the Ducati is being MOT'd tomorrow, so I just went into the garage to check it over. Upon opening the garage I noticed a cheese like smell I'd not smelt before. a moment later my suspicions were confirmed when a small mouse ran out of the garage. Obviously I'd like to get rid of them as there is a risk of them chewing wiring etc, so who has had any success with mouse repellants? I'd rather not trap or poison them if possible.
Mouse traps(and loads of 'em) baited with digestive biscuits ! SERIOUSLY . No such thing as one mouse !
Try taking this thread more seriously please ! ......... ......................................................................:smile:
I shot a mouse once which was in a trap and still alive, clonking the trap around between floors. I named him Charlie. Tough bugger though, needed three pellets from a .22 pistol to kill him.
Chocolate for traps.....warm it in your hands, then mould it like plasticine right around the bait prongs, so when it goes harder, they really have to work at it. If you get a smell that resembles old-ish apples, then you have got a dead one somewhere......... If you get a dead rat, you will know it as soon as it starts to stink....it will last for about two months, gradually declining. If you really want to do it without killing them, there is a repellent that contains lions pee............doesn't always work, but be prepared for your cats, dogs and budgies packing their cases and leaving home. AL
I guess he was counting to see how many shots you had left..............Go ahead...make my day,punk. I have about half cwt of rat poison carefully stored in my workshop.....much cheaper that way, and I bait outside the house around the perimeter of the 'garden'.................when they can get food outside, they don't come into a property..............(unless it is extremely cold)..... .....Main time for them to look for food is immediately after harvest of rape or wheat.
You can use humane traps peanut butter or jelly babies are good bait! But often they die of shock in the humane traps. If you do trap them you need to release them a long way away!!! They as often do rats have runs they mark out so can find their way back again!
Forget about treating them humanely, they're a pest and they breed like wild fire, before you know it you'll be overrun with them. Typically you'll spot them after heavy rainfall when they've been forced out of their own homes by rainwater; that's the time to set the traps. The easiest traps are the ones sold by B&Q; they resemble a clothes peg and you open them the same way you would a peg; they're washable too. Smear peanut butter under the 'lid' - they bloody love the stuff - and place the traps well out of eyesight in dark corners, under cupboards, or wherever you think they may hide. Check them every day, you'll be surprised how quickly the lure of peanut butter can work on mice!
Peanut butter is good but Nutella is better. Smeared on the trap it is difficult for the mice to remove without springing the trap. Wilkinson (Wilko) also sell a good trap.
you could also try the sticky pads along the perimeter, look carefully you may see the tracks, they leave a dark line where they run back and forth as they mainly run the same route as they follow their own trail by smell
Rats leave a grease track, but mice don't. Mice don't have a bladder as such, so they pee everywhere...........Rats are more controlled with their ablutions. Mice tend to leave presents in return for food (even when it is poison)......near the feeding station....strange little heaps of stones, paper, rubber bands etc (not to confused with their nest). Mice you will hear scurrying about and rats you generally don't unless they fall off something. Mice can get through a hole the size of a pencil diameter.....they can compress their skeleton. Mice leave the husks of poisoned wheat, rats eat the lot (and if the bait is in a small bag, they will even drag the whole bag away with them). Rats will 'chimney' up a wall between a rainwater pipe and a wall surface.........if they can't climb it directly. Don't reckon on cats getting rid of rats..........Got to be some cat to go for a rat. AL
My girlfriends solution was accidentally leaving one of the snake tanks open last November. Don't think we'll be seeing any mice around here.
