Reply to: Mice

[JRCT]

You need to kill em or they breed, and they breed pretty fast. One or two becomes twenty in a matter of weeks.

I read an article once on mice breeding. If you have 2 mice (1 male, 1 female of course) left to their own devices, in 2 years you will have 2 million.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

We used to use the humane mousetrap approach, but apparently unless you release the little buggers some significant distance away they just come back (probably with a few mates). Now we use the traditional mousetrap.

Makes sense really - They know the route in and out of the house so unless you kill them they will come back.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

No more dead rodents yet, surley there couldn't be just one.

Might be worth getting a pest control person in. My friend knew exactly where to look and where to put the traps as well as the type of poison to use. He even mixed nutella with some of the standard poison. It appears that there was only one mouse due to the amount of droppings and the fact the mouse was caught within 24 hours with no more mice caught by the peanut butter trap after 1 week. All the gaps have been closed off now as well. It was just a single field mouse (I hope).

[aoxomoxoa]

We used to use the humane mousetrap approach, but apparently unless you release the little buggers some significant distance away they just come back (probably with a few mates). Now we use the traditional mousetrap.

[hyperD]

hyperMog#1 caught a live mouse in his mouth last night. He makes this weird "baby strangling" sound when he gets one. He toyed with it before biting his head off in a kind of feline Ozzy homage.

[doodab]

No more dead rodents yet, surley there couldn't be just one.

Probably not. My thinking is that as the colony grows they explore more and more, so often by the time you see them it's reached a fair size, but most of them are probably sticking to their original range. The answer is to determine where that is and put bait or traps there.

You can get a special powder that you spread on the ground, it sticks to their feet so they leave a trail of it and glows under UV light, letting you trace their movements. That can be helpful in tracking them down, although obviously you need to spread it where they actually are for it to work.

[Project Monkey]

No more dead rodents yet, surley there couldn't be just one.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Been hearing little feet scurrying about in the loft for a few weeks so invested in a couple of mouse traps. Set them up in the loft last night with a generous dollop of peanut butter on each, but not expecting much to happen.

Checked first thing this morning, lo and behold: a beautiful little field mouse with his head smashed in . That'll learn him!

Most satisfying thing I done in ages, can’t wait to get home to see if I’ve caught another.

Saw a mouse arrogantly walk across my lounge a couple of weeks back - the first time I had ever seen a mouse in a house!

I was like with a bit of a man scream.

Called my friend over who does pest control and he soon sorted the issue out. Worst thing was how the mouse just roamed around our lounge without a care in the world!

[NickFitz]

Terminate with extreme prejudice, is my advice

When the building work next door provoked a bunch into invading my flat the other year, it took sodding ages to get rid of them all. (Being away in the week didn't help.) Reckon I saw off at least sixty of the little bastards over the space of a few months before I was definitively rid of them.

[BrilloPad]

Get a cat. Mrs bp is missing me now - bpcat1 kills all and sundry. yesterday a rat, day before a mouse. She has to clear it up as I am not around. bpcat1 had 2 squirrels in 24 hours once.

[doodab]

Hmm, far too much rodent bashing on this forum today.
I grew up in an old pub that was riddled with mice and we had rats in the celler - and frogs too.
The skirting boards were home to a huge amount of woodlice, bugs and spiders and there were birds living in the roof (you could hear them scratching at night!) It was all perfectly normal to me.

Mice and rats are vermin that can do a lot of damage to property if left unchecked. They also stink. The last thing you want when you have kids, or anything of value, is mice pissing on everything and chewing through cables and whatnot. They need to be exterminated.

[Pogle]

Hmm, far too much rodent bashing on this forum today.
I grew up in an old pub that was riddled with mice and we had rats in the celler - and frogs too.
The skirting boards were home to a huge amount of woodlice, bugs and spiders and there were birds living in the roof (you could hear them scratching at night!) It was all perfectly normal to me.

[Mich the Tester]

You need to kill em or they breed, and they breed pretty fast. One or two becomes twenty in a matter of weeks.

Vote UKIP!

You were right doodab.

[hyperD]

You need to kill em or they breed, and they breed pretty fast. One or two becomes twenty in a matter of weeks.

Vote UKIP!

[doodab]

Looks like I need to brush up on my rodent biology