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Super Mice

22 replies

Swizzler · 06/04/2007 11:07

They've pinched the cheese off the traps without springing them . So do I get a shotgun and camp out in the kitchen?

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RustyBear · 06/04/2007 11:09

Poison the cheese?

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Swizzler · 06/04/2007 11:11

We tried poison and they didnt eat it . Maybe their brains are developing under the influence of my lvoely home cooked scraps (tho the kitchen is sparkly clean now, honest)

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JackieNo · 06/04/2007 11:12

Peanut butter is supposed to be good, and may be more difficult to get at without springing the traps. Or try the humane ones?

singingmum · 06/04/2007 11:12

Try a humane trap might work

foxybrown · 06/04/2007 11:13

move out?

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Swizzler · 06/04/2007 11:15

No humane traps - not much point as they'd just get in again so THEY WILL DIE. Might try peant butter or v v squidgy cheese

Still like the idea of blasting them tho - can you get cordite a la WW1 trenches?

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foxybrown · 06/04/2007 11:17

those ultrasonic repellents are meant to do the job. not sure how expensive they are. my mouse has gone strangely quiet, either its buggered off or is busy nesting and breeding somewhere. Yuk!

Humane traps don't do much good IME. They just encourage the little bastards to mock you.

RustyBear · 06/04/2007 11:29

My mouse got in & out of the humane trap, leaving it closed & with a little pile of poo in place of the bait - cheeky bugger. Still, I haven't seen any more signs since - we've got an ultrasound thing - they were £40 for 4 in Robert Dyas,which I thought was expensive but then they had a half price offer so I got them.
Would have been better if I'd remembered to turn them off when we were looking after DD's friend's pet rats though!

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Swizzler · 06/04/2007 11:30

Them mice had better not be mocking me

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foxybrown · 06/04/2007 13:18

heh heh heh, thats why it goes 'see how they run'

run you buggers, run ....

octavia · 06/04/2007 13:22

we tried those sonic things, worked for a while then the mouse came back with ear defenders onthey must get used to the noise or something.Tried humane traps with peanut butter, ignored,tried snap traps ignored so in the end Dh did what I begged him to do in the first place found the point of entry and blocked it off.

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Swizzler · 06/04/2007 19:03

We've tried Octavia, but it's a Victorian house and they coul dget in anywhere. DH has re-baited the traps with gluey cheese so here's hoping...

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Swizzler · 07/04/2007 07:22

They did it again

Off to buy killer traps today

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BandofBunnies · 07/04/2007 07:25

LOL at you with your shot gun Swizz, but unless you're a sniper at heart I think your kitchen will come off worse.

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Swizzler · 07/04/2007 07:33

DH used to do rifle shooting (shot for school and uni) - perhaps I should leave it to him...

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sophiewd · 07/04/2007 07:51

We have the sonic repellants for mice and the ever growing rat population in the farmyard at the back of us and haven't heard a peep from either since we got them 18 months ago.

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Swizzler · 07/04/2007 08:14

Will look at those as well Sophie. Need to do something

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sophiewd · 07/04/2007 11:51

We also sent my SIL when she was doing lambing the other night out with my DH's semi auto .22. but they do get very wise to this

CoffeeCrazedMama · 09/04/2007 15:58

Swizzler, have had this problem (live in London - vermin central) and found the best poison was something called neosorexa which I bought on-line. They absolutely gobble it up. DH took the kick-boards off kitchen cupboards and put trays of it there - it's a good place to put it because dcs won't get to it there. DH keeps an eye on whether it gets eaten from time to time. They tend to crawl away to die, but we have had the odd one die under the house and stink through the floor boards . We haven't had the problem for a while though since a neighbour's cat took a liking to our dcs and kept visiting, wandering around wiping its scent over the house!

dizzydo · 12/04/2007 07:13

Swizzler, we had probs with mice when we moved into this house and it nearly drove us mad. We tried everything, sonic plugs, traps, poison and still we would see them. In desperation we laid down a couple of those sticky pads with a bit of chocolate stuck on it and caught three in one go. Not nice because they are still alive but we have not seen any more since! Desperate situations need desperate measures IMO! Give it a go.

NoNickname · 12/04/2007 17:48

I can very much recommend baiting traps with Nutella! It has been very successful at catching our mice in our kitchen.

We tried humane traps, but apparently you have to let them go more than a mile away - or else they will come back - I couldn't cope with mousey in a small plastic thingy in my car for more than a minute! So we used this trap and it worked a treat.

My grandmother used to say, where there's one, there's two; and where there's two, there's a family. It was true in our case - had about fifteen or something all told. It took a fair few months to catch and despatch them all - but we managed it in the end.

Unfortunately we never found out where they were getting in, so will probably get another family sometime soon!

southeastastra · 12/04/2007 17:50

it's taken me weeks to get rid of our mice. i could have cried as i just saw one outside munching on some rabbit food that had fallen out of the cage

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