How small a gap can a mouse get through?

That's a worry. That's what I was supplied with to stop them - I have an ornamental cast iron grill between the front door steps which help vents the cellar and has much larger holes than that. But since covering the inside with mesh a few years ago no signs of mice. Instead of near every year previously. Perhaps it only stops adult mice, though.

You're convinced by the lies? ;-)

Do you have whiskers and pointy front teeth too?

It's more to do with the type of mice, house mice are little grey things that will get through a very small hole (I was also told that if you can push a biro through then the house mouse will get through). Woodmice are much larger.

I have not seen house mice since we first moved in 30+ years ago but woodmice regularly walk in in the autumn whilst doors are left open.

AJH

I'm not answering that!

so, someone actually /placed/ the mouse inside the CU ?

the plot thickens.

Perhaps it got in as a baby and got fat - but insufficiently fed - on the insulation.

The poor thing I saw had only done 230v so there was no crisping.

Adam

nah, without protien the mouse would have became catabolic within a few hours and it would have started to /lose/ weight.

someone put the mouse in the CU.

question is, why ?

I do wish you wouldn't ask these questions when I've just put the black helicopter away.

John

I bought a second hand elling lee ceramic hob cooker.

There was a mouse - a mummified mouse BEHIND the Fascia where the knobs are - I took the thing apart to clean it.

Perhaps they didn't need it any more, they'd bought a pointer.

"Mary Fisher" typed

Maybe you can't, but I understand prisons etc are designed on the principle that some people can...

I've no idea about that but I'm just too fat :-)

Mary

Have you not been watching "Prison Break" on Channel 5?

Gives "proving dead" a whole new meaning...

But that's nothing. There was a case here a few years ago that made it to the local paper. Occupants had noticed a strange smell in the under-stairs cupboard. Transco could find no gas leak and suggested the cause might be electrical. An electrician was called and found a dead

Sizzling viewing.

"Mary Fisher" typed

Yebbut some people are 'stick insects'.

Prisons etc have to be built to detain all inmates.

Perhaps - my observation was that I couldn't do it :-)

Mary