I Gotta Mouse!

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...well, I assume it's a mouse.....

On doing a major spring clean today (and it near enough broke me back!!!) I discovered a few secreted seed husks (stolen from near the boyd's cage) with nibble marks on & a hole in the wall nearby - all I can say is that it must be the world's tiniest mouse ever as the hole is tiny tiny! Found a couple of droppings by the hole too but they too were miniscule. Naturally it's a bank holiday today (another new one created this year - they love their bank holidays out here!!) so couldn't get any polyfilla so the hole is currently blocked with about all I had which amounted to stuffing it full of bubblewrap & sticking electrical tape on top!! Just in case he's a resourceful little fecker I've stuck a square glass bottle (knew that Cointreau would come in handy!!!) right up against the hole too that he'll struggle to move!

Not really sure what to do bar fill the hole up - it's an old flat with plenty of holes & stuff that they can get through - and when I go on holiday next week I'll plug in one of these electrical rodent repellers & hope that'll do the trick. Of course I don't really want to plug the electrical thingy in to start with while I'm here as it apparently can increase rodent/insect activity for the first 10 days/2 weeks before it gets rid if it altogether - so I'm hoping that by the time I get back it'll be an insect/rodent-free zone!! Mind you it could be a lot worse - not so bothered by a mouse really, would rather have several families of mice than one single cockroach! That would be enough to make me move out......

So....any ideas would be handy!
 
I had a mouse myself last year over the Summer. I called out the Council, they put poison down. I found a hole coming from my neighbours' house and filled that up with polyfilla, I put down poison of my own and a trap. I woke up one morning tp find the poison gone and never heard from him again. Poison and traps are the way to go. The average mouse can fit through a hole the size of a 10p piece.
 
My bird wouldn't, Grey!!! :lol:

This hole is smaller than a 10p piece - it's maybe 7,8mm wide and about 2,3cm tall. Maybe he's only a babby!!

Might grab some poison and put it in the hole before I block it up - although I'm not so sure I like the idea of a dead mouse rotting in the walls!! :lol:
 
I'm sure a mouse can get through a hole big enough to stick a biro through. The difficulty with traps is that you are then responsible for disposing hygenically of the deceased. I used to chuck them over the back fence in the hope a foraging creature would dispose of them in the night.

Then the traps started disappearing. I thought the mice were getting pretty clever until I realised we had a problem with rats. Turns out they were attracted by the presence of the rabbit and guinea pigs and their food.

The ferrets soon got rid of the rats but they started chewing everything so we got in a terrier. The ferrets got off their mark but the terrier was a yapper so we got a doberman to frighten the sh*t out of the little f*cker.

The doberman attacked the postman so we called in Mick from Dog Borstal and he's a bigger f*ckin' animal than the lot of them.
 
:o Real horror story...an elderly guy living 8 doors away(passed away since) had lost his faculties and was going blind, he had two budgies that were obviosly neglected because of his situation, but he always fed them well! That well that an infestation of mice occupied the cage and most of his living room. :o
 
I think mice and rats can sdo something clever with their skulld so they fit through rediculously small holes.

We had rats up at teh field one thime - they lived undr the feedroom and would go in Herbies stable and pinch his feed - we put all different kinds of poison down - the only difference we found was that we then had a family of glossy coated,bright eyed very very healthy rats!! (which we became very protective of and chased the cats away on the basis that if we couldnt kill them with poison, they deserved to be left alone!!- they got quite friendly in the end and they didnt get into the feed so we left them to it)
 
We've been putting down blocks of poison for the rats and they come and drag them away within 15 minutes! They think its like McDonalds here - costing more than feeding the horses!!
 
I use humane mouse traps (my cats, past and present, are inclined to bring live mice in and let them go ... ). You have to be able to check them a couple of times a day, though, otherwise they can become very inhumane mouse traps!
 
A simple old-fashioned mouse trap is the way to go. I caught several mice in them in a place I lived a few years ago. The traps always kill the mice so don't worry about whether they are humane. Place the trap against the wall or skirting board because mice don't tend to come out in the open. They are generally timid and will stick close to their hole/the wall.
 
And then you'll find it's a teeny, weeny, dear little vole, with a tiny flexi-nose, and she will have died a terrible death, leaving six tinsy-winsy ickle babbies in the hole, which will squeak pitifully for their loving Mummy, as they slowly, slowly die of starvation... their ghosts will bring you strange, realistic dreams of giant rats grinning at you from the corner of your bedroom... you will hear mysterious scuttling and whispering noises when alone... your parrot will make squeaking sounds and shriek "red rum, red rum" at inopportune moments with your latest squeeze...
 
Originally posted by PDJ@Jan 30 2007, 04:39 PM
I have no problem with unhumane traps, so long as they kill the bleeders.
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My sentiments Paul :lol:

Close your eyes and then run your fingers over your head!!! (at 4.30 in the morning) I used to take a cat bed B)

I used to live in Devon (in a stupid place no one will have heard of) and we had rats and mice living in the house. We had 4 cats, only one was any good at killing the rats (and that was a battle royal). Mind you we had a pig too, and the bastards were eating its food and thus growing to prohibitive sizes. I trained our border colly off a squeaky toy rat, to go at them!!! She obliged eventually (in return for being allowed to join in table tennis) :confused:

Eventually they over ran us, until they mysteriosuly died off :P Someone went to Devon and North Cornwall Farmers (suppliers) and started buying up supplies behind my hosts backs.
 
Originally posted by Warbler@Jan 31 2007, 02:41 AM
I trained our border colly off a squeaky toy rat, to go at them!!! She obliged eventually (in return for being allowed to join in table tennis) :confused:
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Eh?? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Originally posted by Homer J@Jan 31 2007, 12:05 AM
A simple old-fashioned mouse trap is the way to go. I caught several mice in them in a place I lived a few years ago. The traps always kill the mice so don't worry about whether they are humane. Place the trap against the wall or skirting board because mice don't tend to come out in the open. They are generally timid and will stick close to their hole/the wall.
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When we had a mouse at work my boss used one of those traps with great success. When I arrived for work he proudly showed me the evidence, and then placed aforementioned trap still complete with dead mouse on the draining board next to our cups! Ewwwwwwwwww.
 
I dont mind killing them - so long as its quick. I dont like poisoning them cos I find the half dead ones rolling about - then I have to finish them off - and that to me is barbaric.
 
Which is why I haven't got any!! Poison, that is....

At the moment the Cointreau bottle is doing a grand job & have seen no evidence that Mickey has been visiting since I found the initial lot. Got some polyfilla now too so doors will be permanently closed!
 
Wire wool is good for blocking little gaps which little mice may squeeze through as apparently they can't stand the stuff.
 
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