I seem to have o lodger of the rodent type i think there is only one i think it is in the wall cavity but it has been gnawing in my airing cupboard i have blocked pipe holes with that foam stuff and put traps down but it seems a cunnung little bugger. Pease has anyone any ideas it keeps me awake at night with its gnawing.

get some thorntons choclate,
break it so you can actually smell it, put it on the mouse trap, i guarantee with in 24 hours you will have a dead rodent

lure it into a cage with nice smelling food, move the cage to a room where it won't keep you awake and keep it as a pet??? :D

Sounds like you need to get a pet cat!:P

Don't waste any time with cheese as bait. It's a myth that mice like cheese. Most of them hate it and it makes them sick if you make them eat it.

They are very clever creatures with avoiding poison, you sometimes have to try a few different types before you get one that works.

Originally posted by muddycoffee
you sometimes have to try a few different types before you get one that works.

Just in case, I think muddy means trying it out on the mouse not yourself.

Alternatively, offer yourself as a cat fosterer. See the link to the cat shelter in my sig.

I've got the same problem, a sneaky very clever mouse whom I'm calling 'Houdini'. I've got a humane trap and put peanuts in it, I caught 12 mice in less than a week but the thirteenth one manages to get into the trap, eat the peanuts and then somehow get out. I've invested in a different trap that it seems to ignore and will if all else fails be investing in a deadly trap although I don't really want to kill the thing.
Just in case you're wondering the mouse infestation only occurred when builders gutted a house near mine and the mice moved home using the cellars, another house so far has had 23 mice caught.
The other main problem now though is that everytime I hear a noise I think it is Houdini and most times it's just my central heating boiler clicking.

I know this sounds daft and maybe it was a dream I had but can you get such things as like a Rat or Mouse repeller- summat that you plug in and it emmits a noise to drive them out that humans cant hear??

I think I have seen some for insects on Sky before..
Maybe one of my kooky dreams perhaps tho??

And if there is such a thing.. do they actually work?

Originally posted by ANGELUS
I know this sounds daft and maybe it was a dream I had but can you get such things as like a Rat or Mouse repeller- summat that you plug in and it emmits a noise to drive them out that humans cant hear??

I think I have seen some for insects on Sky before..
Maybe one of my kooky dreams perhaps tho??

And if there is such a thing.. do they actually work?

you are not going mad, but no they dont work lol

Originally posted by ANGELUS
I know this sounds daft and maybe it was a dream I had but can you get such things as like a Rat or Mouse repeller- summat that you plug in and it emmits a noise to drive them out that humans cant hear??

I think I have seen some for insects on Sky before..
Maybe one of my kooky dreams perhaps tho??

And if there is such a thing.. do they actually work? Yeah, you can get them from those bowlerhat-with-sleeves, combined-cigarette-lighter-and-coathanger catalogues that come with the Sunday papers. Innovations is one, I think. They must have a website.

My dad once tried to rid us of the critters with an air rifle. That afternoon was fun - if ineffective!

The Jack Russell pup we subsequently bought saw them off though.

Originally posted by Robbie_Lovin
get some thorntons choclate,
break it so you can actually smell it, put it on the mouse trap, i guarantee with in 24 hours you will have a dead rodent

Please, Please! don't use Thorntons chocs, i have such a hard time trying to get them in the states, use cadburys or some other brand, i could never get a good nights sleep knowing that there was throntons chocs in a mouse trap somplace.

bacon rind works very well ,years ago when they pulled all the terraced houses down in heeley thats what people said worked and it did ,but i would call the council if ever i had mice these days.

Originally posted by roughy101
bacon rind works very well ,years ago when they pulled all the terraced houses down in heeley thats what people said worked and it did ,but i would call the council if ever i had mice these days. Do Sheffield council do mice? I thought they only did rats. Do they charge these days? Are you just as well getting a private company in that case?

