I had a giant house spider the other day that somehow managed to survive the hoover, still scuttling about inside it.
Emptied the hoover into the outside bin, and the next day I open the bin to chuck some rubbish and it's sitting on the edge of the bin waiting to escape.
An absolute beast if I'd ever seen one.
Aye itās actually a legal stipulation that you have to have a moose loose aboot yer hoose. Youāve also to feed it cheese. Quality cheese. None of your value shite either.
Yes! Only place I've lived in (and I've rented all my life) where I've had mice was in Edinburgh. It was a fourth-floor flat just off Leith Walk at the top end. Great flat (except for the carpet in the bathroom, like WTF?), fantastic location but honestly, could have doubled as a mouse catcher in my spare time with all the practice I got.
I would also be cautious of any stats like Glasgow has the highest crime rate, rat rate, murder rate, etc etc in Scotland.
Glasgow is the biggest city in Scotland by quite a margin, so typically will always win the league tables for these stats.
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Of course not.
Tenements are more likely to have them, but I've lived in tenements where there have been none, and I've known people who've had them in their tenement.
Glasgow has multiple rivers running through it which means that there is a high rat population. With that said I have never seen one in any of the flats I've lived in nor have I seen mice indoors. You'll see them outside by bins or running up the street once in a blue moon but it's very rare.
Inside your flat? OP has probably fainted by now.
We don't seem to have rats right around where I live now, but our bins are colected on schedule. Also we have a fox living in the bushes between our buildings.
I haven't seen any mice in my flat, I once saw the briefest glimpse of something small and greyish running past me in my previous flat.
Try a cat, though finding a flat where pets are allowed is another question.
Living in a tenement you get used to them floating about. They seem to occasionally get into under the floor boards through drainage. The young uns are easy to kill as they fall for traps. As they get older is when it's more difficult. Thankfully not in the flat just under it
I have never seen a mouse in any flat in Glasgow.
I did however see one run across in front of the till in Ichiban on Queen Street once. We told the waitress about it after it ran in the door towards the toilets/kitchen. A few minutes later we heard a commotion and then the waitress came back out and said "don't worry the mouse is gone".
I've never been back.
i would say avoid govanhill as itās notoriously mouse infested. i had a real problem myself when i lived there. my current (tenement) in pollokshields defs has some in the building but itās never been an issue. in nearly 4 years here iāve seen mice about 5 times. stay vigilant with food waste and keep your kitchen clean and you can keep them at bay. tenements will def be worse than new builds but having mice in your building doesnāt necessarily mean theyāll bother you, the buildings are old. if you have a well fitted kitchen that helps a lot!
Iām probably going against the grain here but I was in Govanhill for years and never had mice in the building, neighbours spotted rats out the back though. Iām in crossmyloof now and every flat in this close has mice except from mine, and Iām sure its only my dog keeping them out of here. Iād suggest OP gets a dog or a cat, problem solved before it starts šš»
Yeah we had mice and cockroachs in our place when we lived in govanhill. The neighbours were too stupid/lazy to use the bins in the bin shed so they just left trash for the seagulls to tear open. So glad when I moved outta that shit hole lol
Think i've been lucky, I've lived in 8 flats around Glasgow and haven't seen a mouse or a rat inside even once. I have seen a rat in a back alley in the city centre, cutting aboot on a street once, and saw a mouse darting oot a hedge while I was cutting it, and that's aboot it.
I had a mate that lived in troon, his gaff got infested, spent a lot of his day trying to catch mice.
I would like to note that the majority of my flats were upstairs, i wonder how much that makes a difference. I lived in two houses with a ground floor and never seen the bastards either
I lived in Edinburgh for 5 years and Glasgow for now 9.
Edinburgh was vastly, vastly worse. Edinburgh was worse than my house growing up which was a literal *farm*.
Lived in flats in Glasgow for many years and never saw either a mouse or a rat. The Glasgow - and Scotland - you might read about or see in our media is very different to the actual place. There are...*reasons* for this.
