Just been informed of my next door neighbour that the other evening they spotted what they think was a mouse crawling up my outside wall where too they do not know, do mice or rats climb up walls .....have assured the missus that i will get some mouse traps, where do i position them and what bait is best.....CHEERS

Yes, mice are easily capable of it. I have seen a mouse climb down the smooth outside of our plastic compost bin without difficulty.

I have also seen a mouse climb up the inside of a plastic cable conduit.

Not sure about rats, but of course, they're excellent climbers, too.

"rabc" wrote in message
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Just been informed of my next door neighbour that the other evening they
spotted what they think was a mouse crawling up my outside wall where
too they do not know, do mice or rats climb up walls .....have assured
the missus that i will get some mouse traps, where do i position them
and what bait is best.....CHEERS




--
rabc

We often see a little mouse climb up the garage, steal the bird nuts, and
off again, also the Hawthorne, for the other nuts.....I would imagine you
would need at least, ho hum, approx, er, loads if you want to eradicate the
mouse population from your garden! In the house its different, I would put
it near the budgies cage, (at night) and leave some cake or something like
that.


I would advise against a trap outside, seriously, you could catch anything
in it, bird, hedgehog, frog, cat, you could never get rid of the mouse
population.

rabc wrote:
Just been informed of my next door neighbour that the other evening they
spotted what they think was a mouse crawling up my outside wall where
too they do not know, do mice or rats climb up walls .....have assured
the missus that i will get some mouse traps, where do i position them
and what bait is best.....CHEERS



They seem to be able to climb walls. We often get them here in Normandy
in the Winter as they sneak in upstairs somehow for some warmth. I
always put mouse bait down. The pinkish looking grains. Seems to do the
trick. Only down side is they may die under the floorboards and smell
for a week or two as they decompose. Mouse traps avoid this situation,
but you may be called upon to "do the deed" if the trap just catches one
by a limb instead of killing it. However, better to catch them. Not only
can they spread disease they can gnaw on electric cables and cause
fires. Look out for the tell-tale mouse droppings and put traps / bait
around there.


--
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On Jun 16, 6:15*pm, rabc wrote:
Just been informed of my next door neighbour that the other evening they
spotted what they think was a mouse crawling up my outside wall where
too they do not know, do mice or rats climb up walls .....have assured
the missus that i will get some mouse traps, where do i position them
and what bait is best.....CHEERS

--
rabc

Yes, they do climb walls, I have seen them. I sleep with my bedroom
window open; I have a mozzie net which is hard fixed against the
window frame. However, I am sure they could even get round that. We
have bait down, all year round, both in the house and outbuildings. I
have not (fingers crossed) seen any mouse droppings in the house for
some years and the bait remains untouched. The bait in the
outbuildings regularly disappears and is replaced. Each time the
poison is changed as we have heard they can become immune to it. Rats
are a problem round here but with control, we have not had any in the
house for a long time. (Fingers crossed).

Judith

Judith in France wrote:
We
have bait down, all year round, both in the house and outbuildings.

Ditto that. I've also put down something a bit different this last
Winter too. It is little blue sachets about the size of a tea-bag of
what is essentially poisoned fat but the rodents haven't touched the
stuff but they have eaten the grain. I won't buy them again. They have
also left greasy stains on the floorboards.

Will birds eat the poisoned grain? At one point little piles of it were
disappearing from the attic but there were no droppings or dead mice. I
have since found house sparrows nesting in there and wondered if they
will eat the bait? I don't want to kill the birds!

The birds are determined to stop my building work though. I've got a
pile of breeze-blocks outside and two of the blocks have nests in them!
The little hole in the top of the blocks seems to be an ideal bird house
size. Seems birds like houses made of concrete, though they have added a
moss carpet to each for comfort.

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Martin wrote:


We had a family of mice that not only climbed walls but could also climb into a
plastic supermarket shopping bag, hanging from a nail in a cupboard wall, eat
the packets of crisps in it and then climb out again.

