This seasons mice...

[Grumph]

We've been here nearly 20 years now and never had a mouse problem. Possibly something to do with our breeding pedigree cats.....

But this winter we seem to have an invasion of bold bastard mice. Even seen in the catteries.
They're obviously fat and slow as even one of our stud boys caught one.

Any other South Island members noticed an increase in numbers - and yes, I know there's a good beech mast this autumn - but I doubt if there's a Beech within 80k's of us....

[Brian d marge]

Learn to play the flute. Then walk to the city council office, they will get along well

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[Zedder]

We've been here nearly 20 years now and never had a mouse problem. Possibly something to do with our breeding pedigree cats.....

But this winter we seem to have an invasion of bold bastard mice. Even seen in the catteries.
They're obviously fat and slow as even one of our stud boys caught one.

Any other South Island members noticed an increase in numbers - and yes, I know there's a good beech mast this autumn - but I doubt if there's a Beech within 80k's of us....


What breed of cats?

[husaberg]

We've been here nearly 20 years now and never had a mouse problem. Possibly something to do with our breeding pedigree cats.....

But this winter we seem to have an invasion of bold bastard mice. Even seen in the catteries.
They're obviously fat and slow as even one of our stud boys caught one.

Any other South Island members noticed an increase in numbers - and yes, I know there's a good beech mast this autumn - but I doubt if there's a Beech within 80k's of us....

its likely due to the beech masting ie (heavy seeding that occurs about every 4 years )there was a population explosion in Arthurs Pass.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/budget-2017-21m-battle-our-birds
http://www.aardvarkmcleod.com/blog/new-zealand-201617-shaping-up-to-be-another-mouse-season/
As its starting to get colder they are now looking for shelter.
if you intend on using poison use Talon etc
or making yourself a tippping drum trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIlYiiCGLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEHChMB9ORM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q8jQmPNGzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gve7VbsbgFU

My fav tech overkill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4PaGvAhV9I

[Brian d marge]

That's not fair , bb gun with night scope .

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[Grumph]

Traps ? Poison ? Get real. I've got access to the best mousers possible. All I have to do is leave one of our breeding queens - Burmese for those interested - in the storage area of the catteries overnight....Entertainment for all - and a feed supplement.

The boys are too lazy to be good hunters - but the females are deadly.

[Grumph]

Learn to play the flute. Then walk to the city council office, they will get along well

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If they're here they'll be in Rolleston shortly...I wish them joy of the SDC.

[Brian d marge]

Selwyn district council,, I know them well . They featured in Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy , episode 1.


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[Zedder]

Traps ? Poison ? Get real. I've got access to the best mousers possible. All I have to do is leave one of our breeding queens - Burmese for those interested - in the storage area of the catteries overnight....Entertainment for all - and a feed supplement.

The boys are too lazy to be good hunters - but the females are deadly.


Burmese are really cool. My other half loves them and has often said she'd like to get a chocolate one when our current cat dies.

[mulletman]

Stonebrook in Rolly are inundated atm.

[R650R]

Traps ? Poison ? Get real. I've got access to the best mousers possible. All I have to do is leave one of our breeding queens - Burmese for those interested - in the storage area of the catteries overnight....Entertainment for all - and a feed supplement.

The boys are too lazy to be good hunters - but the females are deadly.

Had a large male Burmese, very intelligent affectionate cat, since passed away awhile ago. Wish I had a camera the time he stood on hind legs and chased a feral dog off our driveway.
Had a habit of sunbathing spread eagled on his back in centre of front lawn much to the amusement of people walking past house.

Only time I've ever had a rodent problem was overseas when I had the combination of a takeway open up across the high street in village and lazy foreign neighbours upstairs who were careless packing their refuse. That got sorted quickly though....

[husaberg]

Had a large male Burmese, very intelligent affectionate cat, since passed away awhile ago. Wish I had a camera the time he stood on hind legs and chased a feral dog off our driveway.
Had a habit of sunbathing spread eagled on his back in centre of front lawn much to the amusement of people walking past house.