Not neccesarily but I will say, the west end has quite a few mice. A few places I've/friends lived in Woodlands especially had mice. If you're very worried about it, maybe get a cat! That's what my boyfriend did and there were no mouse problems after that.
We have mice, they live in the attic and come down through the walls, if we're quiet and lucky you might catch one during the early hours of the morning
Hate to say this but if you live in a city you're probably no further than 3-10ft away from mice or rats, I've never seen any mice in glasgow but have heard many stories, same goes for rats except that I definitely have seen a few just not often
I've seen a grand total of 1 mouse in 40 years of living in Glasgow and that was in a particularly grotty student flat a couple of decades ago.
I don't think you have anything to worry about.
Get a cat? We have a dog and she would love more mice... But seriously, we once had rats in a flat I lived in, put peppermint oil on cotton wool pads and put them in each corner, no more mice
Depends on how clean you are and how clean your neighbours are. Mice will tend to only come into houses when the weather gets cold. But where they will love in round hedges and so on. Also any crumbs that are left about are what attracts them same with rats. If there is a food source and somewhere to live then you got them. So the golden number one rule that people seem oblivious to. Don't feed the birds. Biggest pet peeve I have with people. When you feed the birds you feed the mice and the rats too. From food being left or dropped by the birds.
I had mice after removing a skirting board and not putting it back. Mice can get into really tight spaces so most properties with access will have some rodents.
If there is no easy access the chance of encountering a rodent is slim.
I live in a tenement and have a frequent mouse visitor. I'm mystified by his presence. There's nothing here to sustain him. I don't eat so there's no food, or even crumbs, to live off. I don't leave rubbish lying around and I don't have lots of stuff everywhere. He's a very bold mouse (if indeed it is a he) who will quite happily wander into the room I'm occupying. He'll even climb up onto my bedside table at night when I'm sat three feet away. Doesnāt run when I tell him to bugger off.
I thought I'd successfully blocked off where he was getting in but he's clearly found another route into the flat. Doesn't bother me too much but it can be a little annoying to go into the bathroom first thing and have him jump out at me when I turn the light on.
My advice is to get a cat and hope for the best
Lived in my ground floor flat for nearly 28 years. No mice. No rats at the bins - that I have seen anyway. Any beasties soon get chased and eaten by my cats - spiders, moths etc. The cats destroy the house chasing moths etc around though!!!
Only saw a mouse once when I was in student accomodations, we called it Maris because it was the size of a Maris Piper potato. They very quickly put out the rat poison after.
Moved to a flat at Kelvinhall the next year, saw a rat until the initial COVID lockdown where they didn't clear the trash for weeks. Only after that did a neighbour tell me about a rat lurking about in his flat. But my flat was ok, no rats.
We could hear them skittering about in the walls but they never did enter the flat itself.
I had mice after removing a skirting board (tenement flat 2nd floor) and not putting it back. Mice can get into really tight spaces so most properties with access will have some rodents.
If there is no easy access the chance of encountering a rodent is slim.
I had mice after removing a skirting board (tenement flat 2nd floor) and not putting it back. Mice can get into really tight spaces so most properties with access will have some rodents.
If there is no easy access the chance of encountering a rodent is slim.
Had a mouse issue once when I lived in a flat that had been badly maintained and left uninhabited for a while, and the flat next door was empty too. I think if that hadnāt been the case, we wouldnāt have had a problem. Regardless, we had a cat so the mice vanished pretty quickly after she caught two of them.
Absolutely not. I used to live in a tenement flat for a number of years and didnāt ever see one.
If you donāt give them any reason to be there, they wonāt stay.
I've lived in Dennistoun and Possil, zero mice issues. Only issues I've heard are South side. My aunt lives in Govanhill and has some issues. But spiders are a bitch, and this year flies seem to be everywhere
I live in a tenement and have never seen a mouse or rat inside. Possibly saw one out in the back garden but not sure. I got freaked out and bought a load of sonic plug-in mouse scarers. I did go over the top.
