Reply to: The Return of the ZeitMice

[xoggoth]

I got 'em both

Bastard!

making it much easier to get the poison and traps into the best locations for optimum eradication

Bastard!

[Sysman]

The trouble with poison is the extended duration of the pong.

Not good if you have a puppy that tries to catch the buggers either.

Sick, vomit, bits of chewed mouse, and diarrhoea all over the floor

and very poorly puppy

[NickFitz]

Hah! I knew that after your first attempt at humane removal you would eventually learn the other methods.

Yeah, humane sucks, although I did always have a few traps alongside the gentler methods. Now I have loads of traps.

Spying on them is a real help getting stuff where it's needed though. I have footage of one creeping out from under the boiler, grabbing some poison grain, and scuttling back with it (carefully running around the traps) over the course of a week or so. As I knew it was definitely there I was able to make sure it didn't go hungry until it stopped showing up

[BrilloPad]

Aha!

A Cunning Plan B!

I'll get on it immediately.

What is plan A? Take off and nuke them from orbit?

[vetran]

Bought some floor paint yesterday evening.

Hopefully the hideous pong will discourage some more of the little bastids.

If all else fails you can turn it into a rodent skating ring. Train them to steal small articles to pay to use, you could be the first scaly Fagin.

[Sysman]

Bought some floor paint yesterday evening.

Hopefully the hideous pong will discourage some more of the little bastids.

Lashings of cement behind the skirting boards can also help.

[Sysman]

Big rat wandering across the patio at the weekend. Put in a few appearances. Husband blaming seed dropping from my bird feeders.

Could well be.

Squirrels are worse. They'll gnaw through your bird feeder and destroy it.

[Sysman]

I now have a couple of infrared motion-sensitive wifi cameras I can use to observe their habits, making it much easier to get the poison and traps into the best locations for optimum eradication

Hah! I knew that after your first attempt at humane removal you would eventually learn the other methods.

[EternalOptimist]

rats are omnivores, same as bears, pigs and humans.

Which means you can never pin the bastids down. With lions, for example, it's dead easy
just stay out of longleat and dont smell like a wilderbeest and you're ok

but rats - shivverr

[NickFitz]

Big rat wandering across the patio at the weekend. Put in a few appearances. Husband blaming seed dropping from my bird feeders.

It is true that rats living outdoors will only go where there's food and otherwise will move on.

Of course that doesn't mean it's your birdseed they're after, or at least not that alone.

[mudskipper]

Big rat wandering across the patio at the weekend. Put in a few appearances. Husband blaming seed dropping from my bird feeders.

[NickFitz]

Et tu Nick?

I haven't trapped anything in a couple of weeks now, nor seen any other sign of activity - I think I may have finally sorted the problem out

Mind you, every time I think that, more turn up

I now have a couple of infrared motion-sensitive wifi cameras I can use to observe their habits, making it much easier to get the poison and traps into the best locations for optimum eradication

[Pogle]

vermin

Present company excepted, of course...

Et tu Nick?

[NickFitz]

I do hope you mean you caught them and then sent them off to a rodent re-homing sanctuary

vermin

Present company excepted, of course...

[ctdctd]

I do hope you mean you caught them and then sent them off to a rodent re-homing sanctuary

Weeeeeell, yes, that's exactly what a GAL would do when confronted by freezer damaging rodents.

However, where there are two, there are bound to be more