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Mice
Hi there,
We have a mouse in the hause! Or several probably.
I came home to my mother trapped on the sofa last night having seen one run into the living room so I need to get rid of them.
Can anyone recommend a local rentokil person?
Thanks.
Bridget
We have a mouse in the hause! Or several probably.
I came home to my mother trapped on the sofa last night having seen one run into the living room so I need to get rid of them.
Can anyone recommend a local rentokil person?
Thanks.
Bridget
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Oh, and I am guessing you do not have a kitchen/living space full of food crumbs, food residue on the floors, cooker that needs a thorough clean, etc. etc. ... if so, the mice will always share your life 'til you develop better habits ....
Guy called Dennis, absolutely nice person. Helped us to get rid of squirrels in the roof at home and from ants at work.
It's sad when you see the little perfect crushed bodies in the traps. Think it's kinder than poison though. They just get really dehydrated with that, and then usually come up to the surface to die horribly, usually when you have guests, and then you have put them out of their misery. (The mice, not the guests).
You can re-use the traps, but you have to be in the mood for easing out the little bloody body with popping eyes and crushed skull.
Face the bait towards the wall, and they can't seem to help but have a sniff as they're running along.
You need to fill in the gaps they're getting in through though. I don't have mice now, but I did have the back of my flat re-built, getting rid of all the gaps in the process.
Also, it's good to place them against a wall, as dorothy mentioned. It's also a good idea to move them around every few days as they seem to get wise to the ritual slaughter of their fellow mice.
I wouldn't waste your money on pest control people
We live on the top floor of a Victorian conversion. There are a million holes and gaps for a mouse to get through. The thing is, mice don't start at the top and work their way down. You can get rid of them however you want, but if the downstairs neighbours aren't doing their bit, there'll always be more.
We used to see the occasional mouse. I don't really mind mice, but I'm not thrilled with the idea of them walking around the kitchen counter at night. We tried humane traps. Didn't catch a thing. Then we tried peppermint oil on cotton balls. That seemed to work better.
The thing that did the trick, though, was people moving in downstairs. That flat had been empty for a year. As soon as we had neighbours, the mice disappeared. They must be doing something to deter them.
So if you do have downstairs neighbours, it may be a good idea to have a chat with them.
Meantime the rat population across Parkland Walk and the Park itself seems to have grown a lot recently (my friends appear to have entered via my backdoor from parkland walk..).
I'm going to try getting the council on it but it might be a bit of a Canute type situation - i'm sure there are many more rats then the council can really deal with
i'm going to email the Conservation guy too - i think it's Ian.holt@haringey.gov.uk - if anyone else is being bothered by the rats I suggest you email too as it can only help
my husband has been getting rather up close and personal with our rodent friends and has dispatched 5 so far....he tells me they are large enough to be at home on a farm
The second encounter was indeed the toaster. Hubby told me he'd broken the handle off it as it was very stiff when he'd tried to push it down. So before I fixed the handle I opened up the crumb tray and lo and behold, there was a decapitated, toasted mouse.
And the rat? He crept out later that evening and we chased him all over the house. We'd shut all the doors so he couldn't get into any other rooms. But we forgot one, the bathroom, and he got in behind the bath. That night I was woken by some loud thwacks and suddenly the bedroom light came on and there stood my naked Hubby, grinning from ear to ear, with a shillelagh in one hand and a very dead rat in the other.
We caught three more rats with conventional traps and numerous mice the same way. We recycled them by feeding them to the local crow population that were visiting with us at the time.
Amazingly it was the first rat I have ever seen in London and I was born here!
Anyway, I have got sick of them eating and eating poison - they luckily seem to crawl back next door to die so I don't get a stench - but it either doesn't kill them or there's so many they just keep eating it and it's getting expensive! I caught one in a normal trap last week with cheese. Today I decided to try putting the sticky trap down flat, as suggested further up the thread. I have arrived home tonight to a very noisy kitchen and I can't bear to check it til morning - I think there are a few on there...
Cheese seems to work well for me but also Snickers - so they're getting both chocolate and peanut! The plug in thing doesn't seem to help or maybe it's worn out.
I moved away for a year and a half and my subletter said he didn't see one. But after returning last summer I started to see them now and again. Plugged in my ultrasound gadgets, laid some poison, but I'd see it/them now and again. Decided to find the holes and put the steel wool down. When I put the steel wool down the holes I thought that were just a cm in width were really 5 cms or more.
After having some vinyl flooring laid (which I wouldn't recommend) I had gaps left by the radiator pipes which were'nt there when the really old carpet was there (thanks fitters!). From what I've read and heard mice are lazy and will just find some way into a flat or house despite how clean or dirty it is. Of course you should make sure there are no crumbs on the floor for them. Apparently they really don't like the smell of bleach. However they still invade the most sterile flats. I've known friends with ultra clean flats that have had more mice in there flats those with ones that are dirty.
To cut a long story short I haven't seen any since I put steel wool down.
at least they get caught and you don't have them hiding behind things, dying from poison.