MOUSE IN THE HOUSE

The council come out for cheap, if not free. And are better than rent o kill etc as they have no financial gain in coming back.

Failing that, just pour straight bleach everywhere and they'll die. Not great with kids tho.

No worse than the bottom of your shoes when you come in from outdoors, a dog, a cat, the inside of your fridge or your hands unless you washed them seconds ago.

Mice are not the plague.

People really over react. They are tiny and harmless and very beautiful.

Hi, we got Rentokil in who were brilliant. I know it’s expensive but there is never just one mouse, (unless, like my DSis, you see the cat bringing one in🙀) The longer you leave it, the harder it is to get rid, ime. And, also from experience, it’s almost impossible to get rid of them yourself. Rentokil know the best place to put the traps - the person we called in put them in the most hard to reach places, but it worked.

Rentokil guy also told me - don’t know if it’s true, but it’s a great thought - that mice travel in advance scouting parties when moving in somewhere. He said he expected to find at least seven, even though we’d only seen one. In the end, he caught nine, I think.

They ask how many rooms so they know how many traps to lay/quote for - they need to put traps in every room.

Ours were dead and gone very quickly.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

Where are you. I'm in Chingford. The company who came to me cost around £190 if I recall correctly.

Rosy has been telling me about a mouse in the house for the last hour or so. It's amazing how small a space a quite large cat can squeeze into when she's on the prowl. I hope she catches it sooner rather than later.

If you don’t take them miles away they’ll come back though!

they are vermin and breed like crazy so fine to kill them IMO

I saw one in the garage last week, I put down a trap armed with a bit of ham. Disposed of the body the next day. Know they are hardly ever alone, I set the trap the next night, got the second blighter! I set the trap again, nothing the next morning.
I will set it periodically over the winter.

I had a mouse in my house recently that escaped from the cat!

They aren't that different to catch because they have poor eyesight. I just stood still and waited for it to come out from where it was hiding. Then I put a tea towel over it and carried it outside.

If you have more than one then you can buy humane mouse traps and release them outside. You don't need to kill everything!

You do need to figure out where it got in and block the hole though.

Mice are not harmless, they are a health hazard. They have no bladder so essentailly dribble urine wherever they run and carry diseases.
Having said that I wouldn't use the sticky pads but I would want them dispatched asap.

Just an FYI on glue traps:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/glue-trap-licences#:~:text=From%2031%20July%202024%20it,a%20licence%20for%20glue%20trapping.

Similar here, we had one which we killed with traps within a couple of days, blocked where we thought it was coming in and have had no more since touch wood and that was months ago

This is horrifically cruel.

Get a humane mouse trap and put peanut butter and chocolate in. It will be in there by morning. Then release in a nearby park by some brambly hedging.
Mice are harmless and beautiful. It won't cause you any harm unless it wee's in your cereal.

They do not work.
If you have seen a mouse in daytime then there is more than one. Try traps for a few days or poison but if they don't work you need a professional.

We also had a couple of electronic traps - we did catch one in there as well but they are obviously much messier to dispose of. With the basic snap traps, we just bin the whole thing and buy new.

We live in London and a mouse ran across the bedroom floor when DD2 was 2weeks old. It coincided with new neighbours replacing their floor so I suspect it had been happily living under the floor / between our terraces. I was horrified!

DH bought steel wool and went round the whole house blocking up every tiny hole. We did a deep clean and put out child safe traps with peanut butter and bait stations in case there was a nest somewhere. Plus we put a sonic thing in every room. In the end, we caught 3 i think? Haven't seen one since.

Once the DC are old enough, we will be acquiring a cat!

Glue traps are now illegal.
My vegan friend advised the snap traps as they're the most humane.
Our mouse had a liking for ice cream cones, shunned the Nutella on the traps. In the end it trapped itself in our bath! DH then caught it in a box & drive it 30miles away & released it 😂

We have had mice and use the sonic plugs, mouse away which is basically a minty spray that stops them being able to recognise their tracks and snap traps. If you use humane traps you have to take them miles away otherwise they find their way back.

When we needed a pest controller it was £40 per visit (North)

Sonic Plugs … we never had much success.

Stick with a trap, with peanut butter on.. make sure there is no food anywhere else, it will eventually get caught

the quote - the amount of deterrents required is likely to be dependent on the size of the house - 4 bedroomed family home requiring more work than a studio flat.

We have, they didn't work. Snap traps with chocolate did though. Buy a few different types

have a cat