Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Sonic Mouse Repelent Kit?
It is that time of year and we have our normal fury visitor arriving to munch through our bags of semolina and wheat germ for bread making (how blinkin' middle class does that sound...). Anyway, apart from the inevitable holes in bags of stuff that then needs to be chucked it craps etc everywhere, so we are less enamoured with our visitor than we could be.
Given a cat is no on the agenda, does anyone have any experience with sonic mice repellers at all, indeed, does anyone have one in the back of a cupboard they are not using or do not need? The clever little sod is not going for the traps.
I came down this morning and chased the little sod round the kitchen as it was happily munching in the cupboard I went into. Nice!
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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(1) There will not be just one.
(2) The sonic repellers work, but only after you have cleared them all out. I have a set of three spread round the foody rooms, and no sign of visitors since. No you can't borrow them, I like my mice-free space.
(3) Peanut butter, chocolate, and especially almonds worked here. Cheese, more resistible.
(4) Live traps worked for me, you then have to take the meeces at least a mile away, feed them to the owls and foxes in the park.
(5) Mice are neophobes, they take time to get used to new traps. Put them round the edges of the room, that's where they run. They follow their own dribbly urine trails.
(6) All food needs to be kept in sealed plastic boxes, get some big ones from homeb*se.
(7) Please don't even think about those evil sticky traps, I'm amazed they are legal.
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PS those tilting traps didn't work for me, they gnawed their way out. The metal box type, like a big video box, were the business, my record score was four in one night.
I also did well with home-made traps. Started with this one . Needs a very deep bin, they can jump. I cant find the link to a variation of this, but it got the last stubborn ones - deep bin, a wire across the top (coat hanger wire) suspending a slat of wood/ruler, balanced, with bait on the end. Needs a connecting path from worktop etc. Mice runs along, it tips over, drops into bin. The best bit is it then re-sets itself so you can get lots in one go. took some fiddling with balance using blu-tack as weights, but the triumph you will experience when you catch the bugger is worth it.
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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Tried everything over my 25 years in the mousey houses of Harringay - your best bet is poison, but you have to buy Sorexa-D (based on canary seed) from the internet, as the stuff you can buy in shops is useless. (This on the advice of Haringey pest control on their umpteenth visit.) Apparently they take it back to the nest, thereby eliminating the whole brood.
We gave up on the 'humane' traps after forgetting one and leaving a mouse to starve to death inside it...
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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I lived in a house in Clapton 10 years ago where the guy downstairs (the freeholder) had not fixed the front steps and started getting rats in. One did die under the floor boards in the hall and it was revolting. I offered to help him get rid but he did nothing about it so we had to smell the darn thing for ages. He eventually had to do something when the breeding cycle hit the J shaped part of the population curve and the house was absolutely overrun with them all the way to the top- for me, thankfully, 10 days after I moved to Harringay!!!
I have tried peanut butter- this usually gets one eventually, so will have to try something else. I do like your trap though. How deep does the receiver have to be? I watched one of the buggers make a real heroic jump this morning, so I believe you when you say they jump!
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Having looked at it, did the thing you put the bait on fall into the bucket too, or did you rip it slightly so the bottom tipped the thing into the bucket because it could not take the weight? It is not clear form the design diagram.
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Something like this
My bin has handle holes just right for running a coathanger through, the ruler is stuck on with tape then add bait - PNB is good cos it sticks - and balance so it just stays horizontal, using blutack. IIRC you could use a kitchen roll inner instead of the ruler, as they like tunnels.
Variations include forget the ruler, taping a piece of paper across, with a cross cut in the middle, bait the middle, so the leaves open out with the weight of the beastie. Plop. Cruel variations include adding water to the bucket so they drown.
You will need to entice them up with some crumbs on the Busby Berkeley access ramp. This worked better for me than the kitchen roll version on the above link.
If you search for 'home-made mouse trap' or similar you'll find hundreds. The amount of human ingenuity trying to outwit mouse ingenuity on display is a bit worrying, next step global warming.
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Acid was more my thought Pamish- nothing to deal with afterwards if it is strong enough... Though the chemist in me is telling me I should really use alkali (NaOH) in a plastic bath- watch the 2md or 3rd episode of Breaking Bad to see why...
Thanks, I think I have the idea
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Right animal, wrong place. Not their fault that they are tempted into nice warm houses with vast food supply. Return them to where they belong, to go into the raptor food chain.
PS I dont have Sky.
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Never had a problem with that, as they are small and the poison seems to 'dessicate' them. I did find a dead one in the bottom of the larder once, which was a bit horrible.
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And did you put it inside one of those little sealed plastic traps/runs, or just in corners? I have a few of the sealed boxes, and am curious if they would go into them and take the bait.
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