On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 01:50:59 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:

You need a cat. Mine came without me wanting him. He is brill on mice
and small rats. He doesn't do the big rats, he says he doesn't like
being bitten by their huge teeth. I have to get the terriers in for
that.

Got one, thanks. She's pretty great on mice and voles too, luckily we
don't have rats. But there are far too many here in the deep country for
her to keep up with even at 2-3 /day, and for the time being more cats
are not in the cards.

Also, she likes the easy mice and voles from the hedgerows, not the
inside ones. Even in the house she's not that interested.



--
Gardening in Lower Normandy

"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 01:50:59 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:

You need a cat. Mine came without me wanting him. He is brill on mice
and small rats. He doesn't do the big rats, he says he doesn't like
being bitten by their huge teeth. I have to get the terriers in for
that.

Got one, thanks. She's pretty great on mice and voles too, luckily we
don't have rats. But there are far too many here in the deep country for
her to keep up with even at 2-3 /day, and for the time being more cats
are not in the cards.

Also, she likes the easy mice and voles from the hedgerows, not the
inside ones. Even in the house she's not that interested.



My cat is great about killing voles, mice and small rats. He doesn't like
the big rats - We get the terriers in for those. Big rats need terriers.

On 03/04/2015 17:36, mike crowe wrote:
'Spider[_3_ Wrote:
;1012677']On 03/04/2015 12:21, Martin wrote:-
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:18:59 +0100, Spider wrote:
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On 02/04/2015 14:44, Martin Brown wrote:-
On 02/04/2015 12:22, Emery Davis wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:29:41 +0200, Martin wrote:

%^&*ing mice

Preach it, brother!

If you think mice are bad try squirrels. They dislodged tiles off my
garage roof and made a hole in the roofing felt to get to stored
apples.
-


And squirrels got into our loft and ate through cables. We're lucky
there wasn't a fire.-

and no grilled squirrel?
-


Well, there certainly wasn't the delicious odour one might associate
with roast rodent. Mind you, RG got fairly hot under the colour when he

had to rerun cables in the rather tight eaves of the loft.
Hopefully, all the access holes have been blocked now and, no, we
haven't blocked Squirrel in. RG taped his mobile phone to a length of
timber and used the camera to check for lodgers.
--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay


We had a Rat problem so put down poison. We also blocked up the holes.
Problem? We blocked up his exit. He died and rotted under the lounge
floor.

Mike




We get bothered by squirrels, grey ones mostly, and the try to get at
all the bulbs I planted each year, and eat them. I have had to resort to
putting wire netting over every pot or tub which has bulbs in. At least
they don't get eaten, but the little b*\.s have a go at digging up some
of the plants I have potted, just to see if they are worth eating????

"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 01:50:59 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:

You need a cat. Mine came without me wanting him. He is brill on mice
and small rats. He doesn't do the big rats, he says he doesn't like
being bitten by their huge teeth. I have to get the terriers in for
that.

Got one, thanks. She's pretty great on mice and voles too, luckily we
don't have rats. But there are far too many here in the deep country for
her to keep up with even at 2-3 /day, and for the time being more cats
are not in the cards.

Also, she likes the easy mice and voles from the hedgerows, not the
inside ones. Even in the house she's not that interested.



My cat says your cat is lazy.and doesn't deserve such a nice home. My cat
says he woukl be more than ashamed if we had mice in the house.;-)
If she doesn't catch mice in the house, you could try one of those catch
alive box traps, but you have to release them quite a way away or they will
come back.

My cat is not allowed in my bedroom so I always have a baited catch-alive
trap in there. Nothing ever ever in it for years until last winter. It
must have come in when I I went outside for logs and left my front door open
and rushed straight up the stairs. It was a lucky mouse to go into that
trap. Had it gone into any other room, Boyfie would have caused it to be
deceased.
I let it go two miles away. I hope it will find another place to be a
nuisance in.

I stopped using snap traps in my house when I once caught a lactating female
woodmouse.I killed her and her babies starved..

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 01:50:59 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:

You need a cat. Mine came without me wanting him. He is brill on mice
and small rats. He doesn't do the big rats, he says he doesn't like
being bitten by their huge teeth. I have to get the terriers in for
that.

Got one, thanks. She's pretty great on mice and voles too, luckily we
don't have rats. But there are far too many here in the deep country for
her to keep up with even at 2-3 /day, and for the time being more cats
are not in the cards.

Also, she likes the easy mice and voles from the hedgerows, not the
inside ones. Even in the house she's not that interested.



My cat says your cat is lazy.and doesn't deserve such a nice home. My cat
says he woukl be more than ashamed if we had mice in the house.;-)
If she doesn't catch mice in the house, you could try one of those catch
alive box traps, but you have to release them quite a way away or they
will come back.

