We've got a mouse in the house

[milliepops]

And it's driving my 2 Jack Russells mad. I've bought one of them plug in rodent deterrents, but it hasn't worked. I don't want to put a trap down and kill it, any ideas anyone ?

[milly143]

Not sure about hamsters. But every time I have held one it's released it's bowels on my anyway so I just avoid them all together. Grubby little things.

[Mosaic]

Before you fall in love with mice, bear in mind that they have no bladders so leak urine over everything they encounter. And they breed like...mice.
Get a little nipper from an ironmonger, bait with chocolate where the doggies can't get it, and empty regularly.

[yogi-bear]

I've had a word with the mouse, millie, and he's pis s ed!..........:0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87eB3l-eKhg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87eB3l-eKhg

[RATTER15]

Im not sure that incontinent is the right word lol but yes mice will dribble urine wherever they walk, this urine may also be infected with weils disease wich can be a killer!

I dont think that the "incontinence" applies to other rodents.

[milly143]

Still, you get my drift. The mouse is leave is faeces all over your house.

[Mosaic]

Milly, I once had a rabbit that did that......we called it Currant Bun. Honest.

[milly143]

Ha ha ha, Yogi, brilliant!

[yogi-bear]

cheers milly xx..........he's on the warpath now!.....milliepops is gonna get it!.....:0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5r_iOFipfE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5r_iOFipfE

[milly143]

That's so funny. Can't stop laughing.

[lankeela]

Ratter, here is a link to an article on Heelers - they are basically an all round farm dog, heeling the cattle to bring them in or move them in confined areas like slaughterhouses, but also doing the job of clearing vermin and will easily despatch rats and rabbits, so will go poaching with the best of them. This stems from their ancestry which combines an old Welsh Corgi type who was crossed with a northern black and tan terrier whilst driving cattle that had come over from Ireland up the country to the north west. http://www.lancashire...ler_breed_feature.php

[RATTER15]

Well I never!! all my years of hunting with terriers including terrierman for a local hunt years back, I have hunted eveything with my terriers and was a committee member for a terrier club and attended hundreds of working terrier shows etc but I have never heard of a Heeler. I cant help thinking if they were good I would have known it well, it appears that it wasnt as good as the Jack Russell or they would be as well known across the country and I read extensively on many breeds of terrier. Oh well, we cant know it all!! Again I am a little more educated :-)

[lankeela]

They were mainly bred around the Ormskirk area of Lancashire and are still sometimes known as Ormskirk Terriers, but it was a lady from Norfolk who became interested in them and kept records of her litters. A club was formed and they started their own register. Eventually they were recognised by the KC in 1981 although records show they were purebred for at least 150 years prior to that. Even in Lancashire there are lots of people who have never heard of them.