Small furry visitors

[ufkacbln]

Whilst I have been in London for a week, my wife has had a few problems...

First as a Snickers bar in the middle of the kitchen floor , followed by a shortbread biscuit.

Now she has found " a large rat" which on further discussion appears to be abut 2 - 3" long and a mouse dead on our bedroom floor.


My helpful suggestion taht it was probably only a single mouse with a peanut allergy has not gone down well. I suspet a mass purhase of mice traps at the weekend.

Any (helpful) advice?

 

[Wigsie]

Tell her to get out of the house there is an animal in there killing mice!

 

[Wigsie]

Sorry must have ignored the brackets

 

[orienteer]

Haven't had any since buying and plugging in a rodent repellent device - it emits a very high frequency sound that they don't like.

 

[rich p]

Whilst I have been in London for a week, my wife has had a few problems...

First as a Snickers bar in the middle of the kitchen floor , followed by a shortbread biscuit.

Now she has found " a large rat" which on further discussion appears to be abut 2 - 3" long and a mouse dead on our bedroom floor.


My helpful suggestion taht it was probably only a single mouse with a peanut allergy has not gone down well. I suspet a mass purhase of mice traps at the weekend.

Any (helpful) advice?

Spellcheck?

 

[Wigsie]

Spellcheck?

Turn it in!

 

[gaz]

Haven't had any since buying and plugging in a rodent repellent device - it emits a very high frequency sound that they don't like.

I got a gun that does that, it has a laser so you know where your pointing, and then outputs a noise above our hearing range that rodents can't stand. point and shoot

 

[Norm]

I have a similar device, but for two small differences. It doesn't have the laser targeting system and the noise it makes is well within our hearing.

They usually appear in the rural residences in October, although I guess the recent cold spell might have driven it indoors.

• Poison works but isn't a good way to die (should we care when it's a mouse or rat). They might also die somewhere you really don't want to have dead things, although the smell doesn't usually last for long.
• The old-fashioned traps work well. They give a quick and pretty certain death but they are pretty mucky to clean out and reset.
• "Humane" traps can catch the mouse without killing it. What you then do with it is up to you.

I'd go with option 2. They are pretty cheap to buy so you can just chuck them out when they've been triggered.

The last time I caught a mouse, I was walking across the farmyard to put it into the shed when the bugger squirmed and sunk its teeth into my thumb. Ruddy thing would not let go, I shook and begged to no avail, so I stomped on it. It obviously wasn't that enamoured with the idea of being set free.

 

[Speicher]

The last time I picked up a live mouse, I made sure I was wearing strong gloves.

 

[Campfire]

I caught a mouse in my neighbour's conservatory the other week. It was between the curtain and lining and when we shook it, it fell on my face! Ugh!

However after a cat and mouse chase around the conservatory, in and out of trainers etc, I finally threw a cloth over it and put it outside.

Poor thing, it was only sheltering from the cold!

 

[Dan B]

I got a gun that does that, it has a laser so you know where your pointing, and then outputs a noise above our hearing range that rodents can't stand. point and shoot

Where from? I want one for Christmas

We've tried humane traps, traditional traps, and poison, and had some success (measured in dead furry bodies) but not total success (measured in observation of live furry bodies). The trouble is that the latest one doesn't actually seem to want to eat anything in here - it only comes around to shred plastic bags and gnaw at bits of aluminium.

 

[slowmotion]

Our terraced house in London became completely over-run by mice a year ago. I think that they checked out of a house two doors away that was being gutted, and moved into our castle , in order to avoid the cold weather. Initially it was quite amusing. We tried the humane traps which are totally useless. Next, I got a job lot of conventional mouse traps (wooden).. The little bastards would just lick the bait ( peanut butter ) off the trigger pedal. Next we tried a rather nifty Kness Albia trap made in Iowa. I think it is sold by Rentokil. Very clever design, but after squishing 14 mice, they still came on strong. The penultimate phase was an organic mouse poison which proved entirely useless. Eventually, everbody ends up with the nastiest poisons around. The smell of rotting mouse is not too strong at all, so do not worry.

I guess my attitude hardened when I found mouse shoot in the toaster.

No mercy!

 

[Norm]

The last time I picked up a live mouse, I made sure I was wearing strong gloves.

Given your av, that would surely make it tough to fly, although I can understand why you'd have a good working knowledge of how to handle one.

 

[Rezillo]

These are very good humane traps - put a smear of peanut butter in the end cap as bait - not too much as the trap over-balances.

Traps link

Our cats bring in various rodents which then run loose and these are very effective.

John

 

[Speicher]

Norm - Wot u on about? They was olny vrey samll gloves, hwo big du yu fink my claws r?
Wiv apologolops fur th spell, She is wtchngi some Tv. I lernd my slepping from Winey the Poo Kwistfer Wobn.