OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums General Discussion Forum Off Topics Mice in My Home.

NK that's good to hear.
B_B note the all important punctuation mark, but I doubt it's Glenelg!!

It was interesting Norm how early on we had little health and safety laws and now we have many regulations
to abide by.

On farms I've used .22 caliber rat shot, up close it has no problem killing a rabbit.



A few more ways to get rid of mice.https://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.com/get-rid-of-mice/

Cheers
Max.

Hi MF,

You got that right !

Cheers,
BB.

Thanks for that Max, then I started watching them shooting rats with air rifles, they were using some very expensive rifles.They didn't seem to waste any shots and the dead rats counts were huge.

Yep thanks to YouTube ,I've seen every which way to kill a mouse/rat ,except maybe a flame thrower. I saw the night vision
shooting of rats with air rifles fitted with laser scopes too Norm.

I have seen a shoe thrown at a mouse and the mouse died instantly upon impact.

Mentioning the number kill in one shot. I have nine one time with one shot from a .22. Well kinda cheated on the one; she was about to give birth to 8 little chewers.

Shooting them with a .22 is a bit expensive AVB.
Max, I can't believe they have rat shooters employed by pest exterminators, seems dumb to me when they could just use Ratsack as we do and we don't have rat problems here. Watching those night time videos I can't believe the extent of the rat problem in other countries. Be funny if somebody asked you what you did for a living and you replied "I'm a rat shooter" Hard to believe on one video they shot 250 rats in 2 hours and in that video every one was a head shot. In another video they weren't that fussed as long as they shot the rats. I was staggered at the quality of the guns they were using just to get rid of rats. The cost of those guns out here would be cost prohibitive

Now my next issue is getting rid of possums that are driving my dog nuts and his barking is driving me nuts.

A busy road will dispatch some. They have zero road sense.

MF, I live in a court so no chance of them being skittled

I have seen rat exterminators using terriers instead of guns Norm.


Possums are protected so you have to trap them then release them in another area.


Baking soda ,I have heard kills rats too.

Cheers
Max.

Vicious little hounds aren't they ?

Hi Max,

The sharpshooters are more efficient, the dogs are quick and I guess in the circumstances dogs are quicker as the rats are spooked and running too fast for the shooters.
Instant potato flakes kill rats as well as chocolate powder mixed with plaster of paris

Hi Norm,

I guess the dogs and the guns are a quicker death than if they eat the plaster, a lot of the electrocution traps are not an instant death.

ABC Landline had a article on wild dog control in WA using drones to spot and drop baits....
An interesting story.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...one-warfare-to-strike-wild-dogs/11428658
We're getting off the subject a bit..
speedy

Hi Speedy,

these topics can wander all over the place and it doesn't really matter much. Hopefully we have given MF enough info as to how he should handle his problem. As for my possum problem it seem that in the last few days my dog has lost interest in them as I think he has come to realize there is nothing he can do about them. I heard them running across the roof and he didn't bother racing outside to bark at them at 3.00am this morning, fingers crossed

Yep that's what "Off Topics" is all about I guess.

Cheers,
BB.

That could be interpreted in a different way. We will keep it to the first meaning.

Hi MF,

Somehow I knew that was coming back at me LOL !

Cheers,
BB.

Just up the hill from Woy Woy at Kariong we had an intruder about 6 weeks ago.. Baited, died and started to smell. Unfortunately for us it was in a very hard to get place in the house and interestingly enough my son volunteered to fetch it.

I'll let the image speak for itself, and unfortunately I was too slow to get an image of his legs straddling the timber.....

Cheers,
TC.