Ferret?

kryogen

Anyone know of someone with a ferret I could borrow/buy that would be good to scare the ****e out of/kill a mouse?

pm me if any info please

old gregg

seems an elaborate method to scare/terminate a mouse. What else have you tried?

jayboi

kryogen wrote: »

to scare the ****e out of a mouse?

pm me if any info please

Tell him he's liable for the household charge.

anplaya

borrow a neighbours cat

CardBordWindow

A mouse trap with some nutella on it does the job for me.

kryogen

old gregg wrote: »

seems an elaborate method to scare/terminate a mouse. What else have you tried?

Traps (3 different types) with every kind of bait, 8 traps. been 3 weeks now and no closer to catching him. Any suggestions you have would be welcomed?

edit: also have those plug in ultra sonic things in rooms

kryogen

CardBordWindow wrote: »

A mouse trap with some nutella on it does the job for me.

Did that, he left me a nice thank you note after licking the chocolate spread off

anplaya

why not borrow a neighbours cat or even a little terrier,think theyre great for gettin rid of mice

kryogen

anplaya wrote: »

why not borrow a neighbours cat or even a little terrier,think theyre great for gettin rid of mice

Strange as it may seem none of my neighbours actually have a cat! He is in the walls at the moment, dont think a Terrier could get in, a ferret could though I know and have heard they are good for prevention in general since rodents are afraid of them

anplaya

wudnt have any idea of any1 who owns a ferret so i cant help ya

CardBordWindow

kryogen wrote: »

Traps (3 different types) with every kind of bait, 8 traps. been 3 weeks now and no closer to catching him. Any suggestions you have would be welcomed?

edit: also have those plug in ultra sonic things in rooms

Those ultrasonic yokes aren't worth a curse.
There was a mouse in my grandad's house, so we put in one of those, and in about a week, there was around 5 mice!

Where are you placing the traps?

old gregg

kryogen wrote: »

Traps (3 different types) with every kind of bait, 8 traps. been 3 weeks now and no closer to catching him. Any suggestions you have would be welcomed?

edit: also have those plug in ultra sonic things in rooms

bloody hell, seems like you've tried anything that would have worked for me. I seem to end up with a mouse coming in the back door every few years when the weather turns cold but a regular trap or home-made glass bottle humane trap works within 3 days of him moving in.

abouttobebanned

We killed one, and then a party of them were sent in to seek retribution.

Word had gotten out about our traps so they avoided them. As a result though, they just ended up making noise in the walls. It was as if that were their orders. "wait til they go to bed, and then run up and down the place like lunatics". Because of their no trap rule they had no access to food and ended up just dying of starvation in the walls.

deisemum

Did you try laying some poison?

Another option is to keep an eye on posts here, lots of cats found threads.

Mice are very family orientated and if you see one then there are a lot more of them around. I wouldn't be able to cope knowing there was a mouse in the place that's why I've got a few cats and most of the neighbours have cats too. Fortunately they don't leave "presents" on my doorstep.

kryogen

Jesus yeah, forgot about the poison, I have the poison down as well! Have tried practically everything else I can think of, just wanna go down the overkill route at this stage and have some other creature eat him!

And for the sake of the missus we are keeping it to a one mouse only ok, no families Deisemum

Im gonna go around and block every single crack I can find in the house over the next couple of days and just hope he dies in the walls. He must be getting out somewhere, have found a couple of droppings in one place like, nothing major but it obviously means he is able to access the area.

I have traps down where I saw him first, also have traps under the kitchen sink, in a drawer in the kitchen with a hole in the back leading into the cavity, thats the one he ate the chocolate spread off and have poison outside the back near openings, am reluctant to put that in the house because I have a toddler.

I have named him Rex, so in future discussions thats who I will be referring to when I say Rex

old gregg

a hole dug in the ground with sticks and leaves spread over the top worked for us when we had a wildebeest in the garden up in grange heights last year.

