thread: How to outsmart super mouse?

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  1. #1
    2014 BellyBelly RAK Recipient.

    Mar 2008
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    We had those clicker things that plug into power points last time we had a mouse problem. Didn't make an inch of difference. Steel wool gets rid of them apparently, they don't like it. We've just had a super clever mouse too, even touched DH's leg at one point, cheeky bugger. It survived 12 traps (yep, DH went wild on traps when he knew where it was hiding), vacuum cleaner and the beagle! But we won.....we found the hole it was getting in I'm over the mice. We live in a new estate and all the development means they're scurrying for cover.

    Be careful with your dog and any poison bait you use. If the mouse eats it, then proceeds to die where the dog can then eat it, you'll have one very sick dog. I know of a family this happened to, their dog was only a few months old. She ate the mouse, got sick, fitted, and then has been on medication since and will for the rest of her life.

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    it isnt that the mice don't like steel wool, they chew threw it and then being steel it eventually kills them when it gets caught up in their system.

  3. #3
    2014 BellyBelly RAK Recipient.

    Mar 2008
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    Ahh, Astrolady, didn't know that! I thought it was a deterrent!

  4. #4
    BellyBelly Member

    Sep 2007
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    have you tried chocolate? This was the only thing that worked and we caught 2 with it! We used dark chocolate, not sure if the type matters or not.

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Apr 2008
    Melbourne
    6,745

    Ok - jelly beans, dark chocolate, steel wool and peppermint oil are on the shopping list! Watch out rodent - I am on the warpath!!