Mice (as in rodent variety)

[vickster]

we had the toad population explosion last year... having to round up 20-30 of them each and every time I wanted to get at my bike without standing on them was interesting but not as trying on my patience as the mice issues!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Keep the cat in the house, can't bring any more in...most will happily torment and kill free roaming meeses though!

wildlife verses wildlife... I can cope with that.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

rounded up

and set free...

 

[vickster]

Shudder

 

[welsh dragon]

We have a pond and every year the frogs and toads breed. When they're legs grow the tadpoles leave the pond en mass. It's like a plague with hundreds of thousands of tiny frogs and toads all over rhe field.

 

[welsh dragon]

We have a good population of buzzards, and red kites as well as owls to keep the population of critters down. We also have sparrow hawks.

 

[Mark1978]

I'm expecting the usual invasion of mice into our loft that happens at this time of year due to the harvesting of the fields on both sides of our place.

We always have rats out and about too thanks to having chickens (they like eating the food) and lots of horse muck for them to live in.

But that's nothing a .22 air rifle doesnt sort out.

 

[hopless500]

I'm expecting the usual invasion of mice into our loft that happens at this time of year due to the harvesting of the fields on both sides of our place.

We always have rats out and about too thanks to having chickens (they like eating the food) and lots of horse muck for them to live in.

But that's nothing a .22 air rifle doesnt sort out.

Strangely the chickens don't seem to have increased rat sightings here. Maybe the cats keep 'em down.
And you've just reminded me I need to go out Downham Mkt way to get another couple of chooks Better get on the phone later.

 

[classic33]

yep and I am most definitely feeling picked on at the moment. little blighters raiding my cupboards at night, eating my raw rice, pasta, beans, peas, fruit... back to having to keep everything I can in the fridge as the only viable 'they can't get at it' solution. (said cupboard has the stop-cock in it with a really big hole around it that they have chewed... think the expand foam will be coming out soon)

Edit: OK the fruit is not in the cupboard, but on top of a set of drawers in a fruit bowl - or was until they ate it...

Some mice quite like the taste of expanding foam.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Some mice quite like the taste of expanding foam.

I have a very large can of it, one of those 100% extra free cans. They can eat all they want of it (says the person who has just spent the last 15 minutes hovering mouse droppings off the cooker, kitchen work surfaces and various other places in the kitchen that mice should not be allow).

 

[slowmotion]

If you need to bung up holes, try steel wool. They don't chomp through it. I believe that a house mouse can squeeze through very small holes. If you can poke your little finger into it, mousy can get through.

 

[paul04]

I've had a few in the loft, noisy little sod's, I got one with a mouse trap, and another 2 with mouse poison.
I checked all around the house to work out how they were getting in, but no holes.
I knocked on next doors house to check if they had any in there loft, on a look around there house, we spotted a small hole in the outside wall, so we blocked that up, and with luck we've had no more.
They were getting in the wall cavity, and then into my loft.

 

[slowmotion]

Which is why you release them on open ground, not your neighbour's garden. The humane traps work very well IME.

Although they were my first port of call, had absolutely no luck at all with humane traps. I could be wrong but I thought that house mice much prefer buildings that are occupied rather than camping outside on open ground.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn you have no choice but to get a cat or two.
It works

 

[Soltydog]

(said cupboard has the stop-cock in it with a really big hole around it that they have chewed... think the expand foam will be coming out soon)

Our cupboard with stop cock in houses our dinner plates & cups, not pleasant, so my solution was a small piece of wood screwed over hole with 2 or 3 screws, keeps the mice out & in an emergency can be unscrewed in seconds
We used a humane trap for years, used to catch about a dozen or so around September time & heard very little from them after that, but a few years ago the blighters just kept coming We must have caught & relocated 30-40 of them with no end in sight, so we got a cat, that worked a treat We very rarely see or hear them in the house now