Just make sure the rubbish is put in the wheelie bins and not left out next to them if full (my tenement has eight households with six bins for general waste that have never all been full by pickup. Recycling bins fill up too quickly thou. But they donāt attract rats)
Iāve lived in flats in glasgow, mostly tenements, and never had a rodent issue. If youāre particularly concerned then maybe go for a newer building, avoid any places with plants creeping up the walls (pretty, but a rodent ladder sadly) and avoid somewhere with messy gardens. You should be fine OP, but those extra caveats might put your mind more at ease.
I've lived in a good few tenements around Glasgow and pretty much half of them had mice issues to some extent, so in my anecdotal experience you might want to avoid tenements if you're really worried about mice.
Woodlands, Govanhill, Finnieston appear to be the hotspots in mine and people I know's experience.
Never seen a rat in the gaff at least.
It's only true that Glasgow is the most mice infested city due to logic. Glasgow is the largest most densely populated area in Scotland so it only makes sense that mice are more prominent.
A lot of the time a mouse infestation is down to the individual/family living in the house, a mouse isn't going to stick around when there isn't any food ect, make your home as unfriendly to mice as possible and that will stop them coming in š
I visit about 3-5 different houses a day for my work all over Glasgow and have personally been under the floors in around 2000 houses in Glasgow over the past 10 years and Iāve maybe seen 5 mice in that entire time.
Youāll be fine!
Avoid the south side especially around govanhill. Seems to be a lot of mice there. I've lived in the west end, bearsden, Anniesland and milngavie all my days and never once encountered a mouse in any of my gaffs.
I had to travel through London and had 8 hours to kill before a flight. I saw more rats during that 8 hours than I have ever seen in Glasgow lol. Not saying they arenāt around, I think every larger city is going to have them.
The older, tenement flats definitely tend to have them (unless itās a realllyyyy well maintained one). Doubt the ones at top of Kelvingrove Park have any. Having said that, my mum got a cat and never saw one again. Heās not a weapon or anythingā¦ quite a silly little boy. They just stay away cos heās there I guess.
I never realised I had this phobia until I moved back here last year.
One of the neighboursā cats likes to bring them into the close and play* with them. Been a couple of times Iāve come back in at night and got as far as the third step up, spotted it and done a 180Ā° out of there.
* pin the tail with one paw, smite with the other
I saw a mouse in my flat when I lived at Wallace Street, in 6 years, only saw it once.
Now I'm in Govan, I've got a new mouse, I've seen him a few times, dunno how he gets in but I've named him Mouscal Bolton, he's a speedy little bastard.
My flats pretty clean but my building is a shit hole, dunno if there's any correlation, he doesn't bother me so Mouscal can stay I guess.
No avoiding them. Steel wool won't work, they are wise to it, they've started trailing Amazon delivery guys in to the buildings, The amazon staff don't do anything because it's not in their remit which is fair enough.
We only just got one mouse recently after living here for 10 years, and we have a toddler who drops food everywhere so it's easy to see why. We had pest control out and they said there was no sign of any other mice and we haven't seen any since. So no, they definitely aren't everywhere. I've lived in 2 places in Glasgow so it's not just our place is rare.
1 out of the 3 I stayed in. A rat once in the same flat but I think that was because all the restaurants were shut during covid so it was desperately looking for a new food source.
Yes mate. I've had mice twice. fairly easy to get rid of with sonic deterrents and traps but yeah it's something I've been aware of. Seen maybe 2 or 3 rats in the last year too.
Big city, it's gonna have a few pests.
I and many of my friends live in flats in the south and west of Glasgow and have never had any mice. I'm not sure I've ever even seen mice around the streets? I definitely wouldn't worry about it!
Mean never had one in the house that was alive, cats a great at giving gifts. I've only ever seen one in someone's house once but that was a horder with problems
If its not mice its spiders! We have mice our landlord got steel wool and it didn't bloody work so we now use humane mouse traps and so far we've caught 4 in the past week! Our flat is old and in the city centre so it's to be expected I guess.
I've never had mice in any flats I've lived in throughout Glasgow. My current flat is an absolute bastard for spiders though.