Originally posted by Strix
Do Sheffield council do mice? I thought they only did rats. Do they charge these days? Are you just as well getting a private company in that case?

i believe they charge £20 or something llike that to come and put poison down!!



also poppins, the reason thorntons is so good is because of its rich texture..... oh i a might go get a bar, want one?? ha ha

Right i have been out and bought thorntans chocs and a live capture trap there are also two snapper traps so it can take its choice i have baited the humaine one with chocolate .I will now pig out and wait.Thanks all.

Good idea! Where's that Alpine Assortment?

Mr Strix

Originally posted by max
Just in case, I think muddy means trying it out on the mouse not yourself.

Alternatively, offer yourself as a cat fosterer. See the link to the cat shelter in my sig. that sounds an excellent idea .mind you you will have to watch out as there are a lot of cat haters in the sheffield area so you may be required to keep the cat in a cage so they cant harm it as some people have threatened to do on the forum .the other possibility is this sounds more like a rat problem to me

Originally posted by nikita
Right i have been out and bought thorntans chocs and a live capture trap there are also two snapper traps so it can take its choice i have baited the humaine one with chocolate .I will now pig out and wait.Thanks all. i had one that was very sneaky,i glued the bait in the trap and caught next night

Mine has managed to take the chocolate out of the humaine trap i put down it must be very tiny .I have found out it is living in the lagging around the hot water tank i found a little hole in it where it goes in and out.so i have stripped off all the lagging and binned it hopefully it went out with the lagging taken all the shelves out it is going to cost me a fortune in the end to replace it all what i cant understand is what do they live on there is no signs of it in the kitchen is it slipping out for a crafty takeaway.

Originally posted by tinker
there are a lot of cat haters in the sheffield area so you may be required to keep the cat in a cage so they cant harm it A good soaking doesn't constitute 'harm'. Excrement all over a 2 yr old who's been playing in their own garden is more like 'harm'.

I don't hate cats. I have some real issues with moggy owners though. Pedigree cat owners don't let their pets roam so irresponsibly

Originally posted by depoix
i had one that was very sneaky,i glued the bait in the trap and caught next night :hihi: Has Wallbuilder read this? Nice one depoix!

I was hoping some-one would have a good idea and now sure enough one has been posted. Let me get this right though, 'you stick the food in the trap with glue and the mouse being gredy just keeps on trying to get it out until I hear it and can catch it', or is it more that the mouse becomes stuck to the glue? Just checking as I'm not inclined to be cruel even if it is a 'sneaky, devious, clever and an escapologist'
I'd go poking around in my cellar but the idea of disturbing a spider makes me somewhat reluctant.

Originally posted by Strix
A good soaking doesn't constitute 'harm'. Excrement all over a 2 yr old who's been playing in their own garden is more like 'harm'.

I don't hate cats. I have some real issues with moggy owners though. Pedigree cat owners don't let their pets roam so i rresponsibly youre not going to get cat owners putting collars and leads on there pets the cat is not the type of animal to be trained for this not like a dog for any suggestion to keep them caged up in my opinion is cruel to the animal . i also dont beleive some people who are saying it is a cat that has s*** all over .on the road where i live within the first 10 houses on this road there are no less than 9 cats its very rare any excrement is seen .i might also add no one has any problem whatsoever with rodents .i think these people are blaming the poor cat when it is more likely to have been left by a dog.i have always seen my cat bury it so i would suggest go out and get a cat .dont let people like strix put you off they are obviously cat haters

hi nik go to b&q and get som poison ive forgot what its called .we had the same prob with the little things it is safe to use with other pets {dogs cats etc} the idea is for them to eat the poison and die but you may never know where the body will be it may be in the wall cavity .the poison slows them down and i once got hold of 1 and put it in the bin!!

Thanks s tevie i wasnt sure if you could buy poisen but this is driving me crazy i think i will get some it seems the only way i must have got the only mouse that does not like chocolate.

