Dorset POOR THING!!! I would literally have died. I love wildlife, but I just can't see what earthly use they are. Ireland hasn't missed them. I'd get rid of the lot without batting an eye lid.
Fidgetbones, I saw the Big Cheese traps today, and have bought two, one of the single kind (which actually has 2 traps in the package), and one of the multiple kind, which can catch the whole family now living in my husband's shed! It can take four mice. We think it smells of melted chocolate. Have put some sunflower hearts in as extra bait. Fingers crossed!
A friend kindly transported a six foot high spare cane begonia to a lady for her new conservatory. They found the only night of the winter cold enough for frost to penetrate when they failed to remove it from their car. We did not have the heart to tell them it was dead within a couple of days
My husband borrows my car when he does a dump run and I've lost count at the number of times I've had to pull over whilst driving and get a stranger to get rid of the huge spiders that have been left in the car now mice I would be fine with.
If you can see gnaw marks on the seat adjustor is suggests something rather larger than a mouse I'm afraid. You do need to get a trap in the car as soon as possible.
Aww Yvie - I feel for you. Do you think he maybe making the most of it to get out of gardening jobs?. I hate anything flying about in the car but wouldn't abandon ship on the motorway. A funny one was when my Dad had been to the tip and picked me up from the station and a snail was climbing up the rear window.
We lived in Nigeria for a few years and apparently if some locals ran over a snake they would pick it up and wrap it round the engine so that it would be cooked by the time they got home. This was many years ago and told to my Dad by the owner of a garage.
Yvie - it sounds as though your hubby has a real issue around bees (presumably wasps too?)
We have a friend who was badly stung by a wasp as a very young child & is now quite phobic about them. He is a commercial pilot & one got into the flight deck ....
Fortunately he had a co-pilot to look after the plane while one of the cabin crew dealt with the wasp. Obviously could have been very serious if it had happened during landing or take off - but it was just instinct for him to wildly flail about and then run out of his seat.
Don't know what the passengers thought - but he had to go for a tea & biscuits chat with his senior pilot...
PS: Really, really hope it is not a rat in the car - I would die if I found one in mine (probably quite literally, if it happened while I was driving).
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
As he's got older Topbird he has got better. The thing is he has never been stung! I have and they dont worry me unless they get by my face. He now moves away quickly and asks me to deal with them. i always put a glass over them, slide a piece of card under them and let them go in the garden. Nowadays he's more worried by wasps than bees but the family still enoy creeping up on him when he is asleep in the garden and buzzing in his ear, he jumps a mile and shouts really loud. He reminds me of that blokeon the TV, was it Fred Ipititimus he used to be on a show years ago, might have been Des O'Connor. Now I'm really showing my age.
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Dorset POOR THING!!! I would literally have died. I love wildlife, but I just can't see what earthly use they are. Ireland hasn't missed them. I'd get rid of the lot without batting an eye lid.
Now mice, nothing wrong with them, nor spiders.
Fidgetbones, I saw the Big Cheese traps today, and have bought two, one of the single kind (which actually has 2 traps in the package), and one of the multiple kind, which can catch the whole family now living in my husband's shed! It can take four mice. We think it smells of melted chocolate. Have put some sunflower hearts in as extra bait. Fingers crossed!
On the subject of leaving things in the car...
A friend kindly transported a six foot high spare cane begonia to a lady for her new conservatory. They found the only night of the winter cold enough for frost to penetrate when they failed to remove it from their car. We did not have the heart to tell them it was dead within a couple of days
They are not gardeners so will not read this….
My husband borrows my car when he does a dump run and I've lost count at the number of times I've had to pull over whilst driving and get a stranger to get rid of the huge spiders that have been left in the car
now mice I would be fine with.
If you can see gnaw marks on the seat adjustor is suggests something rather larger than a mouse I'm afraid. You do need to get a trap in the car as soon as possible.
In our car it's bees that cause the problems. In the past hubby has
Jumped out of the car in the fast lane of the motorway in slow moving traffic, leaving me in the car
Refused to paint 6ft of Soffit on the house (for 7 years) because the bush below attracted bees.
Hid in an understairs cupboard for 2 hours (I was out shopping) because there was a bee in the kitchen
Almost decapitated me when throwing a spade at a bee that buzzed him in the garden.
Every summer is a battle - I spend lots of time and money attracting them into the garden and he spends hours upon hours trying to avoid them.
Aww Yvie - I feel for you. Do you think he maybe making the most of it to get out of gardening jobs?
. I hate anything flying about in the car but wouldn't abandon ship on the motorway. A funny one was when my Dad had been to the tip and picked me up from the station and a snail was climbing up the rear window.
We lived in Nigeria for a few years and apparently if some locals ran over a snake they would pick it up and wrap it round the engine so that it would be cooked by the time they got home
. This was many years ago and told to my Dad by the owner of a garage.
Sorry - this does not help with the mouse problem
Yvie - it sounds as though your hubby has a real issue around bees (presumably wasps too?)
We have a friend who was badly stung by a wasp as a very young child & is now quite phobic about them. He is a commercial pilot & one got into the flight deck ....
Fortunately he had a co-pilot to look after the plane while one of the cabin crew dealt with the wasp. Obviously could have been very serious if it had happened during landing or take off - but it was just instinct for him to wildly flail about and then run out of his seat.
Don't know what the passengers thought - but he had to go for a tea & biscuits chat with his senior pilot...
PS: Really, really hope it is not a rat in the car - I would die if I found one in mine (probably quite literally, if it happened while I was driving).
As he's got older Topbird he has got better. The thing is he has never been stung! I have and they dont worry me unless they get by my face. He now moves away quickly and asks me to deal with them. i always put a glass over them, slide a piece of card under them and let them go in the garden. Nowadays he's more worried by wasps than bees but the family still enoy creeping up on him when he is asleep in the garden and buzzing in his ear, he jumps a mile and shouts really loud. He reminds me of that blokeon the TV, was it Fred Ipititimus he used to be on a show years ago, might have been Des O'Connor. Now I'm really showing my age.
Dear old Des - him of the original fake tan & white teeth - used to quite fancy him when I was about 13