How to get rid of rats/mice?!

[Kazbah]

Make a mixture of cement powder & cornflour, and if you like a little gravy powder. Or custard powder. You may need to put it out a few times, no cement powder the first couple of times to get them eating it.

Make sure there's water in a bowl nearby too.

The rats/mice will eat the cement powder, drink the water and sorta die. (found this on the S.A. EPA website). Safe for use around dogs/cats providing they don't eat the powder - eating the cemented rat is OK.

[missymiss]

I can send you some snake poo if you like! Apparently if you scatter that around, the mice will vacate.

[tattoo_mama]

LOL cemented rats!!!!
we got some ratsac sachets and DP reluctantly put his head up the manhole and threw them around....less than an hr later i heard the little buggers munching away....a few scampers last nite but no squealing, yipee hopefully they have passed on to ratty heaven

[mrsmac]

Prob ratty hell LOL

[Inertia]

ARGH!

Its 4:30 in the morning. My being awake for once has nothing to do with being pregnant..... I was woken up by a mouse playing with my hair!!!! It was on my bed!

We have everything set up at the moment. Ratsac, snap traps, live traps.. Hadnt caught one yet all night... Anyone got a pet snake? LOL

[Liz]

OMG!!!

How many do you think there are?

We had one little mouse living in our house for a while.. but it never came in the bedrooms.. just ran around under the lounges & in the kitchen. We finally did a live catch and released it in the bush. He was quite cute LOL. I couldn't bring myself to set traps or poison Nature probably took its course and an owl got it or something - but at least I didn't kill it hahaha.

[tattoo_mama]

Inertia omg grossssss
i wuda screamed the house down
i heard our lil fellows screeching this morning but the ratsak said it takes upto a week to take effect and dp is too chicken to go up into the roof and see if theyve eaten the stuff yet!

[missymiss]

ARGH!

Its 4:30 in the morning. My being awake for once has nothing to do with being pregnant..... I was woken up by a mouse playing with my hair!!!! It was on my bed!

We have everything set up at the moment. Ratsac, snap traps, live traps.. Hadnt caught one yet all night... Anyone got a pet snake? LOL

Yes! I do have a pet snake but he's not allowed to eat wild rats. I'm serious about the snake poo though.

[ll80]

Screw Ratsak, it just doesn't work.
Go and get yourself some Talon, works a treat.
We have mice AGAIN and we have baited everywhere.
Also washing floors and surfaces with a mix of peppermint and spearmint oil will keep them at bay cause they hate it.
Leave some cotton balls dabbed with it around areas they might go in. I'm about to go through the house with them again.
The other day I was at the kitchen table and I spied one running about my kitchen bench, all over my chopping boards and a tea towel, I didn't know whether to cry or vomit.