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Efour

Efour

Efour

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Anyone else suffering this winter?

I spoke to the staff at my local garden center and they said they have had to triple their order bait and poison stuff this time on last year.

Whilst its reassuring im not alone with the "infestation" its doing my nut in....

ive got plenty of traps down and catch one pretty much every other day (20+?) since January its become quite comical now seeing them squished under the bar, it was quite disturbing the first couple of times.

i have multiple poison things all over the place, these are regularly cleaned out so i assume they are eating it... ive had the joy of finding a couple of poisoned ones crawling around the floor as they hemorrhage themselves to a nasty death.

ive secured my food supply and there's nothing they can eat everything is sealed away or in plastic boxes..

im not getting a cat or falcon or predator that out of the question ..

What the hell more can i do to get rid of these little freaks... ?????

Final straw is when i just saw one climbing up my curtains.... then it sat there watching me...
 
Out here after harvest the Rats and mice love to find somewhere to go for winter and must have nutted about 40 in the past few weeks as they become more active. :(
 
We had quite a few field mice before the snows hit and have had nothing really since until about a week ago. Quite happily sat on the sofa and saw one run across the floor and thought MEH here we go again but the final straw came when I was woken up by one rummaging around under my bed and then when I went down stairs there was one just casually sat ontop of my motorbike helmet staring at me :( so I placed some traps... unfortunately I have Ninja mice who seem to be able to eat the bait off of the traps without setting them off :(

But the most effective traps I have found are our dustbin and a empty wine bottle :) Place a small dollop of peanut butter in the bottom of a empty bin and placed a ramp up to it, came down this morning to find 3 mice running around inside the bin unable to get out. Should be dead by the time I get home and if not ill just bung them into the bin outside. Same goes for the wine bottle, Place it at an angle with a run up to it and a piece of paper with peanut butter on inside and the mice get in and can't get out.
 
Don't leave poison out they might die somewhere you can't access and well, you can guess how that'll go!

We often get a fair few field mice using our house as a refuge but a load of traps does the trick, we use peanut butter as bait it always works! and then the ones that avoid the traps meet a grizzly death when my cat stays in overnight :D
 
Caught 2 more in the bin this morning :) Felt bad about leaving it to die in the bin so took it down the local field and released it :) Girlfriend did the same this morning with the 2 we caught overnight.
 
I heard something moving about in the living room last night when i was on my computer. Noise was coming from the sofa. Moved all the furniture and couldnt see anything except for some mice poo under the sofa! to confirm my suspicions, i placed a pringle and three sultanas down on the floor next to the sofa ( this was at about midnight). GF woke me at 3am saying she could hear some nibbling/chewing so i rushed into the living room, no sign of the mouse but two sultanas and half the pringle had gone!!!! I havent seen and i cant fathom where it could be. The only place it could be is inside our sofa! I have ordered some mouse traps (humane ones though...for now!) so going to see if we can catch the bugger. Hopefully he doesnt have any friends. How he has managed to get in here seen as we are on the first floor in a block of flats I dont know. It also might explain the strange hole in the back of a pair of my jogging bottoms that i often leave on the floor....

We do live in a gated development where the houses and blocks of flats surround acres of land (always see rabbits,squirrels,foxes, we even have two resident deer!) so i guess it isnt too much of a surprise!

Any other tips?
 
We had a rogue mouse that had seemed to have set-up home in our house!
Parents wanted to put down poison but being the animal lover that I am I managed to negotiate a week from them for me to catch the little fella humanely :D

Popped onto ebay and bought a humane trap for a couple of quid, placed cheese and peanut butter into it and within a couple of days I caught the little rascal :p

Drove to a field/common a couple of miles away and released it to live another day :D
That was over a year ago and he hasn't been back, problem solved without the need to kill anything :cool:

This is Marvin (the field mouse I caught and released)
 
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Marvin = The Universe :eek:

This is what i am hoping my problem is, just one errant mouse! Got two different types of humane traps coming in the post tomorrow to see if i can catch him.
 
Jono8 said:
Marvin = The Universe :eek:

This is what i am hoping my problem is, just one errant mouse! Got two different types of humane traps coming in the post tomorrow to see if i can catch him.
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Glad to hear you are going down the humane route, we tried a couple of different traps but the best one was this one:

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Who needs a mouse trap, We caught ours the other day with a dustbin (about the height of a chair seat, A wooden plank and some peanut butter.

Place the bin in the middle of the floor with the wooden plank running up to the lip and place a dollop of peanut butter in the bottom of the bin. I guarantee you will catch the bugger.
 
get some "Big Cheese" mouse traps out local pound shop,keep your poisons as they are a waste of time

cant beat the old fashioned wooden mouse trap and some breadcrumbs
 
Can you get sticky sheets for them to run over and get stuck on? I had a problem with mice so I feel your pain but it was no where near 20 plus mice! Poison and traps did the job.
 
C.R.A.Z.Y said:
Killing it instead of catching it and releasing it a few miles away is just lazy and unnecessarily cruel :mad:
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I wonder what exactly happens to a Mouse that is "Teleported" from a nice warm home to the middle of a strange field miles away from any known territory?

Much the same as would happen were I "Teleported" from where I am sitting to the middle of the African Savannah I imagine.

I suppose it has a chance of survival (And one might reasonably argue that any chance is better than none) but probably not a very big one!

Having said that, it is worth noting that Mousetraps are not always instant! and Having to subsequently finish it off with a Poker might be distressing for some (As with all things, The First time is the hardest! :D )

Mind, the Cat was grateful for her treat afterwards!

(The reason why I didn't just let the cat do her thing was because the Mouse was in an area where I didn't want the cat to go!)
 
I heard the unusual wet weather tail end of last year had forced the rodents out some of the sewers as they were filling with water so more than usual made their way into houses. We could hear one for about a month and eventually found a dead rat in the loft. Had been baiting and had humane traps out for mice sized pests but there was no way this thing would have fit in it. I guess over time it ate enough of the small poison traps we left to finally kill it
 
Orionaut said:
I wonder what exactly happens to a Mouse that is "Teleported" from a nice warm home to the middle of a strange field miles away from any known territory?

Much the same as would happen were I "Teleported" from where I am sitting to the middle of the African Savannah I imagine.
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Ridiculous comparison, the field mouse is wild and wasn't born in my house so transporting it a couple of miles away back into the wild is nothing like a Westerner being dropped into a desert and asked to survive :rolleyes:
 
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