Mice

[Guykp57]

Hi friends, can anybody tell how to keep mice out of my shed. Used to get in garage and now getting them in shed where I store my allotment harvest, and my bulbs and seeds. I know traps work but could do with keeping them out for good and not having to empty traps everyday.


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[rustylady]

They are attracted to the food you keep in there for them Guy. Make sure your seeds are in sealed plastic boxes.

Bulbs a bit more difficult, how about hanging them in nets from the roof.

[Bill HH]

We get them coming into the house at this time of year, they live under our gas oven which isnt very nice. I usualy clear them up with traps, I have found the best bait is peanut butter.

[Two_Sheds]

Hi friends, can anybody tell how to keep mice out of my shed.

As Rusty says, they're coming because you've put food in there for them

We get them in our garage, all year round. We don't have food in there though, and they're still coming. We found the latest nest in the roof, in a small hole which they'd filled with chewed up plastic carrier bag.
Previously they've chewed up our camping gear, bike panniers and OH's work clothes. Pain in the arris they are.
I used to be all "ah, poor lickle mice", but now I leave traps in there all year round, baited with peanut butter.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I hate these meeces to pieces. Need I say more?

[CMS1]

They probably come because of the food but also for shelter in the colder months. There is a bait that kills them more humanely than poison and is made from natural ingredients so will not affect any other animals because only rats and mice's digestive systems are affected by it - it contains powdered corn cob (PCC). This way the infestation will die off and won't cause exposure to poisons. There are a few brands with this type of rodenticide - Eradibait, The Big Cheese Natural Rat and Mice Bait, Home Defence Advanced Rat and Mouse Killer.
And peanut butter is definitely the best thing to use to help attract the mice to eat the bait rather than your seeds.

[veggiechicken]

Ah yes - Mice and peanuts - not a good combination
The dratted things gnawed their way into the bird nuts sack in the garage, then took the nuts up into the boot of my lovely old Triumph Spitfire and stored them inside the passenger seat. The car had been laid up for the winter and I was blissfully unaware of the mice until I sat on the passenger seat to reach something on the driver's side - the seat cushion collapsed and all the peanuts fell out
I was not amused at the time but looking back it was funny. Imagine going out for a drive and mice emerging on the seat beside you!! Can you get seatbelts for mice?

[Sheneval]

VC - I'm not sure but you could try Zswap.co.uk they do unusual swaps but how many seatbelts do you need - personally I find one for each seat is adequate but there is no accounting for taste

[veggiechicken]

How would I choose the special mouse who had the seatbelt? They'd be squeaking "me, me, me" and running around the dashboard - or is that dashing around the running boards
Apologies to Guy, I seem to have gone off on a tangent

[Dorothy rouse]

OMG, if a mouse jumped on the car seat next to me I'd die!

[Sheneval]

How would I choose the special mouse who had the seatbelt? They'd be squeaking "me, me, me" and running around the dashboard - or is that dashing around the running boards
Apologies to Guy, I seem to have gone off on a tangent

Nutter!

[veggiechicken]

[Dorothy rouse]

Hi friends, can anybody tell how to keep mice out of my shed. Used to get in garage and now getting them in shed where I store my allotment harvest, and my bulbs and seeds. I know traps work but could do with keeping them out for good and not having to empty traps everyday.


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Do you have a cat?

We have a cat flap into garage, and cat has a 'bed' in there, so when she's not inside the house, she's in her 'garage bed' , no mice problem, possible for ur shed?

[Two_Sheds]

tbh, cats are more of a problem to me than the mice are.


I don't want cats, I don't like cats, but I have to put up with 2 of them coming and crapping in my garden and worrying the guinea pigs, and another 2 or 3 at school that crap in the childrens' veg beds and kill the frogs, and 3 or 4 at the lotty, again crapping on the veg and killing baby birds.

We're finding one dead frog a week at school at the moment: obvs we don't find the ones that get carried off

(we have 7ft high fences and aren't allowed to use electric fencing)


Give me meeces any day