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Mouse repellent devices

Postby Deejay » 03 Jan 2018, 15:11

Afternoon all

I've aquired a mouse in the house. His days are numbered, but I am thinking about electronic repellants for the future.

Does anyone have any experience of these things?

Do they work?

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Re: Mouse repellant devices

Postby Rod » 03 Jan 2018, 15:26

Sorry I’ve never tried them
I occasionally get them in my workshop in winter. I keep some bait down as a check then out comes the traps.
No idea how they get in though, brick walls, concrete floor and sealed door.

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Re: Mouse repellant devices

Postby Woodster » 03 Jan 2018, 15:54

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2 ... eld-mouse/

Sadly many folks can’t tell the difference and end up killing mice that just want somewhere dry to overwinter.

We had a lovely field Mouse in our shed years ago. We just left him and he was gone in spring.
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Re: Mouse repellant devices

Postby Rod » 03 Jan 2018, 16:49

I do know the difference, mine are Wood (Field) Mice but left untouched they tend to breed - a few years back I disposed of 24 of them. Sadly they urinate and damage tools and machinery, chew up things and crap everywhere.
I leave them alone outside and have done what I can to prevent them getting in.
So far only two this season have managed to get in.

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Re: Mouse repellant devices

Postby Deejay » 03 Jan 2018, 17:18

Rod wrote:I do know the difference, mine are Wood (Field) Mice but left untouched they tend to breed - a few years back I disposed of 24 of them. Sadly they urinate and damage tools and machinery, chew up things and crap everywhere.
I leave them alone outside and have done what I can to prevent them getting in.
So far only two this season have managed to get in.

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Much the same here Rod. I assume the offending mouse is the one which lived under a paving slab by the bird feeders. He collected the seed droppings and was left to his own devices. Live and let live and all that.

However, when he found his way up the back of the drawer units and into the food storage, as Rod says urinating and crapping as he went, his days were numbered. I don't care what sort of mouse it is. It's going.

It's because I can't find an entry point that I'm thinking about these repellant devices. Prevention would be better than the cure.

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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby Mike G » 03 Jan 2018, 21:47

I haven't used the electronic "scarers", but I know people who have. The general claim made about them is that they will keep an (internal) area-free if there are none in residence when the device is set up, but they won't drive any incumbents away.
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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby StevieB » 04 Jan 2018, 00:19

They do not work. We have had one plugged in for a couple of years (variable frequency type that changes its tone apparently to stop mice getting used to it) but we have had mice under the floor (Georgian house, 12-18 inch void under suspended floor) and occasionally popping up in the kitchen (until I relaid the floor and made the entire kitchen solid tiled to the edges). I still hear then scurrying and scratching.

What does work:

trap with peanut butter or a rolo on it

Poison (solid blocks in a bait box they cannot drag away and store, not grain)

A hefty tap on the noggin with a lump of oak (gotta be fast and probably lucky, but it definitely works!)

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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby RogerS » 04 Jan 2018, 12:38

:text-yeahthat:

Don't whatever you do use those so-called humane traps unless you are prepared to check then every hour 24 hours a day. If left in the trap, the mice defecate/urinate themselves to death. I'm sticking poison underneath everywhere I can and around pipes. Shelf life might not be that great but at least it is something.
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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby Deejay » 04 Jan 2018, 15:30

Afternoon all

Thanks for the replies.

I think I'll go down the lethal mousetrap route for a while until I get a couple of weeks with no evidence of their presence.

I'll try a bit harder to find any entry points and block them up.

If they return, I'll consider an electronic gizmo, once the replacements are gone, to keep them out.

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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby RogerS » 10 Jan 2018, 09:00

By chance I discovered another way last night of getting rid of rats..at least I think it was a rat.

Getting up in the middle of the night to go downstairs in the dark I trod on something that was soft but firm and ultimately yielding. Wondering what it was I looked down in the gloom and saw a pointy shaped object. It was in an area where I'd been trimming some wood offcuts but perplexed as to why, if it was wood, it was so squidgy.

Yup...getting out my pocket torch revealed a squashed rat.

Slippers are now mandatory.

Time for the poison. I dare not tell LOML as none of the rooms upstairs have doors on yet.
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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby RogerS » 10 Jan 2018, 09:04

Deejay wrote:Afternoon all

Thanks for the replies.

I think I'll go down the lethal mousetrap route for a while until I get a couple of weeks with no evidence of their presence.

I'll try a bit harder to find any entry points and block them up.

If they return, I'll consider an electronic gizmo, once the replacements are gone, to keep them out.

Cheers

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A slice of Snickers or a Mars bar make very attractive bait to them.
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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby Deejay » 10 Jan 2018, 09:56

Morning Roger

Not a nice experience, to put it mildly. I assume that it was dead before you 'found' it. Occasionally I get Brown rats under a shed in the garden. Our place is bounded on two sides by fields used by dog walkers. I think they leave food supplies. If they appear in the garden, the bait comes out until they go away.

I looked under the kitchen units yesterday and nothing is now taking the bait.

Time for the mousetraps.

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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby RogerS » 10 Jan 2018, 10:32

Deejay wrote:Morning Roger

Not a nice experience, to put it mildly. I assume that it was dead before you 'found' it. ....
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On, no Sirree. Alive and kicking :D To be honest, it didn't faze me one bit. Further research suggests it was a mouse which is a relief. I don't know about you but there is something very deep in our psyche that says 'Rat' and it didn't kick in.

Still need to get the poison down.
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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby Rod » 10 Jan 2018, 11:19

Could you identify which type of mouse? Field or Wood mice prefer to be outside except when very cold but not House mice.
Must have been a bit dozy as their eyesight is good in the dark, perhaps suffering from hypothermia .

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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby RogerS » 10 Jan 2018, 13:14

I'm not sure, Rod. Think it might have been a Field Mouse that had got lost.

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Re: Mouse repellent devices

Postby Rod » 10 Jan 2018, 14:05

Looks like a Field Mouse to me so less of a worry unless it’s already started a brood.

https://www.pantherpestcontrol.co.uk/mi ... pecies-uk/

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