creature in my bedroom!

I hope this is the right place to post... this has been keeping me up two nights now in terror! I can't be certain but I'm quite sure there is another creature sharing this room with me and my birds. I often get mice, because of the bird seed. I'm just somewhat concerned this yet unseen creature which rustles stuff around at night might just be bigger than a mouse. I just keep making an even bigger racket in the hopes of keeping it wherever it's hiding!

BillyMitchel

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I hope this is the right place to post... this has been keeping me up two nights now in terror! I can't be certain but I'm quite sure there is another creature sharing this room with me and my birds. I often get mice, because of the bird seed. I'm just somewhat concerned this yet unseen creature which rustles stuff around at night might just be bigger than a mouse. I just keep making an even bigger racket in the hopes of keeping it wherever it's hiding!

It's that highly venemous spider that came with last months bananas but now it's had babies.

Do you like spiders by the way?

DBB

BillyMitchel wrote: »

It's that highly venemous spider that came with last months bananas but now it's had babies.

Do you like spiders by the way?

Oh! Are they those huge ones that start off by nibbling on your toes as you sleep?

BillyMitchel

DBB wrote: »

Oh! Are they those huge ones that start off by nibbling on your toes as you sleep?

Yes and that venom will make your ears fall off and knees turn inwards. I hear they get pretty big too. And that when the eggs hatch you'll never get rid of them because 100s of eggs will have hatched and they roughly stay around the area that they were born so just all just keep reproducing.

OP you need to burn the house down.

DBB

I'm pretty sure they lay their eggs in your ears.
It can be terribly embarrassing when they decide to hatch out in the middle of a dinner party :-(

Staplor

Clean your room!

Red_Dwarf

MRnotlob606

id try catch it and sell it

borderlinemeath

DBB wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they lay their eggs in your ears.
It can be terribly embarrassing when they decide to hatch out in the middle of a dinner party :-(

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186522/Womans-itchy-ear-caused-spider-living-FIVE-days.html

They may be joking OP, but it can happen!

TooManyDogs

borderlinemeath wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186522/Womans-itchy-ear-caused-spider-living-FIVE-days.html

They may be joking OP, but it can happen!

Ok I'm not squeamish.....but now I feel sick!!! :eek:

BillyMitchel

Red_Dwarf wrote: »

That's the one! OP really hate to frighten you but this is only one of the baby ones.

Look at them eyes!

OK if we can be serious here for a second, everything you describe bears all the hallmarks of the North American brown bear.

Or maybe it is a decedent of the Irish bear which became extinct during the construction of the Luas .

I could be wrong.

LOL. Cheers lads. I still wont buy bananas anymore since the first time I was regaled with tales of the Brazilian Wandering spiders... I'm still not convinced I'm not sharing my room with a rodent of considerable size. This may be cause a mate found a rat in his house last weekend (and killed it, armed with a mic stand and a kitchen knife). Imagination is in over drive.

I found an empty packet of biscuits. That really could have been me, though. I tend to devour everything in sight when midnight snack mode sets in. I think I will leave a few of these Dortios in the corner tonight. Away from the bed.

Onwards... till 1am again, I guess, when the lying awake and listening stands all over again.

Staplor

Staplor wrote: »

Clean your room!

That's tomorrow's plan, I might borrow my mate's mic stand and kitchen knife, and maybe my mate too, before I touch anything.

taytobreath

brilliantly funny posts, its a feckin rat. get a cat

You reckon it's a rat? That's what my deep fear is, whether it's real or just paranoia in over drive. I often have mice, cause of the birds n the room dropping their seed. I don't mind mice. If it's a rat I'll be sleeping on the couch.

Three dogs in situ (but don't get into my room) and three birds in my room, cat not an option

Believe me, I'd have one already if I could. I always had cats, partially because of the rodent control. Wonder if I could move the birds to another room and borrow a neighbour's cat for a few hours. Though the poor thing would probably be terrified.

lucky333

Did ya try a trap yet?

Just Like Heaven

Would ya not throw a few mousetraps around anyway then? And what flavour doritos?

BillyMitchel

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You reckon it's a rat? That's what my deep fear is, whether it's real or just paranoia in over drive. I often have mice, cause of the birds n the room dropping their seed. I don't mind mice. If it's a rat I'll be sleeping on the couch.

Three dogs in situ (but don't get into my room) and three birds in my room, cat not an option

Believe me, I'd have one already if I could. I always had cats, partially because of the rodent control. Wonder if I could move the birds to another room and borrow a neighbour's cat for a few hours. Though the poor thing would probably be terrified.

Ok the spider thing was obviously a joke but I'd still be careful about where you get your bananas from because you just never know!

As far a rat, you could be on to something here. Bad news - rats breed in winter. Ever see the size of a pregnant rat and how vicious they can be? It's not nice. A normal cat won't do you'll have to ring the zoo and ask for the rodent keeper she's called, Annie Lyons. just explain your problem. She have you sorted out in no time. Even tell her BillyMitchel from the interweb sent you. She'll know who I am because I know she loves Eastenders.


