Mouse in the loft

[mazza]

:frown:

Skritch, skrtich, skritch across my ceiling in the early morning and late at night...

It's the inevitable sound of a bloomin' mouse up there.

I can't decide whether to live and let live or go for the kill with a high tension, bone crunching mouse trap... :o

And how did the thing get there in the first place...this is a modern house...s'posed to be built to not allow vermin to get in! :blink:

[mazza]

Eeek, hadn't thought of squirrels :o

Pretty sure it's a mouse, it's that certain scritchy, scritchy noise they make!!

Methinks I shall have to root out a super-high-tension mouse trap and set it - yuk :(

[sapphirelily10]

Do you know that a little field mouse can get in through a hole the size of a biro? Or so my mum informed me when she had several sheltering from the cold last winter! Mind you, wouldn't have thought you could hear something that size if it's got into the loft?!

Hope you get to the bottom of it Mazza; I would at least want to know what is lurking in my loft :blink: ;)

Sapph :D

[hollygolightly]

:huh: I wouldn't like something scurrying around in my loft, urgh....

You could also purchase one of those sonic vermin repellant machine thingummybobs. We had one in the farm where I used to live and it worked wonders keeping everything away. You can get them out of those little mail order catalogues that come in the Sunday papers (Home Free Shopping/ Innovations etc).

Much more humane than a mouse trap. :blush:

Let us know when you find out for sure what it is, won't you? ;)

[Annabel]

oooer missus!

you can get traps that dont kill them just trap them, and then you could let it go somewhere...like your NFH's house...whoops shouldnt say that! :P

better still get a cat. end of problem. beginning of different one! B)

[tristar]

Oh no :o

I would have to get rid of it...whatever it is...as soon as possible :unsure:

[Blue Cow]

Hi Mazza,

We had a mouse problem once, and I really did try with the humane traps, but to no avail. In the end we resorted to poison and traps which resolved the problem in no time (but it was upsetting).

Before you do lay any traps though, please go up and check if it is actually mice :) (the signs they leave are unmistakable)

Blue Cow

[mazza]

Oh the scritching was really bad last night, I really must get on with it :lol:

I like the idea of the sonic thingie...But I just wonder if it would know where to run away to to escape!! :blink: :lol:

It is prob a field mouse and I'd feel awful willfully murdering it (soppy, I know) :sad:

Didn't know they can get in through such a tiny hole :o

Awww what a dilemma! :(

[Mistyeyeddreamer]

We had a terrible mouse problem about a year ago. Our cat, Brian only has one eye and seemed to have lost the ability to catch or chase them. Then we got Molly!!! Haven't seen a sign of mice for the last ten months. Oh, except for the poor little dead one she left in the hall. :(

Misty

[hollygolightly]

Mazza, you might want to have a look around this site:

Pest Control Shop (http://www.pestcontrolshop.co.uk/acatalog/index.html)

:)

[mazza]

Just went up there to see if I can scare it away : ''Please little creature can you leave now!'' :blush:

I saw definite evidence of a small rodent up there :rolleyes:

Didn't hear it make a run for it though...

I'll give it just one more chance to escape! :lol:

So I'll stake out Holly's site now for the next assault tomorrow! :blink:

[Tina]

I remember having the same problem, scratching used to drive me mad, and was right over my bed, kept thinking it was going to come down on top of me :lol:

Got it eventually with poison, turned out to be a large rat :blink:

[sapphirelily10]

Hi Mazza,

I have the answer.

She might only have three legs....

...but she's very fast, and always hungry....

.....on loan for a few tins of salmon a week....

....you know who I mean... :P :ph34r: :P


Sapph :nuke:

[Blue Cow]

Originally posted by Hazelnut@Feb 25 2004, 12:20 AM

......... breed perhaps!** :blink:
Exactly!!

Mazza - I hate to break it to you, but if you have a mouse, then you also have it's family with it too! And they breed like the clappers.

They also leave a trail of urine over everything that they climb over 8-X

[mazza]

Oh no Tina...a rat!! :o Now I am REALLY worried :blink: .

Oh blimey BC, I don't want to know :sicky: :lol:

I am wondering if I have scared it away cos I did not hear anything yesterday - or today...yet :unsure: .

I REALLY don't want to have to get a trap up there and a sonic thing sounds great, but a bit OTT for one mouse (I'll review the situation if it escalated though ;) )

Hey Sapph, if only I lived near your neck of the woods, I'd definitely take you up on that offer!!! :hihi: Aww bless her 3 little cotton socks :)

[Annabel]

:D

Id loan you my puddies but they are too flipping lazy to get off the sofa to go to their food bowls, let along stake out a mouse...as for a rat, I am sure they would just take one look at it and think 'too big and bothersome for moi' :lol:

err BC - do mice really pee constantly? id heard they were incontinent, but didnt really believe it...yukmungous or what 8-X

[Blue Cow]

Originally posted by Annabel@Feb 27 2004, 10:45 AM
err BC - do mice really pee constantly?
Sorry to be 8-X but yes they can leave a constant trail behind them in unfamiliar surroundings :( and they can also produce around 60 faecal droppings per day :(

I won't get any more graphic over this :rolleyes: :) but Mazza, still deliberating about that trap? A single female mouse can also produce up to forty babies per year :( :unsure:

[mazza]

:o

Maybe I am living in fantasy land, but I think it's a lone mouse...I haven't heard it for a few nights now...perhaps it's busy in it's nest then :blink:

I s'pose I'll have to get on with it and set that trap of doom :cry:

I'll use nice sugary biccies - I hear that's a good bait to go for :( .

:double:

[Blue Cow]

Just to put your mind at rest, if "he" was a loner and has now moved on, then setting a trap (humane or otherwise) isn't going to hurt anyway.

Think of it as an insurance policy.

Mars Bar is a good bait BTW(!)

[sapphirelily10]

Look at it this way......people also breed. Comparison by comparison, who causes the most damage? :P

Lily says......

Get a mousetrap (humane ones available), or invite her for a salmon-fillled holiday, and she''ll sort it! :ph34r:

Sapph ;)