Just an update from my previous 'mouse in the house' thread. Every day last week produced a multitude of new droppings. All over the kitchen worktops, in cupboards, beds, furniture, window ledges, clothes baskets, you name it. We've caught just three in traps, but as I posted at the end of the last thread the population seemed to just 'explode' and we had to abandon the property.
The landlord's agent called out Rentokill (finally, we reported this in September!), and their guy spent an hour surveying and photographing the house. His opinion is that we are 'severely infested', that the mice number in the dozens, and that they are breeding.
He said that the long-standing disrepair to the property was letting the mice enter, and that until the building is basically gutted and modernised there's no point even trying to tackle the mice in a meaningful way. Even then, he said this will be a 12 visit job, with monthly monitoring after that. With the building work it will take between 18 months and 2 years to even make the house habitable again. Environmental Health are involved the problem is so severe.
They've caused thousands of pounds of damage to our stuff, and we've been told we can't keep or use anything from the house because of the disease risk, so we've literally lost everything. Beds, clothes, shoes, cutlery, crockery, electrical goods, books, toys, everything.
The best bit? Our house insurance won't pay out because the damage was caused by rodents, and the landlord/agent are playing hard ball. We've been sleeping on my mum's floor (myself, partner and three children) and have to declare as homeless to the council on Monday. Joy.
It always seems to happen to us, and always around Christmas. LOL We've ended up with no money, not a possession in the world except literally the clothes on our backs, and we're not having a Christmas this year. All because the landlord didn't get his backside into gear and get the house, and the mice, properly sorted when first requested. It'd be funny if it wasn't so bloody serious.
Every time we visit the property (which we do daily to check traps, see to the dogs who are living in their kennel/run etc) there are tons more new droppings. The only thing they AREN'T chewing at is the bloody poison bait! :\
Total, complete and utter nightmare. I'll post back when I can, if anything interesting happens. Thanks for reading, I feel better for that.
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The landlord's agent called out Rentokill (finally, we reported this in September!), and their guy spent an hour surveying and photographing the house. His opinion is that we are 'severely infested', that the mice number in the dozens, and that they are breeding.
He said that the long-standing disrepair to the property was letting the mice enter, and that until the building is basically gutted and modernised there's no point even trying to tackle the mice in a meaningful way. Even then, he said this will be a 12 visit job, with monthly monitoring after that. With the building work it will take between 18 months and 2 years to even make the house habitable again. Environmental Health are involved the problem is so severe.
They've caused thousands of pounds of damage to our stuff, and we've been told we can't keep or use anything from the house because of the disease risk, so we've literally lost everything. Beds, clothes, shoes, cutlery, crockery, electrical goods, books, toys, everything.
The best bit? Our house insurance won't pay out because the damage was caused by rodents, and the landlord/agent are playing hard ball. We've been sleeping on my mum's floor (myself, partner and three children) and have to declare as homeless to the council on Monday. Joy.
It always seems to happen to us, and always around Christmas. LOL We've ended up with no money, not a possession in the world except literally the clothes on our backs, and we're not having a Christmas this year. All because the landlord didn't get his backside into gear and get the house, and the mice, properly sorted when first requested. It'd be funny if it wasn't so bloody serious.
Every time we visit the property (which we do daily to check traps, see to the dogs who are living in their kennel/run etc) there are tons more new droppings. The only thing they AREN'T chewing at is the bloody poison bait! :\
Total, complete and utter nightmare. I'll post back when I can, if anything interesting happens. Thanks for reading, I feel better for that.
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I'm not looking for charity, I just needed to vent and seek a bit of advice. Preferably not just stuff about smashing pasties and nuking from orbit etc, though this has clearly already been actioned. Several zombie mice are now in possession of punched ovaries and smashed pasties thanks to the traps. 