Originally posted by tinker
dont let people like strix put you off they are obviously cat haters How dare you! I made my position quite clear :mad:

At one time we all thought it was acceptible to buy a cross breed dog and let it roam the streets - it was just 'normal'. We have since changed our views.

I think with the rate of cat road deaths it's time we changed our views of responsible cat ownership. If the roaming pet were a dog, you would be regarded as cruel for neglecting it :mad: Poor cats.

Originally posted by steevie/d
hi nik go to b&q and get som poison ive forgot what its called .we had the same prob with the little things it is safe to use with other pets {dogs cats etc} the idea is for them to eat the poison and die but you may never know where the body will be it may be in the wall cavity .the poison slows them down and i once got hold of 1 and put it in the bin!! The poison may not attract cats and dogs, but if they catch a poisoned rodent....

I seem to be loosing the plot here what has cat haters cats pooing in peoples garden cats getting run over and such got to do with my mouse problem i love cats i love dogs i love mice but i dont want to live with one.

Hi nikita sounds like your having fun with mousy, look on the brightside ( brightside get it? ) at least your airing cupboard has had a good springclean, happy hunting

Mollie talking of springcleans wouldnt happen to be looking for business would you did you plant it when you were round at my house by any chance.

drat you found me out very reasonable rates interested?

you obviously haven't got your mouse trap sensitive enough.....

if only you had a man about the house he could help you with this..... did i mention im single? LMAO

No robbie you didnt what does lmao mean

careful nikita don`t lead the poor guy on, admit you have a big hunky hubby

Originally posted by nikita
No robbie you didnt what does lmao mean

laughing my arse off = LMAO

What does lmao mean?

Originally posted by nikita
What does lmao mean?


am i making invisible posts again??

Mollie do i know you

Sorry robbie explain?

Yes nikita you do, i think you know my husband do`nt you, have you been at the wine again?
LMAO laughing my arse off ... get it?

Last night 'Hiudini' was gnawing at something behind a section of skirting board, I'd bang noisily and the little monster would start again after a minute. I can't relax and every noise now I'm convinced is the mouse and as my boiler makes plenty of interesting noises I'm forever jumping up to investigate another sound.
Enough is enough, I've called the council pest control who will come and put poison traps down and hopefully figure out where the pesky rodent first got into the house. I don't like being cruel but don't like the idea f an ever growing mice population under the kitchen floor.
The cost is going to be £48 but at least I'll get peace of mind and if the mice return [let's hope not] the council will return though I bet there is a time limit on that.
Something to spend the christmas money on I suppose.

What happens if the mouse has come from your neighbour as i am convinced mine has he lives on his own and is a dirty so and so if i pay out for rodent control to come wont the problem carry on if his are not dealt with.

I too think my mouse problem only started when a neighbours house was gutted by builders so I'm going to want that question answered myself. If I understood the lass on the telephone they come out and inspect your property and find where the pesky little things are getting in or living, they then put down poison traps to kill any in the house. Apparently they come back to check the traps and if the mouse problem resurfaces they come out free of charge. No doubt the guy who comes out will have all the details and can explain things to me more fully, I will let people know how I get on.
Now is that my neighbour moving something or is mousey rattling something on the skirting board??? I'm not joking!!

It was Houdini the little monster ran out from under my freezer and actually ran over my foot, that'll teach me to shove my spirit level down the side of the freezer!!
Anyway the man from the council has been and after crawling around in the floor space has set five traps with poison. He says it may take up to a fortnight to get rid of the problem and he'll be back in a month to pick the traps up or if need be rebait them. He couldn'yt find where the pesky things had got into the house but if after he has removed the traps they come back within six weeks or so he'll come and put the traps down again.
The cost £46 or if you're on benefit £23

I also have a mouse and it's a damn clever bugger of a pain in the A. It only likes untreated cardboard so all my folders are up on the highest shelf for starters. It was in me room last night and woke me up at 0330 biting away my precious files.

