Mouse in the compost

[FionaH]

I have a mouse in the compost bin. Any ideas on the best way to get rid? It was very cute but I would rather it lived elsewhere. I turned the hose on the compost in the hope that might work.

[BilboWaggins]

I'm currently using a couple of the Big Cheese traps from this company under our kitchen cupboards. Guess they'd work outside . . .?

So far the peanut butter bait has caught three of the furry little s*ds which have been driven a couple of miles out of the village and deposited in a hedgerow. Release them any closer and they'll be back.

Now if it was a rat, I'd be off to get a large cage trap and enlist the trigger finger of gamekeeper who lives up the road to despatch them.

[dogsbody]

Cats or chickens - both of mine despatch mice with remarkable regularatory.....

....but if it is only in the compost bin is it really doing any harm?

[Two_Sheds]

I was told I had mice in my compost bin ... indeed, there were tunnels.

On close (very close) inspection, it turned out to be voles. Cute!

[dogsbody]

Unfortunately the cats get them too.......

[FionaH]

On the few occaisions the cat gets mice, she just brings em in and plays Can I take it theres no harm in having mice in the bin then?

Bilbo I am with you if it had been a rat!

[Rocketron]

I have a mouse in the compost bin. Any ideas on the best way to get rid? It was very cute but I would rather it lived elsewhere. I turned the hose on the compost in the hope that might work.

If you don't need/want to kill, you've done the best thing.They won't nest where it's wet.

[janeyo]

My shed leaks like a sieve and they nested in there (might have been rats)

[dogsbody]

Put a cat bed (and moggy) in the shed and all will be solved

[janeyo]

One brought in a rat the other day, he was VERY pleased with himself (the cat not the rat, he was a gonner). But we have loads of wasteland type ground near us so not sure if it came from there.

I have some poison to out under a wee hole in the shed.... and I am told by the neighbour that there was a rat prob before we bought the house and the previous owners didn't have chickens like we do (I do try and be careful with food and scraps etc).

Sorry, off track from finding them in the compost bins, but I am sure I would cack myself if found one in there!

[dogsbody]

Please give the cat a chance before resorting to poison......

[FionaH]

Sorry, off track from finding them in the compost bins, but I am sure I would cack myself if found one in there!

I squeeked louder than the mouse Then sent eldest son up to catch it, he didnt!