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  • Have you seen them? I think mine may not be rats because of the small size of their shit. I still haven't managed to spot any with the endoscope though. It's a two-person job: one person to look at the screen, another to manipulate the endoscope. My girlfriend has limited appetite for either job. So far I've seen more shit, that's about all.

  • We tolerated it for a while. Then it ate a white chocolate Easter bunny that had been left out and raised our ire. The day after I was walking to Deptford High St and bought some glue traps from one of the street vendors. I put one down and it caught the mouse in about 10 minutes. I hadn't really thought things through. I got some gloves on and tried to get the mouse off the glue so I could release him but obviously that's not how those things work. I couldn't bring myself to administer a coup de grace so went outside and dropped him in a deep puddle and drowned him. I felt bad for weeks afterwards. Still feel bad, actually.

    We still have mice. Caught another one in a nipper-style trap: very quick and clean death so didn't feel bad about that. Our cleaner caught another one by throwing a tea-towel over it. She took it out to the park and let it go. I've bought various types of humane traps but they don't work at all.

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