Pest repellers alternative

[Marvo]

On the odd occasion we get a mouse I just use the traditional type mouse traps with peanut butter as bait but the cheap nasty ones you buy at the supermarket never work very well until you adjust them to a hair trigger by tweaking them with a pair of long nose pliers.

 

[ferg]

This idiot will find and kill any rodents she can get her jaws on.... her favourite hobby seems to be digging for moles.........

 

[Marvo]

Those boots look a bit small for her.....

 

[ferg]

Those boots look a bit small for her.....

Apparently they aren't her style so I've been using them instead.

 

[littlespark]

Someone got a Ninja air fryer for christmas

 

[ferg]

Someone got a Ninja air fryer for christmas

I'd rather tackle the dog as a mole than deal with the aftermath of buying Mrs Ferg an air fryer for Christmas!

 

[nicebutdim]

On the odd occasion we get a mouse I just use the traditional type mouse traps with peanut butter as bait but the cheap nasty ones you buy at the supermarket never work very well until you adjust them to a hair trigger by tweaking them with a pair of long nose pliers.

For a long time I resisted innovation where mouse traps were concerned, but now exclusively use the plastic traps which are simply squeezed to reset.

Mice tend to move furtively, so set traps close to any likely points of ingress at right angles to wall/skirting board. You'd be amazed how many are caught while simply 'passing through'.

 

[littlespark]

what exactly does fried air taste of anyway?

 

[Mike Johnson]

Last mouse nest we found was lined with chewed wire wool.

 

[pc1966]

On the odd occasion we get a mouse I just use the traditional type mouse traps with peanut butter

At our work we have a couple of anti-vandal cabins in the arseend of nowhere so rodents are a risk. We got the "advanced mouse trap" as we figured they might not be dumb mice, but so far only one caught.

We do our best to make sure no obvious entry points, but the caught one was in a cabin with a cable coming up through the floor and the covering card had been knocked away. Personally I much prefer traps to poison as a quicker / more humane end to the mouse, and no risk of a bigger animal eating one with the poison inside.