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Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / September 2003possible wild mice/rats in house- should I wait?
Hi I've wanted to get some rats for a few years now after I met the rats my brothers had. I've decided I'd like to buy them now but there may be a problem... I live in a shared house & before I lived there they had some visitors, not sure if they were mice/rats but they were evicted by a man with a trap. But now my housemate thinks they may have returned. If I buy them they will be spending most of the time in my room on the 3rd floor and my housemate says she thinks she heard/saw something downstairs. I'm not sure if I believe her as I've not seen/heard anything myself but I wouldn't want to have them risk catching a disease. Is the presence of wild mice/rats in the house a problem for pet rats? Should I make sure that there are no visitors before I think about moving my guys in? I'm not sure what to do? Any thoughts/suggestions would be gratefully received, cheers, Si > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Si Hi Si, I was hoping someone else with more knowledge would reply to you but I guess not. In my opinion, I really can't see that an outside critter should stop you from getting your own rats. If there is by chance a mouse or rat in your home, I'm sure you would see signs: tiny poops, chewed wood... I can't say for sure if the outside rodent can give your pets disease... it all depends if the outside rodent is sick himself. Check around to see if you really have visitors and then perhaps seal off any holes to your building. Good luck! Remember, outside rodents are only looking for food and shelter, they truly mean you no harm.  SignatureJoanne Mom to 14 rats http://community.webshots.com/user/joanneb70 j-s.b@nospamsympatico.ca remove "no spam" We evicted 5 mice with a humane trap... I think in hindsight it was probably a family... there is a 6th one in our laundry but he is a smart wee dude and wont walk into the trap..LOL. He eats my Ratties Litter that I store in there...and I have also seen wee poops in it as well...(definitely a cheeky wee bugger.) I cannot see that there is any cause for concern as my laundry is at the other end of the house to the Rats Homes... I also think that a mouse would be scared of these big boys..:) Regards Kate > > Hi > > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Remember, outside rodents are only looking for food and shelter, they truly > mean you no harm. We had mice in our house. Would run across the living room floor every night at about 2am (we're students). Trapped it in the room once and spent three hours chasing the little bugger until I caught it (shoe box with small hole cut in one end and placed along skirting board where the mouse ran straight into it - thought it was a good place to hide I guess). Didn't want to kill it and didn't want to chuck it out as thought it would come straight back in so kept it a prisoner Camp X-ray style, until the little scrote escaped. Was hoping it would teach other mice a lesson. Got council in with poison after that but the mice weren't touching it. THEN I bought a rat, which had free reign of th living room and guess what? Mice disappeared! I like to think the rat scared 'em off, although they probably found some poison in the end :-( But anyway, don't let their wild cousins put you off - you may even get rid of them! Mark. |
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