You know you have vermin in the house when.........

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You open the cupbord with the dog treats in and see all the choc bones have gone :confused: then your JRT comes over and pushes the other treats out the way :eek: and sniffes like mad at the back of the cupbord :rolleyes:

There are no other signs of rats or mice but can't think of any other explanation for the choc bones going and the only thing the little fella cares more about than food is ratting. I've even offered him a meaty bonio and he just wants to sniff in the cupbord :eek: :rolleyes:
 
Never post in here, just a lurker but felt I could sympathise with this one...

Watching TV yesterday when a mouse fell out of the ceiling! (half-finished room in a rather rickety cabin- gaps in the ceiling tiles) Aargh! Three more critters also spotted running across the kitchen.

I think we have mice. Gulp.

Good luck evicting yours Laura... sounds like your JRT is keen to help!
 
Had to laugh at both your posts, living in an old farmhouse Ive seen plenty of mice. Laura for your dog to ignore his treats and just look for the mouse shows true dedication.

A few years ago I put a mouse trap in the airing cupboard and was woken in the night by a strange tapping noise coming from the airing cupboard. I open the door to be greeted by a mouse with his tail caught in the trap, as he moved the trap went tap tap. I got one of my heelers who quickly despatched the poor little thing.:D
 
mollyblob hope you get rid of your unwanted guests. It's so wet and cold outside they are all coming into the warm :( If the little fella finds ours it won't last long. :) He got one afew months ago in my landladys kitchen.

Dobiegirl laughed at your story to.

Sprout My mum and dad had one in there house once. It didn't eat anything or chew any wires. But if they had someone round it would run across the kitchen floor :o

Alec Swan I don't think the little fella agrees with you on that one ;) Esp once he calms down and realises it's eatern all his choc bones :p :rolleyes:
 
In my last house they were frequent visitors. I set up a trap in the larder, half hour later I jumped a mile as it went SNAP!!
Opened the door, I caught 3 mice in the same trap at the same time! Talk about a photo finish! lol Sorry mices...:eek:
 
Whenever I think of our everyday mouse, who may live with us, I often think of the tale, (was it Kipling?) of the mouse who always went around the skirting boards, and never quiet plucked up the courage to cross the room. Something like Burns's "Timorous wee beastie"!!

Anyway, never mind mouses, I'm now off to collect in in-pup working Cocker bitch, who's coming to me to whelp. She's beautifully bred, she's been scanned in pup. She's visited a FTCh dog, and we're hoping for great things. She's due in 5 weeks, the new kennel blocks have arrived, and I'm excited!!

Alec.
 
Last winter I got very cross with the children for seemingly eating half packets of Tayto cheese & Onion crisps and leaving the other halves in the cupboard, until one night I came in late, was propping up the cupboard while having a cup of tea and heard scrunch scrunch scrunch coming from behind the door ...

When we caught him he was the fattest (unhealthiest - well, dead actually :o) mouse you have ever seen. Funny he didn't like any of the other flavours in the variety pack :confused:

Our house is very old and made of mud and random rocks and stuff, and we often here mice inside the walls, even upstairs :)
 
You have a ninga mouse which runs down your leg whilst you are watching TV:eek::eek: jumps on the Patterdale Terriers back and scoots of out of sight:D:D:D
 
Arghh, you have a mouse or a rat! My daughter has never been the tidiest and I've never been the most house proud:o A few years back, I took it upon myself to tackle her bedroom as it was looking particularly hovel-like. After a few minutes of grab and bin, I came across little blackish particles, after several more sightings it slowly dawned on me that she had a lodger. Now, back in those days I wasn't rodent friendly and it freaked me out. A quick phone call to FIL, who duly arrived with a bagless HENRY hoover accompanied by my old Border Terrier. Mouse Ops was commenced. Unfortunately, my old BT was more interested in attacking the hoover nozzle than a little mouse and after several minutes of crashing about the quarry was caught. I must admit to feelings of sadness when the lodger had been caught and despatched, not by a terrier but by Henry hoover.
 
My friends Westie was asleep in the living room when a mouse trotted out. Sniffed her and then went and sat on her back, the Westie woke up, sniffed the mouse and then went back to sleep! Lazy dog.

Some uni friends of mine were living in a typically squalid uni home which had mice, they put poison down and traps and eventually caught one. Only now they had the dilemma of what to do with it (still alive)
After much discussion and several shots of vodka for bravery, one of them dispatched it with a spade. Then all three 6 foot, 14stone tough rugby boys phoned their mums in floods of tears at their murder........... Boys.........
 
We saw some mice at the yard-got 2 semi-feral 7mth old(ish)cats from the Cats Protection League. All liveries fell in love with cats(who quickly became completely tame and very loving)until they started catching,playing with,killing&eating mice right in the middle of the yard...then all liveries promptly went off the cats and sniffled about the 'poor mice'.
:-/
 
My sister put up with mice in her house until one night they dragged a mahoosive bar of Dairy Milk from a coffee table,across the lounge and left lots of little teeth marks in it...then she put traps out-nicking chocolate is Out of Order!!!!
 
I live in a mobile home in the corner of a working farm, it had been empty for a couple of months just before I moved in. Just after moving in I heard a noise, the dog went ballistic and then came back a few minutes later with a huge dead rat! :eek: *shudders* (I can cope with them at the yard/outside but not in my house!!!)
 
We live on the edge of the Fens and always seeing rats in the garden especially around the hens run. I can cope with them outside but not when one of them ate it's way into the house through the utility roof space and made it's way into the kitchen to live under the kitchen cupboards que dog and cats doing nuts not being able to get it. Thank goodness only one. Trap set under the units and next night crash bang wallop under units. Brave OH went to look to find one big rat caught by tail crashing round under the units. It was soon dispatched.
 
I rented a room in a house and it was filthy. Had mice in my bedroom and it was not nice.

if you can find where they are getting in or into the cupboards they hate foil. So stuff the holes full of foil.
 
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