I got some traps, but utter blx, doesn't seem the lest interested in them. I thought it lived in the basements so put enough supermarket bags underneath the door the prevent but air come through, it managed to pull one of the 45 bags i squeazed in but I replaced it this morning, at some point I'm going to burn it with a flame thrower if it doesn't coming into MY bedroom !
Originally posted by WALLBUILDER
The cost £46 or if you're on benefit £23
I'm confused, if people are on benefit they already have extra money right and on top of the they get a cheaper price for the guy to nuke mice ? So if you're not on benefits you don't get money from CC AND you pay more :loopy: :rant: ?

And no I'm not twitching at the thought of this thing not beeing human and living in my house.

Mum had a little mouse problem, she caught two (by hand :o ) trying to eat the bugie seed!! She decided to be nice to them and leave them alive and put them out of the house. Then she heard more rustling and caught another one in the seed, so she was nice to that one too. After the 5th live mouse she decided it was getting daft, they must be getting back in somewhere, so she gave in and set a couple of traps.28 mice later she is now living in peace :help::clap:
So be warned just because you catch one, it might not be the end of the problem, keep the traps out just in case....

I had before christmas caught 12 of the little monsters and then taken them a long long way away from my house before releasing them.
However the one and I think it is one that is still around [though hopefully not for much longer] Houdini has been able to escape from the trap I set after no doubt gorging himself on the peanuts. The man from the council says he fully expects mice to be able to be members in MENSA soon as they seem to be getting brighter and are showing extreme expertise in confounding us shambling humans.
Mice apparently are more likely to congregate where other mice are or have been recently so once Houdini is gone and I've sterilised the place that should be the end of it.

I now know mice are very clever mine has managed to evade the traps i have put down.I took advice from rentakill today i put a little tray of rat poisen down in my airing cupboard when i came home later it had scoffed the lot i feel sorry for it but its war now.

Originally posted by Strix
How dare you! I made my position quite clear :mad:

At one time we all thought it was acceptible to buy a cross breed dog and let it roam the streets - it was just 'normal'. We have since changed our views.

I think with the rate of cat road deaths it's time we changed our views of responsible cat ownership. If the roaming pet were a dog, you would be regarded as cruel for neglecting it :mad: Poor cats.


Poor cats for not being imprisoned? I have to disagree there.

I've had a few nights now of peace and quiet and am not jumping every time my boiler clicks. It'll be another week before the man from the council will return and check how much of the poison has gone, I must admit I'm curious to know that as well. One good thing is I haven't come across any little corpsesand now just hope when I put everything back into the kitchen cupboards that I don't become aware that the mice have come back.

Originally posted by t020
[B]Poor cats for not being imprisoned? I have to disagree there. [/B yes i also have to disagree ,if strix had the chance every cat in the country would be locked up ,when they have the right to be free to roam and keep the rodent population down . not locked up

We have a lot of trouble with wood and field mice settting up home here every autumn, so eventually I bought one of these...

http://www.martleyelectronics.co.uk/pestcontrol-rodent.html#zapper

a bit expensive at £60 for the mains version but if you have a perrenial problem they're a good investment. It will kill rats too - quick, clean and humane.

Help!! We have a mouse somewhere in our house! We obviously want to get rid of it but don't really want to use the spring loaded type traps for fear of drunkedly stumbling into them, plus nobody is going to volunteer to tidy it up! So any other ways of ridding our house of mice? They seem to be the little tiny sweet looking mice but still, mice are mice and they aren't paying rent so it's time to go.

Thanks,

Grant

You can get humane mousetraps from pet stores and hardware stores. You bait them with food, but rather than killing the mouse, they trap it in a box. You can then take the mouse a little way from the house (woods or a park etc) and release it.

They're a bit more expensive (IIRC about £4 to £5), but kinder and less likely to give you nightmares! :thumbsup:

K x

There's a huge great long thread on here somewhere........

