There's a moose.. loose.. aboot this hoose!

[Hellcat]

While watching TV last night I spotted this out the corner of my eye.

Had to pretty much take the living room apart to catch the critter. Next thing on the shopping list... cat.

 

[missey]

Awww .. bloody things are difficult to get rid of in a nice way tho

 

[jug]

its that time of year, i've seen so many rats and mice lately, mostly dead on roads. they're looking for a winter home. leave plenty of warfarin lying about and you'll give plenty of them a slow and painful death. dont try to prevent them from getting in your house, thats silly, you cant, just accept that you need to deal with the ones that choose your house. a cat would work, but isnt that just a bigger version of the same problem?

 

[Dobby]

While watching TV last night I spotted this out the corner of my eye.
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Had to pretty much take the living room apart to catch the critter. Next thing on the shopping list... cat.

am i looking at it wrong? It seems suspended in mid air and at a very funny angle

 

[luvduvs]

Time to move

 

[jug]

Time to move

there is no where on earth that is inhabited by man that is not also inhabited by mice and rats.

 

[missey]

there is no where on earth that is inhabited by man that is not also inhabited by mice and rats.

Not in my house I am on the 2nd floor tho

But saying that my brother had them in his loft.

At my old house they were coming in through the wall vent brick. We used a humane trap at first, but soon realised that it just wasnt enough

And all you are doing then is pushing them off to other peoples doorsteps

 

[jug]

i can guarantee they will be in your house, either living there full time or like most of them only making visits once in a while to collect food, but even if you are on the 10th floor you have rats and mice.

 

[Dobby]

My dad has slugs

He gets up in the morning and finds their slimy trail over the carpet. He's even getting up at 2 and 3am to try and catch em but so far they have out witted him

 

[arc]

i can guarantee they will be in your house, either living there full time or like most of them only making visits once in a while to collect food, but even if you are on the 10th floor you have rats and mice.

i think you're wrong and i'm basing that on the amount of houses i've ripped back to brick and not seen head nor tail or mooses.

was up at me mams place earlier this week (big ol' farm cottage in the lakes) and she'd noticed mice had moved in, so out came the traps primed with chocolate (works better than cheese) and also Dave and Jaz moved in (two cats from local cat sanctuary place).

few nights later, the sound of mice nibbling under the floorboards has gone!

 

[Hellcat]

As for pushing them onto other peoples doorsteps... That's fine

am i looking at it wrong? It seems suspended in mid air and at a very funny angle

It's in a paper shopping bag, the type you get from clothes stores. It was the only way I was going to catch it... In fact I only caught it as it made the mistake of running into the bag!

Cat's aren't as bad as mice. Cat's tend not to gnaw through power cables. :yuck:

 

[Dobby]

ooooooooh yeah lol

Thought it looked like cream walls

 

[Xen]

plenty of warfarin lying about and you'll give plenty of them a slow and painful death.

easy wasy in the short-run, hard and discusting way in the long run. problem with rodenticides is once they've eaten it, they go back to their hiding spot and die. then you have to try find them just by smelling out the rotting flesh, otherwise you get flies and maggots (if it isnt already too late.)

best way is glue traps tbh, but i think their by far the cruelist way to do it (having to knaw your legs to pieces in an attempt to free yourself before you starve to death? :shakehead ) so id always go with the good old mice traps.. kills them within seconds 99% of the time, only disadvantage over other methods is they can obviously only catch one at a time and it can take a while to kill all the adults off.

 

[Chas Uno]

Awww .. bloody things are difficult to get rid of in a nice way tho

Easy, get one of these. Pull trigger, job done :devil:

 

[Chas Uno]

ooooooooh yeah lol

Thought it looked like cream walls

That sounds rude! Are they like "sugar walls"?

 

[luvduvs]

there is no where on earth that is inhabited by man that is not also inhabited by mice and rats.

But if its running around inside the house then you have a serious problem!!

Easy, get one of these. Pull trigger, job done :devil:

Yeh good one, and blow the house up at the same time

 

[Wee Smurf]

out came the traps primed with chocolate (works better than cheese) and

My mum uses Mars bars as bait. Works a treat.

Mum's next door neighbour's husband moves out at the first sight of a mouse,,, lol He hates them so much.

 

[Punto_Pete]

there's no mice in my house, the cat and dog see to that, and i can always let the snakes loose.

there are mice under my shed though and the cat won't go and catch them, although the dog's working on it, unfortunately being a labrador shes having to dig some stupidly large hole

 

[maddogmorg]

had one in me parents bedroom but managed to catch it before it made a family. it was in a humane trap thing and once we'd caught it i took it out to sixth form and released it out in the countryside (about 8miles from my house) to ensure it doesn't come back! it was a cute lil' thing though. not a mangey one.

 

[Lupi]

Had to pretty much take the living room apart to catch the critter. Next thing on the shopping list... cat.[/QUOTE]

not always best, the only reason theres mice in owens house is cause millie(cat) brings them in as pressies for his parents :S oh and the occasional robin