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Rat-Gate...
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I'm having problems with rat-gate... again.
I thought I was being dramatic, but there's definitely something there.
I cleared away absolutely everything last night, and swept and bleached the floor. I've been doing this every night, so I could plainly see if any droppings had been left, the next day.
Got up this morning, went into the kitchen. Still no signs of droppings, BUT, the oven glove (which hangs over the oven door handle) was on the floor, and had been chewed!! URGHHHHH!
Also, there were oranges on the floor, which had been in a bowl, on a shelf, quite high up from the ground.
There were also two receipts/giftcards, that I'd put up on top of the shelving unit, which were in the middle of the floor, and had been slightly bitten.
It's like coming down to find an invisible dog has been in the house!
Pest control are coming out Friday afternoon.
I've left traps, but nothing has been caught.
I'm starting to consider the "broken glass in peanut butter" method, that someone suggested.
Any other ideas? Would getting a cat be a bit drastic?
I thought I was being dramatic, but there's definitely something there.
I cleared away absolutely everything last night, and swept and bleached the floor. I've been doing this every night, so I could plainly see if any droppings had been left, the next day.
Got up this morning, went into the kitchen. Still no signs of droppings, BUT, the oven glove (which hangs over the oven door handle) was on the floor, and had been chewed!! URGHHHHH!
Also, there were oranges on the floor, which had been in a bowl, on a shelf, quite high up from the ground.
There were also two receipts/giftcards, that I'd put up on top of the shelving unit, which were in the middle of the floor, and had been slightly bitten.
It's like coming down to find an invisible dog has been in the house!
Pest control are coming out Friday afternoon.
I've left traps, but nothing has been caught.
I'm starting to consider the "broken glass in peanut butter" method, that someone suggested.
Any other ideas? Would getting a cat be a bit drastic?
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Flip , we get mice in our attic (they sound like Micheal Flat Feet up there,then a trap goes off and we jump) but putting poison down is the only thing that really works as they take it back to the nest and give it to the litle ones -they breed pretty quick. When they have taken the poison they will go for water so leave some outside and with luck they wont be under the floor.
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I had a mouse infestation in my old farmhouse. It was all behind the inglenook in the fabric of the building. When they started dying, the smell was unbelievable. The whole house stank of dead stuff and you walked past the cupboard in the front hall at your peril. But I think I had hundreds of the little blighters, not one.
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Lol B00. For a moment, I thought that just said "bloody thing ate my dog"!!!
Yep, it sure does give you the heebie jeebies. I have to switch on the light, and wait silently for a few seconds, before I can go in there.
I had a pounding headache late last night, but couldn't face coming downstairs and going into the kitchen, 'cos I knew ratty would be there!
Look out for the picture, which I'll (fingers crossed) be posting in the morn!! :-D
Yep, it sure does give you the heebie jeebies. I have to switch on the light, and wait silently for a few seconds, before I can go in there.
I had a pounding headache late last night, but couldn't face coming downstairs and going into the kitchen, 'cos I knew ratty would be there!
Look out for the picture, which I'll (fingers crossed) be posting in the morn!! :-D
Hi, we had a masive problem during the summer, it turned out that they were coming in through the same gap that the cold water pipe was coming in the kitchen, the gap was tiny but big enough. Apparently one of the only things the little bugger cannot chew through is wire wool, (plumbers merchant or diy shops )fill the gaps up with wire wool. we filled all the gaps with wire wool, put traps down to catch the ones that were already in the house and over a period of a few days, problem solved, we found that traditional rat/mouse traps the best and the buggers prefered peanut butter with nuts, not the smooth stuff !! As for the cat idea, at the time we were having about 10 mice/rats a day, all in the kitchen where our FOUR CATS ALL LIVE !!non of the cats caught even one !!
hope that helps
hope that helps
Thanks for the help! :-)
I laid down another 3 traps last night, all containing peanut butter. Nothing!
He had been out though, as there was more "signs".. though still no droppings, thank god.
I'm giving him one more try with the snap traps, tonight, and then I'm going down the non-humane route of using some glue boards.
I know they're pretty sick, but I can't carry on like this. The kitchen is in lockdown! I'm having to go to my parents' for dinner, cos I can't face going in there!
I laid down another 3 traps last night, all containing peanut butter. Nothing!
He had been out though, as there was more "signs".. though still no droppings, thank god.
I'm giving him one more try with the snap traps, tonight, and then I'm going down the non-humane route of using some glue boards.
I know they're pretty sick, but I can't carry on like this. The kitchen is in lockdown! I'm having to go to my parents' for dinner, cos I can't face going in there!
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