A mouse in the house

we've got mice in our ceiling

Burn it.

Liquidise some cats and spread the paste around your house. The smell really puts the mice off.

Jesus. That has given me flashbacks to the video I once saw of somebody liquidising thousands of live spiders in the belief that if they spread the paste around their windows, spiders would stop coming in their house.

Ok, will remove post for insurance.

Told the dog to go and get some cats, he invited more mice into the house.

I've seen some weird shit on the internet but thats a bit too weird for me.

One of the cats was being a bit weird. Found a mousey brave fucker perched on the edge of their water fountain. Released a mile or so away.

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Have you given it some Red Leicester to nibble on?

thats the stub of his finger after a ferocious tussle with said mouse
just look at its evil face

It was heralded as a solution for somebody who is scared of spiders FFS.

That's a field mouse, not your run of the mill house mouse.

Burn it.

My 8 month old's veggie straws. Cheese flavoured, however

What's the forum recommended OTP poison?

Cheers.

Apparently resistance varies depending on locale so it’s whatever works where you are.

Call the pest department and ask.

Thanks.

Problem with the poison is you've gotta get the mice to eat it, which is the difficult part generally. Sakai they've gotta eat a fair old bit.

I keep about 12 trays of this topped up at all times behind the kick boards in the kitchen.
The mousey bastards love it.
I also bait the traps with it.

They eat so much the dosey fuckers eventually crawl onto a trap to get more.

https://www.pest-expert.com/pest-expert-formula-b-rat-killer-poison-1kg-with-safety-gloves-10-x-100g-12-p.asp

dosey fuckers eventually crawl onto a trap to get more

that's fucked up

Thanks.

It's for a garden shed - so unlikely to get able to truly seal.

There's a lot of random soft underlay and plastic sheeting that I should probably get rid of to give less places to chill. I was just surprised by the amount of shit in some places (in the pot of an out door citronella candle for eg - like it was a designated WC).

I mainly don't want them migrating to the house. Also worth noting that our garden is a through-route for local cats, so I'd want to keep it all inside.

mousey bastards
https://www.pest-expert.com/pest-expert-­formula-b-rat-killer-poison-1kg-with-saf­ety-gloves-10-x-100g-12-p.asp

Just to check you mean mice, not rats right?

Yeah, Defo mice.

Also worth noting that our garden is a through-route for local cats, so I'd want to keep it all inside.

Isn't there a risk that poisoned mice run outside, get picked up by cats?

Something kept getting into our work kitchen, first it nibbled my bagels (not a euph), then some noodles, then it knocked over a cup which smashed and finally it got into the tea. That was the last straw, so I set up a GoPro on timelapse and found it was a Glis Glis, an edible dormouse, protected under the 1981 wildlife act (or so I thought) and exceptionally cute. Anyway the pest man commeth and within about 20 minutes of putting a trap in the roof cavity he's caught it. I ask him what he'll do with it 'Kill it' he replied. Apparently as it's a non-native species, it can't be released. You just have to notify Natural England where it's been caught and then you can kill it. So I'm feeling a bit guilty now. RIP Eddie.

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