Mice in shed or kitchen?

[Carzee]

4 DAYS BACK
Well we didn't need CSI to tell us, we saw 2 mice in the kitchen on a curtain and didn't they scamper quick! Haven't seen mice in 20 years or so. These are not little mice like a pet shop stocks, these are big field mice, not quite rats with eyes the size of M&Ms, but in between size. Fast things.

Anyway, I have been on a couple of 24hr shifts and when I get home this week the only topic is "making a trap out of 2 litre coke bottles" and cheese and peanut butter and "dusting the floor near the bait to see if there was an overnight visit" etc.

By Wednesday night the tone from the other half got serious and blue Ratsak cubes came home from shop. Next day I get home and hear we got blue poo now. But they are still around and still not setting the traps off. The warfrin stuff is supposed to gradually kill them over a number of days... nah

TODAY.
I sees she is "seriouser" and pulling apart kitchen things to find the "Lair". Can I move the fridge for her? Can I move the bar-fridge? Can I get the dishwasher (noisey thing) out of its cubby hole?

Next thing a mouse is running out from under the dishwasher across to the kitchen unit and behind it. Tops! I found "the Lair" complete with a half eaten blue cube. And another mouse, the second one, took an identical run from the lair" over to the same place of refuge behind the old style kitchen unit/cupboard. How did they live under that noisey thing when it was going?

At least now I know there are only two and no more Mrs Nice Guy, she's asking me to hit them with a mop. "The Mop?" methinks - we're way past that. I have to stop watching The Walking Dead.

The torch came in handy. I see them - they are both together on the skirting board in the dark behind the cupboard.

So I go out to the back look for some steel bar. And come back in the kitchen killing zone with a reasonably heavy piece of metal I was going to paint soon: the long part of our dismantled Jackall Hi Lift jack.

I poke it behind the kitchen unit where there is just enough space and I hold it horizontally, parallel with the floor, and then I drop it. Some squeeks right off.

I went back and cleaned up after watching some more catchup TV. One still had a bit of squirming and a flicking tail, but that was the end of the road for the Mice.

Thanks jackall.

[carlschmid2002]

I saw one duck under the fridge one night. I couldn't rouse the beagle or the German Shepherd who were asleep on the couch. Too well fed methinks.

[JDNSW]

I find the grey plastic traps, baited with peanut butter, the most effective, otherwise Ratsak if in places the dogs and kids can't get at (e.g. ceiling).

John

[AndyG]

I saw one duck under the fridge one night. I couldn't rouse the beagle or the German Shepherd who were asleep on the couch. Too well fed methinks.

You have ducks under the fridge😀 I would recommend something like a Basset Hound to retrieve it.

[Blinky]

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[Carzee]

A relly had one of those stashed in his shed, got it out for me but it wouldn't switch on. Its a few years old but has a dry join/superthin solder somewhere. Anyway, $30+ is OTT. They're just mice not something too serious. The worst thing is if they chew cabling I suppose. That could kill a fridge or whatever and cost real money.

[Davehoos]

my home often has field mice or marsupial mice. when the weather bad the bush rats move in.


tracking powder is the only thing that can keep up with them. purple powder you sprinkle in their paths or on food. so it obvious that you have to kids dogs birds and snakes clear. then they end up in the bottom of the fridge and smell the house out when the compressor starts.


the only fool proof way is a drop in a bucket deal you see around farms and grain.


carpet snake in the house-no mice.

[wrinklearthur]

I had too many mice and the scoreboard was running out of space, now there are no mice, rabbits, starlings, sparrows, black birds and I have got too many cats!

[JBM770]

When they eat baits they end up dehydrating from the poison so they try to get to water which is why the end up near dishwashers. They chew through the plastic pipes to get some water. I'd check for this sort of damage before turning it back on again.
James

[LandyAndy]

When they eat baits they end up dehydrating from the poison so they try to get to water which is why the end up near dishwashers. They chew through the plastic pipes to get some water. I'd check for this sort of damage before turning it back on again.
James

A favorite place for them to die is the fridge drain tray,chasing the moisture.
A better bait is Talon wax blocks,much quicker.They have a hole in them to nail to rafters or tie with wire to prevent the bigger fellas carting them off.
We had a rat in the dunny at work the other week.To weak to jump out,long enough to stand up to prevent drowning.We called him Lemiwinks,and pointed the finger at a couple of blokes as to who may own the gerbil.He eventually sercumbed to the royal flush.
Andrew