Help get rid of mice

Wesley · 2012-09-13T23:25:42+00:00

Please help me get rid of our latest batch of unwelcome visitors. Our mice seem to have a liking for 'Hovis Best of Both' bread. I left it out a couple of times and found they'd chewed through the plastic wrapping and had a go at the bread.The first time this happened, I put down a saucer of B&Q Mouse & Rat poison with half a slice of the Hovis bread on top but they just ignored it. Is it because the poison is past its 'Best Before' date? It consists of grain which is blue in colour. I've examined the container but there is no sell by date of any kind. In any event, I though they would at least have eaten the bread! If I leave a loaf of the bread on the kitchen counter they will eat it but if I put some on the floor in a secluded spot they ignore it. Doesn't make sense!I then tried Nutella in ordinary mouse traps and caught two of the buggers but now they seem to be wise to this method and won't touch the traps. Do I need to put fresh Nutella in the traps every night because our mice are a bit fussy? I've examined it after a day or two and it still appears to be moist.The B&Q poison worked very well a few years ago and got rid of them - they cleared two heaped saucers full of the stuff before they finally disappeared. I've put the saucer in exactly the same spot this time so I am puzzled why they won't eat it.