Sleep well

taytobreath

budgese, this is a problem, you may have a few mice because they are eating your bird food, omg how can you live like that,they will be nibblingn at your bare feet while your fast asleep, clean out your room for fecks sake

endacl

taytobreath wrote: »

brilliantly funny posts, its a feckin rat. get a cat

A banana rat?!?

:eek::eek::eek:

The banana spider's only natural predator in the jungle?!?!?!?!

OP. There's no alternative. Take off and nuke the house from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.

Snowc

I was going to say rat but when you said you had birds in the room i would be pretty sure its a pine marten attracted by the birds.they are in dangered so you will need to get a professional to trap it and move.good luck and dont be afriad it will not attack you unless cornered.

Lads, there are even mice in our kitchen! It's a really old house and there are most likely mice in here all the time, grew up in the country and mice in your house are just a regular fact of life, cats or not, mice are ok.

I haven't set up a trap because I'm mostly afraid this thing is bigger than a mouse. I haven't seen it, heard things, freaked out and started moving furniture and stamping on the floor to scare it away. But it's only the last few days I was aware of any noises, since, really, I got back from my friend's house where he killed a rat in his kitchen.

Mice I can deal with no probs, if it's a rat I'll go through the ceiling. I've laid the Dorito out to check tomorrow if it's been nibbled. If the Dorito is untouched then the room gets a top to bottom clean tomorrow. If the Dorito is nibbled then the room still gets a clean and a trap set. If the Dorito is GONE then I'm sleeping on the couch, and coming back with several drunk friends with golf clubs. I'm actually a little scared to start cleaning up properly in case I upset the hiding place. There's a lot of junk in my room.

taytobreath

taytobreath wrote: »

budgese, this is a problem, you may have a few mice because they are eating your bird food, omg how can you live like that,they will be nibblingn at your bare feet while your fast asleep, clean out your room for fecks sake

Mice are harmless. Keep themselves to themselves. Though I did have my books stacked on my floor last winter and one of them chewed up a Harry Potter book. Wasn't too bad though, was only The Goblet Of Fire. Not one of the hardbacks. Was still annoyed though and bought a trap, but I couldn't actually bring myself to set it, because mice are really harmless. A rat though?! They must die. With fire.

h2005

Get an eagle that should sort it.

shamrock55

If you have mice you wont have rats and vice versa, mice wont stay around if there are rats there so it cant be a rat

Rommie

Find someone with ferrets and borrow one, or get some bedding from them. The whiff of a ferret will scare most things off!

It's hard to know when you have mice, the mice are definitely in the kitchen! I just heard movement in my room that could have been my paranoia, or could actually really be a larger creature in my room.

I set up the Dorito test tonight. I will report back.

I have to thank you guys for the fun on this thread, it's really helping me relax a bit!! I'm terrified of rats. Mice no, but rats, I am petrified of.

Spiders too but I know they can't and wont hurt me I just freak out at how.... too difficult to explain. Just Urrrgh.

Rommie

Rommie wrote: »

Find someone with ferrets and borrow one, or get some bedding from them. The whiff of a ferret will scare most things off!

Probably me too. Ferrets are kinda freaky! But I am sure they are lovely really!

BillyMitchel

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It's hard to know when you have mice, the mice are definitely in the kitchen! I just heard movement in my room that could have been my paranoia, or could actually really be a larger creature in my room.

I set up the Dorito test tonight. I will report back.

I have to thank you guys for the fun on this thread, it's really helping me relax a bit!! I'm terrified of rats. Mice no, but rats, I am petrified of.

Spiders too but I know they can't and wont hurt me I just freak out at how.... too difficult to explain. Just Urrrgh.

Wow stop getting a head of yourself! Relaxed? You could have a pregnant rat under your bed. Rats can climb on your bed and then it's nice and cosy there so it could give birth there. Imagine waking up and seeing loads of baby rats just looking at you and waiting for you to move so they can all attack?

Have a good night, I'm off to sleep like a baby

Pretzill

shamrock55 wrote: »

If you have mice you wont have rats and vice versa, mice wont stay around if there are rats there so it cant be a rat

That's a myth.

But a rat would eat a mouse/mice.

If the scrabbling is very loud and you can hear it's movement heavy on the floor it's most likely a rat. Though a nesting mouse can make a racket also. A pine marten could live in the attic but it wouldn't go unnoticed in your room. I had a frog in my room once he made a strange collection of odd sounds too.

Rat droppings will be evident in the areas he's been - much larger than mouse droppings - I have often seen the rats on the bird feeders outside in winter likelihood that birdseed is a temptation and probably an easy access point somewhere in the home.