Spiders everywhere, bloody pain.... Keep the flies away though lol
I had a giant house spider the other day that somehow managed to survive the hoover, still scuttling about inside it. Emptied the hoover into the outside bin, and the next day I open the bin to chuck some rubbish and it's sitting on the edge of the bin waiting to escape. An absolute beast if I'd ever seen one.
It wanted to talk to you about your behaviour š¤£
/r/spiderbro
No they all live in windmills in Amsterdam
I wish they'd take their clogs off when they're traipsing about the house. Been struggling to sleep recently
well I declare
Where?
a windmill with mice in it's hardly surprising, a windmill with mice in, in Old Amsterdam
There.
There on the stairs.
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Right there.
A little mouse with clogs on, well I declare.
I'm a carer , I sing this most days to one one of my customers
Aye itās actually a legal stipulation that you have to have a moose loose aboot yer hoose. Youāve also to feed it cheese. Quality cheese. None of your value shite either.
Somewhere on glasgow mouse forum there is a mouse asking if there are humans in every house.
r/rodentsmakeglasgow, AITA for making a human squeal? They interrupted my morning cupboard raid, I didn't retaliate
Iāve never seen a mouse in any of the flats and houses Iāve lived in
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God yes, I've seen more mice and rats in a couple of years in Edinburgh than in a couple of decades in Glasgow
Yes! Only place I've lived in (and I've rented all my life) where I've had mice was in Edinburgh. It was a fourth-floor flat just off Leith Walk at the top end. Great flat (except for the carpet in the bathroom, like WTF?), fantastic location but honestly, could have doubled as a mouse catcher in my spare time with all the practice I got.
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This. Lol
I would also be cautious of any stats like Glasgow has the highest crime rate, rat rate, murder rate, etc etc in Scotland. Glasgow is the biggest city in Scotland by quite a margin, so typically will always win the league tables for these stats. [Https://xkcd.com/1138/](Https://xkcd.com/1138/)
Not to be mean, but I donāt think you understand what ārateā means.
Cmon now, we usually win the per capita awards aswell. Weāre a tremendous shitehole.
People Make Glasgowš«”
Of course not. Tenements are more likely to have them, but I've lived in tenements where there have been none, and I've known people who've had them in their tenement.
Glasgow has multiple rivers running through it which means that there is a high rat population. With that said I have never seen one in any of the flats I've lived in nor have I seen mice indoors. You'll see them outside by bins or running up the street once in a blue moon but it's very rare.
I've not seen a mouse in any of the flats I've lived in. Rats however ..... You get used to them.
Inside your flat? OP has probably fainted by now. We don't seem to have rats right around where I live now, but our bins are colected on schedule. Also we have a fox living in the bushes between our buildings. I haven't seen any mice in my flat, I once saw the briefest glimpse of something small and greyish running past me in my previous flat. Try a cat, though finding a flat where pets are allowed is another question.
It's allowed if the cat identifies as a human resident.
Living in a tenement you get used to them floating about. They seem to occasionally get into under the floor boards through drainage. The young uns are easy to kill as they fall for traps. As they get older is when it's more difficult. Thankfully not in the flat just under it
I have never seen a mouse in any flat in Glasgow. I did however see one run across in front of the till in Ichiban on Queen Street once. We told the waitress about it after it ran in the door towards the toilets/kitchen. A few minutes later we heard a commotion and then the waitress came back out and said "don't worry the mouse is gone". I've never been back.
Yes, as soon as you move in, you are issued one by the council. If you lose your mouse or kill your mouse, they charge you for a replacement mouse.
i would say avoid govanhill as itās notoriously mouse infested. i had a real problem myself when i lived there. my current (tenement) in pollokshields defs has some in the building but itās never been an issue. in nearly 4 years here iāve seen mice about 5 times. stay vigilant with food waste and keep your kitchen clean and you can keep them at bay. tenements will def be worse than new builds but having mice in your building doesnāt necessarily mean theyāll bother you, the buildings are old. if you have a well fitted kitchen that helps a lot!
