So sick of mouse shit

RichardParker

We’re in regional NSW on small acreage. There’s a mouse plague in the area. It’s so gross. I don’t know how they get inside, but every day, I’m spending at least an hour cleaning shit and setting traps. They chew holes in things, poo, then die. I can now distinguish between the smell of poo, and the stench of rotting mouse carcass.

All I can say to the little fuckers is: Winter is coming.

CassandraNORI

Oh RichardParker - I feel for you that’s horrible. Is there a pest control person or something that can help? Mice and mice shit and dead mice and mice smell is the fucking pits. We had a minor plague here once, many years ago. Nothing like you are describing though. 🤢

RichardParker

There’s not much the pest control people can do because they’re not really infested in the house- they just come in to few places - because they’ve bred up elsewhere. I’ve managed to limit their movement to a few empty cupboards, and I put bait and traps in those, but I still need to clean out the dead mice (and kill them if they’re not already dead) then clean out the cupboards to get rid of the smell.

There were two in my car the other day. DH opened the boot and put in one of those Moretein pest bombs. That cleared them out at least. But it’s just a battle trying to keep everything hygienic. Anything left on the floor is a potential hiding spot - like a basket of clean washing… or the bag of swimming gear. Just over it.

NightHawk

What a nightmare 😳😢

Will they bugger off in winter, or become worse?

RichardParker

Winter frosts should kill them off. Out further West they have it worse. Farmer have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on their crops.

NightHawk

RichardParker I saw that they were worse this year but I can’t remember why. That’s devastating for the farmers.

Camokat

😳

We went down to our place in the country last weekend (sounds grand, doesn’t it? It’s just a big shed on a large rural block 😆) and the mice are EVERYWHERE. DS wanted dinner the second we arrived, and I was like “Not until I’ve disinfected everything in this kitchen”. We could hear the little varmints rustling all night.

All I can say is Ratsak, lots of Ratsak…

LadySybilVimes

That’s horrendous, I’m sorry you’re going through it. I saw some footage on an ABC journalist’s twitter of mouse tumbling down grain into drums full of water, getting into houses and chewing through everything in local supermarkets. It’s so awful.

CassandraNORI

They need a pied piper out that way.

OnFire

What a nightmare! I really feel for anyone living with this. Even 1 mouse in the roof makes me want to burn the house down.

NightHawk

ZuluAlpha

@RichardParker , god they’re bad aren’t they! We have baited the shit out of our place in the last few weeks. Brings the dead and smell of death. Oh and I may have accidentally mowed over a fresh dead rat 🤢🤢🤢🤢🥴 DH had to pick up the slashed pieces to stop the dog feasting🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

PuddingPlease

I’m going to bookmark this thread for the next time I think to myself ’wouldn’t it be nice to live in the country…'

That sounds absolutely revolting RP, I hope you get some relief from it soon!

AprilEthereal

I’m sorry. That’s fucking awful.

RichardParker

Yeah, I think the chickens have been eating lots of them. But some of the chooks have died recently and I suspect it’s due to eating baited mice. We have a cat but she’s useless. I went to fluff up the pillows in the spare bedroom to prepare for a guest and there was a mouse on the bed, just looking at me, as if to say, “Yeah, so what?”

AprilEthereal

RichardParker That is the stuff of nightmares. Bring on the cold to kill them off! I remember when I was a kid there was a mouse plague. I opened my bedroom cupboard and saw a mouse running up my hanging clothes. I also saw a mouse run up my brother’s leg. He had pjs on.

Chookas

Argh! Yuck! My mum is in that area and the mice are a nightmare! I think they’ve been really lucky though, so far only one in the house. They’re just using traps, baiting can cause issues down the track.

There are just so many of them, hopefully winter will finish them off soon. Certainly chilly in Sydney this morning.

Chookas

Mum just told me that it was in the below zero last night, fingers crossed that’ll start bringing the numbers down. Sorry the car has turned out to be a terrible mouser 😬

RichardParker

Chookas she’s great company, though, so it’s ok. She follows me and the kids around like a puppy.

SR21

my skin is crawling on your behalf. I’m so sorry RP - mice are gross.

LadySybilVimes

This is the ABC journo covering the mouse plague in NSW. Some of the clips she’s put up are unbelievable. Poor farmers and their ruined grain.