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Theres a Rat in my kitchen, what am i gonna do?
Disco Matt:
The plug-in ultrasonic things are a complete con, and don't work. They also annoy people with good hearing (I can hear some of them as a very annoying high-pitched whine). http://ask.metafilter.com/29135/Ultrasonic-Mouse-Repellers-Whats-the-deal has a few reports to back this up, I can't find a proper scientific study at the moment.
We use conventional traps baited with raisins. Place the traps close to walls in quiet corners (but obviously where you can get to them easily to check/empty them) as mice tend to follow walls and hide in corners. These are probably the most humane method of getting rid of pests that exist, as it's a very quick exit. We seldom find any signs of mice in the house, the traps go down in Autumn and are taken away in late Spring. We found some very neat ones that function like the old "little nipper" type but the wire hoop is shaped like a pair of Us joined together at 90 degrees, so when the mouse is caught you have a wire hoop sticking up that you simply pull back to drop the ex-rodent into the bin.
I would never use poison for two reasons: It's a slow and painful death for the mice, and they will invariably die somewhere inaccessible before rotting and stinking the place out. I remember an appalling smell in school for months after the council rodent control people put poison down. It must have been bad as I remember it about ten years on!
bravo669:
peanut butter or nutella is a good bait!
Disco Matt:
The advantage of raisins is that they don't go off, and that they're easy to handle. I think we've caught multiple mice in succession with the same raisin before now!
Mind you, I also reckon they're getting cunning. We caught one backwards a while ago, as if it was trying to defuse the trap by crawling through from the back of it...
Sharpshooter:
Cheers guys. The big problem is they are under the floor, which i dont have access to unless i bring up the floorboards.
I think i will have to get the LandLord involved in this one.
I did think of baiting them, and sitting up with the rifle, but my wife said NO....... :(
thermidorthelobster:
I'm not an expert, but surely the idea of the baited trap is that it lures them out from under the floorboards?
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