Mice!

[neg213]

Any suggestions to keeping mice out of the garden, and subsequently the house!

Thx

[kwicky]

It depends where you live. We back onto a field and inundated with field mice. I suppose the best solution is to get a cat.

[RATTER15]

Do not get a cat lol!! the cat will just catch the mice and bring them in the house for you to play with!! The only thing you can do to keep the number down in the garden is to make the garden unsuitable, do this by keeping the garden very tidy with no hiding places for them.

Many mouse infestations are caused by cats bringing mice into the house and then the mouse escapes the cat, if that mouse is pregnant you have a problem.

I am a pest control officer so I know what I'm talking about.

[makemesmile]

Not true! My cat always eats her catches!

[RATTER15]

Makemesmile, sorry it is true! I didn't say in every situation did I? But seen it thousands of times.
There is always the exception to the rule, lol

[Toureman]

Completly agree with RATTER. We have a cat that is always bringing live animals back to show us, mice, shrews, moles, baby rabbits etc.

But she is so quick, in the last two years she has only lost one live one in the house, it must have been injured and crawled under a bed in the spare bedroom to die, we only found the body because the bedroom was full of flies one day and we realised what had happened. Another one survived a week in the house, it had a store of the cats food under a cupboard in another room but the cat got that one in the end.

Our cat always eats the mice after a little play with them, also the rabbits but never the shrews or moles she always brings them back dead.

I am getting a bit worried about the sheep in the field next door.