Mouse under my bed

jeamimus · 16-10-2016 12:03PM

One thing I learned years ago when I had a bad mouse infestation was that the location of the traps is really really important.

I had been putting down traps for weeks and catching the occasional mouse but making no real dent in the population.

I got advice to let the dust build up a bit and then to look carefully to see if i could see signs of their paths (strips swept clean in the dust by their passage). I found a spot on top of a pipe with a clean path on top of it and put a trap there. The first evening I caught five mice and three days later they were all gone. Later I found out where they must have been getting in and blocked that too. No problems since.

Stigura · 16-10-2016 12:09PM

Woodies are a size up from House Mice, generally speaking. They also have yellowish fur and whitish underbellies. Big eyes and more pronounced ears. Here. I hope this link works? Cute little things, really.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5126/5377118603_38af4fe861_b.jpg

House mice are uniformly grayish brown. They have beady little eyes. Smaller ears. And, would ye believe; Ye can actually smell the little bastards!

Stigura · 16-10-2016 12:16PM

jeamimus wrote: »

The first evening I caught five mice .....

Bravo! If only there were more people like you! One of the biggest mistakes Joe Soap makes is setting One trap ~ as if he's after an elephant ~ and then leaving it till next day. I believe I may have already said, on this thread: A trap with a dead mouse in it can't catch another till it's emptied and reset.

One time, I was living in a place where I had two traps set, in a sandwich box (It's complicated :rolleyes:) and would sit at my desk with the door open. The box had the effect of amplifying the sound of the traps firing.

Thus, I'd be sat there, trying to get a post typed, when the dull 'Thunk!' from the end of the garden told me I'd got another. I was in and out like a fiddlers elbow!

IrishLad90 · 17-10-2016 07:44AM

Caught one with the brass trap, happy and terrorised at the same time
came in from job and there the bollox was, with the piece of white pudding untouched

I did NOT get to use the screwdriver, but thanks 4 advice

Stigura · 17-10-2016 10:28AM

IrishLad90 wrote: »

I did NOT get to use the screwdriver, but thanks 4 advice

Plenty of time yet. Andy found out :cool:

Stigura · 21-10-2016 01:13PM

First Poddy, today. In my bird room

This'll happen ever more so, as winter sets in.

Taken about a pint or so of Housers. They've slowed down now. The quiet before the storm :cool:

Let's here from others, about your own adventures.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 21-10-2016 02:02PM

What storm????

foggy_lad · 21-10-2016 02:26PM

IrishLad90 wrote: »

Caught one with the brass trap, happy and terrorised at the same time
came in from job and there the bollox was, with the piece of white pudding untouched

I did NOT get to use the screwdriver, but thanks 4 advice

Reset the trap and keep it going and they will be queuing up like lemmings to get to the trap!

Wossack · 21-10-2016 02:26PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

What storm????

its referred to as a 'mouse-storm'. its when they massively over breed in the attic, so much so the attic floor gives way and it rains mice into the rooms below

Stigura · 21-10-2016 03:19PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

What storm????

Don't worry, Lexie. As long as ye real name's Sarah Connor, ye'll be grand!

How about South Oz? " Traps, mate? Naah. When we get 'em? We need f**kin Flame Throwers!!! "

iLikeWaffles · 22-10-2016 06:15AM

Stigura wrote: »

Don't worry, Lexie. As long as ye real name's Sarah Connor, ye'll be grand!

How about South Oz? " Traps, mate? Naah. When we get 'em? We need f**kin Flame Throwers!!! "

Pigs be like yeah whatever! The amount of them. What do ya's reckon all them mice going to start eating the live stock when the food supply runs out?!

Capt'n Midnight · 23-10-2016 11:58AM

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Winterlong · 23-10-2016 12:56PM

Would a mouse actually bite you? I know a rat would , but would a mouse bite?

Stigura · 23-10-2016 02:00PM

Winterlong wrote: »

Would a mouse actually bite you?

Absolutely, yes. The main difference, obviously, being the scale of things.

Where as a mouse might break the skin, leaving a pin point of blood? A rat is going to show you what hell has in store. Straight through skin, flesh and sinew. No f**king. Then it's off to A&E with ye. Also no f**king.

All traps empty today. The silence roars. But, this isn't Dien Bien Phu. I Know these f**kers.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 23-10-2016 02:58PM

Well that's not horrific at all :eek: savaged to death by a rat as big as a Jack Russell

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 24-10-2016 10:38AM

Well, someone just tagged me on a post on Facebook. A spider carrying a mouse with its fangs in Australia. It is running up the wall with a mouse. I believe it's a huntsman spider. I am NEVER going to Australia

iLikeWaffles · 24-10-2016 03:14PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Well, someone just tagged me on a post on Facebook. A spider carrying a mouse with its fangs in Australia. It is running up the wall with a mouse. I believe it's a huntsman spider. I am NEVER going to Australia

Jayzus. just yesterday had a nice diner conversations about that! *Shivvers*

Stigura · 24-10-2016 03:31PM

Not to drag this thread entirely off topic. But .....

Friend of mine used to keep tarantulas. I mean, he had f**kin Hundreds of them. All sorts. Most, of course, were happy with the odd cricket. But, he had this one thing ~ f**king monster it was ~ that liked whole, adult, white mice. Alive.

Now, ye'll have to excuse me. But, boys will be boys. Chris and I had been into catching and killing sh1t all our lives. We're not 'blood thirsty'. But, nor are we fazed my nature in the raw. We were well looking forward to seeing this!

So, there we are. Two grown men, grinning like school kids about to get a treat. Rick brought out a mouse, hanging it by its tail, and dropped it into the tank.

