Day 28 UK FD
Well the shed trick worked. My weight is down to 191.2 this morning, a full pound less than yesterday, and that after a NFD. So all you who are struggling you now have another tool in your kit!
@onahealthyhigh I feel for you, mice are actually harder to get rid of as they fit into such tight spaces. This was a big fat healthy looking rat. It had been eating veg as we were storing the extra from the veg man in boxes in the barn as it is cooler than the house. The feed is all in plastic bins and so not accessible. I am hoping it really was only one as the guinea pig food in their bowls was not eaten up. I worry about rats hurting the piggies as although the same size they are so much more agile and potentially agressive. C pulled everything out to find holes and look for nests. She found several holes and filled those in. The rat kindly pointed one out by running up to the roof and out of one we would never have spotted in the brickwork behind the gutter around the side above the stingers. Poor C. Maybe she locked me in theshed deliberately for giving her such a rotten job! Stingers, rats, rat poo, rat wee, thousands of spiders and their copious webs, mildewed old hutches and bits of ancient equipment with years of dust on them. There is a huge pile of rubbish outside to go to the tip. It looks far better inside the barn, but there is still a lot of cleaning to do. And it is not certain that we blocked every hole and the rat certainly didn’t promise not to return. In fact I saw him/her hanging about outside last night wanting to get back in. They say you are always within six feet of a rat but I must say that I prefer not to see them. There is something about their tails…
My favourite mouse catching trick is to use the tube from inside a roll of kitchen towel, put a blob of peanut butter at one end and balance it on the edge of something with a bin underneath so that when the mouse goes along the tube to get the peanut butter the tube with the mouse falls into the bin and is stuck because of the steep slippery sides. You can then carry the mouse outside and away so it finds a new home. I have successfully cleared mouse infestations that way a couple of times over the years.
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28 Apr 17