how to get rid of mice

[Super Roo 1970]

I hate cats, use this instead...

Use This

[Tote]

Originally Posted by Super Roo 1970

I hate cats, use this instead...

Use This

I have buckshot holes in all my sheds from the previous owners using one of those........
Regards,
Tote

[LUXO_8]

ok...i have a bit of a question on this topic
we have a garden shed
its just got a dirt floor......
the mice have gone absolutley crazy, the floor is completley dug up now...it used to be just perfect flat dirt..

if we were to remove everything from the shed and concrete the floor, will this stop them from coming in or will they just find other ways......i want to use the shed to store certain car parts, like seats, wheels and tyres, various other parts.......

[Super Roo 1970]

I would cement the floor irrespective of vermin, specially for what you are saying you wanna store.
In all seriousness those blue bait cube type blocks you buy from the supermarkets are pretty good at getting vermin, couple those with a few old fashioned mouse traps and it should take care of it all. The cubes are good cause they cause the mouse to dehydrate and go looking for water, so they die a few days later of dehydration, usually no where near your place. You may only have a family or so of these critters, usually the family is upto 6 or so mice, so the 2 methods I suggest will take care of that well.

[atec77]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

Ok I desperately need your help people as you all know we’ve had a bit of rain in Sydney recently, that combined with my neighbor finally mowing his lawn has caused me to become over run with mice, not inside the house, but in the cavities and up in the roof, last night the little pr/cks were constructing something in the cavity just behind my bead head

This problem has been increasing for the last week or so, I have done the usual like throwing those little blue baits around which normally give me 1 night of a blue bait round robin, mouse soccer tournament before all is quiet, but this time we seem to have a world cup and I’m going insane, so much so, last night I ratted through the garage found the demtel ultrasonic rodent deterrent and ran an extension lead up in the roof to above my bead room and left that on all night, still no better.

I need your help what have you guys used that has worked and worked well, I’m not against hurting these little - - - - rs I want them to pay for me not getting any sleep for the last few nights

Lotta years ago when we had the farm nre Rathdowny the wife and I on a Sunday Evening sitting on the bed eating tea and watching telly when this HUGE rat appears from under the bed , we had a plague of them and I had been baiting , bloody thing had eaten a hole in the wall under the bed and come into the house , anyway it's wandering around on the floor so I grabbed a gun and smacked it with rat shot ( gun was on the dresser) , \ Well she was ****ed off and I had to clean all the little metal balls our her precious carpet
Rat died too

[Super Roo 1970]

With the blue rat baits, make sure you never ever touch them with any part of your body as the human scent taints them and the mice wont eat them, only toy with them. If you have plenty mice in the roof, throw half a dozen blocks up there, if they eat em they will die. they can take upto a week to kill em. We had 1 mouse in our roof, tossed up a bait, heard it rattling the bait around for a few hours, then all quiet, and never heard one up there again.

[Jadey_Baby]

We had several avaries which attracted alot of mice, and what we found worked really well was the mice catching cages.On a good day we found half a dozen in there. Only thing is, they are still alive.

[robs_ls1]

Another vote for Ratsak and Bromakill.

Also, find where they're entering from and seal it with expanding foam.

[ssb2005]

invest in an air rifle

[Bill_R]

Originally Posted by MADNC_8

ok...i have a bit of a question on this topic
we have a garden shed
its just got a dirt floor......
the mice have gone absolutley crazy, the floor is completley dug up now...it used to be just perfect flat dirt..

if we were to remove everything from the shed and concrete the floor, will this stop them from coming in or will they just find other ways......i want to use the shed to store certain car parts, like seats, wheels and tyres, various other parts.......

They'll still come in. Wil get through the smallest gaps despite your best intention. I've seen rats and mice burrow under a concrete slab and set up nests.

I'd concrete it anyway and then put some baits down.

I once had pet mice but I absolutely *detest* them and rats now. That began after they got into beds, lounges etc stored in a shed. They even ate my brother's skateboard wheels. Baiting helped. The ones we found staggering around only have dead made good target practice. I wouldn't risk the parts you are talking about - clear them out first then keep up the control.

[coupdy do]

If you get a cat you will also loose all your native wildlife too (lizards, birds etc)
Kill them by hand its fun and bring the hunter out in you..
Just put some seed in a drum, that is easy for the mice to get in but can't get out or a plastic bottle with the top cut off and balanced on a can put the seed (or corn flakes whatever) at the far end, they walk in the bottle it tips over (upright)...then kill at will
I was taking out 5-15 mice every day wiped them out in 2 weeks little pricks (they got into my coco pops)

[new2ford]

Yeti your own slogan ("Pass me the big hammer") probably answers your question as well as anything. Baits cats etc will result in decomposing bodies you can't find. The old fashioned mouse trap is best. Some smart old ones will pick the cheese out without firing it off but it will get most. I got a family of 10 one night. It would go off BANG every 15 minutes and I'd go down clean out the body and reset it. Dad went first followed by mum then the 8 children (2 at once in one case). I felt like a mass murderer but it was either me of them!

[1600GT]

Originally Posted by thefargo

Dead rodents in the wall cavities can be a problem. I've had to repaint a room to cover up the smell. I tried lowering our pet chihuahua on a harness, but there was a cross beam in the way.

ABSOLUTE GOLD!!!
the funniest thing i've read in ages.

and now part of my sig...

[olfella]

Originally Posted by X000BOSS

12 gauge and a lot of fun

The only downside is replacing the odd roof tile here and there... :