" Here we go! ". " You're for it now, mousey! " The mouse sniffed around his new surroundings. Nose twitching. Oblivious.

Long, hairy legs inched out from under a curved piece of cork bark. " Here he comes ....! " Shlukkk!!!

It was so fast, blink and ye'd have missed it. But, with the two huge, sabre like fangs now stuck right through the mouses head. One through an eye, as it happens .....

To this day I remember looking up at Chris. In silence. The curled lip of utter disgust on his face. No more cheering. This wasn't fun anymore. We left the room.

24-10-2016 03:34PM

I believe it's illegal, in Ireland, to feed live bait to snakes, I imagine that'd cover spiders too!

Stigura · 24-10-2016 03:36PM

Where did I say that occurred in Ireland?

24-10-2016 03:39PM

Stigura wrote: »

Where did I say that occurred in Ireland?

It's a very fair assumption to make, on an Irish messageboard.

Stigura · 24-10-2016 03:53PM

Okay. Let's not derail the entire thread over it :rolleyes: Ye know what they say, about making Assumptions ....?

If it makes ye feel any less so; It was in ..... wait for it! ..... Ranelagh Road, Stamshaw, in england! I sh1t ye not! Couldn't make that up, could ye?

Feel free to PM me with any further comments

Had a young Houser, in my back room, today. Like a dripping tap, they are.

How's everyone else doing?

24-10-2016 04:10PM

Stigura wrote: »

Okay. Let's not derail the entire thread over it :rolleyes: Ye know what they say, about making Assumptions ....?

If it makes ye feel any less so; It was in ..... wait for it! ..... Ranelagh Road, Stamshaw, in england! I sh1t ye not! Couldn't make that up, could ye?

Feel free to PM me with any further comments

Had a young Houser, in my back room, today. Like a dripping tap, they are.

How's everyone else doing?

I'm afraid it's illegal in the UK too.

Anyway, give me the mice any day.

Melisandre121 · 24-10-2016 04:34PM

OP here, thought I should update on what happened in the end..

The mouse terrorised me for over a week. I had to sleep downstairs and could hear him running around upstairs every night. So we put down traps in all the rooms and he finally met his demise under the stairs. I happened upon him one morning, I screamed and my housemate came down and disposed of him. No problems since, thank god it was just the one and not more!

Stigura · 24-10-2016 05:08PM

Dick Dastardly · 24-10-2016 07:19PM

Melisandre121 wrote: »

OP here, thought I should update on what happened in the end..

..... thank god it was just the one and not more!

OP Wisdom has it that its never, ever, ever one mouse.

Leave the traps out a while and see what gives.

Stigura · 24-10-2016 07:37PM

Dick; I can't leave that without commenting that I have indeed been on jobs where, with a cursory weigh up, I've stated that I suspect the culprit to be a loan, pregnant, female. One who's simply wandered in an open door.

Then going on to catch said, pregnant, female over night. Never another mouse in that property since. And that was some years ago and I'm still in touch with the householders ~ and, to this day, held up to their children as some sort of heroic figure. A 'Rodent Whisperer', I'd imagine :rolleyes:

That said? Leaving the traps down? Absolutely! The right sort are important. But, as Sun Tzu teaches us .....

benny79 · 26-10-2016 10:29AM

How can you find where they're coming in if it's under the kitchen presses! We first had rats out of the blue one summer about 3 years ago.. Caught 3 (shivers) in the big rat trap (bigger version then a mouse one) one got away as there was a trunk of hair left in the trap never to be seen again.. (shivers again) all was grand for a couple of months then start getting mice really bad at the start to date have caught 25 in the last 2 years.. but of late its 1 every couple of months..

Its my mams house and she lives on her own and is elderly enough.

I have got a camera looked down where the pipes come up etc seen some disturbance got a kango dug a hole out filled with glass and cement mix outside obviously.. still catching the odd one.. so there is a gap between the floor boards and the wall (kitchen is an extension) so put steel wool down where I could and covered with expanding foam last night, but isn't easy as its under the kitchen presses and as you can imagine awkward & hard to reach!! now I cant get steel wool in every where as its to hard to reach but got it in where the pipes come up.. and fill the remaining gaps with just the foam... I suppose time will tell.. but Im running out of idea's..

Cant pull the kitchen up as its only in 5 years and would cost to much.. The extension is there years and we never had this problem.. Any help much appreciated....

Stigura · 26-10-2016 02:00PM

benny79 wrote: »

(shivers).. (shivers again) .. Any help much appreciated....

Beechams Powders?

F**k it. Okay. One last time I'll take the trouble to try and offer assistance to someone with a clear and present problem, Benny. I'll tell ye right here and now; The punch line is that I'll suggest ye spend about €150.00 with a british based, international suppliers. I'll just show ye their site and suggest what ye get.

What ye can get is what I've used, professionally. I still have, and use, my gear here. I also advised a friend to buy his own too. He doesn't call me any more. Sorts his own sh1t out now

If €150.00 sounds like a lot of money? Ask Andy!

PM me, if ye reckon ye not just looking to waste my time. Otherwise? You crack on and good luck with it.

Stigura · 27-10-2016 02:54AM

Look what I've found! F**king 'Poddy Cam'!

This is mental! I started watching it about 02:30 and there's a couple of Apodemus absolutely bang on camera. Really clear, and Live! Dear little things!

They, obviously, must put a shed load of grub down for these little buggers, because they're sitting outside their holes, munching away. Brilliant!

I'd highly recommend this for any night owls. Though, I'd imagine they come out as soon as the light fades anyway.

http://www.simonkingwildlife.com/page/live-cams/mini-critter-cam-972

Mouse under my bed

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