They love maltesers and farerro Roche When I lived in the country I blamed my then husband of pinching my roche to find a nest under the stairs with wrappings and remnants of chocolate How they managed to get the balls in there I have no idea They also like sheep food as I had kept some in our Sierra at the time to feed the flooded in sheep Had to use quite a few traps to get rid of them as they had nested in the engine bay Ewww it's not a pretty sight finding the traps full in your car Unfortunately you need to get rid of the pesky blighters otherwise your bikes will make a nice home
saw evidence of one living in my Elefant airbox - living quarters on top of nice soft air filter with separate in and out tubes.
Well, no evidence of them infesting either bike, so there are now four screwfix mouse traps set, two in the corners of the doors (baited with digestive biscuits as suggested, and an ultrasonic mouse repeller will be with me in the next couple of days. There is a gap about the height of a finger under the whole width of the garage door, so the next step is to buy something to block that off. I did find evidence of a nest (fortunately as far away from the bikes as possible) with lots of straw and twigs, and old chicken / meat bones, all picked scrupulously clean. i've also pulled everything out of the garage and swept the whole thing out, so there is nothing especially interesting for them in there now. I didn't see much evidence of mice, no droppings etc, so it may have just been one lone mouse in there that I saw. Nothing (not even cardboard boxes) showed any sign of gnawing. Right, im off for a garage door draught / mouse excluder. -edit- The Ducati passed its MOT with flying colours, too :smile:
My sons pet hamster escaped from its cage once, we found it a week later having made a nest inside his guitar
Chicken and meat bones and no droppings?..........Suspiciously like a rat, that......... Look for giant mouse turds somewhere outside or somewhere else inside the garage.........a rat will get through a finger thickness gap. AL
there was a finger thickness gap at the bottom of the door. Went to B&Q and got some 35x35mm white UPVC L shaped moulding, and attached it to the bottom of the garage door , leaving just the tiniest (about 2mm) gap so it doesn't snag on the concrete. if they were getting in through the door, they aren't now! That was the only gap around the door, everything else was good and snug.
Well, there were droppings around the traps and the tenacious little blighters had managed to de bait all four traps without triggering them. Re baited them with cheese (leadammer) so they will need to out up more of a fight to trigger them...
Mice (and rats) don't like crosing open spaces, so place your traps/bait at the junction between floor and wall. I'd go for traps rather than bait. We had a problem with mice in a travelling oven shell a few years ago. Seems they were "Super Mouse" (yes, there is such a thing) and they were immune to all the baits we could use (in a food factory). Little buggers chewed the wiring to f*ck. Got them in the end though FYI..Seems when they squeeze through small holes (as small as a pencil diameter) they dislocate joints and initiate a small bleed. The poison (often Warfarin based) stops coagulation, so they bleed to death internally
Hardly surprising they got away. Forget cheese, use peanut butter; for one thing they adore the smell, and for another they have to step on the trap to reach it.........Whammo!
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Just deploy everything, mouse traps, poison blocks, those ultrasound plug in things, because mice don't live alone, they have mates and they like shagging and before you know it you'll be overrun with them!. Your house will smell of mouse piss and they'll chew your wiring (including bike wiring) and scare you in the middle of the night, so you have to act quick!.
For a nice humane solution, get a tall plastic bucket and put some assorted goodies like cheese, chocolate and cucumber inside. Make it easy for the little chaps to get into the bucket but then they cant get out so all you have to do is grab them, pop them in a box with a lid and let them go in the field when you take the dog for a walk. Worked a treat for me.
you call allways call MouseBusters - or the local council - could be the neighbours garages are full of rubbish? https://www.gov.uk/report-pest-problem
This has to be post of the day for me - are you serious Dukesox? how many did you catch that way and did you remember to bung some napkins in? :smile:
Absolutely serious, I caught 4 and was delighted to see them scuttle off into the undergrowth. No napkins though. I have some other good mouse stories relating to vehicles. I had a nest in a 900ss airbox/filter some years ago. They took up residence over the winter and didn't cause any trouble but the best relates to the early 1990`s when I had a lovely TVR 350. I used to leave it open on the drive overnight occasionally and one evening a mouse must have let him/herself in. Lived in it for months and every night I`d put a tiny bowl of water in the footwell along with a slice or two of cucumber, made the car smell a bit but the beauty of a soft top is taking the roof down. But then one day it was gone, must have let itself out as no lingering unpleasant whiffs.
Pointless update to an old thread, the garage has been mouse free for a while now, poison, combined with clearing out the nest (found it) and using the garage eradicated them
I put plug-in ultrasonic deterrent at my mother's house which is thatched and has creepers growing up the walls which makes in vermin heaven. I believe they do work but just to be on the safe side I scatter Jaguar rodent bait around the loft space as well. That definitely works.
