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It seems I have a mouse in my house and a rat in my shed under one of my mowers.

I want to get rid of them.

What's the best way to control them?

For the mouse: a trap + cheese
For the rat: turn the mower on

rat poison

Yeah, i tried the option for the rat ticman, but it ran away before i could get it started.

It's funny y'know, it seems the mouse isn't native to australia but the rat is.

Someone told me mice love peanut butter. Confirm/deny?

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mate, i've never had mice in a house before.

trap + grape stalks.

Although our mice just ate the stalks and left the trap :(

Someone told me mice love peanut butter. Confirm/deny?

Confirm

like i said.. rat poison

ratsak to be more precise


last edited by ravn0s at 10:34:17 15/Jun/08

We had a rat problem at my work a few weeks ago, bought this black bait box for them. Worked a charm. Several dead rats the next morning

http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kitten.jpg

^ As bait? :)

I used traps in the past as you never know where the mouse/rat will end up if using bait.

Just get a mouse and a rat trap and use some cheese or peanut butter.
Simple

Peanut butter is good. I don't really agree with using Ratsak since they can eat the poision, climb into your roof, die and then leave a nasty decomposing body up there with associated bodily fluids staining your roof.

well i got some bait for the rat in the shed, apparently they eat it then they go looking for water. tis good cos i'm on the top of a hill so hopefully they'll piss off.

put a bait inside too, but im not so keen on it, i think i'd prefer just to trap the mouse and have it gone. i might buy a trap after all.

Show them the ways of french cooking.

don't do that to me scuzzy, next thing ill be calling him little chef

dogs are also a good hunter/killer..

whenever we had rats/mice got my brothers bearded collie and blue heeler x corgie over and the vermin were tracker down instantly..

dogs are also a good hunter/killer..

No way

i got 3 dogs

terrier which is suppose to be good at that stuff - bark.. bark.. bark... bark.. bark.. bark.. = no sleep

and
staffy is to much of a unit and trash's my garden trying hunt rodents/lizards


Bait is the best option because it makes them die of thirst so they will leave your yard to go looking for water and die/smell elsewhere. Put it in high places or out of reach of pets it will kill them as well.

Carpet Snakes do wonders.

gas them with LPG

We have mice at the moment. Crazy m'fckers like to eat cockroach bait.

In the middle of the night you can hear this scraping and tapping. Get up in the morning to find a cockroach bait (those black plastic ones) completely shredded and the inner bait gone. We pulled out a large cupboard the other day to find six baits pulverised and their remnants evenly distributed over the floor.

i would use a trap for both, that way you know when you have finally caught them.

as said previously, with baits they can end up in wall cavities and rot away.

that said, i have never had to use either, once i was in a holiday house down the coast and there was a mouse, i cornered it in the bathroom. i then tried to knock it out with a broom handle but it was too quick and kept dodging it so I sprayed it with fly spray to blind it and then it couldn't see the handle coming. knocked it out, put it in a bag and into the bin.

you really showed that other species who's boss

. i then tried to knock it out with a broom handle but it was too quick and kept dodging it so I sprayed it with fly spray to blind it and then it couldn't see the handle coming. knocked it out, put it in a bag and into the bin.

ahahahahah aha hah hawehheaw wheah

if a trap doesnt work do this; put a glass bottle of some sort with cheese in the top lying on its side on a table, with a bucket and water underneath so it drowns when it falls off the bottle.

You need this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Mouse_Trap_Board_and_Boxjpg.jpg

we had rats at our place in annerley;

peanut butter on a trap (eraticator) worked a treat

not so keen on rat poison coz then they die in the walls and stink

Nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

cheese is crap
Get a pumpkin seed an a mouse/rat/rabbit trap

It's funny y'know, it seems the mouse isn't native to australia but the rat is.

There are native species of rats, but the ones you're likely to see around the house aren't (unless you live next to a forest, but even then you probably wouldn't see them much).

i then tried to knock it out with a broom handle but it was too quick and kept dodging it

should have enlisted trog's help to move the broom handle at light speed :)

We just finished finishing off the mice problem here at home.

We had 2 traps that were like a cage.. the mouse has to go inside to get the bait but then cant get out. I don't know what they are called, but we caught 5 in 1 night once.

For mousetraps use Pumpkin Seeds as bait...

Here's my variation of a trap that I found on the net. Works a treat. When caught you just put a couple of inches of water in the bin and the mouse gets a 1hr swim before he drowns.

Mices love tunnels and peanut butter. Put the 2 together and you can turn a cunning mouse into a stupid mouse.

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1469/mousetraprl4.jpg

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http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/365352/2/istockphoto_365352_trap.jpg

we had a monster rat in our previous office, kept stealing the bait off the rattrap for a couple of weeks but finally got the sucker

poor bugger got it's face smashed in by the trap and didn't die, had to knock it on the scone with a shovel