A mouse in the house

Cycled to a park a mile away to set them free. The first one decided to run across an exposed car park instead of under a bush and got instantly swooped on and munched by a bloody MAGPIE.

Proper lol at this

If you know where they're coming in then plug the gap with some wire wool.

6 years on I can confirm this only works for a few months - they have chewed through the wall next to it. GF spotted one yesterday morning. Two traps overnight both caught mice.

A buddy says to supplement the wire wool with expanding foam filler. Hopefully that'll sort it for good.

Coop dark chocolate as bait btw.

they have chewed through the wall next to it

ha

Fuckers are persistent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qk8W5uf-Dw&t=55s

Got a few furry intruders at the moment. Multiple traps set with either Nutella or peanut butter as bait. Catching about a mouse a night on average, one evening was a mouseacre with four caught. My partner wants rid of the mice but doesn’t want to know about the process.

Poison them

I've got a rodent issue too, renting with a share of a garage, holes everywhere so no chance of stopping them, but for some reason they're just eating all the bike grips, kids bikes, grip shifts. Today I found they've left very little on my ultegra hoods. Need to find something they don't like that won't inadvertently harm the family.

I have squirrels in my roof, fucking bastards. They’ve got into a section of the eaves that there’s no access to. They’re so noisy, especially at about five in the morning. I hate them and I want them to die.

Have you seen them? The previous owner of our 60s bungalow had rats in the roof space but we hadn’t heard anything in the 2 years since we moved in. Then...
Scrabbling, scratching, thuds since Monday of this week.
I had a look and saw nothing.
Local pest killer came over had a look , no fresh droppings but thought there were definitely rodents.
He put loads of strong bait down on Wednesday afternoon- Wednesday night was like they were having a party. Thursday night noisy too, probably be noisy tonight too.
How long before the fuckers implode?

Never have trees overhang your roof. Squirrels get in and destroy your house.

Cut all these back

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Could also be garden dormice. You need to find out where they may have got in.

Think we may have found out earlier, guttering, broken vent hole underneath. Little gaps on some of the tiles... got planning permission to extend up and out so loft will be no more in 2022..!

I’ve not seen them in the house, but I’ve seen them on the house. Unfortunately we have a textured render around the top floor of the house which is enough for them to get their little paws into. They can access this from the garage roof and the kitchen roof.

I guess it could not be squirrels, but it seems like the likeliest explanation given the ease with which the little buggers can get up there. They’ve gone a bit quiet recently, I expect because winter is slowing them down.

Had a pest guy over and he quoted 700ish quid to stick some traps in the garden. Fuck that, I thought. I can kill them myself for 700 quid.

The ratboy thought our pests could be squirrels 🐿 too, we get a lot in the garden and I like them ( but not in the loft)

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I think it's time for a squirrel thread!

We have similar at our house in Ireland but it’s bats, coming back in at dawn. They’re noisy buggers.

Probably a dumb question but is there a go to rat killer that will do the job? Got rats going in my workshop and attacking my compost bin. I would like them gone for Christmas

Some of our neighbours (block of flats) have bad mouse infestations recently. The pest control companies have done the usual of convincing them they need to blanket poison the whole block. Fuckers keep dying inside the walls in our flat. The pungent fruity smell of rotting mouse corpses is never far away at the moment.

Anecdotally, the flats with the worst mouse problems are the ones with the most food lying around in their kitchens and the flats with toddlers.

So what you're saying is toddlers are basically food lying around 😳

pretty much

Toddlers just eat and eat and eat. Alway finger food too. It gets everywhere. A dog to hoover it up and Cats to keep the vermin away are a good pairing.

5 days later and we can still hear scratching and scurrying. Don’t want to put my head up in the loft in case one launches itself at me

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