May the meeces die a slow and painful death!

[pembrokestephen]

get a humane trap - then kill the mices they will not come in your cave again

If you get a REALLY humane trap, you don't need to kill the mice: it does it for you.

A Humane Trap, Yesterday:

 

[pembrokestephen]

You sure? I reckon all of the mice we've ever had in the house were brought in by cats. When we did have one lurking in the kitchen, 5 cats sat staring at where it was, but didn't despatch it in several days.

The Humane Trap, on the other hand, despatched it on the first night of deployment. I waved the corpse at the cats and laughed in their faces. I think they got the message...

 

[pembrokestephen]

I just kicked the face off an otter

Was it holding paws with another otter at the time?

*sudden random thought about otter infidelity - "Tell me, Giles, is there another otter?" *

 

[pembrokestephen]

Fill in the gaps betweeen skirtingboard and floor with wirewool (available from any hardware store) or expandable foam. Better yet, inform your landlord of the infestation.

...and never underestimate the tininess of the gap that a mouse can get through...

 

[FiFi]

...and never underestimate the tininess of the gap that a mouse can get through...

They can almost flatten themselves.
It is quite horrible to watch.

 

[pembrokestephen]

They can almost flatten themselves.
It is quite horrible to watch.

I've only seen one coming out of such a gap, and the gruesomeness of their preparations prior must have been nothing to the gruesomeness of what happened to them very shortly afterwards at my hands. A quick Google resulted in that tiny gap being plugged with a bit of Brillo pad.

 

[Balbi]

We have a new friend in our house.

His name is Kelvin.

Kelvin is a hardcore mouser who lives in the house that backs on to us.

He wanders into the house, sits by the gap where the meeces come from and about half an hour later comes past us with one of them. He's done it every day so far

(Kelv is named after our housemate who isn't here atm)

 

[quimcunx]

put peanut butter on the poison.

fill in holes.

If that doesn't work by the special plugs from robert dyas or wherever.

 

[Melinda]

Does using those sonic rodent repellants work though?

I mean we cant hear it so it just be a big scam?

Also if you plug up gaps before you use the repellant- how do they get out?

Should you wait a fortnight before blocking holes?!

Just out of interest like.

 

[wtfftw]

We've got one of those sonic repellant things and thought it was working. Went away for the weekend and came back to a kitchen covered in mouse shit.

I'm seeing mice in my peripheral vision and I even dreamt one particular mouse was masquerading as a grey cheeky kitten last night. Everyone was like, "awww" but I knew it was evil.

edit: I just noticed I posted on this thread before. We now have a new washing machine but the holes aren't plugged. I hear it's one big hole back there and ugh. Basically everything in the kitchen is now so high that I can't reach it but hopefully now neither can the mice. I reckon they stick to the floor and one side of the worktop as I haven't found shit anywhere else. I just feel so itchy. I spent so long scrubbing the kitchen on friday that I couldn't get out of bed yesterday (ME). grr.

 

[pembrokestephen]

We've got one of those sonic repellant things and thought it was working. Went away for the weekend and came back to a kitchen covered in mouse shit.

I'm seeing mice in my peripheral vision and I even dreamt one particular mouse was masquerading as a grey cheeky kitten last night. Everyone was like, "awww" but I knew it was evil.

edit: I just noticed I posted on this thread before. We now have a new washing machine but the holes aren't plugged. I hear it's one big hole back there and ugh. Basically everything in the kitchen is now so high that I can't reach it but hopefully now neither can the mice. I reckon they stick to the floor and one side of the worktop as I haven't found shit anywhere else. I just feel so itchy. I spent so long scrubbing the kitchen on friday that I couldn't get out of bed yesterday (ME). grr.

Don't count on it. Mice can climb (and how). If you want to put your faith that they can't to the test, pop a baited trap up on the work surface. You WILL catch one.

Get some of that gap filler stuff and plug those holes. If they're small enough, stuff 'em with wire wool first, in case the mice like the taste of the gap filler...

 

[wtfftw]

Don't count on it. Mice can climb (and how). If you want to put your faith that they can't to the test, pop a baited trap up on the work surface. You WILL catch one.

Get some of that gap filler stuff and plug those holes. If they're small enough, stuff 'em with wire wool first, in case the mice like the taste of the gap filler...

I'm not counting on anything. Nothing is left out on the surfaces. The side I don't think they get to is on top of vertical slippy stuff with no back route or adjacent. I reckon the other side they climb up the back of the fridge. Now they climb up the fridge and jump.

I'm going to speak to the landlords this evening. Traps don't seem to catch them.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

I'm not counting on anything. Nothing is left out on the surfaces. The side I don't think they get to is on top of vertical slippy stuff with no back route or adjacent. I reckon the other side they climb up the back of the fridge. Now they climb up the fridge and jump.

I'm going to speak to the landlords this evening. Traps don't seem to catch them.