On 13/04/2015 11:25, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 13/04/15 09:51, Martin Brown wrote:
I find Nutella makes excellent mouse bait. The odd one gets inside our
loft from
time time time usually in late Autumn. That is by climbing a vertical
wall and
finding a small gap somewhere under the eaves.

I find peanut butter on a "little nipper" trap works. I prefer
backbreakers to poison since they is fast and I can dispose of
the corpse without having to locate it.

I am quite impressed with the Rentokill plastic ones which are not quite
as tricky to set or as messy as conventional ones.

Sometimes I find the trap unsprung but with the peanut butter
gone. But I only have to be lucky once; they have to be lucky
every time.

Not a pleasant job, but usually they only start to come in
as the cold weather arrives.

I favour a bit of both. There is grain bait down and I set traps if I
hear any scuttling around in the late Autumn when they try to come in.

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Regards,
Martin Brown