CardBordWindow

Don't block any holes until you've caught him. If Rex dies in the walls, you'll have serious fun trying to get rid of the smell!

Place traps up against walls as mice run along the walls. I've caught mice with unbaited traps that way.

wmpdd3

i think its rats that run along the walls, same route every time, mice just run al over the place. i hate to say it OP but there's no chance you only have one mouse. if you only see one mouse, it's problably a young nest of mice you have and you only see the adults. honestly, it a cat you need, just for 24 hours, at this time of the year, it should do you till October.

the only reason i have a cat is because im terrified of mice rats etc. in 12 years i've never had a mouse but i've always had a cat, even though its only an outside cat.

CardBordWindow

wmpdd3 wrote: »

i think its rats that run along the walls, same route every time, mice just run al over the place. i hate to say it OP but there's no chance you only have one mouse. if you only see one mouse, it's problably a young nest of mice you have and you only see the adults. honestly, it a cat you need, just for 24 hours, at this time of the year, it should do you till October.

the only reason i have a cat is because im terrified of mice rats etc. in 12 years i've never had a mouse but i've always had a cat, even though its only an outside cat.

Mice do it too. It must be a rodent thing.

Mice will run all over the place if they are disturbed, but will run by the walls on their own.

deisemum

wmpdd3 wrote: »

i think its rats that run along the walls, same route every time, mice just run al over the place. i hate to say it OP but there's no chance you only have one mouse. if you only see one mouse, it's problably a young nest of mice you have and you only see the adults. honestly, it a cat you need, just for 24 hours, at this time of the year, it should do you till October.

the only reason i have a cat is because im terrified of mice rats etc. in 12 years i've never had a mouse but i've always had a cat, even though its only an outside cat.

Don't always trust a cat to keep them at bay. I still shudder when I recall a horrific incident with a mouse when I lived in London.

Early one morning I could hear my cat prancing around the hallway and thought nothing of it. It just so happened that this particular morning my husband wanted something that I had in my handbag. While he was in the kitchen I was getting ready for work in our bedroom and went into the hallway to get my handbag off the floor.

I sat on the bed, opened my handbag and put my hand in the bag. A mouse ran out of it and I screamed like someone being murdered. My husband came running up the hallway thinking someone was attacking me and saw the mouse on the bed. He got the cat to take the mouse outside. I was traumatised and had screamed so much that I strained my vocal cords.

The cat had brought the mouse in earlier and I had a flapover bag so the mouse had gotten into my bag that way. Normally once I was indoors in the evening I'd leave my bag in the hallway and just pick it up next morning when going to work. All I can think of if my husband hadn't needed something that morning I'd have gone to work on the tube and would have opened my bag to get a book out to read on the journey. I dread to think of the pandemonium on the tube if that had happened and the mouse was running around it.

kryogen

My thinking is that its only one mouse as I think he ran in the door one evening so gonna stick with that theory, I dont mind him dying in the wall tbh, the smell doesnt last too long as long as its a mouse, a rat is a different story alright, the smell can take an age to leave I have been told.

I have conducted extensive searches of the house, the outside etc and can find no way for mice to get in, the house is relatively new and there isnt a lot of wear and tear on it or cracks/holes.

Put down new poison last night reluctantly, hopefully it does the job.

CardBordWindow

kryogen wrote: »

My thinking is that its only one mouse as I think he ran in the door one evening so gonna stick with that theory, I dont mind him dying in the wall tbh, the smell doesnt last too long as long as its a mouse, a rat is a different story alright, the smell can take an age to leave I have been told.

I have conducted extensive searches of the house, the outside etc and can find no way for mice to get in, the house is relatively new and there isnt a lot of wear and tear on it or cracks/holes.

Put down new poison last night reluctantly, hopefully it does the job.