My cat is not allowed in my bedroom so I always have a baited catch-alive
trap in there. Nothing ever ever in it for years until last winter. It
must have come in when I I went outside for logs and left my front door
open and rushed straight up the stairs. It was a lucky mouse to go into
that trap. Had it gone into any other room, Boyfie would have caused it
to be deceased.
I let it go two miles away. I hope it will find another place to be a
nuisance in.

I stopped using snap traps in my house when I once caught a lactating
female woodmouse.I killed her and her babies starved..

Ouch
--
http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/

"Christina Websell" wrote


"Emery Davis" wrote
Christina Websell wrote:

You need a cat. Mine came without me wanting him. He is brill on mice
and small rats. He doesn't do the big rats, he says he doesn't like
being bitten by their huge teeth. I have to get the terriers in for
that.

Got one, thanks. She's pretty great on mice and voles too, luckily we
don't have rats. But there are far too many here in the deep country for
her to keep up with even at 2-3 /day, and for the time being more cats
are not in the cards.

Also, she likes the easy mice and voles from the hedgerows, not the
inside ones. Even in the house she's not that interested.



My cat says your cat is lazy.and doesn't deserve such a nice home. My cat
says he woukl be more than ashamed if we had mice in the house.;-)
If she doesn't catch mice in the house, you could try one of those catch
alive box traps, but you have to release them quite a way away or they will
come back.

My cat is not allowed in my bedroom so I always have a baited catch-alive
trap in there. Nothing ever ever in it for years until last winter. It
must have come in when I I went outside for logs and left my front door
open and rushed straight up the stairs. It was a lucky mouse to go into
that trap. Had it gone into any other room, Boyfie would have caused it to
be deceased.
I let it go two miles away. I hope it will find another place to be a
nuisance in.

I stopped using snap traps in my house when I once caught a lactating
female woodmouse.I killed her and her babies starved..


Our cat is a brilliant mouser but he will insist in occasionally bringing
them in as a present for us. He did that on Sunday after being out for less
than 30 seconds but we had guests for dinner that evening and he promptly
lost it somewhere under the furniture. Our two humane traps haven't caught
it so he probably did later, I hope.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Christina Websell" wrote


"Emery Davis" wrote
Christina Websell wrote:

You need a cat. Mine came without me wanting him. He is brill on mice
and small rats. He doesn't do the big rats, he says he doesn't like
being bitten by their huge teeth. I have to get the terriers in for
that.

Got one, thanks. She's pretty great on mice and voles too, luckily we
don't have rats. But there are far too many here in the deep country
for
her to keep up with even at 2-3 /day, and for the time being more cats
are not in the cards.

Also, she likes the easy mice and voles from the hedgerows, not the
inside ones. Even in the house she's not that interested.



My cat says your cat is lazy.and doesn't deserve such a nice home. My cat
says he woukl be more than ashamed if we had mice in the house.;-)
If she doesn't catch mice in the house, you could try one of those catch
alive box traps, but you have to release them quite a way away or they
will come back.

My cat is not allowed in my bedroom so I always have a baited catch-alive
trap in there. Nothing ever ever in it for years until last winter. It
must have come in when I I went outside for logs and left my front door
open and rushed straight up the stairs. It was a lucky mouse to go into
that trap. Had it gone into any other room, Boyfie would have caused it
to be deceased.
I let it go two miles away. I hope it will find another place to be a
nuisance in.

I stopped using snap traps in my house when I once caught a lactating
female woodmouse.I killed her and her babies starved..


Our cat is a brilliant mouser but he will insist in occasionally bringing
them in as a present for us. He did that on Sunday after being out for
less than 30 seconds but we had guests for dinner that evening and he
promptly lost it somewhere under the furniture. Our two humane traps
haven't caught it so he probably did later, I hope.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.

My cat has occasionally let a mouse that he caught in the garden loose in
the house. He thinks it's hilarious. I don't appreciate his humour.
Normally he kills them but now and again, he teases me.

He is able to to know where it is through sound. Bad luck that mouse.

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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Our cat is a brilliant mouser but he will insist in occasionally bringing
them in as a present for us. He did that on Sunday after being out for
less than 30 seconds but we had guests for dinner that evening and he
promptly lost it somewhere under the furniture. Our two humane traps
haven't caught it so he probably did later, I hope.
--
My cat did a similar thing, he let a mouse go in the kitchen and it went
under the trolley thing. He caught it without being able to see it but he
had it in his mouth and still kept looking for it under the trolley. I
spoke to my vet about that. Like "what part of you have caught it already
don't you understand?"
I thought he might have dementia. He hasn't.