While I'd agree with clearing excess feed away from obvious, easily accessed places at dusk, that alone won't stop them being in the garden, where they aren't usually a major problem. You still have to tackle the issue of them coming inside. Rats are different, of course.
I also tried one of those sonic deterrents in a previous house, Doogie - also a fairly rural location, and an old house, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference!
Maybe Scottish mice are just more determined....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I had great fun on Sunday trying to get a live mouse, one of my cats brought it home, from behind the fridge freezer. 4 determined folk and a shoe box later it was returned to the field safe and sound. Needless to say the cat in question sat in front of the ff for the rest of the day somewhat perplexed! Super picture Fairygirl.
Currently we have what i hope is a mouse in the loft! Each night about midnight there is loud scratching right above my head!
I shared this news with some friends who said it could be an animal that was introduced to Buckinghamshire like a chinchilla!!! Needless to say I haven't told OH this info and hoping this weekend when putting xmas decks away he can investigate
Never heard of a sonic mouse deterrent, I'll have to look in to that.
Took the bin out of the cupboard on Sunday evening to empty it, only to have a mouse climb out of the top, drop onto my foot and then run under the freezer. Why it never occurred to me to move the freezer I don't know. I just stood there wondering whether to leave the cupboard door open so it could get back in, or whether to leave it shut. In the end I left it open because I thought that if the mouse couldn't get back to it's nest it would just find somewhere else in the house to camp out. And I didn't want that.
I'm now busy looking for any holes it may have come through so I can block them up, and I'm going to get a lidded metal waste bin for the cupboard, rather than the open topped plastic one. If there was anywhere else in my ridiculously tiny kitchen to put a bin, I would put it there instead. But it may well come down to traps etc. as a last resort.
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While I'd agree with clearing excess feed away from obvious, easily accessed places at dusk, that alone won't stop them being in the garden, where they aren't usually a major problem. You still have to tackle the issue of them coming inside. Rats are different, of course.
I also tried one of those sonic deterrents in a previous house, Doogie - also a fairly rural location, and an old house, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference!
Maybe Scottish mice are just more determined....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I had great fun on Sunday trying to get a live mouse, one of my cats brought it home, from behind the fridge freezer. 4 determined folk and a shoe box later it was returned to the field safe and sound. Needless to say the cat in question sat in front of the ff for the rest of the day somewhat perplexed! Super picture Fairygirl.
Currently we have what i hope is a mouse in the loft! Each night about midnight there is loud scratching right above my head!
I shared this news with some friends who said it could be an animal that was introduced to Buckinghamshire like a chinchilla!!! Needless to say I haven't told OH this info and hoping this weekend when putting xmas decks away he can investigate
Never heard of a sonic mouse deterrent, I'll have to look in to that.
Took the bin out of the cupboard on Sunday evening to empty it, only to have a mouse climb out of the top, drop onto my foot and then run under the freezer. Why it never occurred to me to move the freezer I don't know. I just stood there wondering whether to leave the cupboard door open so it could get back in, or whether to leave it shut. In the end I left it open because I thought that if the mouse couldn't get back to it's nest it would just find somewhere else in the house to camp out. And I didn't want that.
I'm now busy looking for any holes it may have come through so I can block them up, and I'm going to get a lidded metal waste bin for the cupboard, rather than the open topped plastic one. If there was anywhere else in my ridiculously tiny kitchen to put a bin, I would put it there instead. But it may well come down to traps etc. as a last resort.
Thanks for all the advice