Mice infestation...

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Looks like a furry mouse might have got into the house via an open garden door. Council now has a £30 charge for a call out. Had to do one about 3 years ago, and the guy came and put some poison. Mouse disappeared in a few days. Can't remember the name of the poison...any ideas.

Also does anyone know if the electronic rodent repellant work?
 
Is it Warfrin, not sure how you spell it. We had rats in the loft and the council bloke left us a tub of the stuff, sorted the little bleeders out, though I think they may be back, blowed if I know how they have got in, as after last time I blocked up all the holes .
 
vkurup said:
Looks like a furry mouse might have got into the house via an open garden door. Council now has a £30 charge for a call out. Had to do one about 3 years ago, and the guy came and put some poison. Mouse disappeared in a few days. Can't remember the name of the poison...any ideas.

Also does anyone know if the electronic rodent repellant work?
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I recall someONE on the forum had had the same problem only with rats in their kitchen. Maybe they can help.
 
Living on a farm this is a constant problem. Use Neosorexa Gold Ratpacks withh Fortec. 100g pouches placed where the mice/rats are soon gets rid of them. Keep a few in place even after the critters have gone. Little Nipper mousetraps baited with Rollos are good too.
 
CliveW said:
Living on a farm this is a constant problem. Use Neosorexa Gold Ratpacks withh Fortec. 100g pouches placed where the mice/rats are soon gets rid of them. Keep a few in place even after the critters have gone. Little Nipper mousetraps baited with Rollos are good too.
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We live in the country and have a large loft.
I agree with Clive with little nippers traps, good old fashioned technology, Rolo's though, good idea as cheese and chocolate are deemed best. Make sure you check your traps regularly.
Can't believe you would call the Cooncil to deal with mice, saw where you lived and understand now!
 
Doon frae Troon said:
We live in the country and have a large loft.
I agree with Clive with little nippers traps, good old fashioned technology, Rolo's though, good idea as cheese and chocolate are deemed best. Make sure you check your traps regularly.
Can't believe you would call the Cooncil to deal with mice, saw where you lived and understand now!
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Yup, we are lazy...

The pest controller mentioned it was sone kind of neurotoxin for the rat... He left some of it out and a few days later the noises went away. Found a couple of fully desiccated mice a couple of months later (and I thought we had only one)

Any idea where I can buy the warfarin (if that is the right name)
 
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We use a few of those sonic electronic thingumybobs and have had a lot less mice since. The occasional deaf one still finds their way into the loft so we have a couple of traps with chocolate drops (sorry Max!) as bait. Probably get a couple a year now but it used to be constant. Last one got caught and not killed in the trap though and tried to escape all night - we slept downstairs as it sounded like a mouse on steroids up there!
 
Get yourself a cat, or 4 like I've done. Never have a problem with any live mice in our house. Do get the occasional dead one though. Along with frogs, butterflies, birds and on one occasion half a roast chicken. Still not sure where they got that from.
 
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Get yourself a cat, or 4 like I've done. Never have a problem with any live mice in our house. Do get the occasional dead one though. Along with frogs, butterflies, birds and on one occasion half a roast chicken. Still not sure where they got that from.
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A friend of mine woke up one midsummer morning to find his cat playing with an adder on his bed.
 
We had a mouse problem in our first house, we started off putting poison down which worked a treat, but they would just keel over and die in random places and the first thing you would know about it was the smell as they started to decompose. On one occasion we tracked one down that had died whilst inside one of the wife's shoes in the bedroom wardrobe. After that we started to trap them.
 
Good old fashioned spring loaded mouse traps, loaded with peanut butter does the trick.

Cats are useless, and are normally responsible for bring the rodent indoors in the first place!
 
We gets rats and mice in the loft at this time of year I live out in the sticks . I use a combination of 2 cats, some traps and Raco Force paste. And that does the trick. The paste seems to be good as when I look in the loft most of the paste sachets have been nibbled at. I think the idea is that the rats eat the paste then go back to their nest and they die a horrible death due to the paste poisoning them. Found a rat in a trap once and it was a big evil thing.
 
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