I had a similar problem in my new house I’m building , thought I had mice but traps with chocolate caught nothing , it was hiding nuts in different places , so got a squirrel trap out , nuts disappeared but trap not tripped , I ended up getting a trail camera to see what it was , it was 2 mice , put peanut butter in the traps , both dead next day
Well done for that is there nowt on the telly
I have an air rifle and was tempted to use it today with all the crows stealing food from the bird feeders and scaring the small birds from feeding from them
Funny you should say that, I had a farmer fixing a fence for me once and an injured crow was walking around my field. It had lost part of its wing and the farmer took great pleasure in beating it to death. I was not impressed with him at all. But, I have wood pigeons who nest every year in my hedge and they don't bother me at all. I also had a dovecote with 6 doves and the sparrowhawk took them all out and a pond where the heron took all of my goldfish. I once found a farmer sitting in his range rover on the lane where I live, with a shotgun and I asked him what are you up to and he said he was going to shoot the heron that was stealing the fish from his pondCareful Gina , I believe that no birds are nowadays classed as vermin .
I have loads of plump breasted wood pigeons fornicating in my garden ( and I love the taste of their meat ) but unless via ? DEFRA that they are causing huge financial loss to me I can’t cull them . Thankfully I’m a law abiding pigeon meat loving person
I am all talk though I can't even kill a spider
I don't kill them, why?? who do we think we are to kill animals we don't like. Just catch them and release them away from your home and stop them from coming in by checking how they are getting in, that's what I did. In fact it was quite funny as I discovered the only way mice were getting in my house was by the door when a certain person was leaving the door open at night when he let the dogs out at night for their last weeI had a similar problem in my new house I’m building , thought I had mice but traps with chocolate caught nothing , it was hiding nuts in different places , so got a squirrel trap out , nuts disappeared but trap not tripped , I ended up getting a trail camera to see what it was , it was 2 mice , put peanut butter in the traps , both dead next day
We have been mice free for 3 years nowI don't kill them, why?? who do we think we are to kill animals we don't like. Just catch them and release them away from your home and stop them from coming in by checking how they are getting in, that's what I did. In fact it was quite funny as I discovered the only way mice were getting in my house was by the door when a certain person was leaving the door open at night when he let the dogs out at night for their last wee
Can’t believe I sang it too. Sorry Tam I know it’s not funny but can’t believe the mess & dogs never picking up a scent. My old toy poodle would have gone crazy he caught a mouse in my kitchen that made it home whilst we were away . Nightmare in camper hope you get it sorted soon
You've clearly too much time on your hands .
I planned to buy 2 anyway , one for under the sink and one for under the seat base where my electrics are. That's where there were most droppings. They might well have left already but it won't do any harm to make sureTam, don't just buy one trap buy two. Mice always travel in pairs. Unlike humans they stick together whatever
Bob.
They need to be very sensitive for small mice Tam, we had a trap that got robbed every night then I realised it was a rat trap not a mouse trap.OK I now have 2 traps .... 20tl each which is about 45 pence. Metal ones which I've never seen before and quite big but hopefully they do the Job. Guy nearly lost his finger in the shop
Aye my cats brought me presents too , usually dead carcasses they'd leave on my seat or on the kitchen counter. One day I heard an almighty racket coming from the kitchen and when I went through garfield had backed through the catflap with a seagulls neck in his mouth and was giving it laldy trying to pull the body and wings through the cat flap ... the legs were going ten to tye dozen but he was skiting on the tiles.Tam, our Cat Bobby until recently used to bring in the house via the cat flap, mice & rats, drop them out his mouth and more or less say "look what I got ya" a few times the mice were still alive and would run arround the kitchen trying to hide. If they ran under the fridge freezer or such like he would sit there for days waiting for them to come out....even if I had already dispatched them
Hell knows how but he even caught squirrels, and they are super fast, magpies & pigeons were easy meat for him also, used to see tell tell feathers all over the lawn.
So you see, You need a cat to snuggle in with the dogs.
LES
Aye I'm sure these are for rats too but hopefully it worksThey need to be very sensitive for small mice Tam, we had a trap that got robbed every night then I realised it was a rat trap not a mouse trap.
Sorted the sensitivity out and next day Result!
I think squirrels must be a bit dim as my previous two Rhodesian Ridgebacks caught 4 between them and they caught sod all else!
those traps look fierce!!! 
Aye . Don't think I need them either as I think the mice have left but will seeGlad you’re feeling better Tam… but
I noticed it has a broken back
Aye its really hard.
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