Identify these gnaw marks

[Migmac]

You've got rats, get a couple of fenn traps set up in tunnels

 

[MBB]

I typed mouse trap into google but when I clicked it my computer mouse went dead
MBB

 

[Cobbler]

I typed mouse trap into google but when I clicked it my computer mouse stopped working.MBB

Don't remind me about mice, my son has recently moved into a house with an office annexe, the combi boiler in the annexe wouldn't hold pressure. Yesterday morning spent looking for damp patches, then an hour or two with a circular saw removing bits of the chipboard floor, to find mice had eaten through the plastic central heating pipe. About 4 hours work to find it & get a fitting, 30 seconds to repair it! Also discovered why the outside light blew fuses as well. About 3 inches of bare wire & central heating water doesn't mix. Damn mice again!

 

[arther dailey]

Went to view a old fergie for sale, the guy was hospitable, tractor wasnt though ..anyways he sez look at this cant use my wellies any more, in his porch his wellies were two thirds full with hazlenuts, emptied em twice already he said, darn mice storing for winter !!

 

[brightspark]

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Went to view a old fergie for sale, the guy was hospitable, tractor wasnt though ..anyways he sez look at this cant use my wellies any more, in his porch his wellies were two thirds full with hazlenuts, emptied em twice already he said, darn mice storing for winter !!

silly old buffer

 

[arther dailey]

He also had a great sence of humour, well maybes you would be interested in my compact 4x4 only use it to keep the grass down, mind starts ticking over,kuboto etc, around the corner we go, there she is, Yup he has a donkey,lol.nice guy into his eighties and mad keen on aircraft spotting of war birds.
Sorry mods well of the beaten track,apolagies

 

[colnerov]

Don't remind me about mice, my son has recently moved into a house with an office annexe, the combi boiler in the annexe wouldn't hold pressure. Yesterday morning spent looking for damp patches, then an hour or two with a circular saw removing bits of the chipboard floor, to find mice had eaten through the plastic central heating pipe. About 4 hours work to find it & get a fitting, 30 seconds to repair it! Also discovered why the outside light blew fuses as well. About 3 inches of bare wire & central heating water doesn't mix. Damn mice again!

Hi, There's something about modern plastics that mice and rats like. There's a member on another forum whose a breakdown recovery mechanic and he's getting called out to non starts in the morning which turn out to be plastic fuel lines to fuel coolers under vans being chewed on.

Colin

 

[WorkshopChris]

Hi, There's something about modern plastics that mice and rats like.

Bio plastics contain protein, vermin have always taken a shine to plastics when oil based now some bright spark has decided to start using food sources to make plastic. For green eco points.

 

[wookie]

Bolt a couple of bits of plate to the bottom of the door. Down the allotments my uncle used to make a trap from a metal cooking oil can. Lay it on its side and cut a cross in the bottom, push the points in so they flex and then put something nice in through the hole or the filler. They pushed past the points going in then they were faced with the sharp end when trying to get out.

Same idea as the auger holes they used to use for trapping pine martins, bore a hole in a tree and bait it with some meat, then hammer nails around the hole so the points come through into the hole, pine martin comes along and squeezes his head down the hole past the nail points to get the meat, when he tries to get out the nails just dig deeper and deeper into his neck, proper gruesome.

Edit: before anyone complains, I do not agree with cruelty to any animal, if you have a pest problem then please use humane methods.

 

[Kent]

Rat trap or a length of pipe with some poison in it.

I use non lethal traps as my neighbour has a cat!

A cat cannot be caught in a legally set spring trap

 

[Kent]

Blue food time, rats avoid new objects that appear in an area. If the trap was already there and set it would work. Oh there is never one or two

 

[brightspark]

I sometimes tie the blue bate blocks on to the fen trap. rats love them . then they get necked and u still have the bait to use again

 

[Migmac]

Blue food time, rats avoid new objects that appear in an area. If the trap was already there and set it would work. Oh there is never one or two

You know how to cheer a man up I didn't want yo say !

 

[Kent]

Y.ardvark, thankyou and 500e has a point, rats mostly gnaw at ground level and sqirrells a little higher so could be a tree rat or ground rat, either way needs sorting.
Really good point y.Ardvark makes about nesting hedgepigs, certainly dont want to poison those little fellas by accident.Arther

Hedgehog don't eat wheat. They eat slugs n snails. And eggs baby ground nesting birds worms etc. Still I shouldn't use true loose bait just blue wheat in poly bags down any holes and inside the building

 

[Rig Pig]

A cat cannot be caught in a legally set spring trap

It's not worth the potential hassle from a currently very friendly neighbour, it's not a major problem to stroll down the garden with an air gun to dispose of the traps resident. I have caught a hedgehog and a blackbird as well so the non lethal bit is quite handy.

 

[Kent]

It's not worth the potential hassle from a currently very friendly neighbour, it's not a major problem to stroll down the garden with an air gun to dispose of the traps resident. I have caught a hedgehog and a blackbird as well so the non lethal bit is quite handy.

Your setting them wrong, best call a good pest controller to be fair, rats. Breed really fast in buildings winter or summer

 

[Rig Pig]

Your setting them wrong, best call a good pest controller to be fair, rats. Breed really fast in buildings winter or summer

I suppose I could but I don't have much of a problem, every so often I catch and shoot a rat but I'm not infested. The garden backs onto fields so I think it's just the odd wondering visitor. If I start seeing holes or damage then I will take more drastic action.

 

[brightspark]

anywhere there's food there's rats. u may not see them or there holes but they will be around

 

[sardine]

The little nipper, extra power version is working for me, they wont go near it for the first few days, but then they decide " what could possibly go wrong " ? and BLAM !

I was a few feet away when one was tripped, it was instant dispatch to rat heaven.

 

[arther dailey]

As far as I am aware the general consensus is if you see a rat in the day time you already have a infestation, as they competing for the food available.I use bait and traps.