Mouse/Mice

munsterman2008

I have one at least, spotted twice in the last week. Thrown out 4 mousetraps in the kitchen (which is where he was seen last occasion).
Just opened the a bottom cupboard in the kitchen and found burger buns looking half eaten, presume it was them they are only there a few days. Theres a whole at the back of that cabinet where the washing machine plugs in.

God, im at my wits end. Someone offer me brilliant advice? (Rentokill coming in for a professional job would be e250)

MitchKoobski

Traps, and chocolate or peanut butter. They love the sweet stuff. Peanut butter works better because it's sticky.







Or you could do it humanely....

munsterman2008

I have three traps set up in the kitchen now and one in the cabinet where the burger buns are getting mysteriously picked at. all with peanut butter on dem.

anything else? i don't have time for humanely..

looksee

Block the hole at the back of the cabinet, and any others you can find - mice can get through amazingly small holes. Then just keep putting down traps, eventually you will get rid of them. Needless to say, remove anything edible from the cupboard and clean up crumbs!

seanybiker

Water with sugar in it then add a little cement. They eat it then if the cement sets you have mouse shaped stones to throw away. Be so cool if it worked.

STIG83

I never heard that way Seany.

jayboi

seanybiker wrote: »

Water with sugar in it then add a little cement. They eat it then if the cement sets you have mouse shaped stones to throw away. Be so cool if it worked.

Seanybiker wins the most evil reply anyway thats right up there with kidnap their parents and hold them ransom until they leave.

Why not just get a cat?

STIG83

But strange to have mice problem in a house in the Summer.

wmpdd3

Get the little boxes with poison in them. You can get it in Woodies. Get about 15 of them and put a good long line of poison in each one.

I saw this working in a massive infestation (100s of mice), took 2 weeks, never saw a mouse again. Had to be re-done every March and October.

I dont know where they go to die buy you wont see them.

wmpdd3

STIG83 wrote: »

But strange to have mice problem in a house in the Summer.

My friends are having a problem in an estate on the Old Tramore rd, they are building further down the road.

angeldelight

When putting down traps put them in beside the walls/presses perpendicular to the wall. They don't like running across big open spaces so tend to scurry around the edges. Or do what my dad did a few years ago and kill one with my shoe >.<

STIG83

Some dose having them in the house!! The worst we had to put up with at home a few years back was a rat in the attic, many sleepless nights I had with it running up and down the length of the house!! Little fcuker!!

deisemum

The thing with mice is that they're not loners, they have big families

They freak me out, even dead ones and logic goes out the window. I still have flashbacks to the time I put my hand in my handbag and a mouse ran out.:eek:

Cats are good at getting rid of them but some like to bring you presents.

STIG83

Id freak if I was you deisemum!! One in your handbag?! Urgh!!

looksee

deisemum wrote: »

The thing with mice is that they're not loners, they have big families

They freak me out, even dead ones and logic goes out the window. I still have flashbacks to the time I put my hand in my handbag and a mouse ran out.:eek:

Cats are good at getting rid of them but some like to bring you presents.

We've always had cats and they have all been totally useless at getting rid of mice. One particular cat used go and catch them and bring them in through the open window in the summer, alive, so you had to catch the dratted thing!

honeybadger

the fried fat of a rasher put in a trap works well to so iv found from trying it out and also +1 on the chocolate

STIG83

plus one on rasher fat too.

MitchKoobski

If none of those work just burn the house down.

It's the only guaranteed solution.

Max Powers

best advice is loads of traps, should get them after a couple weeks. Also, go around house and make sure there are no gaps for the lil [EMAIL="b@stards"]b@stards[/EMAIL] to get in. They love it around back of washing machines, water pipes which are nice and warm. Putting on one of those noise repellants works i think also to keep them out but apparently having it on the whole time makes it less effective.

decies

Woke up around 2 am one morning, heard rustling of paper and found a mouse eating a easter egg on the spare bed opposite me!!!

STIG83

decies wrote: »

Woke up around 2 am one morning, heard rustling of paper and found a mouse eating a easter egg on the spare bed opposite me!!!

Lovely!!

Max Powers

decies wrote: »

Woke up around 2 am one morning, heard rustling of paper and found a mouse eating a easter egg on the spare bed opposite me!!!

happened me too except it was a kit kat, i was gutted about losing the Kit kat

wmpdd3

decies wrote: »

Woke up around 2 am one morning, heard rustling of paper and found a mouse eating a easter egg on the spare bed opposite me!!!

Me too, my bloody flat mate left chocolate on my locker, I hate chocolate. I woke and heard something, didn't know what it was then the little fecker made a run out again to get another bite....2ft from my head!!

I screamed the house down.

Moved out the next day, never forget the look on the guy working in Hutchinsons when I gave that as a reason for moving out. His look just said 'So what'

dayshah

Airsoft Tommy Gun.

