we have a mouse – aargh!! time for some extra special shopping. any recommendations tim/jax, as i think you tried everything. and don’t say cat, cos our normally good mousers seem to have lost enthusiasm.
speaking of shopping, i have bought this to hopefully get me fit whilst having fun with the girls!! [rofl]
Weapons Of Mouse Destruction
Enjoy.
I like the look of that get fit thing, I’m still pondering Dirty Dancing
tim has a comment in moderation apparently.
PS, if you buy repellers, I think it is worth buying the more expensive ones.
The ones we bought don’t seem to be for sale at Argos any more.
I would probably buy these now.
Another thing, which might be worth doing is siting your repellers top down – place them in your loft space first, then add them on the first floor and try to drive the little sods down and then out. Not sure if it would work, but it might be worth a try.
I have ordered a large sonic and electric scarer thing that is supposed to work in a 4 bed house, and a supplementary one for kitchen/pantry! and 4 live traps. Actually, I was tempted for a break back one cos of the rehoming thing. but i am veggie after all…
Not convinced by the one big repeller – they don’t work well through walls, I believe, so you would have to leave all your doors open.
Rehoming. There is a shortage of mice in Peterborough, so if you are ever visiting friends there, you can drop off your mice.
well, our doors are no open to encourage cats in all rooms! but thats why a supplemental! our walls are solid, so no cavities for the mice. but, I am hoping to make kitchen and playroom non mouse appealing, and the cats should make short work otherwise [they always have done before]
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/mouse-repeller-whole-house-p-36.html
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/stop-pest-pest-repeller-p-1273.html
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/humane-mouse-trap-single-p-694.html?cPath=24_25_143
is what I have gone for, and I will bait with peanutbutter and choc powder!
I think the key to it is the food supply thing is crucial. If you leave easy pickings they won’t need to spend much time expose to the repellers and they won’t need to forage, so they won’t bother with your traps, and the cats will have no chance to catch them either.
“our walls are solid, so no cavities for the mice” er, they won’t be THAT solid.
no, they’re not ‘that’ solid, but it does mean that they aren’t so easy to navigate. and yes, food thing is an issue. both my girls drip food about!
We were plagued about 8-9 years ago. We’d seen one and it was really cute and we did nothing. More fool us! They come through from the neighbour who laughed at my humane traps as he uses snap traps. My humane traps were persistently ignored, not a single mouse was caught in them and we did use peanut butter and chocolate too. Midwife caught one in a bowl and Marcus then did the same but then I had to drive for 4 miles with a live mouse in a bowl in the car so rapidly went off the live capture option.
So we went for die in your sleep poison and it was grim – they were found in non nest sites – but at least they were gone. The sonic thing is on in the kitchen and it’s meant to go around electric circuit in house but not sure whether it really works as it can’t reach into the walls and behind cupboards.
We’re probably due another mouse invasion.
It was ants for the last couple of years.
We sadly still use die in your sleep poison in the loft as we can’t be checking up there all the time.
My mother sometimes has mice – but that’s because the cats bring them in to torture.
My parents had no luck with the humane traps. Nothing would tempt them in although it probably didn’t help that Master R was hiding food behind the sofa for them. They got a plug in thingy which they had very little faith in and didn’t work when plugged in one place but they/it seemed to disappear when the plug was put somewhere else. So if the plug doesn’t work maybe experiment a bit with where you put it. I don’t know if it is to do with outside/inside walls, high up/low down sockets etc or what.
I have used a couple of the rat traps from here, they ok just keep ur kids away from them
http://www.ukwaterfeatures.com/Shop/Pest-Control.html