mice

[Blah]

the house im renting in infested with mice, they come into my room at night, i can hear them gnawing away under the floorboards and in the roofspace. Seems like they have a whole network in the walls and everything. Its been like this for years. Ive informed the people im renting from but they've taken no action.

I actually have no problem with mice, i think they're rather cute, but im fairly sure its not healthy to be living with them and im pretty sure they are wrecking the house too.

If they did take action, then they'd probably lay poisen. Not only do i disagree with this for humane reasons, but i dont think it would be very nice to have loads of dead rotting corpses inside the house.

Ive got a humane trap set up in my room but the mice have outsmarted it and wont go inside

Anyone got any miracle ideas?

Even if i was to catch them all, im fairly sure a new load would move in.

[LuckyStrike]

positive it is mice and not rats?

mice dont have the gnawing skills of rats so find it harder to get into apparently "sealed" areas.

especially if they are in the wall cavities etc..

most pest control (if not all) people offer humane catching methods these days, which are basically live traps that keep them alive, but then they have to come and check them everyday.

certainly worth ringing the council to get it checked out, you dont want to be living with a bunch of rats, believe me.

[Blah]

Nah its definately mice, i've seen them

So if they live caught all of the mice living here, then took them away to release, wouldnt a whole new family of mice just move in?

I'd have to get someone to come inspect the whole house and fill in every single hole, maybe?

[LuckyStrike]

yeah environmental health at your local council will let you know your options.

not necessarily they'd come back...

[Calvin]

We had mice in our rented place in London, although we were 5 meters from the tube track.

I didn't even realise until one day having already ate half I notice the mouse had been at my MilkyBar I left in the cupboard. :(

My housemate also tried to blame the mouse for eating my four chocolate mousse's I had in the chiller :chin:

Anyway, Rentokill came around and laid some poison. The rats/ mice dont die there and then, they become really thirsty and go in search of a drink (usually from a river or something) and die en route.

[LuckyStrike]

the latest poisons actually mummify them anyway, so they dont stink or rot if they die in a awkward position.

A bloke at work once shot a rat and thought it had ran off to die but found it a couple of days later up in a table lamp shade, melting to the lamp. nice.

[Blah]

What happens if other wildlife eat a mouse that died by poisen though, will it kill that too? We have lots of cats around here and i dont want to put them at risk.

Not to mention i dont want to kill the mice anyway, they dont deserve to die.

I'd rather just relocate them all but they are too clever for the humane traps.

[kangoo]

get enviromental health in, they are very good

we had fleas when we moved in to our new house, we didn't know what was biting me until we saw the fuckers leaping around. environmental health came round the next day, sprayed the whole house and left us with some more spray incase any had been missed. couldn't fault it. and fleas aren't counted as dangerous to health, you have to pay to get rid of them. mice are cos of the disease so they'll come round quick and won't charge (i think)

[Blah]

get enviromental health in, they are very good

we had fleas when we moved in to our new house, we didn't know what was biting me until we saw the fuckers leaping around. environmental health came round the next day, sprayed the whole house and left us with some more spray incase any had been missed. couldn't fault it. and fleas aren't counted as dangerous to health, you have to pay to get rid of them. mice are cos of the disease so they'll come round quick and won't charge (i think)

Cool :cool:

Although if they do charge i think its my landlords that would need to pay for it anyway, once i convince them that there really are mice living here and that its not my imagination

[Ballerina]

Don't you live at work? I remember a thread ages ago with that puppy!

[Blah]

Don't you live at work? I remember a thread ages ago with that puppy!

yes i do, i rent a house where i work

[Ballerina]

yes i do, i rent a house where i work

I want your job!!

[Blah]

I want your job!!

i think u should know im often working a 24 hour day due to out of work duties, can be called out to pretty much anywhere in the uk, have to offer a helpline that often awakens me at any hour in the night, and work some weekends :p

still want it?

[budda]

the latest poisons actually mummify them anyway, so they dont stink or rot if they die in a awkward position.

Not really, its just blood thinner, they bleed internally and then die.

I hate to say it but poison is your best bet.

[LuckyStrike]

thats warphrine aint it? or however its spelt, im sure i heard there is something different that they use now that can dry them out

[Pearly]

Have you tried the high-pitched plugs you can use to scare them away? It worked for me when once upon a time in an old place we had mice and it's much more humane...

This is what it is like, there are various ones out there on the market and you should be able to find one in a general hardware shop...

http://www.alwaysbrilliant.com/?PID=689&SC=98671&PN=Pest%20Chaser%20Choice&KW=Mice%20Deterrent

[nicebutdim23]

having lived with the dirty little fuckers since last summer i can safely say those plug-in things do fuck all to scare an existing infestation.

Mice know traps. they know how to dodge traps. they know how to get food off traps without getting caught. they are much cleverer than people give them credit for.

i was very much against poison when we first found out they had moved in, after trying to battle them alone and losing for six months (mainly due to the fact my slobby housemate didn't care and thought they were cute pets) i got in the professionals and the poison and split the bill with the housemates.

There has still been the odd one but on the whole they seem to be gone. There hasn't been a smell. The mouse man advised us to block all small holes in the wall up and suggested wire wool as the best thing to use as mice won't chew that coz it rips their tounges.

not humane, but neither was the stress they have caused me.

[budda]

thats warphrine aint it? or however its spelt, im sure i heard there is something different that they use now that can dry them out

Thats the one, a rather useful medication in lots of people. I dont know whether it has changed, but when I got the people round they said it was that and that was not more than a year ago.