plagued by mice

[kempo]

hello peeps, my local tackle shop is plagued by mice, they are eating poor Ben out of house and home, any one got any good ideas of how to git rid of em.

he has untold traps euro friendly and other traps but the mice are very persistent.

any ideas please.

[les middy]

it realy hurts me to say this but

 

 

tell him to get a couple of pussy cats no more mice

 

then get rid of said mouse catchers

[Brian Carragher]

One of the best ways to get rid of mice and rats is to contact your local friendly ferret keeper and get him/her to let the said ferret loose in the shop and have a good root round. I used to keep ferrets and know through experience how good they are at keeping rodents away. The smell from a ferret will last for some time, not detectable to humans only rodents, and should it encounter any of its furry cousins will soon dispatch them

[kempo]

it realy hurts me to say this but

tell him to get a couple of pussy cats no more mice

 

then get rid of said mouse catchers

 

debated about that that is the top possibility at the moment well done.

any other ideas, an owl was suggested as it will be dark when the mouse are about.

[chesters1]

has he thought about a gangplank leading to a oneway door in a chest freezer ,he can then sell them on for animal food

[corydoras]

Environmental Health at the local council would be my first call.

[Chris Goddard]

I have just had a very similar problem lately with Mice AND Rats!! I used rentokil Rat bait and VERY effective it was!!! Sold in a large plastic bottle at around £5 per bottle in Wikinsons. certainly well worthy of the money!! Otherwise as Les says a CAT!!

[chesters1]

using the very same stuff with mice in one of my sheds ,two containers full eaten so far and their waiting for more ,no destinctive dead mouse smell and i'm sure their having to enlarge the hole as their getting so fat.

tried industrial strenght stuff in the loft no deaths even after 1/2 a bucket untill i used traps and boy did they look healthy and fat.

looks like their immune around here to warfarin and the common poisons

[shadowplay]

They need some of the stronger stuff sold to farmers from agricultural dealerships or country stores. That stuff neosorexa or something like that it is called, i used it and it stops rats. other than that a cat, one like mine that kills everything it that scurries.

 

Bob

[dogstick]

I`d definately go with the cat/ferrets,make sure the custodians of our laws don`t find out though as it is now illegal to hunt with animals.Although if you do it this week you should be ok,but,come the end of the month when targets must be met they`ll have you!!

 

DS