unwanted rodents lurking in my shed :(

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I noticed a few weeks back that one of my bags of food in my shed had been chewed, and suspected a mouse or something..anywho i got through that bag of food and yday night i got another bag out and that had been chewed through too! :tickedoff:

so anyways me and mum decided to clean the whole place out, my guinea pigs live in the shed in an open topped run so i didnt want any rats getting them or anything, so we took everything out, swept all loose hay etc up, and two more bags of food had been eaten away at..so i chucked them away just incase, you never know what rats are carrying! (lots of money down the drain unfortunatly, but id rather be safe than sorry!)

so theres me and my mum cleaning up, thinking that 'the thing' could be lurking, everytime one of the piggies squeaked, jumped, scratched we were like 2 little scared children ;D I said mum were two both grown women scared of a mouse or something! haha was funny, but no mouse could be found :S

I'm gunna get a metal bin i think to store food in, in future..does anyone else have problems with mice/rats..whats the best way of stopping them getting in?
 
spudnik said:
so theres me and my mum cleaning up, thinking that 'the thing' could be lurking, everytime one of the piggies squeaked, jumped, scratched we were like 2 little scared children ;D I said mum were two both grown women scared of a mouse or something! haha was funny, but no mouse could be found :S
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LOL 2funny sorry I've no idea, but that bit made me laugh! :D
 
yeah, like i have 5 guinea pigs in the shed which we pick up and cuddle no problems but a mouse 10 times smaller than a guinea pig and were both terrified and ready to run for the door! ;D
 
I have a major problem with mice in the shed and am currently thinking about rehoming some of my piggies as I just can't get rid of them :'(

Good luck with yours. If there are only a few mice I'd set traps to kill them. Obviously you can't use poison with the piggies around but you need to kill the mice you have before they breed
 
i had this prob and cleaned the garage out and managed to find the little devil, anyway was on my tum and had it cornered but then the dog came in the garaged distracted me spooked the mouse and it ran straight at me down my top and out the bottom, i was under a table at the time whacked my head and screamed till my throat hurt, because of a mouse handle guineas every day but a mouse and the world goes to pots,

well Major cup of coffee was drunk with loads of choc chip biscuits, phew!
 
We've had a problem with rats, they couldn't get the food (that's in the house) so they ate the newspaper that lines my hutches then started on the water bottles.
That was the final straw & i'm afraid the poison had to go down :(
 
haha yeah i know what you mean about handling guinea everyday, and then a little thing like a mouse comes along n scares us stupid!

I'm thinking we are going to have to put poison down again, we have pens out the back of us with geese etc on so all their stuff attracts the rats too, and its farmland right out behind where i live..why they couldnt just nip upto the farm is beyond me ::)
 
I had a problem same as you last summer and also cleaned the whole shed out the boys went in the run and outside and we removed the whole of the cc runs and found the little bleeder under the last one, well both me and carrie anne screached but i managed to brush it out the shed with the broom , since then I have humnane traps in all my sheds and would not hesitate in using proper traps if it happened again, my food is in big plastic lidded bins which work fine, e are so daft aren't we they must be petrified of us hugh humans, we ahev mice in our garden hiding under the decking but as long as they stay there I'm fine with them
 
What a load of wimps we are.
When my first Mickey Mouse appeared me and the dog fell over each other trying to get through the back door into the kitchen as fast as we could.

I had a thorough clean out after setting traps and catching 3, moved the shed and now I sweep up everyday make sure there is as little as possible to attract them.

I'm hoping now the better weather is here they move back out onto the field our house backs onto.

I haven't seen any evidence for a couple of weeks so fingers crossed they have gone for now.

Tracy
 
I'm lucky cause Duke's an indoor piggie.
But when we first moved in just over 8 years ago, there were quite a few mice cause everyone was building around us so there nests were disturbed. LOL big son refused to sleep in his bedroom cause he saw a mouse in there, i'm surprised he could see it for all his clothes etc.. lying on the ground ::) Anyway a couple of nights later i heard SNAP and yep we'd caught it, Allan had to remove the mouse and dispose of kindly. Then i discovered that it had been in the linen cupboard and had a lovely little time in there, heaps of mini poops and torn up paper, which it had collected from sons bedroom ewwwwwww. Major washing episode and huge clean out happened, we've not had one inside since, errr will cross my fingers on that one ;)
 
