Mice!!!

[Geordie_Rob]

Just taken a trip into the shed to swap gas bottles & found a mouse in 1 of my traps.

On further inspection I've seen they have chewed through the hard plastic storage case I was using to store my large sacks of dog food & chewed through into both bags & into the food.

Rather than risk it, I've binned all the food & it's set me back for dog supplies for about 3 months worth of food. I'm now wondering (dreading) what else they may have chewed/pee'd all over.

Just thought I would post this to warn people who may also be storing food in a garden hut/shed. It might be a good idea to pop your head in & check.

[bigpaul]

(22 January 2013, 14:14)Geordie_Rob Wrote: Just taken a trip into the shed to swap gas bottles & found a mouse in 1 of my traps.

On further inspection I've seen they have chewed through the hard plastic storage case I was using to store my large sacks of dog food & chewed through into both bags & into the food.

Rather than risk it, I've binned all the food & it's set me back for dog supplies for about 3 months worth of food. I'm now wondering (dreading) what else they may have chewed/pee'd all over.

Just thought I would post this to warn people who may also be storing food in a garden hut/shed. It might be a good idea to pop your head in & check.

what about using a metal bin or similar? plastic is no good for mice even worse if it was rat.

[Geordie_Rob]

I honestly never thought a mouse would get that high where the box was stored. It must've been a crafty little bugger to get where it was (top shelf of metal racking). From now on, only none food items are being stored in there.

[bigpaul]

(22 January 2013, 14:25)Geordie_Rob Wrote: I honestly never thought a mouse would get that high where the box was stored. It must've been a crafty little bugger to get where it was (top shelf of metal racking). From now on, only none food items are being stored in there.

yep, we had a mouse in the larder, thankfully it only got as far as the bottom shelf where we store glass bottles and such, have now sealed up the hole it came through.

[Geordie_Rob]

I've eliminated the food source now so hopefully there are no more of the little beggars, or if there is, then hopefully they will bugger off elsewhere.

As for finding & fixing the hole, it'll have to wait until the weather improves as I'm not pulling all my gardening machinery out in this weather.

[Skean Dhude]

I hope you disposed of it usefully, even if it was in a composter rather than a bin which I think is what you said.

[Geordie_Rob]

Ill be honest, I never considered composting it. Ill take the sacks out the bin & get them dug/mixed into the heap once the snow thaws.

[Geordie_Rob]

New weapons in my arsenal. Literally

2 x .177 air pistols & glue paper to catch the buggers. I thought actually dispatching them myself will also be useful for de-sensitising myself for killing small furry things as I'm still a bit of a girl when it comes to that (apologies to any girls who may get offended. It was meant as a joke).

Fingers crossed I can do away with them asap.