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The unwanted guests thread.
This is a thread for discussing our enemy-companions.
After quite a long respite and possibly encouraged by the recent cold weather, I found that I am suffering from unwanted company again. Quote:
But traps do not wipe all of them out in one fell swoop and they are fast learners, so that traps are not the answer. The supermarket sells a poison called "Rodine" which is marketed as a "super-antocoagulant", a bit like warfarin on steroids. But when I had this same problem seven years ago I found that the mice were immune to this agent and that I was actually attracting neighbouring mice by feeding them instead of poisoning them. I looked into the problem on Google and found that:
But when I researched for organic and environmentally friendly mouse poisoning options I was not very happy. One method is to mix flour with sugar for the bait and add in bicarbinate of soda for the lethal agent. The soda ferments inside the mouse and kills it. If you have ever had gastritis [I have] then you will appreciate that this method scores low marks for human decency, even when you hate the little bastards as much as I do. A second method is same as above but use plaster of paris instead of soda. The plaster of paris draws moisture from the mouse and sets inside its digestive system. Nice. I reckon this is even more cruel than the soda. So, to supplement the previously ineffective "Rodine" I bought a product called "Mouse Killer" which uses a different anti-coagulant. The baits were taken enthusiastically for about a week but since then have been left alone. I have found two dead mice and my nose tells me there are others. But I don't think I have got them all yet; I still hear stealthy movements sometimes. So I will continue the campaign. If I were in a relationship I would have a cat because then I could make my occasional weekend trips to the North of England without worrying about Tiddles. That would be the best answer but since I can't have a cat, I have to deal with it myself.
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No cat? That would be one of the best anti-mouse things to have. Pity.
That would certainly discourage the little rodents. Do you live in a detached home or a block of flats? Mice are attracted to bits of food left laying about. If someone else's slovenly behavior elsewhere in the building is encouraging them, then you will have to tolerate the invasions. Storing food in metal tins and bins with lids helps a great deal. If you have a detached single family home, a careful inspection of the foundation walls outside and the basement within can pinpoint problem areas where mice are gaining access. These can then be plugged up with cement. Killing them off with traps and poison may be amusing, but the only way to STOP them is to cut off their access to your living space. if you don't do that, more will keep coming, and the world has an endless supply of mice to plague you with.
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I am a slob; it is a thing about me. Whenever housework conflicts with anything else, including VEF, work-work and plucking fluff out of my navel, then housework will always lose. Only I know the safe path from my couch to the water closet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB_I1YBAozE But I suspect that this is going have to be dealt with. I will probably begin by patching up my back door, as I am fairly certain that they got in that way. But of course the present lot must be 100% killed as well.
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I'd stick with trapping and trying to deny access into the house as my means of combat. Poison is a double edged sword, you do not want them croaking inside your walls.
As one who suffers from a similar attitude towards house cleaning, I've trained myself to do a full days cleaning at the start of the month then about 20-30 minutes a day after to maintain it. It gets easier and faster as the mess doesn't accumulate. Getting a handle on that would be a big step in insuring future infestations as less likely to happen. |
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The battle continues. I toured the baits this evening and two more (in the kitchen) have been taken; so I laid two more down for mousey mousey to enjoy. It is not my preferred option, but they laugh scornfully at my traps and yet have been gullible when I laid the poison. I have to go with what works. In fact, if they stop taking the relatively humane anti-coagulants, I will move over to the bicarbonate of soda and try them on that. But I won't ever use plaster of paris or (God help us) cement powder, because you have to draw the line somewhere.
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As far as bait goes, they were quite partial to bread, especially granary bread. I did try sticky traps as well as the standard little nipper ones but when I caught one and it was still alive, I threw the rest of the sticky traps away. Too slow and far too cruel.
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I've always had good luck with peanut butter as bait, it's not something they can grab and scoot off with, they tend to stay there and lick at it, setting off the trap.
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