If you're going to kill them, do it with style.

wobbles

dayshah wrote: »

Airsoft Tommy Gun.

If you're going to kill them, do it with style.

Ive done this with a rat. Be prepared to hear it scream. It was that or posion and posion is much worse. Rats/mice feel sick with the poison and tend to go indoors to die.

munsterman2008

Good news. Put out the traps Saturday. Caught one overnight. Set it in the press I spoke of before, reset it. Found another one in the same trap this morning. So defo two been around, wonder if I will catch more. I hope this is the end of it..

Elmidena

I've a kitty that loves to play fetch and often harrasses someone by jumping up on someone when they're sitting watching telly etc (ie not paying attention to the cat) and she'll often drop the bit of tat or sweet wrapper for you to throw for her, getting a bit more insistent with headbutts until you give in. Sometimes she even puts said object in your hand.

On this occasion, Mum was having an afternoon "checking the inside of her eyelids" when the cat jumped up and started being insistent. A few groggy minutes later she realised that instead of a bit of foil from the inside of a ciggie box, it was a chewed up mouse being nudged deeper into Mum's chest for her to throw :pac:

stargirl.gra

My friends cat brought a live mouse into her conservatory the other day. I spotted it so my friend scruffed the cat and I picked the little mouse up and brought him outside. I was delighted with myself:D

KevIRL

mice = no rats. They wont co-habit.

Live and let live imo, rats would be worse

deisemum

Sunshine! wrote: »

I've a kitty that loves to play fetch and often harrasses someone by jumping up on someone when they're sitting watching telly etc (ie not paying attention to the cat) and she'll often drop the bit of tat or sweet wrapper for you to throw for her, getting a bit more insistent with headbutts until you give in. Sometimes she even puts said object in your hand.

On this occasion, Mum was having an afternoon "checking the inside of her eyelids" when the cat jumped up and started being insistent. A few groggy minutes later she realised that instead of a bit of foil from the inside of a ciggie box, it was a chewed up mouse being nudged deeper into Mum's chest for her to throw :pac:

Oh jaysus but that would freak me out, I cannot even look at them on tv let alone see them without freaking out.

Years ago my cat was prancing around the corridor early one morning and I didn't think anything of it. It just so happened that it was the one morning my husband wanted something that I had in my handbag so I picked my handbag up off the corridor floor sat on my bed put my hand in the bag and a mouse ran out. I screamed like someone being stabbed and my husband thought I was being attacked and came tearing up the corridor and saw the mouse at the edge of the bed. He got the cat to take the mouse outside.

The cat had brought the mouse in earlier and that's what the cat had been doing playing cat and mouse and the mouse found sanctury in my handbag which was a flapover type which I'll never have again.

The only positive thing about the whole experience was the fact that it was the one morning my husband wanted something I had in my bag, possibly money :rolleyes: otherwise I'd have gone off to work not realising there was a mouse in my handbag until I got on the tube and opened my handbag to get a book. I dread to think the commotion the mouse could have caused on the tube.

I had screamed so much I strained my vocal cords and had to whisper for a couple of day. Even now nearly 20 years later it gives me the shudders.

deisemum

dayshah wrote: »

Airsoft Tommy Gun.

If you're going to kill them, do it with style.

My father-in-law used a rifle to shoot rats. God only knows what people coming in the Dunmore road would have thought if they spotted him with the rifle stuck out an upstairs window and shooting the rat.

STIG83

stargirl.gra wrote: »

My friends cat brought a live mouse into her conservatory the other day. I spotted it so my friend scruffed the cat and I picked the little mouse up and brought him outside. I was delighted with myself:D

You not afraid of mice then?

dayshah

What's the disease situation regarding mice?

I know rats carry nasty stuff, do mice too? I'd expect they carry something.

STIG83

dayshah wrote: »

What's the disease situation regarding mice?

I know rats carry nasty stuff, do mice too? I'd expect they carry something.

Not sure to be honest, but both are still dirty little creatures.

wobbles

You can get Leptospirosis (also known as Weil's disease) from rat urine. Its dangerous as you get flu like symptoms an just shrug it off as just being sick. Not sure if you can get it from mouse pee though

Elmidena

I'm sure you can get lots of nasties like E. Coli from mice, as if you think about all the stuff they're running around in, then running across something you'll eat or handle or YOU (woke up to one scratching and nibbling my shin once when I dozed off on the couch, then after a wtf and ewwwwww moment I grabbed one of my cats and the mouse got Mumm-Ra treatment >=D )

stargirl.gra

Leptospirosis and lyme disease are most common rodent zoonosis but I work with animals and to be honest you can get lyme disease from ticks and even lepto from dogs. Thats what we vaccinate them against every year! I washed my hands well after picking up the mouse when i was doing my leaving cert I woke up one night to mouse poo on the pillow next to my head! My capets had been taken up to be replaced and the mouse came up through the hole the radiator goes into in the floor. I looked around the room for the culprit and no lie he was hanging onto a bulb in a lamp in my room trying to hide under the lampshade. You wouldnt see it in a cartoon! Very cute but also annoying as they are noisy things!

