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Mouse problem?
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Ok not sure if this is the right place to put this, if not let me know and i'll move it.
Well got up this morning, got showered and dressed. Went downstairs got breakfast and went into the frontroom to watch the news. After breakfast i noticed my two cats kept going behind the TV. Had a look behind and couldn't see anything so thought their just chasing and eating a spider as normal (for those of you who dont know, and are afriad of spiders get a cat. they love um - yum yum). Moved the cables and a little mouse about 2inches long went running under the sofa. Moved the sofa and back to the tv. repeat continued this for about an hour before i had to go to work.
Any advise on catching it? that is if my girls haven't left a present for me when i get home. The thing i'm confused about is how the little bugger got there. I'm on the 2nd floor of a apartment building, which is make of Reinforced Conrete.
Well got up this morning, got showered and dressed. Went downstairs got breakfast and went into the frontroom to watch the news. After breakfast i noticed my two cats kept going behind the TV. Had a look behind and couldn't see anything so thought their just chasing and eating a spider as normal (for those of you who dont know, and are afriad of spiders get a cat. they love um - yum yum). Moved the cables and a little mouse about 2inches long went running under the sofa. Moved the sofa and back to the tv. repeat continued this for about an hour before i had to go to work.
Any advise on catching it? that is if my girls haven't left a present for me when i get home. The thing i'm confused about is how the little bugger got there. I'm on the 2nd floor of a apartment building, which is make of Reinforced Conrete.
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And mice will get anywhere.
About [_] size bit of cheese should work, simple things like hamster/rat or any random fruit/veg works, miccies eat almost ANYTHING...
Never actually tried with cheese...
Chocolat, hehe, that's cool I think...
In a flat we were in we had mouse trouble and we enticed it into a bottle with some chocolate and were able to release it somewhere away from the flat.
Also, give your house a good clean. They are attracted by crumbs and bits of food. We worked out that the crumbs from our toaster was what was enticing them into the flat.
Call out pest control, don't even think about fannying around with a mouse trap.
and.. Mice are actually genurally clean animals, males always smell like shit but thats because they spray alot. I've noticed that my mice always poo in one place and only one place
anyway wild mice are different i suppose.
I'm very surprised at that.
We tried to call pest control in Edinburgh and they were going to charge us. They said that they had to because it was such a problem and no-one was funding it. Or something equally as crap
Eventually, we got onto our leasing agents and they sorted it out for us. One of the problems with the flat is that it was so old the whole street was riddled with mice. Oh, and the people downstairs were manky shits so they were the real cause of it
I suppose this is the way it'll go... oh well. It's always been free when I've had to get them out, apart from for wasps nests. You've always had to pay to get them removed as far as I know.
it would take about £2000 pounds an hour to persuade me to go anywhere near a wasps nest, they are psychos.
Erm, Mouse Trap, or Humane Cage if you want. Basically, a cage with a trip mechanism so when it goes for the food in it, it gets stuck in there. Easy to make, test it on one of the cats .
Yeah... should be easy enough. And you can even feed it the cats after as a treat. (Don't be supprised by hair balls for a bit after.)
Id heard chocolate or peanutbutter was good so I used both, a piece of chocolate with peanutbutter smeared on it, and a killing trap.
Why bother with a humaine trap theyl only go to someone elses house, or not survive outside, its not as if their an endangered species and it gave me a sence of satisfaction to see them caught in the morning.
It's only a mouse, it's fucking vermin.
yes they carry disease and stuff.
or is that rats?
i couldn't come down in the morning and look at a decapitated mouse in a trap - which i'd have to clean up :yuck:
i'd just get a non killing trap and let it out somewhere safe
A couple of my neighbours have seen them and the people came and put down poison, but I haven't seen anything since it was reported.