So there I was at 2am having a quiet wee when a mouse

[TommyandGina]

decided to pop out from under the bath. It looked quite indignantly at me as though I was disturbing it!

I've ordered a couple of humane traps to catch it in and I've had a good clean around as well as a search for droppings (none that I could find). I generally wash up every night before bed and hoover daily so I don't think he was tempted in by the smell of food.

So please, lovely Mumsnetters, can you share with me your best suggestions for tempting him, we've named him Marvin, into the traps. I was thinking peanut butter and / or crunchy nut cornflakes.

Nutella!!
Yabu to think you have 1 mouse though...

I've also heard good things about peanut butter.

I was working at the kitchen table once, about 11am. Just me in the house, sitting still, all was very quiet. Mouse strolls a bit too casually across the kitchen floor.

I had to give it credit, it was bold, but broad daylight?

We used humane traps and if memory serves, pumpkin seeds were popular.

Chocolate or chocolate spread!

I once came down to the kitchen, in the middle of the night, to get a drink. There was a mouse just sat there under one of the girls' bikes. He scarpered when I went towards the sink & I've not seen anything since!

Chocolate. If you are going to imprison it then deport it and make it stateless the least you can do is send it out with a bit of Toblerone.

We use peanut butter and they love it!

I have a video of a mouse last Christmas trying to drag a twix into a gap in the skirting board! Bought a humane trap and baited it with Nutella.
Never caught it and never saw it again!

I was in bed reading a book a few weeks ago, DP was out at a gig, and I thought the wind was rustling the blinds. Then I heard a scraping. Looked up and thought there was a massive spider scuttling on the box under the window, then it came back to look at me and I realised it was a mouse! It came in the window. I leapt out of bed, shut the bedroom door, then spent two hours catching the bugger. He was very happy when we let him free outside!

I got up for an early morning wee once, as I was about to sit on the loo I glimpsed what I thought was a pop, floating on the surface. Being desperate I didn't flush first but went about my business, as I stood up and turned around to flush the 'floater' blinked. It was a small rat...

Have confronted one in a cupboard. We were eyeball to eyeball. The mouse just looked at me as if to say: ‘take your time. I’ve something booked for later on but we’re good for this staring contest for at least half an hour.’ The second I moved so did the mouse....flying leap past my nose and vanished into the woodwork. OP, sorry but it won’t just be one mouse.

@Windydaysuponus

More than one

I hope not but you may we'll be right

So the general consensus is peanut butter and / or chocolate spread. Lucky Marvin will be having a feast tonight!

This is much more common than I thought. I'd better solve it before he/they settle in for winter. Thanks for the good advice, I'll update in the morning, maybe with a pic if I'm lucky.

They are cute but goodness they breed fast. One mother has a dozen babies and six weeks later the dozen have a dozen and the stink of their wee and poo is grim. Humane traps work up to a point but you may need to consider more unpleasant intervention.

Get a cat.

In my experience cats bring mice in to play with.

@bloodywhitecat what did you do with it?

My parents cat brought one in once and we used chocolate in the humane trap. Only took one night.

Shreddies in a humane trap have always worked for us, they can't resist them (& less messy than nutella!)

Mice run round the edges of rooms so make sure the humane trap is positioned right next to a wall .

I use quite large metal ones and they have a clear panel on top - I think it helps to cover the panel with a book or something so it's dark inside .

I had exactly the same thing happen, he had a good look at me on the toilet!! Sad to say we caught abd releases him but turns out he had visited every part of our house, there wasn’t a belonging or item that didn’t have poo or bite marks! So so much sorting and cleaning after we evicted him

My Dad had great success with Lindt milk chocolate. I was bereft he wasted it on Micky Mouse and his protests of "its too sweet for me" didn't wash as I would have eaten it and the mouse could have had Tesco Value!!

If you catch him you need to release him at least a mile away or they can find their way back

I could lend you my cat, OP.
Madam the Verminator deals with the local rodent population wholesale, judging by the number of tails, heads and little coils of intestines she leaves out on the kitchen tiles in the morning!

Don’t use a humane trap,they’re anything but. Use a snap trap and get it over and done with.

Fudge......

@bloodywhitecat I'd have to move house rats I have a complete phobia of them. I can only recently even say the word.

I love mice. I'd probably just let it be!