Think we have a mouse

@CarolSwimmer how are you doing and any more incidents with the mouse, mice or rats?

Mouse trap with Nutella. They bloody love Nutella. If you get humane traps you have to take them at least two miles away, or they hike back. If it's the loft it may well be a squirrel. Not sure how squirrels feel about Nutella tbh.

We tried those. They worked for a bit but then the mice must have got immune to them or something, because they came back.

Old fashioned snap traps. Buy in bulk, throw away entire thing, inc dead mouse. If you poison them, they go away and die in your house and the smell is horrendous.

@Talkinpeace well, they’ll have to take their chances or find another house as they aren’t staying in mine (don’t mind attic or wall mice (old property, thick walls) but do mind them in the main downstairs rooms where we prep and eat food. Mice in these rooms face eviction via humane trap

We have some in the garage. Would put our Staffie in there but she's scared on them!

@Imbluedalale ha ha ha genius!!!

We have so far evicted about 10 mice . We use the humane traps and agree that peanut butter is irresistible to them. Neighbours are getting used to us walking over to a nearby field with them and then releasing them. They are cute but so destructive

Twas the night before Christmas
When all through the house
Its was eerily quiet
Apart from the scratching mouse

Hubby was fuming and stomping about
And all I could hear was him scream and shout
Costa was calling I needed a break
A lovely hot chocolate and even a cake

Hubby cottoned on and realised my plan
And all I thought was
Damn, damn , damn

Mousetraps - use peanut butter 👍🏼

How adapt for the night before Christmas.

I would check into a hotel until it was gone!

They will because the mice into whose territory you have dropped them will kill them.
House mice are just that
and highly territorial

We have 4 cats. And mice. And we found the most adorable little nest made out of cat fur - really warm and luxurious it must have been...

Proper 'little nipper' traps.
Quick and simple.
"humane traps" are nothing of the sort

@dizzydizzydizzy we’re in the country so if I’m feeling very soft I take them to the barn. If I’m feeling less soft it’s a further field with a nice hedgerow.

They won’t die outside, they’re meant to live there rather than in my house

Gestation is something like 3 weeks and then they can get pregnant again very quickly

But where to you take them to? Don't they either make a new home in someone else's house or die because they can't fine a house to move into?

How was your Costa ☕️ OP? Any update on mouse-gate? 🐭

This is a long shot, but one time I was sure we had rats in the attic. I could hear little footsteps, scratching, and all kinds of noises. It was magpies on the roof. Sometimes they hop around the roof without making any other sounds. I always go outside to check just to be sure.

We had field mice in the loft a few years ago. We caught them in the humane traps and then took them over to the fields and let them go.

You will need to try to work out how they got in and block it up, as more will follow.

Those mice were sooooo cute. Not scary at all once they were in the traps and twitching their whiskers at me.

Peanut butter or a bit of digestive biscuit make better mouse bait than cheese. If you buy the live traps you need to release them 800m or more from your house or they'll come back, and you need to check the traps every few hours as they can die of cold very quickly.
The easiest type of trap is a bucket trap. Although that does mean you'll be traipsing around with a bucket of mice.

Depends on your budget but we recently had an assessment of our attic by a pest control company after hearing noises. Nothing was found. Just a bit of a hole where a bird could possibly get in. Cost £50 and we got a report detailing the findings (or thankfully lack of). Might be worth it for either peace of mind or action depending on the outcome.

Are you me op? We heard some very loud scratching in our kitchen ceiling yesterday, it's an extension so no access to the tiny 'loft' space there. So annoyed. Have bought a sonic repellent and put a bait box outside but heard some less noisy noises still this morning. I was so anxious yesterday and hardly slept last night. We have no idea how the fuckers are getting in but it's the second one this year.

After last year's infestation, I bulk bought a box of snap traps so when I spotted a visitor a month ago, I started laying traps immediately and caught 4 mice over as many days. They now seem to have stopped but I am keeping traps set regardless. I put each one on top of several sheets of newspaper which means that I can just wrap the dead mouse plus trap in the newspaper and put it in a bin bag without having to go too close to the remains. Psychologically it makes the disposal bit much easier. One of my current traps is set on top of the local paper's obituary pages.😁

[Trigger warning... You must dispose of bodies asap because other mice will start eating their relations instead of the peanut butter, chocolate, nuts etc in the live traps. I learnt that by mistake last year. 🤢]