Soldato
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dont you love it when the cats bring in a mouse to show you still alive, you try and get it off them and they crunch it and give you a 'ha ha' look.
mice everywhere in house
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does the fact that i have a plague of mice mean that i haven't been giving enough attention to cleaning and hygiene in the house? does having a dog cause more mice? if my mother-in-law decides to pay me a visit, it might persuade the mice to jump into the mouse traps and committ suicide.......(les dawson joke)!
Mice just look for shelter, food and water so it doesn't really matter if your house is clean or not. Saying that, you're more likely to get an infestation if you have trash laying about because it provides plenty of easily accessible food for them. Or maybe there's a few dead bodies under the floorboards...
There must be a crack, crevice or hole which they've used to access your house and cause an infestation so you should probably look around for the point(s) of entrance and block it off so no more mice come to sponge off you! Exterminators will probably look for the point of entrance anyhow and seems to be your only option if there are so many mice in your house.
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They sound brilliant if they can do a flip on command, i'd love it, why not go on the road as a travelling mouse circus?
This guy speaks the truth. I once caught three mice in three nights (one each night) on a single trap baited with a strawberry cream Quality Street.
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You say your using rat traps, I assume you really mean mouse trap?! The size differential makes catching one with the others traps difficult.
We had a mouse issue a few months back, we bought some old style mouse traps, baited the traps with toffee and fudge and killed 3 mice in 2 nights.
Never had any back since.
In the past we've found Jack Russell dogs better ratters/mousers than the cat
We had a mouse issue a few months back, we bought some old style mouse traps, baited the traps with toffee and fudge and killed 3 mice in 2 nights.
Never had any back since.
In the past we've found Jack Russell dogs better ratters/mousers than the cat
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no really, get a cat, have you not seen Tom and Jerry?
think how much fun it will be to watch that going on all day!
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Stick an advert in the paper. "Pet mice, free to a good owner, must catch your own"
Our cats never caught the mice we had around the house, but then they are getting old. Turns out our mice were using the gap under the house to travel between lots of the houses in our road even though we're semi! In the end the peanut butter did them in. Suckers.
Our cats never caught the mice we had around the house, but then they are getting old. Turns out our mice were using the gap under the house to travel between lots of the houses in our road even though we're semi! In the end the peanut butter did them in. Suckers.
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Just pooing and peeing on the carpet marking your sent like a cat would do 
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get a bat
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The approach I have always used is old fashioned snap traps baited with peanut butter or Mars bar. Place them somewhere the mice are likely to run and make sure they are parallel and close to the wall.
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