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They could be a problem where I grew up in Canada. Now I live in Cardiff, with a paved back garden surrounded by a brick wall. Are mice apt to make a home in my freshly-cut cedar pile?
My folks have a wood pile and they get mice living in it. 🙂
Mice and rats will tend to like that sort of habitat. A cat would solve it probably but alternatively you could just relax and not worry about a few mice. They have to live somewhere and cause no real harm. Rats would justify a cat IMO.
Why could it be a problem ?
Only insofar as I have very little kids who tend to leave the back door open all the time. And their half-eaten food on the patio.
That, and even seeing a picture of rodents tends to make my man bits take refuge in my body.
We most often find bird nests in our wood stacks. Only one that occasionally has mice or rats is next to stables.
If its possible for a rodent to make a home somewhere then they will, woodpile, compost bin, pretty much anywhere that remains undisturbed. Had two cats in the house last winter, neither did a bloody thing about the rat living at the back of the fridge, useless gits
My cats used to catch the rats and rabbits. Seriously rat pee is nasty stuff and you can get some serious illnesses from it, with small children I'd do something to prevent them making a home in the woodpile.
I'd do something to prevent them making a home in the woodpile.
Any suggestions? Seriously. Would some kind of mesh work?
Seriously rat pee is nasty stuff and you can get some serious illnesses from it, with small children I'd do something to prevent them making a home in the woodpile.
He said mice. There's no need to be prejudiced and paint all rodents with the same brush.
Seriously rat pee is nasty stuff and you can get some serious illnesses from it
If you're talking about Leptospirosis or Weils Disease as it is perhaps more commonly known, it is transmitted through contact with urine/water containing urine and it's not only transmitted from rats. Also, it's pretty bloody rare.
More info here: http://www.leptospirosis.org/
In fact, in the UK at least, there's not an awful lot you can realistically exxpect to catch off animals. You're far, far more likely to die from something you could catch off another Human Being. Best sever all contact with other people and incarcerate yourself in a hermetically sealed house. If you're that worried.
Or you could just carry on like a normal person and not worry too much about stuffs.
We had loads of mice (and at least one rat) in our log store. I bought a tub of poison in tablet form and just tucked some tablets on top of the wood but with a log over the top to hide it.
No rodents now.
I used to like hunting for toads in the woodpile in my aunty and uncle's place when I were a kid. Toads are wonderful animals.
We had a family of weasels in the log store ... they took care of any rats. Luckily I have a very strong dislike for rats but love weasels and stoats 😉
Saxonrider have you actually seen any signs of life in your wood pile? If you have and you want rid, then poison would be your best solution, obviously treat it with care and make sure it's well out of range of the kids and domestic animals. Netting won't really do anything, even a big rat can squeeze through a tiny hole.
+1 for toads in the woodpile being great! We've got some in ours and they're ace!
Mice - not seen any in ours (see: 'the cat solution').... bringing in dormant wasps who then wake up in a nice cosey log basket and proceed to wander round on the carpet in a half-daze was a particular pain last year 😕
You're far, far more likely to die from something you could catch off another Human Being
made up statistic of the morning?
far more likely to die of something caught from another human than catch something from a rodent.
sources please elfin. 😉