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Back to our place in the Scottish Isles and discover we have new residents....
They are currently living in a random rubble retaining wall with sorties into the garage, whist having little play fights in the drive.
If I pull down the wall, they will certainly relocate full time into the garage!
took a few out with traps but away again now so they will probalbly be breeding like....mice.
Anyone tried these sonic devices or have any other suggstions. As we aren't there full time and near a road a cat would be no good and the odd buzzard and owl don't seem to be hungry.
They are currently living in a random rubble retaining wall with sorties into the garage, whist having little play fights in the drive.
If I pull down the wall, they will certainly relocate full time into the garage!
took a few out with traps but away again now so they will probalbly be breeding like....mice.
Anyone tried these sonic devices or have any other suggstions. As we aren't there full time and near a road a cat would be no good and the odd buzzard and owl don't seem to be hungry.
Get some poison from an animal feed place (yes they do sell it!) or B&Q. Put down small quantities, desert spoon size, on the inside of the garage at wall/floor junctions. No good just putting down one heap of the stuff, they will feed for one or two seconds at each location and move on to the next one, in this way will get a lethal dose. As a guide in a standard single garge put down 6 baits. Check it after a few days and replenish as needed, continue until all activity stops. Obviously ensure that non target animals and children can't access the poison.
If they die inside the garage they will quickly dehydrate (24/36 hrs) after this should not be a smell issue.
Don't bother with traps they soon get wise they they are a bad thing.
If they die inside the garage they will quickly dehydrate (24/36 hrs) after this should not be a smell issue.
Don't bother with traps they soon get wise they they are a bad thing.
We've had the same problem here in Asia, except they are small rats. Sticky paper works a treat. Put a small chunk of meat in the centre, lay the paper on their route to work, and they get stuck on it. 
Then you bonk their little skull in with a San Mig bottle, throw them in the rubbish bin. Job done, takes a few days to wipe out the whole family, but it is successful.
Then you bonk their little skull in with a San Mig bottle, throw them in the rubbish bin. Job done, takes a few days to wipe out the whole family, but it is successful.
In B&Q you can get Plastic Bait boxes that you fill with poision. Keeps contained & safe.
Much of the poisons now seem to make the mice thirsty so they often leave the house to get water & die.
Bait against a wall as that's where they're most likely to run along.
I'd not advise any traps & especially glue ones if you're not going to be there all the time.
Much of the poisons now seem to make the mice thirsty so they often leave the house to get water & die.
Bait against a wall as that's where they're most likely to run along.
I'd not advise any traps & especially glue ones if you're not going to be there all the time.
We have a couple of owls, a couple of buzzards and another smaller falcon sort of a thing (haven't established its species yet)that live near by.
They all seem oblivious to the meal below.
One thing that has just struck me, we sometimes get an otter resting in a space behind the garage, don't want him/her getting the poison.
They all seem oblivious to the meal below.
One thing that has just struck me, we sometimes get an otter resting in a space behind the garage, don't want him/her getting the poison.
hairyben said:
Had a lot more success with glue traps than any others
Unfeasably cruel things I refuse to have glue traps to try and control our mice.Spring traps etc i have no problem with as thats a quick snap and they are quite dead.
I also have a few pieces of tin on the grass which the mice love living under and the dogs love chasing and eating them when i lift the piece of tin
I bought a 'humane multi-rodent' trap least week to catch a field mouse who has moved in upstairs. So far, rubbish. I used a spring trap with the last one a few years ago and had him within the day. Not sure I am up for the 'despatching' stage in the glue trap, and OH definitely wouldn't be (thus the humane trap).
Poison may be the best option.
Poison may be the best option.
Busa mav said:
The mice were taking over my garage , so swept the area clean ,
placed 2 bait boxes (from B&Q) along the edge and next morning cleared up 7 dead mice.
In Punch type voice " Thats the way to do it!"placed 2 bait boxes (from B&Q) along the edge and next morning cleared up 7 dead mice.
Just need to keep the otter out the way. Do otters eat mice, would hate to poison it
thinfourth2 said:
Unfeasably cruel things I refuse to have glue traps to try and control our mice.
Spring traps etc i have no problem with as thats a quick snap and they are quite dead.
I also have a few pieces of tin on the grass which the mice love living under and the dogs love chasing and eating them when i lift the piece of tin
Ahem, I think you meant "If I had mice then I'd have a few pieces of tin...."Spring traps etc i have no problem with as thats a quick snap and they are quite dead.
I also have a few pieces of tin on the grass which the mice love living under and the dogs love chasing and eating them when i lift the piece of tin
"The Hunting Act bans activities that Parliament believed to be cruel sports and permitted activities that it believed to be necessary for land managers. Parliament accepted the view that, where rats and rabbits were pests, hunting them was legitimate.[37] MPs did not believe that there was any necessity to use dogs to hunt mice[38] and believed that hare hunting was cruel, which is why these activities were not exempted from the act.
These two exemptions do not make it possible for "traditional" hunting to continue. Rabbits tend to stay very close to their warrens and will go underground at the sight of dogs, thus not providing the chase that hunts need.[39]"
Knowing where you are, I'd avoid poison, not only the otter, but birds of prey, Pine Martens etc might end up dead (having eaten said mice).
The sonic things are complete crap... we had mice earlier this year... I knew exactly were they were getting in - tried the sonic device and they just walked past it. We used a humane 'multi' trap with a bit of chocolate as bait, and caught 6 mice in two days (delivered off to a derelict barn a few miles away). Not seen any since.
Obviously if you are not there, the spring trap would be the most sensible/humane. I also hate the glue trap... my dad used to use them and I've seen feet stuck in the glue that have been chewed off to make an escape.
The sonic things are complete crap... we had mice earlier this year... I knew exactly were they were getting in - tried the sonic device and they just walked past it. We used a humane 'multi' trap with a bit of chocolate as bait, and caught 6 mice in two days (delivered off to a derelict barn a few miles away). Not seen any since.
Obviously if you are not there, the spring trap would be the most sensible/humane. I also hate the glue trap... my dad used to use them and I've seen feet stuck in the glue that have been chewed off to make an escape.
i'm not around all the time, so humane traps won't work for me and the vermin can vary. So use spring traps laden with peanut butter - mostly a quick death over the head and means i don't need to check the traps every day. Though have had an occurrence last year of the mouse trapping the rear part of it's body, so it then attempted to crawl away. Sad, but it was swiftly dispatched and became food for the local red kites.
We have glis glis around here, which cause lots of damage. However, it's illegal to trap & release them due to not being a native species.
We have glis glis around here, which cause lots of damage. However, it's illegal to trap & release them due to not being a native species.
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