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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bionic on June 29, 2012, 03:46:19 pm
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I haven't seen the mice, just their droppings so put a mouse trap in with peanut butter. They ignored it.
I bought some poison pellets. They ignored them
I bought some poison that looks like blue grain. They ignored it.
Any suggestions?
Sally
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Shot gun,
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They wont eventually, takes em time to get used to the traps etc. Plus, at this time of year thete is plenty of food about. We seem to get most of ours coming in post-harvest, when they seem to be everywhere for a month or so and then vanish, hopefully cos we've wiped most of em out....
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There was a mouse sitting on our dining room table the other day, presumably waiting for his supper ;D The mad scrabbles by the dogs to get him seem to have scared him away :dog: :dog:
Your little pets will take the poison one day, or explore a trap......but there will be plenty more to follow.
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Try a Mars bar on the mouse trap. It works everytime. We had them in the airing cupboard at one time and it worked a treat. Keep restocking the trap even if you catch something , until such time as you don't. In the old houses they manage to find their way about everywhere.
Perhaps you should invest in a cat. :-J
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Thanks Kaz, I have a cat and she is usually a good mouser but is reluctant to roam the house because of our dog. Of course she can't get in the airing cupboard now because of the poison I have put down.
I will try the mars bar trick if I can keep my hands off of it myself. I LOVE mars bars. ;D
Sally
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i had a mouse problem earlier this year, i only thought it was one or two, i ended catching nine of the little buggers. i used chocolate as bait for the traps.
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Cheeeeeese :D (or chocolate)
shot gun
makes a right mess of the sheets :D
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Sounds like the start of a children's poem to me.
My neighbour is veggie and kills nowt. He lives alongside the mice or maybe they live alongside him. They keep him company and he tells my children tales of their busy lives and adventures. ;D
He says if you get rid of them they are only replaced by others.
They made a nest and had babes under his pillow ..... did have to relocate that apparently.
Just a different perspective for you, Bionic. ;D ;D ;D
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I have enough problems with the dog trying to get into the bed. I draw the line at mice ;D
Sally
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It's not the mice but the diseases they bring with them that makes us kill them. If not for that they could move in and be welcome :)
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Agree, don't have them living here. ;D
Mind, my neighbour is 78 and as fit as a fiddle. Not done him any harm yet ;D Perhaps all those organic veggies help him to fight off the bugs.
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I had one run over the keyboard AS I TYPED!! This was 2 days ago, I was so shocked that I just sat here staring as the thing then launched itself off the desk, across the floor and into the boiler cupboard.
Not sure if Snowball has caught it yet, she bought a pigeon in yesterday so maybe not :-\
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i hope you ate the pigeon!
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;D yes with a jar of Uncle Bens Sweet and Sour.
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Hope it was a wood pigeon and not a town one . The ones in towns carry more diseases than rats . Bon apatite !
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:yum: cat ate most of it, rest in bin ;)
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I had two of the little blighters waiting for me at the foot of the stairs this morning..dead of course. A little pressie from Fred. Bless him!
I know for a fact that I have at least one in the kitchen but as soon as I get rid of it another will be brought in to take it's place by our little boy. He is such a good mouser but 9 times out of 10, he brings them in alive and once in a while they escape and take refuge under the units before he can do the deed. Perhaps if we kept the tell on at night for him, he'd stay in and watch it instead.
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Sally
Have you caught any yet?
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No >:( and it/they have a choice of meals including a bit of mars bar on the mouse trap.
I must have very canny mice
Sally
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My mum regards Dad's fox trap as a complicated way to feed chicken to foxes :D
I've always been of the view that mousetraps may be another complicated way to feed chocolate and cheese to mice ;) Personaliy I use Longworth traps and then take the wee beasties a long way from home and release them.
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A wide-mouthed bottle propped up so that it's half on it's side with chocolate or peanuts in it catches quite a few.
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Thanks Sylvia, I will look out for a wide mouthed bottle
Sally
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Are you sure they're not old droppings? mouse droppings dry out and can stay there foe ages long after mousy has gone. hoover them up and check for fresh droppings, also check your loft they may gone upwards ;D
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Feldar,
Unfortunately they are not old droppings. I hoover the cupboard out every day to see if there are fresh droppings :(
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Didn't mean to say you wouldn't hoover your airing cupboard ! it's just i dont tend to hoover mine!!
Oh well keep trying the chocolate it works every time fior me
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This never fails for me.
Nipper trap - the old-fashioned snap-shut-with-a-bang-would-take-your-finger-off type.
Peanut butter smeared around the post and the wood below the post, so mousey has to lick at it to get it off.
Trap set on a mouse run (which will always be along a wall or similar), or in a dark corner / corridor where the mouse goes - this is the bit you are most likely to be getting wrong if you are not catching any.
It might take a day or three before I get the first, but then I'll keep getting them until they're gone.
