A moose, loose, aboot thas hoose.

In normal circumstances I'd agree. But I keep and work terriers, and 90% of their bread and butter is finding and catching rats. So in my case a rat's easy peasy to find and get rid of in less than a minute. A mouse on the other hand is much more of a headache. :)

Fair enough. I'd probably still sleep in the car and get the dogs to knock on the window when they're done. :p
 
Everyone got quoted buy me! :(

*feels unloved*

I hope Camoe sold you your traps and the don't even work, HA! :p

LOL! Sorry mate, I thought I'd answered you. I'm going to ignore you on purpose now though. :p










Only joking. Thanks for the tip re: B&Q traps. I normally use those little black and yellow Rentokill things. I'll give the B&Q ones a go to hopefully catch it/them before I have to rely on the bait kicking in. Cheers.
 
Well after almost a month I've finally had some success. We'd had normal mouse traps down with Mars bar as the bait, and not a sniff. The pros came and put 'proper' poison down in every room and after all this time the mice haven't even touched it - though the poison 'bags' are full of rodent hair where they've been running over it. :mad:

We've seen them in the living room, kitchen, our bedroom :eek::( and pretty much every room in between. The terriers wake us up nightly, usually around 2am, yapping at mice running around their indoor 'box' (crate). Every time the dogs come into the kitchen (while I'm getting their food read), they 'mark' (indicate rodents) very strongly in one particular corner of the skirting under the kitchen cupboards. I can't take the boarding out to get traps/poison down because it's a rental property, and the landlord has been next to useless. I reported this issue a month ago and they've not even bothered to return my requests for help with rodent proofing the actual property.

Last night I finally snapped. I found droppings around our bed. Urgh. I've spent £15 on more B&Q mouse traps, £6 on Eradibait, £5 on 50 little bait stations to put it in, and £3 on 4x glue traps. I changed my bait from Mars bar to a broken piece of Hob Nob dipped in peanut butter, and not an hour later:

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That's not the one I've seen (which is black), nor the one my Mrs has seen (which is bigger, and darker brown). As some may recognise, that's a common House Mouse - not a Field Mouse as the pest controller suspected we had. Still, one down, eleventy million to go. :\

EDIT: Oh, and for the interested... that particular trap was located not 3" from the end of our bed. Ick. :(
 
This must be the only thread that doesn't contain the words "smash the pasty" in GD (well until now obviously). Seriously dude, that's an achievement in itself!

Having vermin is pretty gutting, good luck dude. We had a rat in the restaurant I work in. We had poisons/traps everywhere, the bugger lasted ages (it was the only rat at the time). I wasn't there when it was caught but:

One night, it ran from upstairs (storage area, the back door was left open, but with a large piece of wood about 2foot high against it to prevent said rat from gaining entry) and hid underneath the cooker. The two chefs spent over an hour trying to get at it.

Eventually it ran out, and one of the chefs put a bucket on top of it, he is petrified of rats. He sat on it, shivering because he was so scared. The boss was phoned who came to see it for himself.

He didn't even look at the bucket on top of the rat, he went upstairs to the storage room. On top of the Walk-In Fridge, he grabbed an air rifle that nobody knew of. Went downstairs, pointed it at the rat which was trying to run around.

He looked in the complete opposite direction of the rat as he took a blind shot at it. Rat died, blood splattered all over the kitchen floor:D

Bunch of wimps xD
 
Lucky you set the trap there.

That's a gay mouse, you never know what it wanted to nibble in the middle of the night.

I wondered why I was waking up feeling wrong. I feel so violated. :eek:





:p

(Interesting rat catching story)

Bunch of wimps xD

I agree. LOL I catch rats by the dozen. I wouldn't want one running up my leg (and I can tell some stories after the years I've spent catching them, believe me), but the guys you work with sound like pussies. Shoulda found a dog to sort it out for maximum damage and lols. :D
 
Not laughing any more. We've just gone to change the bedsheet upstairs; we were going to sleep upstairs tonight in a double bed in the kids' room. It was clear and empty yesterday. Just now? Dozens of droppings beside the mattress where it meets the bed base.

Holy. Hell. :eek:

This isn't "a mouse" it's an infestation. We're gone. I'm ringing the agency tomorrow to tell them we're going to a hotel or a family member and they can sort this out on their own. The things must have been running over the kids in the night. :mad: And no, we've not been lax and have hoovered, cleared and tidied twice a day all month. This shows just how bad it's gotten, and how quickly.

Bye for now.
 
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