Mouse or rat in my mum's shed..

Xaracatz

Staying with my mum for Christmas and she is terrified of mice.

I was out in the shed getting mixers and a fking either large mouse or else rat came straight in through the door.

Moved things around, but can't find it to flush it out. Can't hear it either.

Can't tell my mum tonight as she'd have nightmares, so I'll have to tell her in the morning. And then put down poison or something? Normally I'd be for humane traps - but I cannot emphasise enough how scared my mum would be if this guy ran out when she was in there - and she keeps the likes of the ironing board in there. This is going to freak her out that there are even mice around in the garden (not even going to mention "rat"!).

Anyone any ideas on the best way to get rid of this guy? If I could get him out tonight without her knowing about it, that would be best.

Feel so guilty as we're talking now about food and arrangements for tomorrow and all I can think of is that there's a fking potential rat in your shed.

Any suggestions at all?

I can't burn the shed down btw.

Barry Badrinath

Simple.

Forget you spotted it.

exaisle

Humane traps me arse. What are you doing catching them so they can go off and reproduce.

Try a mousetrap with chocolate melted on to it....at least they'll die happy.

Or first, borrow a terrier and stand well back. If it's a rat the terrier will get it...

Armchair Andy

Throw on a fry up and put the pan out for him.
Dunno what that's gonna do but it'll save on the washing up.

bazz26

Get yourself a cat. You will never have rodent problems again.

Get something that'll cut that sucker in half when it springs, maybe place them in spots where cats and dogs can't get at. Plus poison, but put it down in pipes so again larger animals can't get to it. Place pipes beside walls as that's where rats run.

Birneybau

Well, which one is it?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

P¡ss all over the place. They'll know then it's your territory.

siblers

You need to find where it's coming in from and put poison/traps there. Any sign of droppings?

petrolcan

bazz26 wrote: »

Get yourself a cat. You will never have rodent problems again.

Hah! Our cat brings them into the house alive!

James Bond Junior

Burn the house down. Live in the shed.

everlast75

If it was in the kitchen I'd have called UB40...

oneilla

+1 to mousetrap with chocolate if you wanna catch it/kill it.

Lia_lia

It could take days to catch. Put a few traps in there. Mouse traps and rat traps. The old style wooden ones. With chocolate and peanut butter.

My Mother is the same..terrified of rodents. There was a mouse in our house once when we were young kids. My Dad was away for work so it was just myself, my brother and my Mother. She was so terrified of the mouse that she pitched a feckin tent out in the field out the back so we could sleep in it for the night until my Dad came back and got rid of the mouse! :rolleyes: Sure the field was probably full of mice.

Lady Spangles

I've been getting rats in my kitchen. Like OP's mum with mice, these rat bastards scare the living daylights out of me. I've laid down poison (which has all been eaten but I think they're dying elsewhere) and that gets stocked up every day. Rentokill have been out a few times now and laid down their own poison trays. I've cleared out everything from the kitchen (except for what can be kept in the fridge and freezer). My two flatmates have moved out because of these little bastards getting in, so I'm on my own now. Yesterday morning, I pulled out the cooker to make sure there were no dead rats behind it, only to discover they've chewed through the cable on the cooker.

I'm at my wits end with it, tbh. Worse still, I cannot for the life of my find out how they're getting in here.

Turtyturd

everlast75 wrote: »

If it was in the kitchen I'd have called UB40...

2016 killed them.

maudgonner

everlast75 wrote: »

If it was in the kitchen I'd have called UB40...

Why? Sure they didn't know what to do! Feckin making it up as they went along.

lazybones32

Rats love peanut butter supposedly, so if you have a trap put a nice dollop of peanut butter on it (wearing gloves ' cos rats can recognise the scent of humans) and place it in by a wall - rats sick to the wall when travelling.

If a mouse is in the trap tomorrow, relax - rats kill any mice in close proximity, to reduce competition, so if it's a mouse, you have no rats nearby. If it's a rat, set up more traps and set out poison. Tell your mom and wear gloves when handling any timber or firewood that must be brought in from the shed...rats pi$$ as they move and they like to travel on wood. The disease that is transmitted via rat urine is not good...

mzungu

Where you have one, you likely have more. Best to do something about it.

Beanntraigheach

I initially read the title of this thread as "Mouse or rat in my mum's head.."

bazz26

I wouldn't advise using poison. If they take the poison and then die somewhere in your house where you may not find them or easy to get at then the dead remains will stink the place out.

andekwarhola

bazz26 wrote: »

Get yourself a cat. You will never have rodent problems again.

Lot of cats won't (quite sensibly) take on a big rat unless it's like the kind of cat like we've had before: a big mad mangy tom.

Something like a Jack Russell dog is perfect for it.

Xaracatz

Cheers. Well - she hasn't had any rodent problems before - I'd have heard about it!

In the first instance - I was just hoping to get this guy to run back out of the door.

No luck. Will try again in the morning and hopefully he'll be sick of the shed by then. Otherwise, it will be telling her and traps and stuff (I understand what was said about poison) - but its crap because now she'll be worried about seeing the things everywhere.

There is a cat around, but she's a bit of a lump. Ah - with any luck the fecker will miraculously run out the door in the morning.

Thanks all.