Glynis said:
I'm lucky cause Duke's an indoor piggie.
But when we first moved in just over 8 years ago, there were quite a few mice cause everyone was building around us so there nests were disturbed. LOL big son refused to sleep in his bedroom cause he saw a mouse in there, i'm surprised he could see it for all his clothes etc.. lying on the ground ::) Anyway a couple of nights later i heard SNAP and yep we'd caught it, Allan had to remove the mouse and dispose of kindly. Then i discovered that it had been in the linen cupboard and had a lovely little time in there, heaps of mini poops and torn up paper, which it had collected from sons bedroom ewwwwwww. Major washing episode and huge clean out happened, we've not had one inside since, errr will cross my fingers on that one ;)
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Imagine this pretty much daily, that's what we're living with at the moment. We've had mice running round every room in the house at some point. Killing two or three a day..... we have mouse traps everywhere, you have to remember where they are so they don't get your toes! I've resorted to poison inside and 'touchwood' I think they've all gone for now. We're had them for the past three years since we moved in so I'm sure they'll be back. We're thinking once the current batch in the shed are dead we might get a cat - even if it's not a mouser the smell can put the mice off apparently
 
I'm not fond of mice because at the moment we are overrun, we live by a railway and they like to come in here in the shed we have had things chewed and it doesnt really bother me because I'm not down their much and the pigs really dont seem bothered. but i will tell you now about what happened the other day i was dishing the veg out when i saw out of the corner of my eye a mouse only small so i didnt really give it a second thought, then i could have sworn i felt something moving near my leg but shook it off got to Zubins hutch and really did feel something like a hamster or gerbil in your sleeve but in my trouser leg! i ran for it shacking my leg as i went god knows what that must have looked like me running down the garden waving a bag of carrots and screaming, i contemplated just pulling my trousers off then and there but thought best save my dignity dived for the Kitchen and screamed that there was a mouse in my trousers my mum was just staring at me i dont know if she wanted to laugh or scream with me, i took them off and that baby mouse shot off into the kitchen, my sister appeared and caught it in a old ice cream tub (shes just got a way with animals its weird) i was clinging on to my mum for dear life, god knows what the neighbours must have thought. anyways i didnt want it happening again so i tied my trousers up at the ankles while I'm down there now! just thought id give you all a laugh! i dont know if anyone has seen the film Evolution but i totally have a evoloution flashback as it made its way up my trouser leg! lol x
 
;D I O.K. with mice now as I got use to them at the place I use to work but at the time seeing two girls trying to catch mice and to boys jumping and screaming it was quite amusing. A metal bin is the first thing you should do and hopefully once they know they can't get any food will move on. Humane traps are not as humane as you think as we tried them and we kept finding mice in them who had died, who were dying (heart attacks I think). Once we took their food supply away they disappeared. O0
 
Verity I would loved to have seen you running about like a loon yes have seen Evolution its one of my fav films and know what you mean about the trouser thing did you have ice cream after , mice in a house can be dangerous they chew electric wiring and cause fires my friend is a fire prevention officer and she says a lot of fires are started by electrical wires being chewed, so get them out!
 
I must be the only fan of mice (not ones that chew thru bags of hay :o ) but we had a shed full of cages of mice, however unlike guineas unfortunately they breed like...mice?! theres just no stopping them, by the time you can sex them theyre pregnant! 98) Needless to say we did a big campaign and managed to find goodhomes for them all, kept the original 2 (ended up with over 100!) Duffle and Blackie, until they passed away, then just stuck to the less multiplying type rodents ?

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yeah I'm going to ionvest in a metal bin then, i chucked all their food away just incase, so they are having a rare treat gery guinea pig food lol i dont like them eating this stuff but its the only the pet shop here sells, so until i get a metal bin and an order of food from an online supplier of science selective they can have this.
 
Nah no ice cream neededthankfully! some sort of relaxent though all night i thought i could feel it in my trousers! and we have tried humane traps, poison, cutting on their food supply literally everything is in tupperware in my house no food can be left lying around but they keep coming back! they manage to find their way into the cages in the shed which doesnt help. The one hutch that they cant get into is Zubins which is probably a good thing considering hes scared of his own shadow. i hate them make me cringe we have adopted a cat (well shes adopted us) who sits on the shed roof and if you watch her she grabs them so my mums happy for her visits although it kinda puts me on edge knowing shes by the piggies but then again Flic (One of my rabbits) is nearly twice her size, i just hope shes a kitten otherwise Flics on a diet x
 
we have often use humane traps with great success Mick releases them on the common and in the pigs sheds they get checked daily but so far nothing thank goodness
 
Fudgey said:
What a load of wimps we are.
When my first Mickey Mouse appeared me and the dog fell over each other trying to get through the back door into the kitchen as fast as we could.

I had a thorough clean out after setting traps and catching 3, moved the shed and now I sweep up everyday make sure there is as little as possible to attract them.

I'm hoping now the better weather is here they move back out onto the field our house backs onto.

I haven't seen any evidence for a couple of weeks so fingers crossed they have gone for now.

