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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:36:58 -0000, "Tom Bennett"
wrote: "bigboard" wrote Mice are always getting into lofts. They're very good climbers and have no trouble scaling an outside wall. I'll second that: Rentokil used to have a training video, showing a mouse climbing up a vertical brick wall, as though it was on the flat. Mice can also get through very tight gaps. They dislocate their ribcages and can wriggle through gaps under doors (for example) that are less than half and inch deep. - Tom. pretty clever really then!, are they more than likely going to be living as a family up there? i've caught one in a trap so far (last night) and theres been no more since. |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
"Nick" wrote:
are they more than likely going to be living as a family up there? i've caught one in a trap so far (last night) and theres been no more since. Probably a lost and lonely soul, Nick. Most field mice come into houses for warmth and shelter in the autumn, usually through unattended open doors. You could try looking around to see if there are any obvious gaps around the eaves and proof them with wire mesh to stop reoccupation. (Far more humane than the breakback traps). If you do have more mice, you'll soon know, as it's amazing how much noise they make. IME, their nocturnal goings-on, just above your bedroom at 03.00, makes you think that there must be a whole flock of birds in your loft - Tom. |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
"Nick" wrote:
are they more than likely going to be living as a family up there? i've caught one in a trap so far (last night) and theres been no more since. Probably a lost and lonely soul, Nick. Most field mice come into houses for warmth and shelter in the autumn, usually through unattended open doors. You could try looking around to see if there are any obvious gaps around the eaves and proof them with wire mesh to stop reoccupation. (Far more humane than the breakback traps). If you do have more mice, you'll soon know, as it's amazing how much noise they make. IME, their nocturnal goings-on, just above your bedroom at 03.00, makes you think that there must be a whole flock of birds in your loft - Tom. |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
"Nick" wrote:
are they more than likely going to be living as a family up there? i've caught one in a trap so far (last night) and theres been no more since. Probably a lost and lonely soul, Nick. Most field mice come into houses for warmth and shelter in the autumn, usually through unattended open doors. You could try looking around to see if there are any obvious gaps around the eaves and proof them with wire mesh to stop reoccupation. (Far more humane than the breakback traps). If you do have more mice, you'll soon know, as it's amazing how much noise they make. IME, their nocturnal goings-on, just above your bedroom at 03.00, makes you think that there must be a whole flock of birds in your loft - Tom. |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:29:30 -0000, "Tom Bennett"
wrote: "Nick" wrote: are they more than likely going to be living as a family up there? i've caught one in a trap so far (last night) and theres been no more since. Probably a lost and lonely soul, Nick. Most field mice come into houses for warmth and shelter in the autumn, usually through unattended open doors. You could try looking around to see if there are any obvious gaps around the eaves and proof them with wire mesh to stop reoccupation. (Far more humane than the breakback traps). If you do have more mice, you'll soon know, as it's amazing how much noise they make. IME, their nocturnal goings-on, just above your bedroom at 03.00, makes you think that there must be a whole flock of birds in your loft - Tom. i've told the wife that i'm clearing all those bin bags of her old clothes out this weekend so hopefully i'll be able to see any further signs of anything once that lot is gone ;-) |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:29:30 -0000, "Tom Bennett"
wrote: "Nick" wrote: are they more than likely going to be living as a family up there? i've caught one in a trap so far (last night) and theres been no more since. Probably a lost and lonely soul, Nick. Most field mice come into houses for warmth and shelter in the autumn, usually through unattended open doors. You could try looking around to see if there are any obvious gaps around the eaves and proof them with wire mesh to stop reoccupation. (Far more humane than the breakback traps). If you do have more mice, you'll soon know, as it's amazing how much noise they make. IME, their nocturnal goings-on, just above your bedroom at 03.00, makes you think that there must be a whole flock of birds in your loft - Tom. i've told the wife that i'm clearing all those bin bags of her old clothes out this weekend so hopefully i'll be able to see any further signs of anything once that lot is gone ;-) |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:29:30 -0000, "Tom Bennett"
wrote: "Nick" wrote: are they more than likely going to be living as a family up there? i've caught one in a trap so far (last night) and theres been no more since. Probably a lost and lonely soul, Nick. Most field mice come into houses for warmth and shelter in the autumn, usually through unattended open doors. You could try looking around to see if there are any obvious gaps around the eaves and proof them with wire mesh to stop reoccupation. (Far more humane than the breakback traps). If you do have more mice, you'll soon know, as it's amazing how much noise they make. IME, their nocturnal goings-on, just above your bedroom at 03.00, makes you think that there must be a whole flock of birds in your loft - Tom. i've told the wife that i'm clearing all those bin bags of her old clothes out this weekend so hopefully i'll be able to see any further signs of anything once that lot is gone ;-) |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
"Nick" wrote
i've told the wife that i'm clearing all those bin bags of her old clothes out this weekend. snip If you successfully carry that out without serious injury to yourself, please let me know how. I've been trying for years :-) - Tom. |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
"Nick" wrote
i've told the wife that i'm clearing all those bin bags of her old clothes out this weekend. snip If you successfully carry that out without serious injury to yourself, please let me know how. I've been trying for years :-) - Tom. |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
"Nick" wrote
i've told the wife that i'm clearing all those bin bags of her old clothes out this weekend. snip If you successfully carry that out without serious injury to yourself, please let me know how. I've been trying for years :-) - Tom. |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:18:36 -0000, "Tom Bennett"
wrote: "Nick" wrote i've told the wife that i'm clearing all those bin bags of her old clothes out this weekend. snip If you successfully carry that out without serious injury to yourself, please let me know how. I've been trying for years :-) - Tom. when she got to know there was a mouse up that was her idea ;-) |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:18:36 -0000, "Tom Bennett"
wrote: "Nick" wrote i've told the wife that i'm clearing all those bin bags of her old clothes out this weekend. snip If you successfully carry that out without serious injury to yourself, please let me know how. I've been trying for years :-) - Tom. when she got to know there was a mouse up that was her idea ;-) |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:18:36 -0000, "Tom Bennett"
wrote: "Nick" wrote i've told the wife that i'm clearing all those bin bags of her old clothes out this weekend. snip If you successfully carry that out without serious injury to yourself, please let me know how. I've been trying for years :-) - Tom. when she got to know there was a mouse up that was her idea ;-) |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
Nick19/2/04 2:20
snip pretty clever really then!, are they more than likely going to be living as a family up there? i've caught one in a trap so far (last night) and theres been no more since. Could most certainly be a family. We have an elderly neighbour who heard the patter of tiny feet in her attic a couple of times, so when our mouse man came round, we asked him to go to see her attic for her. He found that several mice were living in an old water tank and that they had been happily pulling up the fleecy insulation stuff in the roof. Luckily, they hadn't started chewing on cable insulation because that can be both annoying and potentially dangerous. -- Sacha (remove the weeds to email me) |
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o/t : found a mouse in my loft!
Nick19/2/04 2:20
snip pretty clever really then!, are they more than likely going to be living as a family up there? i've caught one in a trap so far (last night) and theres been no more since. Could most certainly be a family. We have an elderly neighbour who heard the patter of tiny feet in her attic a couple of times, so when our mouse man came round, we asked him to go to see her attic for her. He found that several mice were living in an old water tank and that they had been happily pulling up the fleecy insulation stuff in the roof. Luckily, they hadn't started chewing on cable insulation because that can be both annoying and potentially dangerous. -- Sacha (remove the weeds to email me) |
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