Mice

[Dragonfly]

How long does it take them plug ins to work for getting rid of mice?

I have had 6 of them through out the house for over a week now and I can still hear them skuttling about in the attic. I was assuming they where lookng somwhere to get out and thought that was whatever way they got up there which we suspect was up the pipes in the garage as there was plenty in there, Even left the hole they get in so they can get out again.

or are them plug ins just crap? They are suppose to cover a good area and I can hear them above the plug in the bedroom!

I wont use traps as they are in parts no one can get in to, its a dorma bungelow.

They are eating massive chunks of foam in the crawl space and evertthing, Cats prove useless in getting them as even they cant get in at them.

[Itchy]

Well according to the FTC

Many do not work and cannot offer evidence that they do work , I

https://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/05/fyi0128.shtm

https://www.wildlifedamagecontrol.net/ultrasound.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_pest_control


I was considering a sonic device on my bike for when I tackle siberia and an electronic device seemed to be the answer with the alternative being a animal whistle mounted on my forks...

best probably set some traps in the kitchen (so you don't get corpses), I set them in the garage, as any bog roll and or books get chewed to shreds in there. You find bodies in there now and again.
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[Dragonfly]

Probably the ones I have are the ones that dont work eventently. They where £14 for the lot on ebay and my dad got them for me. They arent in the house they are around the house, if you get me. I have seen none in the house apart from the garage (I didnt personally see the garage ones others did when bleeding the boiler) and all arond the shell of the house you can hear them and they have been there about 6 years now. Unless its not mice above me I am hearing :O

I thought the plug in would be better to keep them away as they could maybe get in some other way and solve it long term without having dead mice around the house.

edit: they are in bewteen the floors also.

[MarJay]

[hellkat]

Or get a plug-in cat.
Much better than most other anti-mice devices.
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[ms51ves3]

[Dragonfly]

They wander above my bedroom thats the other side of the house from that attic hatch and you cant stand in the attic and its long. And the crawl space has long passageways that no one wants to get stuck up there in not even the cat.. I am going to have to get a humane one then, I had them in my old house but they didnt go near them. But thats step two as I really dont want the lethal one

God only knows what the hell they are eating up there.

[hellkat]

Surprised the smell of the cat's not putting them off.
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[Dragonfly]

I think they are put off coming into the house they are just around the shell of it.
The cats know they are there as they can hear them on the roof and in between floors and go bonkers to get at them but they cant. When my parents lived here and I didnt with no ats obviously they where in the house, much to mums terror at the incident that ourred in the earlier hours in their room involving my dad, one steal toe cap boot and mum freaking out.

There was one incident one night I was so close to phoning the police as I actually thought someone was on my roof as by the window I heard it making loads of racket then run up the side of it (dorma windows) and it made a moaning sound Then it decided to make loads of nose above the bedroom. Scared me! what was I suppose to say to the police though, there is a giant mouse on my roof making moaning sounds

Now you hear him just picking on things around the walls of the bedroom on the other side and above. They had a rally up and down the livigroom roof one night, I was evicted form the room as it was so much noise we thought they where in the room. I wouldnt mind them as long as they stay out of the actual house but babys,mice,verman,disease,eaten insulation and possibly eaten wires is not good.

[hellkat]

Are you sure they're not possums?
(do you have those over there? )

The moaning sound thing rings a bell with me:
When I was a kid, I used to stay at my grandmothers, and I was kept awake in terror at what sounded like someone groaning outside my bedroom window. My grandparents wouldn't believe me, and told me there was nothing there.

Was years before I discovered it was damn possums, coming down out of the half a dozen pine trees they had at the end of their garden.


https://www.middleriverki.com.au/images/newfull/possums.jpg

(this one's probably about the size of a smallish cat, though, so if they do have possums over there, that'd be why the cats aren't brave enough to get up there, LOL)
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[MattHirst]

I remember seeing some coipu's (that is a terrible spelling but it sounds right ) in france, they were like a mutant rat. These were going on for 2 1/2 foot long (including tail) and even the geese were running away from them. Evil beggers.

Anyhow, don't be evil to the mice We have one living in our garage, he made himself a little nest inside the box of grass seed and he used to chill out with the old rabbit (until it had a random spazm and popped its cloggs) and used to eat out of the rabbit bowl at the same time. Sometimes flaked out on top of the hutch with the rabbit aswell

Can mice carry diseases like rats do? I always though they were pretty harmless to be honest.
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[ZRX61]

Throw a bunch of mothballs around the place, the smell will drive them away.

[Dragonfly]

hellkat I never seen a possom before and dont know if they are here but this thing sounded big enough for one. It really scared the heck out of me the noise of it and moaning. I was having images of some demon on the roof, I had been reading to many horror books

[Tonka]

[S1KE]

i got one of those sonic things in my house cus i kept getting spiders and i hate em, week later and one of the little fuckers made a web about an inch above it, doesnt even bother em!
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[Tonka]

[Dragonfly]

I think they are chewing the door bell lead as it goes off randomly as you hear them above the livingroom.

I dont want to be evil to them , If they where not eating my insulation and important stuff they could stay there but cant really have verman around with a baby coming in especially. Thats why I am trying to sort it out now. Not heard them since though, they like to play what sounds like marbels above the livingroom(maybe he dropped his change) but have they been quiet today.

You should see the thickness of the foam with the tin foil on it they ate through in the crawl space! I can see their footprints there on the dust. They ate my old pile of newspapers.

[stinkwheel]

Proper mouse traps or poison.

If you can see where they've been eating stuff, you can see where to put the trap.

Bait it with something they can't easily carry away like a bit of snickers or some nutella so they have to try and eat it there and then.
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[hellkat]

ohhhhhh cicada "whitenoise" ... how I miss that
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[Tonka]

[Dragonfly]

I am such a murderer! I let Darren put the mouse traps in the attic but we caught one of them and apparently its the biggest mouse he has ever seen! I know there is more up there as I heard another one this morning. I actually slept last night! no scraping bugger behind the walls. But I feel bad The plug ins where my idea and they didnt work so it was plan B. I freaked when I seen some mice where responsible for burning down a cat home in England and they are chewing wires up there. I dont want my house burned down.
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[Annabella]

I don't know how your environmental health stuff works over in Ireland...

A friend of mine had squirrels in her attic (babies too... awwww) running around making lots of noise especially at night. She rang the local environmental health department at the local council who advised her to call back informing them that she suspected there were rats.
The council will send someone round to exterminate rats as they are a health risk

When they cleared out the corpses apparently the comment was: "oh dear, we appear to have exterminated some squirrels, never mind - easy mistake to make"

Worth checking out before you spend loads more money.
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