With the poison, they get dehydrated and go looking for water. As long as you don't keep water in the sink, Rex might go outside to try get some water, and then die outside.

nkay1985

Am I the only one who admires Rex for his fighting spirit and excellent capacity to avoid death? :pac:

CardBordWindow

nkay1985 wrote: »

Am I the only one who admires Rex for his fighting spirit and excellent capacity to avoid death? :pac:

I admire Rex, and hate Rex, all at the same time.

CardBordWindow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmTK_eSOCN4

kryogen

nkay1985 wrote: »

Am I the only one who admires Rex for his fighting spirit and excellent capacity to avoid death? :pac:

No! I had a little smile on my face and a begrudging respect for the little fighter when I saw that he had eaten the bait off the trap without getting his cranium smashed!

He escaped me and my wild hurley attacks the first night I saw him, he has eluded poison, numerous traps and is still going strong, he deserves my respect, he has proved himself a worthy adversary, but in the end there can be only one winner

That or we move!

nkay1985

kryogen wrote: »

He escaped me and my wild hurley attacks the first night I saw him, he has eluded poison, numerous traps and is still going strong, he deserves my respect, he has proved himself a worthy adversary, but in the end there can be only one

I feel the Highlander theme tune should be playing here...

kryogen

Rex watch update

Success!! A beautiful dead mouse discovered this morning, in typical fashion he had eaten what was on one of the traps (peanut butter) without setting it off, eaten a nice amount of poison which had a delicious hazelnut spread on it for aroma but then got greedy and the old favorite bit of cheese on the trap led to his demise.....

Was great, did a little lap of honour before giving him a proper send off, it then occurred to me, that he didnt look like Rex so possibly one of Rex's offspring? or perhaps the night I saw Rex first the shadows played tricks on my mind and made him appear bigger then he was as the mouse in the trap this morning didnt look like a baby mouse either!

Im going to leave the traps down in the area for the next few days and see if anything else turns up in them, went through the house yesterday blocking up any hole I found with filler, leaving just that hole open to any mouse in the walls. If no more are caught in the next week or so I will block that hole up too and hope that thats the end of it!

CardBordWindow

kryogen wrote: »

Rex watch update

Success!! A beautiful dead mouse discovered this morning, in typical fashion he had eaten what was on one of the traps (peanut butter) without setting it off, eaten a nice amount of poison which had a delicious hazelnut spread on it for aroma but then got greedy and the old favorite bit of cheese on the trap led to his demise.....

Was great, did a little lap of honour before giving him a proper send off, it then occurred to me, that he didnt look like Rex so possibly one of Rex's offspring? or perhaps the night I saw Rex first the shadows played tricks on my mind and made him appear bigger then he was as the mouse in the trap this morning didnt look like a baby mouse either!

Im going to leave the traps down in the area for the next few days and see if anything else turns up in them, went through the house yesterday blocking up any hole I found with filler, leaving just that hole open to any mouse in the walls. If no more are caught in the next week or so I will block that hole up too and hope that thats the end of it!

When's the funeral?

nkay1985

Rest in peace Rex.

kryogen

Not so sure it was Rex as I suspected earlier, inspected the area earlier and more of the stuff eaten off the poison but no dead mouse in a trap

The hunt still goes on for this warrior I think

louloubelle

abouttobebanned wrote: »

We killed one, and then a party of them were sent in to seek retribution.

Word had gotten out about our traps so they avoided them. As a result though, they just ended up making noise in the walls. It was as if that were their orders. "wait til they go to bed, and then run up and down the place like lunatics". Because of their no trap rule they had no access to food and ended up just dying of starvation in the walls.

