29 February 2024

Safeguarding Your House: Strategies to Combat Mouse Infestations

#Rat #Rodent Droppings #mouse #sarkman While the tale of three blind mice may entertain in nursery rhymes, the reality of dealing with a mouse infestation in your home can be far from amusing. Those tiny droppings scattered around the kitchen and the telltale signs of gnawed food can frustrate and overwhelm you. In the United […]

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Managing Mouse Infestations in the United Kingdom: Strategies and Solutions

#Rat #Rodent Droppings #mouse #sarkman It’s a common misconception that because some people keep mice as pets, wild mice wouldn’t pose much of a problem as pests. However, the reality is quite the opposite. Pest mice can be more troublesome, damaging, and hazardous than their domestic counterparts. Suppose you are dealing with mice scurrying around

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Dealing with Mouse Infestations: Signs and Solutions

#Rat #Rodent Droppings #mouse #sarkman The entry of mice into structures often perplexes homeowners, especially considering the apparent disparity between their body size and the openings they infiltrate. While the average circumference of a mouse exceeds an inch, the critical factor determining their ingress is their skull size. With heads small enough to navigate quarter-inch

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Good traps! Read instructions and be patient...

Bought a couple of different traps, had most success with these. They are bigger and seem to be stronger than the others we purchased. And these were cheaper.

Gloves and instructions were very useful.

Keeping human scent off the traps and allowing the rats time to get used to them (baiting but not setting) etc. has helped catch a trap-shy rat.

Work every time - with the right bait

I have a neighbor with a huge overgrown garden (her house looks like a horror movie set as well). Consequently over the last few years we have the autumn influx of critters which move into my sheds for the winter. They even dug under the ground to come in via the floor! I have tried everything available to be kind to them, then to poison them then to trap them. Only death works because there are so many breeding mice next door. These traps are failsafe. Box has warnings in about useless bait (like cheese, peanut butter etc) and also comes with gloves and brushes to get rid of fleshy ick. You need a 2-pronged attack – I have heeded the advice and only put about six grains of poison in the middle well in each trap. I then set trap and dropped only about 2-3 grains beside trap to have a trail going to trap. Every single day I have set two traps as an experiment and every day I have caught two mice.

Note at end of November: I have now caught two mice a day for 16 days – found out they came in via a mole tunnel underground then chewed through a wall. I filled up hole n have no more since – using this method NOT ONE MOUSE HAS BEEN TRAPPED BY LEG ETC and all die quickly by instant effect as their eyes are still open in surprise. Not cruel and no lingering suffering for them, just instant.