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Mice

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  • #32
    poker--addict
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭poker--addict


    a few weeks ago, heard scratching, put trap in attic, with Nutella bait. One snap trap caught two. Nothing heard, seen, or trapped since.

    😎



  • #33
    artvanderlay
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118385403#Comment_118385403

    Was the scratching in the attic? I've got mice in the bedroom floor but it's a bitch to get under the carpet and floorboards. I wonder is it worth my while putting the traps in the attic on the chance that the mice spend some time up there?



  • #34
    Igotadose
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118388992#Comment_118388992

    Just put a few traps here and there. Attic, floors of the room where you hear them (behind furniture, obviously make sure nothing gets into the traps other than you to set and remove them, and the mice. Cats, kids, are an obvious no-no.)

    Bait with peanut butter and wait. Hunger drives the mice to them.



  • #35
    artvanderlay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,224 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    Still no luck with my fella in the floorboards. He's not coming out to the traps I have laid, and I don't think he could fit out anyways because the gaps are fairly non-existant. I don't understand how he got in, but more importantly what is he eating? He's not in our kitchen, and he just seems to be running around in the floorboards like he's trapped there.



  • #36
    corks finest
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058223419/mice

    u need to get the other ppl involved when laying poison or traps- long time ago in a row of 8 houses all attached we were plagued by mice - continuously catching for weeks then nothing then stated again

    turns out my immediate neighbour on one side didn’t think it was worthwhile to lay traps etc in his gaff as he didn’t see or hear any (working mikes away teaching- few pints most nights and home to Tipperary each weekend)

    anyway as soon as he got serious like the rest of us it eased off and eventually stopped- he never admitted to catching any but must have as all the other houses caught loads



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  • #37
    corks finest
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118382985#Comment_118382985

    They will get in if they need to it’s getting them out all that counts and the old wives take ref rats and mice not living in the same building is rubbish



  • #38
    ShatterProof
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118405096#Comment_118405096

    They can squeeze in and out if small gaps around radiator pipes. Place a couple of traps either side of them up against the skirting board, bait side in.



  • #39
    Deregos.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    We could hear what I believe could've been bats beginning to nest in our dormer attic bedroom, right above our bed. I read that white noise could drive them away so I got an old phone and downloaded a white noise app and left it running in the attic for a few days. It worked and they pissed off but I made sure to go out and fill any gaps along the soffit with expanding foam. Don't know if the same trick would work with mice or rats.



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