Do mice like stilton ??
30 January 2004, 02:59 PM
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No i haven't lost my marbles, I have got mice in the attic and the little buggers must be doing the mouse olympics at night time making a ****e load of noise.....
So have put up two mouse traps and had some stilton left over from crimbo and the little buggers didnt touch it last night
- is this the wrong type of cheese, can't beleave they are that fussy???????
am lol when typing this ......well it is friday......
So have put up two mouse traps and had some stilton left over from crimbo and the little buggers didnt touch it last night
- is this the wrong type of cheese, can't beleave they are that fussy???????
am lol when typing this ......well it is friday......
30 January 2004, 03:12 PM
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it's a myth, mice don't like cheese they lovvvvvvveeeee chocolate & sweet things,
my advice is never ever ever set a mousey trap when ur pi$$ed, i tried it, the missus and kids were falling around laughing at me everytime the trap whacked my fingers
my advice is never ever ever set a mousey trap when ur pi$$ed, i tried it, the missus and kids were falling around laughing at me everytime the trap whacked my fingers
30 January 2004, 03:13 PM
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dont think its squirrels , only its something by the small oblong shaped droppings......?
have caught them in past as at previous house with cheese??
[Edited by JimmyRB5PRO - 1/30/2004 3:13:27 PM]
have caught them in past as at previous house with cheese??
[Edited by JimmyRB5PRO - 1/30/2004 3:13:27 PM]
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30 January 2004, 03:43 PM
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Mouse droppings are tiny (we're talking 2mm long and less than half a mm wide) and mouses are generally pretty quiet. I had mice living around the house for several years and never heard a thing. I found baiting a live trap with porridge oats worked very well.
Rats, on the other hand, are much noisier and have droppings 1 to 2 cm long and upto half a cm wide. And they love banana.
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Rats, on the other hand, are much noisier and have droppings 1 to 2 cm long and upto half a cm wide. And they love banana.
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02 February 2004, 02:55 AM
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Have you caught anything yet???
We've got something that is moving about at night as well.
I hear a scratching noise. I think its coming from the attic but then it sounds like its really near by!!
We've got an old house with plaster and lath walls and I'm convinced there is something in the wall. Am I mad or could there be??
Our attic is so full of stuff there could be anything living in there and we wouldn't know!
Mr.Scooby thinks its mice but I think its too loud for mice.
The scratch and clump about lol
Its really getting on my nerves now. I've got images of this great big rat making a hole in the wall and popping out!!!
(yes I know typical woman!)
We've put some traps but nothing has moved.
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Have you caught anything yet???
We've got something that is moving about at night as well.
I hear a scratching noise. I think its coming from the attic but then it sounds like its really near by!!
We've got an old house with plaster and lath walls and I'm convinced there is something in the wall. Am I mad or could there be??
Our attic is so full of stuff there could be anything living in there and we wouldn't know!
Mr.Scooby thinks its mice but I think its too loud for mice.
The scratch and clump about lol
Its really getting on my nerves now. I've got images of this great big rat making a hole in the wall and popping out!!!
(yes I know typical woman!)
We've put some traps but nothing has moved.
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02 February 2004, 03:06 AM
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We had the same noises in my parents old house. Got a pest control fella in and he said it was rats from the droppings. He put some poisen pellets in the loft and the noises stopped a couple of days later. Never did find the dead rats!!!!
Oh, and bung the bottoms of your drainpipes with chicken wire to stop them crawling up and getting to the roof again.
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Oh, and bung the bottoms of your drainpipes with chicken wire to stop them crawling up and getting to the roof again.
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02 February 2004, 07:15 AM
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oh gawd so you think its rats too
I can handle the thought of mice in the house but I'm not liking the idea of rats .... not one bit
If they are using the drain pipe to get in does that mean they could be coming up the toilet as well???
02 February 2004, 10:10 AM
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well mixed thoughts, trap went off on sat night, thought cool got the litttle bast#rds.......went up it had gone off but 0 their,
since then nothing so they might have moved out or being very cautious , going to try some chocolate now and see if that any better .....................
since then nothing so they might have moved out or being very cautious , going to try some chocolate now and see if that any better .....................
17 February 2004, 03:02 AM
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Just wondering how you got on Jimmy?
We put some philadelphia (???? we'd tried everything else!) on a trap the other night and we caught a big fat mouse!
We put some more traps but nothing since and I haven't heard anymore noise.
What are the chances of there only being one mouse??
We put some philadelphia (???? we'd tried everything else!) on a trap the other night and we caught a big fat mouse!
We put some more traps but nothing since and I haven't heard anymore noise.
What are the chances of there only being one mouse??
17 February 2004, 07:41 AM
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Every chance of it being just the one 
We had one live mouse scuttling round our kitchen over the weekend, I presume the cat brought it in and got fed up playing with it. She wasn't interested in recapturiing though, we finally caught it and returned it to the wild.
We had one live mouse scuttling round our kitchen over the weekend, I presume the cat brought it in and got fed up playing with it. She wasn't interested in recapturiing though, we finally caught it and returned it to the wild.
17 February 2004, 09:04 AM
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no joy still as yet and ...........
has gone very quiet up their now, tied cheese , and chocolate, still had no luck with the chocolate as yet, but if they are still here they must have gone into stealth mode ..................................
lol that tis is still going , cos i think the mice have buggered off !!!
lol that tis is still going , cos i think the mice have buggered off !!!
17 February 2004, 10:25 AM
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Our old neighbours had mice, they took a liking to soap, and ate that. But at home mum used the left over Celebrations that no-one liked!
17 February 2004, 12:23 PM
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This is a crackin thread, my old man used to put cheddar on the trap and then blast it a bit with the blowlamp to melt it a bit, made the cheese smell strongly and also made it harder to get off without springin the trap, he used to catch loads, vision of a family of mice with their belongings over their shoulders marchin off in a huff
17 February 2004, 12:29 PM
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You can borrow my bleeding cat if you like!
Dam thing kindly bought me a mouse this morning at 3am, placed it under my bed and then sat there playing with it till i woke up to it squeaking away and the cat growling at it! Chased said cat out of the bedroom with mouse in it's mouth and then the cat started the game all over again in the kitchen. Finally managed to corner the cat in the kitchen (with the aid of the dog, who was loving the opp to chase the cat with permission) and got the cat to spit the mouse out - too late the poor thing had died of shock so i chucked the cat out in the rain and locked the cat flap! Mice don't live long in my house!
Dam thing kindly bought me a mouse this morning at 3am, placed it under my bed and then sat there playing with it till i woke up to it squeaking away and the cat growling at it! Chased said cat out of the bedroom with mouse in it's mouth and then the cat started the game all over again in the kitchen. Finally managed to corner the cat in the kitchen (with the aid of the dog, who was loving the opp to chase the cat with permission) and got the cat to spit the mouse out - too late the poor thing had died of shock so i chucked the cat out in the rain and locked the cat flap! Mice don't live long in my house!