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My cats used to eat what they caught but leave the pancreas outide the door. One day when my sister in law (who is petrified of mice) was staying, we had been out for a drink the night before. She was somewhat the worse for wear the next morning so was wandering round in nightie and bare feet looking for paracetamol. She stopped onto a pancreas and it squelched up between her toes. I said it was only a bit of a mouse. By the time we had stopped her running round the house screaming, we all had headaches. :(
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My mum has a plug in sonic thingy. It cost about twenty seven quid and justs plugs in to any socket. She was plagued by field mice in winter but since buying this gadget has not had a mouse or even a spider or fly in the house. It does not affect dogs or cats but you obviously cant have rodent pets in the house.It is not one of those cheap plug in ones but one that has readouts, lights and stuff, she also has one in the garage so she gets no nasty surprises in there either. She bought it from a company called Stowers or something like that , I can check if anyone is interested.
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Hermit,
I have never heard of such a thing but would definitely be interested if you can get further details
thanks
Sally
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Hi Bionic,
I rang my mum up and asked for details. The one she swears by she bought from the garden centre.
It is by Coopers of Stortford and is a Pest Reach Deluxe 6920 and cost over thirty quid( sorry more than I thought she said).You can set it for different pests from cockroaches to rats but she has it on voles and field mice ::) . She swears by hers and highly recomends them.
Thats all the info I got as it was her' cocktail hour' when I rang... all the widows on the road where she lives meet at my mums to watch the three o clock crime on telly and drink G and Ts. A sort of over eighties gathering!!! :innocent:
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Hermit,
Thanks for getting the information. I will have a look for it and see what i think.
Hmmm, a 3pm G&T doesn't sound bad to me ;D
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Hi Bionic,
I rang my mum up and asked for details. The one she swears by she bought from the garden centre.
It is by Coopers of Stortford and is a Pest Reach Deluxe 6920 and cost over thirty quid( sorry more than I thought she said).You can set it for different pests from cockroaches to rats but she has it on voles and field mice ::) . She swears by hers and highly recomends them.
http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/cid/VSNKC1O9BS9O7E77AUMOKT5BPUEI3L3A/pest-reach-ultrasonic-pir-clear-deluxe-prodst06882i/ (http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/cid/VSNKC1O9BS9O7E77AUMOKT5BPUEI3L3A/pest-reach-ultrasonic-pir-clear-deluxe-prodst06882i/)
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Thanks for the link Sally.
I have taken a look and its quite big and not the sort of thing you would put in an airing cupboard. Its also out of stock at the moment. I think I will continue on as I have been doing (no mice droppings for a couple of days) but if I still have a problem might investigate this again.
Sally
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Thats not what my mum has , my mums' plugs into a house socket and looks like a big central heating programmer. I will try and find out more.
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Thanks Hermit
Sally
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I haven't seen the mice, just their droppings so put a mouse trap in with peanut butter. They ignored it.
I bought some poison pellets. They ignored them
I bought some poison that looks like blue grain. They ignored it.
Any suggestions?
Sally
Well I did all of the above and a piece of mars bar in a trap too and nothing worked. None of the pellets were eaten either. The droppings were just confined to the airing cupboard so I continued to hoover them up every so often. Now I have found that it isn't mice at all but BATS.
Mouse or Bat droppings in loft roof space - Reading Berkshire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMoDGNr7TcA#ws)
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BATS - that's lovely :thumbsup: - apart from all those droppings of course. Interesting how to tell the difference. Have you seen them flying and been able to identify the species?
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put a tray down and collect the guano, really good fertiliser it is.
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BATS - that's lovely :thumbsup: - apart from all those droppings of course. Interesting how to tell the difference. Have you seen them flying and been able to identify the species?
Fleecewife I did see them flying outside about July/August time last year and then got a bit put off when there were a couple in my lounge (on different occasions). OH just opened the patio door and they went out. Apparently it isn't unusual for this to happen when the young are flying. There were some holes above the chimney breast and I think they got in that way. I never associated the droppings with bats though until this week.
I don't know what they are but they are very small. I must try to identify them this year.
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Very useful vid - I'm off to roll a few droppings between my fingers; I couldn't understand how we would have mice when there's a farm cat...
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bats are common , they tend to use your house as a nursery till their young can fly (usual around 6 months) , dont disturb them as there if big fines for doing this . best thing to do is find how they are getting in and fill the holes . but make sure the bats are not using it and have left , once the holes are filled put up some bat houses for them to return to. if you just dont do anything they will come back year after year and the colony will get bigger every year. the droppings dont look big , but bats hang in the same place all the time and I have seen a ceiling come down with the weight after a number of years . The urine from a large number of bats tends to smell bad . hope this is of some help , best of luck ,
Reg
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Thanks Reg. We do have a bat box that we bought with us when we moved. No bats had moved in it in our previous home. I guess its time we put it up here.
I haven't noticed any nasty smells so :fc:
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I would love to have bats but maybe not in the house.
Reminds me of the time that my ex and I were woken one night by something in the bedroom. He thought it was a bird and is petrified of things flapping round hin so disappeared under the duvet so I got up and turned on the light to see a very frightened bat. I turned the light off quickly and drew back the curtains, opened the window as wide as I could then turned the light on again. the bat shot towards the darkness and was gone. I'm sure it was almost as relieved as my ex. Nice to have a man to protect you from intruders.