Mice are becoming super-intelligent. Give them time and they will chew
into your phone line and be ordering pizza delivered!

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"rabc" wrote in message
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Just been informed of my next door neighbour that the other evening they
spotted what they think was a mouse crawling up my outside wall where
too they do not know, do mice or rats climb up walls .....have assured
the missus that i will get some mouse traps, where do i position them
and what bait is best.....CHEERS

Peanut butter is very effective, the mice seem to love it!

On Jun 16, 10:04*pm, David in Normandy
wrote:
Judith in France wrote:
*We
have bait down, all year round, both in the house and outbuildings.

Ditto that. I've also put down something a bit different this last
Winter too. It is little blue sachets about the size of a tea-bag of
what is essentially poisoned fat but the rodents haven't touched the
stuff but they have eaten the grain. I won't buy them again. They have
also left greasy stains on the floorboards.

Will birds eat the poisoned grain? At one point little piles of it were
disappearing from the attic but there were no droppings or dead mice. I
have since found house sparrows nesting in there and wondered if they
will eat the bait? I don't want to kill the birds!

The birds are determined to stop my building work though. I've got a
pile of breeze-blocks outside and two of the blocks have nests in them!
The little hole in the top of the blocks seems to be an ideal bird house
size. Seems birds like houses made of concrete, though they have added a
moss carpet to each for comfort.

--
David in Normandy. *
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* *subject line, or it will be automatically deleted
* *by a filter and not reach my inbox.

Ah, I tried those tea bag sachets, they don't work David. I buy the
ordinary rodent killer from Gamme Verte or some such and it works
fine. My farmer neighbours use something else that I cannot buy but
they tell me that if I have a problem, then I can have some. So what
will you do about the nests? Last year the plasterers in our new
sitting room, came back later to finish a new wall so that the eggs
could hatch!!!!!!

Judith

"rabc" wrote in message
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Just been informed of my next door neighbour that the other evening they
spotted what they think was a mouse crawling up my outside wall where
too they do not know, do mice or rats climb up walls .....have assured
the missus that i will get some mouse traps, where do i position them
and what bait is best.....CHEERS




--
rabc

Rodents like cover and wall edges - so traps placed at bases of walls,
preferrably with some cover around them. Bait: chocolate... mice and rats
*love* chocolate.

Even better get cat a cat or three for a more 'natural' pest control
approach.

On Jun 16, 10:06*pm, Martin wrote:

We had a family of mice that not only climbed walls but could also climb into a
plastic supermarket shopping bag, hanging from a nail in a cupboard wall, eat
the packets of crisps in it and then climb out again.

That wasn't mice....it was Gary Lineker!

Judith in France wrote:
So what
will you do about the nests? Last year the plasterers in our new
sitting room, came back later to finish a new wall so that the eggs
could hatch!!!!!!


I will wait until the young have gone. I haven't the heart to evict
them. Besides, the building work is in no rush at the moment.

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"wafflycat" wrote in message
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Rodents like cover and wall edges - so traps placed at bases of walls,
preferrably with some cover around them. Bait: chocolate... mice and rats
*love* chocolate.

Even better get cat a cat or three for a more 'natural' pest control
approach.


Natural - you must be joking surely.
More like un-natural domesticated vermin.

Do you count your garden birds as pests as well ?

Regards
Pete

"Pete Stockdale" wrote in message
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"wafflycat" wrote in message
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Rodents like cover and wall edges - so traps placed at bases of walls,
preferrably with some cover around them. Bait: chocolate... mice and rats
*love* chocolate.

Even better get cat a cat or three for a more 'natural' pest control
approach.


Natural - you must be joking surely.
More like un-natural domesticated vermin.

Do you count your garden birds as pests as well ?

Regards
Pete


Do take that lemon out of your mouth, it's making you far, far too sour.

"wafflycat" wrote in message
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Do take that lemon out of your mouth, it's making you far, far too sour.


At least there is no chicken in mine.
Why do you not answer my question ?

Regards
Pete