Only time I've ever had a rodent problem was overseas when I had the combination of a takeway open up across the high street in village and lazy foreign neighbours upstairs who were careless packing their refuse. That got sorted quickly though....

When rodent replaced cat on the takaways menus?

[ellipsis]

...we don't have a plague, just enough to keep replacing the last little rodent fucker we killed...these seem to be totally fearless...we have been entertained by them doing something akin to the mouse olympics in the middle of the lounge or kitchen floor...our neighbours cat is a scourge to them but William can't seem to rid us of them...I hate those meeces to pieces...

[F5 Dave]

Somewhat Norf but we've been trapping rats and mice (wife's new hobby). Too much for the cat to cull since her accident a few years back. She'll get the odd one. When she was little she dragged a rat almost as big as her through the cat door. (Burmese).

As a side note. I'm finally getting this GSXR I've been albatross'd with running again and the neighbor popped over with some Japanese friends visiting and bike mad when they heard this thing coughing it's guts out. Very interested but then the lass flicks through her old photos on her phone. I assumed to show me her bikes. But no it was Kaaden the cat they had met last time they were over.

We used to have Siamese when I grew up. My mother referred to them as tarts in fancy dress. Must be drawing from the same gene pool.

[neels]

Friends of ours in rolleston have had heaps at their place, possibly because they are in a new subdivision with paddocks over the fence from their house.

All we're seeing at our place is pukekos being displaced due to motorway construction.

[Shadowjack]

Had a bit of an invasion 3-4 weeks ago. Trap and poison, poison and trap. Invasion resisted, but certainly seemed worse than last year. Doesn't help having the Selwyn at the bottom of the garden - get the much bigger rodents turning up occasionally.

[jellywrestler]

We've been here nearly 20 years now and never had a mouse problem. Possibly something to do with our breeding pedigree cats.....

But this winter we seem to have an invasion of bold bastard mice. Even seen in the catteries.
They're obviously fat and slow as even one of our stud boys caught one.

Any other South Island members noticed an increase in numbers - and yes, I know there's a good beech mast this autumn - but I doubt if there's a Beech within 80k's of us....

i stopped in hororata today and never saw any! popped in to see john f and wanted to catch up with you but john was at his dads farm, whipped out there and spent an hour looking at part of his stuff, incredible, had work in chch to do before flying home so ran out of time.

[Grumph]

i stopped in hororata today and never saw any! popped in to see john f and wanted to catch up with you but john was at his dads farm, whipped out there and spent an hour looking at part of his stuff, incredible, had work in chch to do before flying home so ran out of time.

Bugger. JF was avoiding me at the Ashvegas swap meet. I've never been invited to look out at the farm either......

[robajs]

yep abundant rodents in whitecliffs, not even one of grumphs magic female cats has been able to keep up with the invasion!!!!!! need to open up the armoury me thinks!:2thumbsup

[Grumph]

yep abundant rodents in whitecliffs, not even one of grumphs magic female cats has been able to keep up with the invasion!!!!!! need to open up the armoury me thinks!:2thumbsup

With your collection of bangsticks, you could turn the invasion back pretty easily....

[robajs]

the family farm has a good mixture of interesting stuff grumph, you should twist johns arm to have a look.:niceone:

[robajs]

With your collection of bangsticks, you could turn the invasion back pretty easily....

maybe luring the mice into a drum would work.....(black powder and fuse!)

[ellipsis]

...my mum had the knack of keeping up with the invasions we would get at our old family home...she would pour a thin film of hot fat kept from the cooking of dead things, onto the surface of a third full bucket of water with a little flat stick balanced like a pirates plank on the lip of the bucket...they couldn't resist, she drowned hundreds of the fuckers...two minutes to reheat the fat and her bucket was ready to go again...never works for me...

[SPman]

We've got more than normal of the little fuckers over here as well. Everytime we wander down to the hayshed, we see the big ginger cat flossing.......munching steadfastly away, with a tail sticking out his mouth! Very off putting!