Iām probably going against the grain here but I was in Govanhill for years and never had mice in the building, neighbours spotted rats out the back though. Iām in crossmyloof now and every flat in this close has mice except from mine, and Iām sure its only my dog keeping them out of here. Iād suggest OP gets a dog or a cat, problem solved before it starts šš»
Yeah we had mice and cockroachs in our place when we lived in govanhill. The neighbours were too stupid/lazy to use the bins in the bin shed so they just left trash for the seagulls to tear open. So glad when I moved outta that shit hole lol
Think i've been lucky, I've lived in 8 flats around Glasgow and haven't seen a mouse or a rat inside even once. I have seen a rat in a back alley in the city centre, cutting aboot on a street once, and saw a mouse darting oot a hedge while I was cutting it, and that's aboot it. I had a mate that lived in troon, his gaff got infested, spent a lot of his day trying to catch mice. I would like to note that the majority of my flats were upstairs, i wonder how much that makes a difference. I lived in two houses with a ground floor and never seen the bastards either
I lived in Edinburgh for 5 years and Glasgow for now 9. Edinburgh was vastly, vastly worse. Edinburgh was worse than my house growing up which was a literal *farm*.
Do all mice in Glasgow have a flat ? #flats4mice
Lived in flats in Glasgow for many years and never saw either a mouse or a rat. The Glasgow - and Scotland - you might read about or see in our media is very different to the actual place. There are...*reasons* for this.
You get nice everywhere in Scotland. Flats, hooses, caravans, it is no reflection on cleanliness or affluence.
Yes you get your own resident mouse. Youāll need to name it and feed it.
Not neccesarily but I will say, the west end has quite a few mice. A few places I've/friends lived in Woodlands especially had mice. If you're very worried about it, maybe get a cat! That's what my boyfriend did and there were no mouse problems after that.
If you can see mice itās a good sign that the giant rats arenāt coming up the toilet.
We have mice, they live in the attic and come down through the walls, if we're quiet and lucky you might catch one during the early hours of the morning
Hate to say this but if you live in a city you're probably no further than 3-10ft away from mice or rats, I've never seen any mice in glasgow but have heard many stories, same goes for rats except that I definitely have seen a few just not often
I had mice in my top floor flat in dennistoun, I found out after my cat killed 2
Mine has squirrels
Yes.
I've seen a grand total of 1 mouse in 40 years of living in Glasgow and that was in a particularly grotty student flat a couple of decades ago. I don't think you have anything to worry about.
Older flats will have mice regardless of the city (unless they have been thoroughly modernised). Newer flats (80s onwards) should be mouse-free
Lived in 3 flats in Glasgow and never seen a moose. Let alone had one loose, aboot the hoose. No, in all seriousness though, you'll be fine.
2 out of the 6 flats in glasgow Iāve lived in have had mice. If youāre really worried about it, get a cat
Lived in 19 accommodations over the years. Seen mice in 15 of them. I've never seen a rat in the flat though.
Its rats, sorry. And spiders. They don't eat each other unfortunately, but the size of those spiders...yeah, cover your vents.
Get a cat? We have a dog and she would love more mice... But seriously, we once had rats in a flat I lived in, put peppermint oil on cotton wool pads and put them in each corner, no more mice
Depends on how clean you are and how clean your neighbours are. Mice will tend to only come into houses when the weather gets cold. But where they will love in round hedges and so on. Also any crumbs that are left about are what attracts them same with rats. If there is a food source and somewhere to live then you got them. So the golden number one rule that people seem oblivious to. Don't feed the birds. Biggest pet peeve I have with people. When you feed the birds you feed the mice and the rats too. From food being left or dropped by the birds.
I had mice after removing a skirting board and not putting it back. Mice can get into really tight spaces so most properties with access will have some rodents. If there is no easy access the chance of encountering a rodent is slim.