Tracy
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OMG what a scream that has tickled me pink ;D
 
I actually love mice but wouldn't like an infestation. I'm not scared of them or anything..

I think if I had an infestation I would take away the food supply thats near my piggies and make a mouse haven further away from the pigs so that they can stay living and have THERE OWN food supply. I could never set down poison or traps.

My dad once had a mouse living in his office. It was a wild one but he loved it to bits, he used to put food out for it, because there was only one.
 
PeppaPunk said:
I think if I had an infestation I would take away the food supply thats near my piggies and make a mouse haven further away from the pigs so that they can stay living and have THERE OWN food supply. I could never set down poison or traps.
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Believe me, you would. When I first started setting traps I spent every day in tears :'( But I have had mouse droppings and urine over every surface of the shed, under the stairs, in cupboards. They've chewed teddy bears stored in boxes in the loft, destroyed a dress that one was dressed in that used to be mine 38 years ago, ran around my little boys bed at night, gone in the hutches and ate the food, leaving droppings and stench behind. Believe me an infestation smells. I hate them with every breath in my body now as I'm probably going to end up rehoming my piggies due to them. I have gone from someone who used to have pet mice, to feeling that if another one runs by I'd stamp on it >:( >:( >:(
 
aww they are only hungry poor things :o


Maybe set humane traps all over the place and if you get any set them free in a pre made mousy home?
 
I think with an infestation like kayjay has got the best option and only option is poison, as they have probably already got nest, so if you put poison down they will take it back to their young. It's cruel but in this case it is either the mouse or the house. Are you going to rehome your guineas kayjay? Can't you board them for a small period and deal with the mice before your guineas come back? :)
 
Cavy Crazy said:
I think with an infestation like kayjay has got the best option and only option is poison, as they have probably already got nest, so if you put poison down they will take it back to their young. It's cruel but in this case it is either the mouse or the house. Are you going to rehome your guineas kayjay? Can't you board them for a small period and deal with the mice before your guineas come back? :)
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Well the plan is to move them out of the shed this weekend into the garden then put poison down

..... that was until I peeped in a cupboard today and saw a trio of baby mice looking back at me :( They were so sweet, I'm thinking of setting humane traps for a week and any that go in will be released down the riverbank and any that don't will get poison :'(

It is horrible that in one hutch I'm feeding rodents and in another cupboard I'm killing them, it's horrible :'(

I might still rehome my piggies though as I can't face another winter like this one with mice everywhere and where we live is notorious for mice which I didn't know or I'd never have got piggies in the first place, more like a couple of cats! Also the pigs would be living year round in the garden with no shed which I'm not sure is very good for them, they would probably have a nicer life somewhere else.

I could bring Fudge inside as he's my son's pig and our first ever one and rehome the rest maybe.
 
EXtremely sad both killing the mice and maybe having to rehome your guineas. But you have to do what you have to do, I hope you don't have to rehome your guineas but it would be better then risking their health. :(
 
I don't understand why you're not able to stop the mice coming into the shed. Do you know where they are coming in? We've had mouse problems in the house & shed. Don't think we can stop them coming in the house because it's an old cottage and there's gaps everywhere but managed to stop them coming in the shed. I know they can get into tiny places but can you nail wood over any holes or seal it in some way?

We used a humane trap in our larder. I used to put cheese in it and every night used to catch a mouse. I used to come down in the night, collect the mouse & trap and release it at the bottom of the garden. Did this for a while until everyone teased me at work because they thought it was probably the same mouse onto a good thing, he'd come up for his dinner then get a lift back home again.

Good luck. I know what it's like to open a cupboard and find mouse poo. Michellemuffin has worried me about the wires - hadn't thought of that, but there's no way we can block everywhere round our house.
 
Jillybean said:
We used a humane trap in our larder. I used to put cheese in it and every night used to catch a mouse. I used to come down in the night, collect the mouse & trap and release it at the bottom of the garden. Did this for a while until everyone teased me at work because they thought it was probably the same mouse onto a good thing, he'd come up for his dinner then get a lift back home again.
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;D ;D ;D Just trying to think of anything else that might work. ?
 
Jillybean said:
I don't understand why you're not able to stop the mice coming into the shed. Do you know where they are coming in? We've had mouse problems in the house & shed. Don't think we can stop them coming in the house because it's an old cottage and there's gaps everywhere but managed to stop them coming in the shed. I know they can get into tiny places but can you nail wood over any holes or seal it in some way?
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Only a few weeks ago we emptied the shed and checked it all over for holes, gave it a good clean, blocked up any holes etc etc. A week later they were back, having gnawed their way in. Short of drylining the shed with metal I'm not sure what else we can do. We live backing onto fields near a river so rodents are very common.
 
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