you need one of these, best mouser I've ever seen, Bella! edit: oh, wait a minute, that's right, she brings them home alive and releases them for us to chase.
Mice are effectively incontinent. They urinate constantly over anything and everything on their travels. That may change your mind about eradication.
thinking about it, i guess we do have a moos problem. not so much me, but the cat. the fecker wont give him a minuets peace. but he is only a pup. and funnily enough, a good mouser. he catches and eats them when at the stables. a rare moment of togetherness. moos the dug and biscuit the cat.
I spoke to my neighbours while I was out in the garden. The mouse lives in their greenhouse. Apparently, the Misses have gone all maternal and feeds it! There were two, but they found one dead, a while ago. They have a dog, but everybody seems to get along! I'm hoping that it was just a one-off. There is no food about, so no reason to come in. I have RING motion detector cameras in the garage and workshop. I do remember my garage one, that is on a shelf, being set off by a mouse some time ago.
I recently became aware of a unwelcome visitor, catch it early on was on my mind and I put some industrial strength poison down ( available to farmers and the likes only ) I found out a few days later where the nest was, my neighbour 2 doors down was not impressed with the smell ……..
UPDATE; Mouse was back last night. Same lack of fear and obsession with the old photo of my GSXr750 that I once owned. He doesn't want to hang out in my garage. It is too cold and it contains no Suzukis. I think that I have a desk mate for the Winter! E
We too have humane traps as our 2 feline wasters also bring in live animals. However, I read that you are supposed to drop off the errant mice 2 miles away from your home. This suggests to me that the mice comprehend town planning. Therefore, I dropped it off on other side of the M25.
Mouse was back again! I have a coffee on my desk. It is not hot and that was inspected - maybe Mouse even had a gulp! It's the pre-school nursery that finishes at 3pm that I can't beat. The infants finish at 3:15, but I can't beat them either. Now, the target is to get home from the pub before dark. I just made it today. I think that the sun had set and it was dark enough for motorbike headlights to show reflecting in the road, but still not completely dark.
You probably were catching the same mouse over and over again. I hear they have homing instincts. Lots of people saying so.
when i first read that i saw "gibbering miscreant" and thought Aye, Voltaire knows stuff. a wise fellow so he was. it's still early. heads still full of mince. remind me, where was that place he suggested you look to for all your ideas of how civilisation should be?
it would of been nice if that was the case, but these traps were catching 3-4 at a time. every morning for days, weeks even i would wander up the forest, cross the bridge over the burn and set them free. i bet the smart wee feckers were tracing my footsteps home. having a wee giggle to themselves hiding in the undergrowth every time i turned round to make sure i wasn't being followed. well, they're no laughing noo, cos they're aww deid.
i remember a similar story with a lady, a garden, a constant supply of slugs and a skip. I think she filmed them coming back, all in a row but i could be imagining the last bit.
Our cat flap is one way only now......last straw was breakfast in bed when he brought us a live rabbit FFS! Now frisked before allowed in
^ yep, our old cat was a baby bunny murderer too, used to eat them head first, the mess was truly stomach churning! Edit: the culprit, Ginge, sleeping off another bunny dinner!
Seeing as mice are incontinent, they were definitely having a wee. And as for them giggling, I expect they were pissing themselves
