Have I got lodgers?

[breezer]

I am going to look for somewhere selling traps when I finish tomorrow's job

believe it or not, you can get them in q & b

see the difference in size

( i am waiting to see who gets the joke first) but seriously the pictures are NOT altered, there really is such a differnce in size)

 

[planenut]

Okay, the middle one's the odd one out - it happens to be a mouse and the other two are pony carts?

I think he's ignoring the ghost though!

 

[breezer]

well i thought it was funny.

but the pitures really are not edited (other than file size)

 

[DforDave]

Have just ordered some traps online but then found that the web site of my borough council says this...

"The destruction of pests in domestic premises which cause a public health risk such as mice, cockroaches, fleas and bed bugs can be carried out by trained pest control officers for a nominal charge. The control of rats is carried out, in domestic premises, free of charge. Active wasps' nests and squirrels in domestic premises can also be treated for a nominal charge."

I am going to give them a ring tomorrow and see what they advise - I hate rats and I would rather leave it to someone who gets paid to mess with them.

 

[AdamW]

I am going to give them a ring tomorrow and see what they advise - I hate rats and I would rather leave it to someone who gets paid to mess with them.

Too right. Anything that is commonly known to climb up a soil stack, round the u-bend and leap out of a toilet is not good!

As for the traps, I worked in a shop that sold both types (in fact the same brand as Breezer has pictured there)... setting off a mousetrap onto upturned fingers (i.e. so the snapper hits the soft side of your fingers rather than the nail-side), doesn't hurt. But none of us dared tried it with a rat-trap! If you have a mouse, a rat-trap would probably take it's head off.

 

[Freddie]

We had a rat a few months back, you could here him running across the ceiling in the attic, i bought about 10 traps and about £20 of poison, and i got him, well i think there was 2. I got one in the trap and i think the poison took care of the other. When you buy the poison you need to check on the strentgh as some of it is useless against a rat. But you have to act quick as they breed like billyow and you will soon have many more.

By the way rats a responsible for burning a lot of places down when they chew through cables

 

[pipme]

Sorted

 

[breezer]

If you have a mouse, a rat-trap would probably take it's head off.

we have and it didnt

 

[Freddie]

Sorted

 

[AdamW]

If you have a mouse, a rat-trap would probably take it's head off.

we have and it didnt

I stand corrected!

Before we got the cats my parents used some of those plastic mouse-traps with big teeth on them, had a couple of almost complete decapitations, I just assumed that a rat-trap would be even fiercer. Seems the toothed mouse-traps are just vicious compared to the flat-wire types. After all, the idea is to break the neck not take the head off.

Still, a rat trap surely made a heck of a mess of a mouse, didn't it? You can't tell me it had no greater effect than a mouse-trap on it

 

[AdamW]

Anyone seen this one before?

 

[breezer]

Still, a rat trap surely made a heck of a mess of a mouse, didn't it? You can't tell me it had no greater effect than a mouse-trap on it

don't know if i will get away with showing the picture, yes the head is still there, along with the body, its just that it is very flat around what i suppose would be the neck area.

About that glue stuff. bad idea, not worth it, rodents have been known to gnaw their own feet off to get away

 

[petewood]

I tried the glue to catch rodents, but one of the beasts always seemed to escape, yes you may have guessed, it was a little mouse with clogs on!

 

[DforDave]

What have you put on the trap as bait? (a slice of mars bar works very well, i know this from expeaiance)

Traps should arrive tomorrow and I will be getting my bait ready. I am thinking of using something different on each to see what "IT" prefers! So far I have Mars Bar, Snicker and peanut butter on my list. Might even put a bit of telephone cable on one seeing as "IT" seems to like chewing it so much

 

[ninebob]

Here's my rat/mouse control device:

Doesn't she look sweet?

She's never had to prove herself, but I'd like to think she'd sort out any rodents if I ever had a problem. If she would wake up for long enough, that is......