Just saw a f*****g mouse

Before I moved, I had a phase of loads of mice in my house. I caught lots of them in humane mouse traps and then released them to the wild. When I had cats the only time I had a mouse was if the cat brought a live one in through the cat flap and let it go; that wasn't often. Once my elderly cats had died, mice moved in.

They did me no harm and I'm not scared of them so I treated them decently.

Just saw you got him! Yay!

Another for a humane trap with chocolate spread, we used the other traps and they just got caught in them and it was horrible hearing them trying to get out.

Our cat does not care about mice!!!

I’ve got cats. Now I just find halves of mice

It’s the worst feeling. I had exactly the same last year. Awful.

i quickly ordered some traps on amazon. Filled them with peanut butter. Four hours after laying them BOOM the little bastard was dead. Thankfully we just had the one, I left the traps down for a few weeks and there was nothing and we haven’t seen another.

Couldn’t be arsed with the humane traps either they freak me out I needed it dead.

@WeAreNotOkthats the very reason NOT to get a cat! I didn’t have mice til I had cats. I’d get an exterminator in who will look behind appliances and the skirting boards to discover its (their) route. Then they’ll put poison down and come back to check it’s working - my guy said he’d come back a couple times if needed, all for £85.

I had exactly the same thing Monday ,
run right across my dining room , I screamed & my
dog who loves to chase absolutely
anything small and furry didn’t even look up from his nap! My garden backs on the railway so not unusual for
me unfortunately , but first time actually seeing it

There are no “humane traps.”
House mice live in family groups, you’re just releasing it to death by exposure or predator. Snap traps are most humane. Snickers works best as bait. By the time you see a mouse (unless a pet cat brought it in) they are already established and getting bold. Snap traps along the skirting boards and put ALL food into plastic containers. I’ve seen mice make nests next to those plug in repellents so I’m not convinced about them at all.

It’s indescribable isn’t it? I’ve kept snakes for many years, and on I think 2 occasions a snake has managed to convince me it’s eaten its mouse when it was still in the cage and I just hadn’t spotted it. It didn’t even take me 24 hours to realise from the smell that there’s an uneaten mouse in the house, and that’s just the very beginning bit of decomposition 🤢

Don't use poison - the mouse will die somewhere inaccessible and will rot. The smell will be vomit inducing. I've suffered it

Make sure there is absolutely no access to any food. Empty your toaster crumb tray every time you use it.........again, ask me how I know......

Get wire wool and pack into every space that you can put a pencil in, around pipes.

I bought some plug-in sonic repellents and haven't had mice since.

Do NOT put down poison op! My mum had a mouse in her house (funnily enough brought in by the cat), and my neighbour had a rat. Both put down poison, in my mums house the mouse managed to get under the floorboards in her kitchen unit and died there, the house fucking stunk. They had to rip out kitchen units to take the flooring up to get to it. In my neighbours house the rat ate the poison and then got into the walls and died. They’d only just moved in (was meant to be a fresh start for them after a few awful years) and it was recently renovated, and they didn’t have the funds to start putting holes in the walls. It was the middle of summer and the entire house stunk for about 6 weeks before the smell eventually went. She was in literal tears over it almost every day. I’d put down snap traps, I have no empathy for vermin in the house, but no poison!

We had one last year - must have come in when the back door was open.
Despite putting humane traps down which did nothing - the mouse actually caught itself in the bath. Was obviously exploring & fell in (no water in at the time) & got stuck.
DH managed to get it into a box & promptly drove off with it to release it in the wild. He knew it had to be a fair distance so it didn’t return (advice is 1-2 miles) but he went 32 miles!!!
Unsurprisingly it hasn’t returned.

Poor you. I had them in a flat many years ago. After a while they got really bold and would just stroll across the living room really casually 🤮 🤮 🐁 🐁

I put down mousetraps in the end.

Get a massive pack of wire wool, and stuff it in every crevice they could be getting in through. They can't chew through it. It's the only thing that worked when we had mice.

Sonic pest repellent I meant to say

I saw a mouse in the kitchen in November. My male cat just sat and watched it but my female cat tried valiantly. However it disappeared down the back of the fridge.

Tried the humane traps. Caught it. Sadly we had to repeat and repeat and repeat. 15 of them in the end. All released at least 3 miles away.

I got one of those sonic pest alarms from amazon and haven't had any more mice inside since December (although they are in the garden shed and one walked right past my boy cat again).

Unfairly (after me being kind to them) I got bitten by one releasing it and it was surprisingly painful!

I did comfort myself in the midst of our invasion by reading that mice don't live with rats so they re the lesser evil.

You could get a cat, but then I've had more mice in the house since I got cats. When they kindly bring them in for me I catch them in a bucket. Make a ramp out of a long piece of wood (I duck tape it on) and smear peanut butter inside the bucket about 6 inches down. They'll fall in (put something soft in the bucket so they don't have a bumpy landing) then you can release them unharmed outside. I've had 100% success rate with this!

We had mice after our last cat died and I tried every type of humane trap and bait known to man and all the recommended deterrents like wire wool, toothpaste etc, but nothing worked. I can still remember watching a little mouse sitting on top of one of the traps and ignoring the peanut butter, and I’ll swear he was taunting me. We got a new kitten after a couple of months and by the time he was 13 weeks old he had caught about ten mice and we’ve never seen another one in the four years since.

No, it isn't mad. Ours moved out when we moved our two cats in (many years ago now). They didn't even catch any but the mice just packed and left.

Our cat would often bring mice in, play with them for a bit then get bored and leave the mouse running around 😡 we found if we locked the cat in a different room and opened a door to the outside the mouse would just run straight out. He’s too old for that kind of shenanigans now thankfully (so am I 🤣)

Me too!

Except mine was exiting stage left swiftly followed by the cat that had just brought it in through the cat flap.

Totally on me as 30 minutes ago I walked into the kitchen to see what the noise was and found the same cat playing with possibly hopefully the same mouse and had chased them both outside. Next time I should have more confidence in the cat catching the mouse again and keep him inside.