saxabar – Member
…………… #countryliving!
Exactly.
rossatease – Member
Don’t! She’s now got herself convinced there are rats in the loft, says she can hear them padding about,
stumpy01 – Member
Could be nesting birds at this time of year. Fledgling birds having an explore outside the nest.
OH works from home and could hear noises above the ceiling in the office. We could hear them at night gnawing through stuff and scurrying about. Convinced ourselves it was nesting birds/bats/friendly little cute mouse.
It wasn’t! It was a ****ing massive rat stomping about in nob-nailed boots eating everything that lay in its path., ate its way through the back of the kitchen units (the hardboard)and ate all the food in teh back of the cupboards, most of the polystyrene backing to both the loft hatches, covers to all the cookbooks in the cupboards, pair of my boxing gloves, the list goes on.
I had put out mouse traps, humane and otherwise, local independent pest control laughed when he saw the traps saying it would be lke tring to stop a tank with a fly swat.
Ended up with poison everywhere inside and out. (turns out most people in the village already do this so our property must have seemed like the rat equivalent of Centre Parcs).
Oddly enough found a dying rat in the back garden this weekend just gone, signs were the poison taking effect. Needless to say I put it out of its misery, it was bloody massive.
But don’t worry, I’m sure you’re right and it’s a friendly little mouse 😉