Wallbuilder knows all about getting shut of tiny non-paying guests ;)

Edit: http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24979

Originally posted by Kristian
You can get humane mousetraps from pet stores and hardware stores. You bait them with food, but rather than killing the mouse, they trap it in a box. You can then take the mouse a little way from the house (woods or a park etc) and release it.

They're a bit more expensive (IIRC about £4 to £5), but kinder and less likely to give you nightmares! :thumbsup:

K x

Awesome! I think I've just found some of them on ebay... ahhh ebay where would we be without it?

Cheers everyone,

Grant

Mod: Threads merged; thanks for the link Strix! :thumbsup:

The only problem with the humane ones is how and where to empty them :( and whether you are up to the job ;)

I think we're going to opt for the big snappy ones because we don't live near anywhere suitable to let them go so I think they would just come back to pester us or somebody else.

After reading this thread I'm getting a bit worried that we're going to have lots of them! So far, one of my housemates accidently trod on one late one night and squashed it, we thought that would be that but tonight I saw another one running across the floor!

It's a weird thing, there so small and they obviously can't do us any harm, yet most people (me included to some extent) seem to be so squimish toward them!

I've got two humane mouse traps you can borrow, I say borrow as although my mouse problem has gone I'm still months later still slightly jumpy if I hear any unusual noises from the dark recesses of the room.
Mice just love peanuts and it was fascinating looking at the traps each morning to see another little face peering back at me, well it was fun for the first five or so after ten the 'fun' aspect was somewhat lacking and by fifteen I was a nervous wreck. Mice are sneaky and very clever you may not see them much but there could be lots of them scuttling around,

Thanks for the offer Wallbuilder but we picked up a couple of the spring loaded traps. It's now been set for a week or so and not a peep. We've tried peanuts and chocolates. The peanut, was swiped by the crafty thing and the trap didn't spring, the chocolate looks slightly nibbled on but no luck. Any ideas? We also have a slug in our living room that comes out at night and leaves a trail around the carpet! Urgh our house is minging!

Told you they were clever little beasties didn't I? I considered the spring loaded traps but
1. I'm a bit of a softy and didn't want to kill them, and
2. I'm a bit squeamish and didn't think I could deal with a corpse
I once had a little slug that must of come into my house attached to my shoe or something, for days every day I'd come down in the morning to see another meandering slug trail across the carpet and hearth-rug. I must of moved every piece of furniture looking for the pesky thing and eventually found it clinging to a narrow ledge under a low drawer unit I've got, the annoying bit was that I'd moved and re-moved that particular piece of furniture SEVERAL times.

Originally posted by WallBuilder
I was hoping some-one would have a good idea and now sure enough one has been posted. Let me get this right though, 'you stick the food in the trap with glue and the mouse being gredy just keeps on trying to get it out until I hear it and can catch it', or is it more that the mouse becomes stuck to the glue? Just checking as I'm not inclined to be cruel even if it is a 'sneaky, devious, clever and an escapologist'
I'd go poking around in my cellar but the idea of disturbing a spider makes me somewhat reluctant. just super glue the bait down,if using spring loaded traps, file the trigger bar to a fine needle sharp point,put a drop of oil on it so it doesnt snag and hopefully it will go off with the least pressure that the mouse puts on the trap,before i used super glue i used to use cotton to tie the bait down hoping the mouse would get its teeth stuck and spring the trap,worked sometimes

to make sure that it sets the trap off melt chocolate onto the trap and let it set.

When we had mice they were babies and they could manage not to set the trap off and get away with the choccy! Melting it onto the trap make them really pull at it.

'Scuse me if someone has already said this, I can't be a*sed to read through 5 pages of mice traps!

When you have got rid of them, I'd really recommend you buy one of those plug in deterrents - they emit a high pitched squeal that rodents don't like - they're ok for other animals but not if you have hamsters or guinea pigs etc.

I've never had a problem since I got this. They're expensive (about £15) but worth the peace of mind. You can get them from B&Q.

Thanks for this fascinating thread which I have read with mounting alarm.

