Have I Got The World's Smartest Mice In My Garage ?
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I got annoyed by the mice in my garage nibbling things so put down a bait station (plastic box with poison in it and an hole at each end)
I looked a few days later and the 2 holes have been barricaded up.
NOT made into a nest as they've used metal nuts and cable clips and there was no way out.
I thought the kids might have been playing a joke so I cleared the holes and locked the garage doors.
2 days later - same thing - entrance holes are barricaded up.
WTF ?
I looked a few days later and the 2 holes have been barricaded up.
NOT made into a nest as they've used metal nuts and cable clips and there was no way out.
I thought the kids might have been playing a joke so I cleared the holes and locked the garage doors.
2 days later - same thing - entrance holes are barricaded up.
WTF ?
ds would get in, eat the cheese, crap everywhere and then bugger off!Talented Mice they are.
There's hundreds of them, they make phone calls for advice FoneJacker mouse Pest Control
There's hundreds of them, they make phone calls for advice FoneJacker mouse Pest Control
I think the mice which inhabited my shed were at the opposite end of the itellectual scale.
My shed is a rather rickety, leaky old shack. To prevent everything on the floor becoming sodden over the winter I placed a bucket under the worst drip from the roof. Upon opening the shed door in the spring for the first time I was greeted by a foul stench, then the site of a festering black 'soup' of decomposing mice in the half full backet of water. The stupid buggers had jumped in and not been able to get out again. There were about six of them in there (from what I could tell)!
My shed is a rather rickety, leaky old shack. To prevent everything on the floor becoming sodden over the winter I placed a bucket under the worst drip from the roof. Upon opening the shed door in the spring for the first time I was greeted by a foul stench, then the site of a festering black 'soup' of decomposing mice in the half full backet of water. The stupid buggers had jumped in and not been able to get out again. There were about six of them in there (from what I could tell)!
Put some posion on a mars bar. My dad had some mice problems, he set up traps which worked for a while. He then went on holiday for a week, and he left some traps for them. When he came back he found the mice hadn't touched the traps, but intsead they had nibbled on a pack of mars bars.
KelWedge said:
redgriff500 said:
Seems a shame to kill them really.
You wont say that when they set up home in a car seat or chew your wireing to bits !!!!I'm against killing unless necessary though and I really don't like the idea of poison as I doubt its fast or painless.
But I haven't got the time to sit around and shoot them.
I'd suggest a ball bearing ( on non ball bearing ) mouse trap comomnly known as a tom /or she cat . But again , you might want ot look at a more comsumer friendly solution - a Cairn Terier - available from Cairn Terrier Rescue -these small teriers will be friends ,kid friednly etc pets for years . I've got a ten year old one from them ,who's my grandson's best pal - he also goes daft in the park with kids -making friens with all he sees . But last week he saw a mouse ,dropped by a cat , that decided to drop mouse and retreat under car - mouse saw chance and ran - it got a few yards before my dog flipped it in air - part of nature of the breed .
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