A mouse in the house

What was your solution in the end?

Get a cat, ours is into double digits since Dec. We also have humane traps as he has let 3 go in the house for kicks.

He will dispose of the body as well, so the only evidence we find is the stomach and intestine.

We have two large dogs who are not particularly cat friendly.

Ladies on the boat opposite me sent a message to the pontoon a week ago saying 'A rat has destroyed the rubbish bag we left on our deck'. OK fine. Now another message 'Rat has done it again'.

Surely, when there are rats around, the first thing you stop doing is leaving fucking food on your deck?

Rat on the boat thread >>>>>>>>>>>

River rats, they're very resourceful...

Get an even bigger cat.

Jack Russell then. Good mousers when trained right.

Or a cairn, less likely to start fights with the bigger dogs but still annoying yappy little bastards.

Never been a fan of small dogs. Like you say, yappy little bastards with small man syndrome.

The best spots for mouse traps will be well out of the way of anywhere a large dog will be have access to. Well placed traps are just as effective and much more humane than introducing a predator.

Ferrets as mousers (inspired by another thread, of course)? they can get into the smallest spaces and I know how much you like the smell, DJ...

Yeah, absolutely nothing bad will happen :)

We live in an upstairs maisonette. Downstairs have a cat. Periodically we have mice but only ever in ones or twos and they don't appear to be leaving droppings anywhere. They're totally uninterested in my non-humane traps.

Did actually manage to surprise two babies last year and they got stuck in a pan in the sink. Kept them for a day for the daughter to coo over them deposited them down the road.

So in short, we know they're there but only from hearing them and I think the built in pest control keeps them in check.

The current trends for mouse control is contact foam, and electronic traps. London's mice are fairly aware of traps/bait boxes/glue traps

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.

Have you considered an owl?

I couldn't bring myself to administer a coup de grace so went outside and dropped him in a deep puddle and drowned him.

Next time just flush em down the loo

They won't go down the loo with the glue board attached to them.

Drive your car over them. You can't see the actual moment and it's instant (or as instant as possible given the time they spend adhered to a plastic board fearing the worst is still to come)

' 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'

You fucking monster.

'Motherfucking monster', surely.

You fucked a captive rodent?

Only metaphorically.

Drive your car over them.

#savage

Very civilised

SMIDSY

sorry mouse I didn’t see you