There's a mouse in my kitchen! Wtf do I do?!

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I've seen it twice now. How do I get rid of it? Is there a trap I can get or what? I'm not scared of mice. Did shit myself when I first saw it, I thought it was a giant spider! Any ideas?

Burn the house down. Or move out and let the mouse have it.

Get one of the plastic traps that tips up when they get it. Bait with peanut butter. Leave overnight. Dump mouse a long way away. Deep clean kitchen.

(We have cats...)

Ide move out until dh dealt with it.
Ide also phone my dad

We had one.
Bought a humane trap.
Never saw it for over a year.
Have a video of it dragging a Twix stick into a hole in a skirting board at Christmas!!
Cf!!

This: www.wilko.com/en-uk/rentokil-live-capture-mouse-trap-black/p/0333214?nst=0&gclid=CjwKCAjwmq3kBRB_EiwAJkNDpxAjHYzlxhTZQfy-NDOERld-bbzU9Lv5qh_8pOQIoRPYbXNu7mBEABoCh_EQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Oh dear, we had this month's ago and I was freaking out. Deep clean the kitchen, spray pepper mint oil everywhere, get a plug in to repel them, and get traps, I got the snap traps I know people prefer the humane ones but I really needed them gone quickly! Check for any holes you can find, even small ones that you would never imagine they could get in and fill them with silicone or glass wool or something! Good luck i know how your feeling, it freaked me out a lot more than I ever imagined it would!!

Those humane traps look good. I'll get one tomorrow. Is it bad I've named him in my head?!

Get a cat.
Our cat never caught anything, he is too lazy, but the scent seemed enough to keep the mice away.

Mice also love chocolate so don’t leave it in the bottom cupboards.

We have 2 dcats. Useless buggars!!

I wish I had a cat. I love cats but I live near a main road and don't have a garden. I'm also renting

Hate mice-
Lived in a converted flat once that had them all the time despite rentokill. One night I actually moved out and went to stay in a hotel for peace of mind.

Tomorrow clean the kitchen, buy killing traps and use chocolate as bait, plug any holes with wire wool temporarily until you can seal holes/ gaps more permenantly

NorthernRunner when I posted on mumsnet about having a mouse someone told me not to get a cat because their cat brought more mice in to the house and played with them 😂🙈

Humane traps are a waste of time as the mouse will just die once you ditch it out of doors anyway. Get a proper snap trap that kills instantly. Bait it with peanut butter.

"I'm gonna fix that mouse that's what I'm gonna do"

I have a mouse most nights, I just paused my music as I could hear it scratching around. I think it's fallen down the back of the fridge - it climbs up the wire thing on the back of it.
I use the humane trap thing and put it out every week....

Don't get a cat. Our cat catches mice outside, then brings them into the house and sets them free...

Borrow a terrier. They're much better mouse catchers than cats.

@hugoagogo just what I come on to type!

OP get some snap traps. Mice have 6 week breeding cycles so can become an infestation very quickly. Even with a humane trap it will die shortly after being place (at least a mile from the house) in the new place.

@pinkie my neighbours Patterdales were USELESS when we had a rat infestation 😂

We had a very clever mouse that could take the bait off a snap trap without activating it. We superglued it on in the end and that worked. In hindsight peanut butter would also have worked.
Ours were getting into the garage via the electric meter and then sneaking under the internal door.

That’s hilarious about the Twix

We had so many mice in our old Victorian flat. Rentokil snap traps, peanut butter/Nutella bait. Don’t do poison, it seems to give them a slow grim death (our old neighbours used it and we saw the results).

dyingforchocolate hahah mine are too useless for that. But we haven’t had any mice since so they seem to work.
Traps would definitely be cheaper that cats though, just not as cuddly 😆

Humane traps aren't humane at all. They just result in the mouse being released away from its territory, somewhere it doesn't know where food and water and shelter are, so it dies slowly.

Go for a Little Nipper, baited with a bit of the toffee layer and the chocolate from a Mars bar. Eat the rest of the Mars bar yourself. Little Nippers are so fast the mouse won't even know anything's happened.

Bishalisha, those Patterdales should hang their heads in shame! My parents' terrier committed mouse-icide in the garden and left a pile of about 6 baby mouse corpses outside the back door.

My cat is also of the “bring them in to play” variety. Then loses them somewhere, if they are lucky enough to escape.
But sometimes they just die from fright.
I love my cat, but he can be such a murdering bastard.
Also never had mice in the house before we got him. And they are definitely field mice, not house mice.