Get a cat
Most cats are excellent mouser's

Big Lar

munsterman2008 wrote: »

Good news. Put out the traps Saturday. Caught one overnight. Set it in the press I spoke of before, reset it. Found another one in the same trap this morning. So defo two been around, wonder if I will catch more. I hope this is the end of it..

Anymore since ?

STIG83

I was convinced 2 weeks ago i had something in my room when i was in bed, could hear something moving around, i refused to sleep in there and went to the spare bedroom for 2 nights.
I set a trap and all but got nothing.

munsterman2008

Unfortunately yes. Went into the kitchen yesterday and opened the cabinet with the burger buns, as is my habbit now. A small mouse came jumping out of it i must have surprised em, then he ran under the washing machine.
I set a third trap in the same cabinet and later in the evening opened again there he was lying in the burger bun packaging staying completely still presumably in the hope I wouldnt see em. I closed the cabinet again hoping he would stagger into one of the three traps, opened again 30 seconds later and he had vanished. I have checked the cabinet around 4 times since then between last night and this morning and he hasnt been caught.

God I hope he's the last one and I catch him. Might buy more traps today and that ultrasonic repeller thingy.

STIG83

munsterman2008 wrote: »

Unfortunately yes. Went into the kitchen yesterday and opened the cabinet with the burger buns, as is my habbit now. A small mouse came jumping out of it i must have surprised em, then he ran under the washing machine.
I set a third trap in the same cabinet and later in the evening opened again there he was lying in the burger bun packaging staying completely still presumably in the hope I wouldnt see em. I closed the cabinet again hoping he would stagger into one of the three traps, opened again 30 seconds later and he had vanished. I have checked the cabinet around 4 times since then between last night and this morning and he hasnt been caught.
God I hope he's the last one and I catch him. Might buy more traps today and that ultrasonic repeller thingy.

He could be like that mouse from Mousehunt!!

stargirl.gra

STIG83 wrote: »

He could be like that mouse from Mousehunt!!

How cute are they when they think you cant see them. But have you managed to see how he's getting into the press?is it a norweigan corner press by any chance? We have ours blocked as there was a piece open in the back and mice were getting in. Also where a microwave goes above the oven, the little circle cut in the back for the plug to go through is where they get in. Got two cats now so no more mice.

munsterman2008

i dunno about cute but the thing was so still staring at me haha.

anyhoo he's dead now, hey presto found em in one of the (three) mousetraps in that cabinet today.

Its an odd shaped cabinet kind of curves around the corner of the room and yea theres a square shaped hole in it and i can c the plug for the washing machine thru it. i presume thats where they been coming thru for the burger buns (should i keep dem there a couple more days or get rid?)

what a journey this has been..

stargirl.gra

What we did was we blocked up all the holes in the presses to stop them getting in (this was our first year in house before we got cats) we put poison down and voila the problem ceased to exist.

munsterman2008

awh jesus christ. went along and checked traps again few mins ago another dead one in a trap. lookin at d dead one and doesnt another sprint from the burger buns under the washing machine (thats the 5th so far). id love to say dis is the last one but i'm proven wrong every time.

theres no point me covering the hole in the cabinet as it just leads to back of the cabinet which has access from where the washing machine is. bottom line is thats stil part of my kitchen so der not coming in, but are in. besides, that hole in the cabinet is a godsend. they are all going thru it and getting caught in d tra[ps in der

STIG83

stargirl.gra wrote: »

What we did was we blocked up all the holes in the presses to stop them getting in (this was our first year in house before we got cats) we put poison down and voila the problem ceased to exist.

Any problems with a dead smell rising after ye poisoned them? When we had the rat in the attic at home after we poisoned it there was a lovely smell starting to rise so my brother went up to the attic (no way in hell was i doing it!!)
He found the dead body, lucky enough it wasnt down in between the wall cavity!! and it was before Xmas so imagine sitting down and having the turkey and Mr Dead Rat smelling the house out!!

munsterman2008

Well theres the 5th one caught just now. Thats three in one day, good hunting.

p.s. yea thats my worry about the poison, im hesitant to use it heard they run and hide to die and smell up d place.. **** dat

STIG83

munsterman2008 wrote: »

Well theres the 5th one caught just now. Thats three in one day, good hunting.

p.s. yea thats my worry about the poison, im hesitant to use it heard they run and hide to die and smell up d place.. **** dat

I be weary of using poison in a house, just keep setting traps and hopefully you have no more.

munsterman2008

Agreed my friend. Pray for me.

STIG83

munsterman2008 wrote: »

Agreed my friend. Pray for me.

My fingers are crossed!!