My mouse is now a rat

[Columbus]

Hi all,  :o

I`d found some suspicious big poos in my potting shed already this week. The two sheds share a wall but the potting shed has an earth floor and the tool shed has a wood floor so its quite easy to come up from under the tool shed into the potting shed. The tool shed is about two feet longer at the front than the potting shed.

I think I blocked a smaller scrape on one side of my tool shed this week when raising my water barrels onto bricks. I arrived at the plot today to find a scrape where something had come up on the other side of my tool shed but still outside of the potting shed. Its too big for a mouse.

I moved some junk and found a cavity unearthed under it.

So I put sheets of slate along the tool shed wall inside the potting shed and some metal sheet on the floor and pegged it all down.

I left the scrape outside open and baited it with poison.

I haven`t seen a mouse or a rat just evidence of them being there I think I`ll pee myself if I see either.  :-[

Col

[Columbus]

[delboy]

I am having awful trouble with rats this year.
They aren't taking the bait - even pushing away the little trays from their runs.
Physical barriers of an impervious type seem the only pragmatic way of stopping them getting anywhere you really really don't want them..

[Robert_Brenchley]

I've been putting poison down all winter, it's been taken in short order, and I've still got rats.

[mega]

hi, a rag soaked in jeye's fluid beside the run or pushed down the burrow will get rid of them, also works with rabbits

[Columbus]

Thanks mega I will do that.
Col :D

[agapanthus]

Thanks Mega....nice tip ;D

[Columbus]

Hi Sojourner,  Hi all, :D,

The update is that I sprayed all the edges, soil and wood between my sheds with Jeyes Fluid and theres no evidence that any rodents have been in my potting shed since then. The hole I left open to the outside was used and all the bait taken up `til yesterday. None was taken last night. I suspect it/they have been living on fat balls put out for the birds on the next plot. I don`t know wether I should block up the run that is open because as Sojouner says they`ll probably just chew their way around the blockage and may end up back in my sheds. A friend has an experienced rat killing dog but I can`t risk it being poisened. Soon i will have a potting shed full of seedlings so I have to have solved this problem by then.

Col