Mouse in toaster

[croyde]

We do have a bad mouse problem in our house and I have tried plugging any gaps with wire wool, no food left out plus mouse poison/traps with little success.

Thought that the problem had gone away as we do have dips in activity but yesterday I noticed a trail of droppings leading from the boiler to the Dualit toaster.

I opened the crumb tray and no crumbs just lots of droppings.

So I cleared it up but this morning the crumb tray had a few droppings in it again. Needless to say no one has had any toast since but I have had the toaster apart to try and clean the insides.

I'm hoping that the heat kills whatever bugs that come from the turds or do I just have to chuck it away?

I have now placed those sticky traps betwixt boiler and toaster in the hope of catching the culprit/s.

Edited by croyde on Thursday 21st April 18:11

[aka_kerrly]

I am a little disappointed as I was expecting images of the mouse having been removed looking somewhat toasted!

[paulshears]

aka_kerrly said:

I am a little disappointed as I was expecting images of the mouse having been removed looking somewhat toasted!

Me too

[Mr Gearchange]

I know that Dualit toasters can be expensive things but I would't want to be toasting mousest along with my hovis in the morning.

I'd call rentokill and get a good cat.

[Jasandjules]

aka_kerrly said:

I am a little disappointed as I was expecting images of the mouse having been removed looking somewhat toasted!

I am pleased that no such picture materialised..

OP, in your shoes I'd bin the toaster. And I'd get a cat......

[croyde]

Really bin the toaster?

Easy to take apart so surely some antiseptic wipes would do?

I hope.

Oh! and can't have a cat as badly allergic to them, cheers though.

[SimonV8ster]

Lets just say that nobody from PH would eat toast in your house.............

[Porkbrain]

You cleaned the tray and more turds appeared the next day.

Have you never seen Spy Vs Spy?

This is your chance to photograph a singed rodent being lobbed towards the ceiling as you crouch behind the cooker with the toaster's on/off switch.

[croyde]

Porkbrain said:

You cleaned the tray and more turds appeared the next day.

Have you never seen Spy Vs Spy?

This is your chance to photograph a singed rodent being lobbed towards the ceiling as you crouch behind the cooker with the toaster's on/off switch.

[moosepig]

SimonV8ster said:

Lets just say that nobody from PH would eat toast in your house.............

I bet the mice are pissing in his kettle too

[thinfourth2]

So let me get this right

You have a big metal box with heating elements and an electrical lead and you want to find a solution to stop the mouse?

[thinfourth2]

So let me get this right

You have a big metal box with heating elements and an electrical lead and you want to find a solution to stop the mouse?

[croyde]

Got one of the bu66ers yesterday with the sticky paper but it had to be the cutest little thing (My daughter's wording) in the world and seen by all the kids and their mum.

Their mum (luckily my ex) now has me up there with Hess, Pol Pot et al, one of my boys was in tears and my daughter kept asking me how I was going to free it.

So I took the paper and mouse outside and let it go

I was ordered to take the sticky traps away but I put them back last thing at night yet this morning, more droppings in the toaster but the culprit/s must of avoided the paper.

Many of you have suggested a cat and today I am seriously considering it, even though I am very allergic, so how can one be sure that the cat will keep the mouse away as I have heard not all are natural mousers. Is it the smell?

Thinking that as long as I make sure my bedroom door is kept closed, I will at least have some respite from the allergans.

Fek!! now there are droppings on the shower mat and that's on the 2nd floor with no food kept anywhere.

[AMLK]

Would you like to borrow our cat? She is a great mouser -this is her with her lastest offering: (sorry about the bad image, taken through the window as there was no way I was letting her in with it!!)

I am also allergic to cats, I just take regular antihistamines til my resistance builds up.

[Hugo a Gogo]

if it cheers you up any, mice piss wherever they go

anywhere there is poo you can see, there is a lot more piss you can't see

[Pints]

AMLK said:

Would you like to borrow our cat?

Or the OP could have ours.

[SmokinV8]

we have 6 cats, and they seem to ignore any mice that have have bought into the house and then let go, not sure a cat is the way to go. place plenty of traps baited with peanut butter.

[Jasandjules]

croyde said:

Many of you have suggested a cat and today I am seriously considering it, even though I am very allergic, so how can one be sure that the cat will keep the mouse away as I have heard not all are natural mousers. Is it the smell?

They are not all natural mousers that's for sure. A friend has one who will stare at the mice as they run along (chased by the dog!) and a mouse has just run straight across his paws and he just watched it go!!

But all the ones I've ever had have been all too happy to catch mice (to my chagrin).

[missdiane]

Just get the old fashioned traps, pretty instant, we have them in the garage and shed and thrown away 4 mice in a year, I tempted them with corn

[davepoth]

Humane traps work pretty well, we had a mouse and we caught it in one night. Use peanut butter as the bait.