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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What a wonderful moglet! I haven't seen Waldegrave so far today so I think she might have done the business! Thank you for the loan. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    oh dear dd

    you got some right facts in this thread about mice

    hope you catch it soon.

    OR you could just buy a shiney new cage and wheel and keep it :lol:

    Juliepf x :)
  • grampyal
    grampyal Member Posts: 81
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi DD, How nice to see a fellow softee. I believe all creatures have a right to life and if we are going to decide on usefullness then the human race should be the first to be got rid of as it is only us that are destroying the planet. Few years back we had an "infestation" of mice. It was around Christmas because I remember one coming out from under the gas fire and playing in the fir cones around the christmas tree. One night I woke up to a strange sound and saw on the bedside table a little mouse eating a Rennie. Thought that either the poor thing had bad indigestion or it was starving. Did you know you can get humane traps that catch the mice alive and you can then put them outside or preferably into a nice warm shed.
    Al
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hello grampyal, it's nice to see you back! I suspect my feelings towards Waldegrave have softened simply because he is a field mouse - an ordinary common-as-muck house mouse would be dispatched with little sentiment but him? Too cute. I have not seen him about today - there was a brief sighting last night as he vanished behind the laundry basket but so far, nothing. I may well try the bottle method as suggested by mell and c4thy (I think): at least I could then release him somewhere that resembles his natural habitat! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • wooly-monkey
    wooly-monkey Member Posts: 115
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    If you leave tiny bits of bread out somewhere in the room and sit quietly nearby, he SHOULD come and eat it.
    I did this two lifetimes ago with a field mouse I had in my house. He stayed for ages until my then husband found out what I was doing and chased him with a spade.
    Wooly-monkey
  • livinglegend
    livinglegend Member Posts: 1,425
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I have some of those electronic mouse deterrents off Ebay that you permanently plug into wall sockets and they get rid of them humanely and stop them nesting.

    We used to get mice in the garage, but none now, so the deterrents worked for us.

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  • salamander
    salamander Member Posts: 1,906
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I arrived back on Tuesday from a few days away to find a dead mouse at the bottom of the laundry bin. Guess the cat had bought it in and it had jumped in there to escape her though why it hadn't found its way out eludes me. Maybe it was injured. I think it must have been there for a while as everything reeked of rotten mouse and I spent the next two days washing my clothes and re-washing them. Some had to be chucked away they smelt so bad. Revolting.
  • bertyboy
    bertyboy Member Posts: 1,860
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    is this him DD
    I know i am a lady ,all life is a journey xx MAY xx
  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    A mouse That's nothing A couple of years ago I took the lid off the skimmers on our awimming pool to check the chlorine tablets Suddenly out of one of them an 18 inch snake swam..AND it was a poisonous one.I scooped it up in the net and put in our field with the almond trees.How'd ya like that in your garden DD :lol::lol::lol::lol:
  • grampyal
    grampyal Member Posts: 81
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi, Just add a design for a trat in case anyone wants to build it...Take a tin and fix food to side (cat food tin ideal)
    put tin on tp of ramp 22ins slope 13.5 ins at highest.
    put a vertical block at bottom of slope but to side of it.
    The mouse goes into tin, reaches up to food ond overbalances the tin which rolls down the slope. The dizzy mouse is then trapped in the tin by the aforementioned vertical block. Block,tin and mouse can then be removed and the mouse freed. It does work.
    Al

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