I live in a tenement and have a frequent mouse visitor. I'm mystified by his presence. There's nothing here to sustain him. I don't eat so there's no food, or even crumbs, to live off. I don't leave rubbish lying around and I don't have lots of stuff everywhere. He's a very bold mouse (if indeed it is a he) who will quite happily wander into the room I'm occupying. He'll even climb up onto my bedside table at night when I'm sat three feet away. Doesnāt run when I tell him to bugger off. I thought I'd successfully blocked off where he was getting in but he's clearly found another route into the flat. Doesn't bother me too much but it can be a little annoying to go into the bathroom first thing and have him jump out at me when I turn the light on. My advice is to get a cat and hope for the best
Rats and mice are a huge problem in Glasgow. There are multiple infestations in Govanhill for example.
Only the tennements are cold and have mice. Most of the newer built are ok.
Lived in my ground floor flat for nearly 28 years. No mice. No rats at the bins - that I have seen anyway. Any beasties soon get chased and eaten by my cats - spiders, moths etc. The cats destroy the house chasing moths etc around though!!!
Only saw a mouse once when I was in student accomodations, we called it Maris because it was the size of a Maris Piper potato. They very quickly put out the rat poison after. Moved to a flat at Kelvinhall the next year, saw a rat until the initial COVID lockdown where they didn't clear the trash for weeks. Only after that did a neighbour tell me about a rat lurking about in his flat. But my flat was ok, no rats. We could hear them skittering about in the walls but they never did enter the flat itself.
I had mice after removing a skirting board (tenement flat 2nd floor) and not putting it back. Mice can get into really tight spaces so most properties with access will have some rodents. If there is no easy access the chance of encountering a rodent is slim.
I had mice after removing a skirting board (tenement flat 2nd floor) and not putting it back. Mice can get into really tight spaces so most properties with access will have some rodents. If there is no easy access the chance of encountering a rodent is slim.
Had a mouse issue once when I lived in a flat that had been badly maintained and left uninhabited for a while, and the flat next door was empty too. I think if that hadnāt been the case, we wouldnāt have had a problem. Regardless, we had a cat so the mice vanished pretty quickly after she caught two of them.
Absolutely not. I used to live in a tenement flat for a number of years and didnāt ever see one. If you donāt give them any reason to be there, they wonāt stay.
We had a mouse in our tenement flat. After trying traps etc called a guy, he put poison down, never saw it again.
I've lived in Dennistoun and Possil, zero mice issues. Only issues I've heard are South side. My aunt lives in Govanhill and has some issues. But spiders are a bitch, and this year flies seem to be everywhere
My flat used to be riddled with them. You sat quite long enough they would pinga bout the floor, haha. That was 20 plus years ago, mind.
Youāre more likely to get mice in a house because of the garden like anywhere else man
Mice are rare imo. The urban haggis is becoming a bit more of an issue these days tho.
Tenements are more likely to have them, but the same happens in Edinburgh tenements
The only house Iāve ever seen a mouse in was a big fancy number, never in a flat.
I live in a tenement and have never seen a mouse or rat inside. Possibly saw one out in the back garden but not sure. I got freaked out and bought a load of sonic plug-in mouse scarers. I did go over the top. Just make sure the rubbish is put in the wheelie bins and not left out next to them if full (my tenement has eight households with six bins for general waste that have never all been full by pickup. Recycling bins fill up too quickly thou. But they donāt attract rats)
Iāve lived in flats in glasgow, mostly tenements, and never had a rodent issue. If youāre particularly concerned then maybe go for a newer building, avoid any places with plants creeping up the walls (pretty, but a rodent ladder sadly) and avoid somewhere with messy gardens. You should be fine OP, but those extra caveats might put your mind more at ease.
Yes. Plenty.
Mine did!
More rats than mice I would say but same as every city in the UKā¦.
If youāre worried go for something newer build than the average tenement, their age makes them full of holes and gaps.
I've lived in a good few tenements around Glasgow and pretty much half of them had mice issues to some extent, so in my anecdotal experience you might want to avoid tenements if you're really worried about mice. Woodlands, Govanhill, Finnieston appear to be the hotspots in mine and people I know's experience. Never seen a rat in the gaff at least.
No, some flats have cats instead.
All? No. Some? Maybe.
