Advice on getting rid of mice, please

[Chancer]

I have just (I hope) dealt with a mouse infestation in my rarely visited shed in the UK, they had been happily feeding on a 2kg bag of bird feed and had spread it everywhere, I put some poison seeds in the trays provided which were empty within hours and just had time to leave a second lot.

My previous mouse was living in my laid up Lotus Elan and had managed to shred two entire Sunday newspapers left in the footwells to soak up the water ingress and carry all the bits to make its nest in the boot, I once caught it in the boot and was impressed by its ability to speedily escape by squeezing through a tiny hole that he had chewed.

We soon came to tolerate one and other and when I moved the car to France he was illegally imported with it, the car is now stored at a friends restoration workshop and the mouse has decided that classic Panhards are more to his taste than Loti, interestingly he still likes shredding paper but has not yet started on the Panhards upholstery, the guard cat seems for the first time to be inutile, perhaps it doesnt understand English or is frightened of foreign rodents.

[Catalpa]

You could try a specialist mouse trap...[;-)]

http://www.humanemousetrap.info/

You could try the Ratzapper (does smaller rodents too)

http://www.martleyelectronics.co.uk/rat_mouse_traps.htm

For poison, please please use one that will not kill other animals and birds such as owls.

http://www.eradi-products.com/

[LEO]

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I have just (I hope) dealt with a mouse infestation in my rarely visited shed in the UK, they had been happily feeding on a 2kg bag of bird feed and had spread it everywhere, I put some poison seeds in the trays provided which were empty within hours and just had time to leave a second lot.

My previous mouse was living in my laid up Lotus Elan and had managed to shred two entire Sunday newspapers left in the footwells to soak up the water ingress and carry all the bits to make its nest in the boot, I once caught it in the boot and was impressed by its ability to speedily escape by squeezing through a tiny hole that he had chewed.

We soon came to tolerate one and other and when I moved the car to France he was illegally imported with it, the car is now stored at a friends restoration workshop and the mouse has decided that classic Panhards are more to his taste than Loti, interestingly he still likes shredding paper but has not yet started on the Panhards upholstery, the guard cat seems for the first time to be inutile, perhaps it doesnt understand English or is frightened of foreign rodents.

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Hi JR,

 I enjoyed reading about your well travelled mouse .

He may be the only English mouse in France.!

If Rabbie Burns could only know about your mouse I think we could expect another fine poem; "To a Mouse ", part two!