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Rats scampering around, gah!!!!

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Onthesedgeofoureats · 19/01/2011 20:08

I can HEAR THEM!! Found mouse poo in my flat for a few days and saw a beast, so blocked holes, bought traps (but didn't use them in the end) and they seem to have gone. The neighbour in the studio upstairs is a bit boaksome and has rubbish bags piled up on her balcony, so am taking it she isn't TOO bothered about food/rat/mouse hygiene). She is always out in the evenings, and I can hear quite large sounding scurryings on the ceiling and it is freaking me out!! I don't want them back again!! Angry. It just feels uber gross as they are studio flats, so these creatures are less than 2 meters from my bed!

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MrsThisIsTheCadillacOfNailguns · 19/01/2011 20:17

Oh yuck! I am a rat catcher extrodinaire,so have some experience.My best results came from baiting the traps with banana-caught 2 with that in 24 hours.

You are going to have to speak to your neighbour though,if they are in your ceiling/under her floor,she will have to deal with them and clear up her rubbish too.

BlooKangaWonders · 19/01/2011 20:36

call your local council. Mine sent a man, who laid a trap and came back a fortnight later. Leave it to the experts!

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Onthesedgeofoureats · 19/01/2011 21:19

Thanks ladies. Ewwww it is so gross!!! xx

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AtLongLast · 20/01/2011 23:14

Ugh. It's grim. We get them fairly regularly as we live near some shops / fly tipping areas & share underfloor space along our street of houses. It's not uncommon to see rodents running round the streets when out early.

I found a rat in the last throes of life on our lounge floor just before christmas Shock. One died a few years ago under our floorboards. We joked that it smelled like something had died but the arrival of hundreds of flies in the house a couple of weeks later suggested we were actually right. The dog is a sort of early warning system when they're back cos she goes nuts snorting round all the skirting in the house. Not so good when MIL is staying.... erm, no idea why the dog is going mad.... honest Blush

Grim. We got environmental health out a few years ago but he insisted we had mice (presumably cos they only treat rat problems for free) & spoke to me like I was a complete numpty. Then he saw the hole in the skirting that Tom & Jerry would be proud of. He said it was a big hole. Hmm, that's cos it was a big animal that made it. A rat, not a mouse Angry!

hambo · 20/01/2011 23:17

Mouse poo is the size of a piece of rice and rat poo about the size of....of..hmm...two maltesers...are you sure it is rat not mouse?

'apparently' if you have mice you will not have a rat!

PeachyPossum · 22/01/2011 20:19

No, that can't be true, sorry Hambo. It was the rat that got rid of our mouse problem! We used a huge snappy trap and peanut butter, first night we got 1 beasty. a day later we discovered a tub of rat poison under the sink had been broken into and eaten. Not had any problems since. It was such a relief when the mice disappeared, until we discovered half a loaf gone and one hole in the bag.

PeachyPossum · 22/01/2011 20:20

To be clear, I'm referring to the fact that the OP says the mice had gone and now the large scurrying noises.

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