[ellipsis]

...I just reverted to the old style wood and sprung wire trap... the grey plastic easy set things were not cutting the mustard...more like an easy serve portion of peanut butter in a convenient position for the influx of the little shits...the little shits were taking advantage of another easy serve they thought, but they hadn't banked on my trap tuning skills...a bit of emery on the end of the trigger bar and a few tweaks with some small pliers and to fool the little shits, the peanut butter was first applied to a raisin before that was clamped on to the trigger plate with the little bendy tag pressed out just for this task...a great feeling, a little like getting rid of that little carb problem that stops you getting the last 1000 revs out of top end...making inroads into the mortality rates of the little shits now...:niceone:

[T.W.R]

...I just reverted to the old style wood and sprung wire trap... the grey plastic easy set things were not cutting the mustard...more like an easy serve portion of peanut butter in a convenient position for the influx of the little shits...the little shits were taking advantage of another easy serve they thought, but they hadn't banked on my trap tuning skills...a bit of emery on the end of the trigger bar and a few tweaks with some small pliers and to fool the little shits, the peanut butter was first applied to a raisin before that was clamped on to the trigger plate with the little bendy tag pressed out just for this task...a great feeling, a little like getting rid of that little carb problem that stops you getting the last 1000 revs out of top end...making inroads into the mortality rates of the little shits now...:niceone:

can't beat the old tried & true method. Though the best thing is to set one that wont go off and let the little fuckers get complacent with that for a few days then set it with a hair-trigger :msn-wink:

I remember as a young fella when the oldman had horses, the stables they were at there was a older maori fella who cured a rat problem the stables had...did a live capture of one and kept in a 44 gallon drum for a few weeks, starved it for a while then started feeding it kills from other traps until it got the taste then let it go in the main shed....:eek: once it got in amongst the others :devil2: you could hear them in the walls :chase: great entertainment

[ellipsis]

...funny thing is our mice have usually abandoned house by now as the usual two families of rats are well ensconced and scuttling around in the ceiling and walls...quite voluble at any time of day but fucking annoying after our bedtime...I have two DOC ferret traps set up in one double entry box and we usually have a rat or two every week but can never actually get them all before they have another bunch of baby rats...the new neighbours cats must be slaughtering them as we have only had one exploratory rat in and funnily enough that young fucker checked out the set but baitless DOC trap and fucked up bigtime...wafered...it had no bait as the fucking meeces can slip under the trigger plate and have a banquet set for the rats...

[T.W.R]

The live capture traps are good for a bit entertainment
The ex was one of the top ecotoxicologists for Landcare Research but also had a thing for ducks so we got a resident family of rats in the duck pen and a ongoing battle of wits with them; used the traps etc with limited success but fun all the same. In the end tried a home brew version of a Rodenator :laugh: think the neighbours at the time thought we were setting off bombs and ended up flooding the nests out and crushing the rats as they came out with a hunk of concrete :laugh:
Makes me laugh now thinking about as the ex was actually the one who was in charge of pest eradication etc and did the majority of planning for dare I say it 1080 programs & the such like :rolleyes: yet simple vermin got the better & we resorted to basic brutality to beat them :laugh:

[F5 Dave]

Well. Gotta say; Ducks are gods favoured animal. Not much Ducks can't teach you.

[T.W.R]

Well. Gotta say; Ducks are gods favoured animal. Not much Ducks can't teach you.

:laugh: funny friggin things when they get to know you that's for sure, but they've got a violent pecking order when there's a few :no: and dominant drakes are randy as buggery...almost shag anything that moves!
Geese are the ones though, bloody brilliant things :niceone: everyone was shit scared of the two that we had :laugh: the gander would even try beating up cars :Punk:

[F5 Dave]

Yeah but once it's sorted it's calm for a while.
Never seen much geese.
Used to go see the ducks when I had something on my mind. Better than peoples.
Must start doing that at lunch time.

[jellywrestler]

Well. Gotta say; Ducks are gods favoured animal. Not much Ducks can't teach you.

not the smartest of things, have you ever watch ed a duck with a hardon dragging weed trying to get to another to get plugged in, funny as fuck

[Paul in NZ]

the warehouse has these black plastic mouse traps - $8.99 for 2... best traps ever... the bait older is fixed bu the trigger plate surrounds it so the little beggars cant get to the bait without tripping it - freakin awesome