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.

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. 🤢

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.

😳 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…

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.

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 k...