Seriously that made me laugh out loud!!

letsbet

As a matter of interest what type of traps are you putting down - the old style wooded ones or the new black plastic type ones? Had about ten mice in the house over Christmas. We were killing one every day or so but had no idea how many more were left as they were between the two floors of the house and there could have been any number really. Eventually we ran out of patience and go rentokill in and I'd say we'd still be killing them up to today if we hadn't and it was great to get rid of them quickly with their help as we were at out wits end. It's amazing how much stress the little feckers can cause. As someone said earlier they definitely do run up against the walls and it's because they're almost blind so stay by the walls. For that reason they can't really see you but can sense movements. My dog killed one but could have done with a cat to get the rest as the dog is not a terrier and just wanted to play with the mouse really. I know cats will do likewise but will usually kill them.

kryogen

letsbet wrote: »

As a matter of interest what type of traps are you putting down - the old style wooded ones or the new black plastic type ones? Had about ten mice in the house over Christmas. We were killing one every day or so but had no idea how many more were left as they were between the two floors of the house and there could have been any number really. Eventually we ran out of patience and go rentokill in and I'd say we'd still be killing them up to today if we hadn't and it was great to get rid of them quickly with their help as we were at out wits end. It's amazing how much stress the little feckers can cause. As someone said earlier they definitely do run up against the walls and it's because they're almost blind so stay by the walls. For that reason they can't really see you but can sense movements. My dog killed one but could have done with a cat to get the rest as the dog is not a terrier and just wanted to play with the mouse really. I know cats will do likewise but will usually kill them.

I have the old wooden traps, got some of the black advanced killing things out of Homebase and got 2 of the rentokill boxes (not the silly live catch ones, the do the job properly ones) altogether I have 10 traps, have filled up all holes bar one that they could get into in the kitchen and have concentrated the majority of the traps/poison in there now.

Have caught 2, think more may be dead in the walls somewhere as plenty of the posion was eaten and there was no activity at all in the last 24 hours or so, 4 traps near the hole with various baits, none touched, poison down, blocks and pellets, and neither have been touched, so hoping thats the end of it.

Will leave them down for a few days to try to be sure, then Im going to fill up the hole, would like to be sure all mice in the house are dead before sealing it. Some of them were very impressive, setting off traps and surviving, eating bait off the traps without setting them off, eating huge amounts of poison and just keeping on truckin!

They are a pain in the ass but once you close off their access and try to focus them in one area it seems easier to control, I gave the guys at PestGuard a call for advice and they were very helpful. Didnt need them to come out as I had pretty much put everything in place, just got a few helpful tips off them.

Just a note on the traps, the old wooden ones were the ones that caught the mice, but I wouldnt say they were better really, more luck I think as the black ones from Homebase are extremely powerful and sensitive.

letsbet

Yeah, all the ones that we caught were on the black ones. They kept taking the stuff off the old wooden ones and your man from rentokil said that the small mice will often take the food off those wooden ones without setting them off. They did do the same one the black traps but far less often.

Masala

Heard a old wives tale that if you can get you hands on Ferret used bedding from their cage etc and leave it in your attic, under stairs etc (good fresh smelly stuff now!!) - will scare rats and mice out of the house. I believe ferrets 'smell' is vile!!

Worth a try if you can't actually use teh ferret because of small spaces etc!!

kryogen

The rats/mice etc fear the ferrets alright, so I hear so just the presence of one is supposed to be enough to get rid of them

wmpdd3

i'm afraid to google a picture of a ferret...

nkay1985

wmpdd3 wrote: »

i'm afraid to google a picture of a ferret...

They're really cute looking.

kryogen

Ferrets are not terrible looking really kinda freaky looking imo, the length of them etc

Kitty_Ears

I've a ferret here!
Where abouts are you living?
The smells enough to drive them out apparently but I dunno if thats true cos I've pet rats and they'll go over by the ferret cage no bother..

kryogen

It helps if the ferret is trained to hunt I think, thought the rodents had an in built sense of fear of them, the way deers fear lions etc, pet rats?? ewwww!!!!

Im in the city, if I have any more problems Ill pm you with details if you wouldnt mind seeing if the ferret would help?

I gotta ask, pet rats??!? why?