Rod & Sara Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 AKA Fat Dormouse, Squirrel-tailed Dormouse, or LOIR in French.Has anyone else had unwanted visitations from these cute little creatures? One sat in the kitchen cupboard quite happily allowing my son to take photos of it!. However, having to clean our kitchen from top to bottom on arrival at our Maison Secondaire was not our guests idea of fun .Has anyone got a solution?.....Rat or mouse poison?.....traps, in which case what size? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Cats!!!!Ours have caught 2 in the last 24 hours! They are lovely little creatures though, and i like to see them. Also they don't seem interested in coming inside the house. (Loirs that is, not the cats!)Louise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoverfrog Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 loir will come into the house, especially in the autumn. They will cause more destruction and mess than squirrels, and are harder to deter!Our Patterdale dispatches them in nano-seconds :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 They also snore like tractors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Oh yes, they will come in the house. We rented a gite one year when my Mom came over for holiday. She swore up and down that something was crawling on her during the night. No idea if it was true as I hadn't seen anything, but I was upstairs, she down. Anyway, that was the first night, then a repeat on night two. After further exploration, it was clear "something" had freshly been into all the foodstuffs the owner had left boxed up in the cave, even eating into a BIB of wine.etc. Also, nice presents were left all round. We had to leave. I probably would have endured, but Mom couldn't take it. We were told by locals it was the Loir (not sure how to spell it). Unfortunately, never got our money back for leaving either. Haven't forgotten that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 There's a dormouse recipe on another dormouse related thread. [+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieR Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 [:(]We have them living in the roof of our extension. Hope they aren't doing too much damage?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Some info here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormousehttp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loir_%28animal%29#R.C3.A9partition_g.C3.A9ographiqueLouise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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