Don't be too scared the bananna spider will probably get him before you do!

john the one

OP I think you beed to watch this video immediately if not sooner so you know what your dealing with.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06X9qXTvKNQ

Also, please be vigilant

goz83

You can keep birds and cats. I have 3 cats, 2 of which are bird killers. I recently got 2 budgies and as an eye is kept on the cage, the cats don't stress the birds out. No mice here.

toadfly

How can you sleep in a room that you think has a rat hiding out?!

Red_Dwarf

Archeron

I'd be worried it might be a Chupacabra.

OP Have any of your goats gone missing lately?

It's probably a rat. Is poison the way to go? Me and the birds are moving downstairs until we poison the sh!t out of that thing.

Vision of Disorder

You people are all ridiculous.

It's clearly a velociraptor we're dealing with here. Possibly some (very) aggressive marketing ahead of the new Jurassic Park movie in the works.

I keep my raptor well contained!

(There genuinely is a large size toy velociraptor in my room. I've had it since I was 12!)

However, the rodent is very real. I previously thought I had imagined it, but no. I had not.

anniehoo

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It's probably a rat. Is poison the way to go? Me and the birds are moving downstairs until we poison the sh!t out of that thing.

Sorry to put an end to the fun folks. But, if you're serious this is not the forum to discuss rat poison. Humane methods of pest control only please.

Sorry, was unaware that killing it wasn't an option.

What would you suggest?

ShaShaBear

Setting a humane trap for it, letting it out a good distance away from your home, and giving your room a good clean and checking for how it got in, and blocking off the entry point. I imagine a rat would have attempted to kill the birds at this stage, they're very agile climbers and gnawers. I've seen my two girls open their cage and climb down from a height of 6 feet before, and they're pets - I can only imagine what a wild rat would be capable of if hungry!

How it got in, that's pretty simple, really old house, holes everywhere, cracks between floorboards, etc. I don't think this is a problem that will go away. Get rid of one, there will be another along. I have a horrible feeling moving house is the only genuine solution - a terrible pity since I loved it here and my housemates are dead cool.

ShaShaBear

Deleted User wrote: »

How it got in, that's pretty simple, really old house, holes everywhere, cracks between floorboards, etc. I don't think this is a problem that will go away. Get rid of one, there will be another along. I have a horrible feeling moving house is the only genuine solution - a terrible pity since I loved it here and my housemates are dead cool.

It probably is. Exterminators, poison and trapping (live or dead) are only good for what's already in the house. Obviously in the winter when its cold and they are hungry (mice and rats), they are going to make their way into a nice toasty house. Spiders do the same thing.

Rock Lesnar

Deleted User wrote: »

Sorry, was unaware that killing it wasn't an option.

What would you suggest?

Just politely ask it to leave, im sure it will understand

ShaShaBear

ShaShaBear wrote: »

It probably is. Exterminators, poison and trapping (live or dead) are only good for what's already in the house. Obviously in the winter when its cold and they are hungry (mice and rats), they are going to make their way into a nice toasty house. Spiders do the same thing.

Not to be nit picking, but spiders actually don't. They're in the house all year round.

Moving house is not currently an option... getting my birds out somewhere safe and dealing with my current buddy is top on the agenda. Stopping it from happening again is my biggest problem.

Pretzill

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Not to be nit picking, but spiders actually don't. They're in the house all year round.

Moving house is not currently an option... getting my birds out somewhere safe and dealing with my current buddy is top on the agenda. Stopping it from happening again is my biggest problem.

Most of us are never more than 10 feet from a rat so moving house is a bit extreme. It's easier to find where rats are getting in they leave bigger holes. Check the fascia board between roof and wall - make sure all pipes going into the house have no holes around where they meet the wall. Expandable foam is your friend - a cheap way of blocking access points and using some metal gauze underneath bigger holes will stop the rat chewing through.

Inside check where the rat is running probably along by the walls - look for droppings - put your humane trap along the run with a tasty treat enclosed. Humane rat traps are huge cagey things - but rats are smart and often avoid traps actually the humane ones are often better for catching them.

After mr rat has been remved double check all areas - keep runways clear don't allow any hiding places and install the humane trap again.

You may have a rat in your attic or in your dry lining - or underneath the floorboards - you don't want one on your bed - but they can chew electric wires and cause damage and can carry disease so if all else fails call in the professionals!

shamrock55

If i was you id throw a cat into your room for a few hours to see would that sort it, no harm in trying anyway

ShaShaBear

Deleted User wrote: »

Not to be nit picking, but spiders actually don't. They're in the house all year round.

Moving house is not currently an option... getting my birds out somewhere safe and dealing with my current buddy is top on the agenda. Stopping it from happening again is my biggest problem.

Well, yes, but they come out and duck your ship up when the heating comes on

The critter has been downgraded to a mouse, now. Still haven't seen it. But there are mice under our floorboards and my housemate in the room next to me has seen them running across his floor.

It was the completely missing Dorito and no crumb evidence this morning that leads me to believe it's bigger.

But I want to believe it's only a mouse.

Pretzill

(snip. touch phone)