Found one of these pests just as I was ready to go bed and now know my neighbour's attempts to reassure me were the devious attempt to mislead me so that he could escape after I'd offered to swap flats so I could have a peaceful night and leave him with that flaming little mousey.

I'm going to get that, some superglue, the Council's Pest Control Department and everything else that's going to get rid of this lot.

chocolate drops or buttons inside an EMPTY milk bottle.
place the bottle on its side filled with the buttons, when the mousie enters pick itup & your away.
(with the old long necked bottles u could leave them down & the mice tended to get disorientated & stay put.)

mice love chocolate.

dammm me n the missus just seen,, well what we think is a mouse, but from my student days this mouse seems a bit bigger,, we didnt see a tail, but it seemed mobile phone size! it was brown and legged it quite like a froggy running motion into the bathroom, needless to say we both **** it!

in the bathroom there are pipes with holes around them and the same at the back of the sink,,,tried followin it but it was gone..
we live in a block of flats and hope the building isnt infested :S

either way Council's Pest Control Department is here:

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES - PEST CONTROL
Available for any domestic property, both private and council.
Office Address & Opening Times
Environmental Services
Osgathorpe Depot
Sheffield
S4 7DB
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Tel :- 0114 203 7410
Tel :- 0114 203 7411Fax :-0114 203 7417
Email :-environmentalservicesadmin@sheffield.gov.uk

trap time, what about using chocolate AND bacon?!

Pass on the chocolate bacon and whatever believe me i have been there .Go straight for the poison dont waste your time.its the only thing that works. GOOD LUCK.

well i know this sounds funny and all but its perplexed me n the missus,,,we r still trying to think wot kind of escaped small rodent round like animal it was! think we r just to freaked out,,,dunno!

Snapper traps with a bit of bacon rind are good cos they have to tug the rind and that sets the trap off better.

Ive heard that kit kat is very successful too ...

Cats are best though.

The description sounds like a gerbil!

we have google'd images on the subject of: mouse, english mouse, mouse breeds, rat, black rat, brown rat, gerbil, russian gerbil, hamster, brown hamster, gerboa, bat, frog, toad, - just had me landlord on the phone, he was well freaked out and is getting the management agency to look into it tomorrow, found a hole under a pipe in the bathroom,, so no one is goin the loo for a while

mix quaker oats with cement leave in a heap, wll come for the oats and not be back

Abyss,
It sounds like a vole: do you live near fields / woods / open ground?
We get all these little furry things running round the house regularly,
because our daft cat goes out and fetches them in!!
So think twice before assuming a cat is the answer to a mouse problem!
Good luck with it, whatever it is,
Thursday.

yeah, choccy and a trap, works a treat

Kill the damn thing using a trap with chocolate.

Don't use poison as they die and rot under your flooboards.

If you catch it and let it go, it will come back (or come go to someone elses).

If you don't do something they will multiply. Fast.

I heard a noise in out lounge a few weeks ago, put down two traps, and caught 14 of the damn things in a week. And they'd got into a cupboard and ripped up a few of my daughters teddies/cuddly toys.

What you have to consider is that they also love plastic cables. And when they start on your cables you have a serious fire hazard.

Kill em before they kill you!

lmao= leave mice alone ok..........free the mice.

erm...............................:huh: :help: :hihi:

ok guys, bin out and got poison and traps, rentokill ones.

now poison as a counter measure, as its a city centre 2nd floor apartment, so prolly other residents attracting them as my flat is clean n nice! (rules out the vole)
have melted a cadburys button (no thorntons as it were a 5er for a box!
) onto the trap and its very sensitive, mounted at back of the loo.

mixed in some broken up choccy into the poison and placed a tray behind the sink, behind the cooker, and behind the fridge,,so bring it on,,whatever the hell it is!?

any bets to be placed (should i catch owt) ?

oh yeah got some bacon but thats in the fridge for me for now :D

choccy will do the trick just fine

flame thrower - simply point and fire.... 100% effective