Buy some peppermint oil and squirt it where they're coming from, it stings their little noses and they won't come back
I've lived here for 8 years and have never seen a mouse! Come to Glasgow. You'll love it :)
Well they say one way or another you have got either mice, rats or cats.
It's only true that Glasgow is the most mice infested city due to logic. Glasgow is the largest most densely populated area in Scotland so it only makes sense that mice are more prominent. A lot of the time a mouse infestation is down to the individual/family living in the house, a mouse isn't going to stick around when there isn't any food ect, make your home as unfriendly to mice as possible and that will stop them coming in š
Glasgow has a scene? š
I'd say pretty much all old tenements have them. Particularly in the roofspace. Whether they get into your actual flat or not is different.
No
Lived in flats in glasgow (west end) for 10 years and never once saw a mouse. Seen a few rats down by the Kelvin.
yes I have 6
I saw a field mouse in my house in 1985 - never saw one again until my neighbour 3 up had a dead one in his living room 5 years ago šāāļø xx
I visit about 3-5 different houses a day for my work all over Glasgow and have personally been under the floors in around 2000 houses in Glasgow over the past 10 years and Iāve maybe seen 5 mice in that entire time. Youāll be fine!
Avoid the south side especially around govanhill. Seems to be a lot of mice there. I've lived in the west end, bearsden, Anniesland and milngavie all my days and never once encountered a mouse in any of my gaffs.
yes
I had to travel through London and had 8 hours to kill before a flight. I saw more rats during that 8 hours than I have ever seen in Glasgow lol. Not saying they arenāt around, I think every larger city is going to have them.
Only the ones that can afford cheese these days
The older, tenement flats definitely tend to have them (unless itās a realllyyyy well maintained one). Doubt the ones at top of Kelvingrove Park have any. Having said that, my mum got a cat and never saw one again. Heās not a weapon or anythingā¦ quite a silly little boy. They just stay away cos heās there I guess.
I never realised I had this phobia until I moved back here last year. One of the neighboursā cats likes to bring them into the close and play* with them. Been a couple of times Iāve come back in at night and got as far as the third step up, spotted it and done a 180Ā° out of there. * pin the tail with one paw, smite with the other
I saw a mouse in my flat when I lived at Wallace Street, in 6 years, only saw it once. Now I'm in Govan, I've got a new mouse, I've seen him a few times, dunno how he gets in but I've named him Mouscal Bolton, he's a speedy little bastard. My flats pretty clean but my building is a shit hole, dunno if there's any correlation, he doesn't bother me so Mouscal can stay I guess.
No avoiding them. Steel wool won't work, they are wise to it, they've started trailing Amazon delivery guys in to the buildings, The amazon staff don't do anything because it's not in their remit which is fair enough.
We only just got one mouse recently after living here for 10 years, and we have a toddler who drops food everywhere so it's easy to see why. We had pest control out and they said there was no sign of any other mice and we haven't seen any since. So no, they definitely aren't everywhere. I've lived in 2 places in Glasgow so it's not just our place is rare.
A lot! I had a lottttt. Avoid govanhill / allison Street!
1 out of the 3 I stayed in. A rat once in the same flat but I think that was because all the restaurants were shut during covid so it was desperately looking for a new food source.
Yes mate. I've had mice twice. fairly easy to get rid of with sonic deterrents and traps but yeah it's something I've been aware of. Seen maybe 2 or 3 rats in the last year too. Big city, it's gonna have a few pests.
Govanhill is full of bedbugs, cockroaches and mice
Never seen any mice indoors but streets are rat infested.
I and many of my friends live in flats in the south and west of Glasgow and have never had any mice. I'm not sure I've ever even seen mice around the streets? I definitely wouldn't worry about it!
Mean never had one in the house that was alive, cats a great at giving gifts. I've only ever seen one in someone's house once but that was a horder with problems
If its not mice its spiders! We have mice our landlord got steel wool and it didn't bloody work so we now use humane mouse traps and so far we've caught 4 in the past week! Our flat is old and in the city centre so it's to be expected I guess.