, though :)

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Ours brought a dove home on Saturday while we were out and left it there on the kitchen floor minus half of its feathers and its guts. ewwwww

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Cheers :)

Still got bits of mars bar in the traps. Will try peanut butter next.