What has helped you get ride of mice?

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I am so pissed off as I have a rodent phobia although now I'm just getting angry at the little bastards!

We've lived in our house for 25 years and until last year had never seen any evidence of having mice.

We saw one in the lounge in November, did some hole blocking up as best we could, used humane traps, caught three, used some poison and that was that. Didn't see or hear anything again until March.

Now they seem to pop up in different places, we block holes as we find them, put posion down, they dissapear from that area and reappear a week later somewhere else.

I have just lost the plot when I heard an empty crisp packet rusting in DSs room. The room is generally clean, he hasn't got food scraps lying around, that was the only bit of rubbish in his room as we don't let him eat anything else up there.

We clearly can't keep on top of them with traps and poison. We have a cat, he's useless and just looks at them if he sees them and wanders off.

Does calling someone in work or do they just do the same with traps and poison?

I'm going to have to live in the car before long!!!!

Get a better cat.

Plug in high frequency emitters all over the house-shit loads of poison with chocolate
Good luck!

Time for a new young kitty. Preferablely female!

Poison with chocolate that’s very cruel. A cat. High frequency transmitters and peppermint oil soaked cotton buds in strategic places.

I'd continue to put traps out to see if you can catch them. We caught 4 recently and haven't had any signs since.

By the way, your local council might well offer free rodent control advice/ visits, worth looking into that.

You don't have a mouse problem, you have a cat problem

Get an additional kitty, I would suggest a tabby.

@mermaidsariel

Poison with chocolate that’s very cruel. A cat. High frequency transmitters and peppermint oil soaked cotton buds in strategic places.

I don't see how poison with chocolate is any more cruel than being toyed around and eaten by a cat?

Yes you have a point.

Love the fact you used humane traps then used poison lol
Either yes get a new cat or get Vernon control in.

Thanks all - this is really helpful. I agree I do have a cat problem but he's honestly too adorable to be mad at!!

I'm afraid I don't really have much of a consicence now when it comes to poison. It's unhygenic and bad for my mental health. If I could serve them a politely worded eviction notice I would!!

@Horehound yes didn't explain that well! Used himane traps to start with then it bcame clear we weren'y keeping on top of it so resorted to poison!

Nice cat.

I was going to suggest a cat but I see yours doesn’t do mice my girl left 3 carcasses (on consecutive nights) laying outside my bedroom door. We never had an issue after that! Tried peanut butter in humane mouse traps and caught zilch.

I think pest control will use the same methods such as traps and poison but the poison itself would be proper heavy duty stuff, ie not something that Wilko sell.

They may be able to pinpoint where they are living? They know what they're looking for. We thought we had mice, brought in pest control and within about a minute of him asking a few questions he said I think it's rats. He was right! Not saying you've got rats, just mean they know what they're dealing with.

Use the snap traps. Highly effective and a quick death.

We put those boxes of poison behind the kickboards in the kitchen and replace every so often.

Get some kittens. I can’t get mine to stop bringing me rodents from the field behind my house. 🙄

@Oenanthe

Get a better cat.

This!

You don't have a mouse problem, you have a cat problem

Definitely need a better cat.

Although - the only reason I have a mouse in the house today is that my murderous arsewipe of a cat brought it in out of the rain earlier.

If I was you I would seriously consider getting a professional in, they know what they are looking for and how best to get rid off them.
I had a problem with rats a few years ago and paid rentokill to come in and thankfully they sorted the problem very fast despite us trying for months

@dewisant2020

If I was you I would seriously consider getting a professional in, they know what they are looking for and how best to get rid off them. I had a problem with rats a few years ago and paid rentokill to come in and thankfully they sorted the problem very fast despite us trying for months

can I ask what the professionals did in terms of strategies? we had a mice problem but the adviser from the council just pointed out how to lay out the traps. May be it's because we didn't have so bad a problem.

I could have written your post.

I have had a recent problem and so have my neighbours and as one of us sorts the issue, another neighbour gets a visit.

No point in paying for a service for mice. Yes if you have rats, but not for mice.

Keep all food out of reach, and in plastic boxes. They only come in fir food and will move on when they have a couple of days of not getting any.

Try to discover how they are getting in. Ours are in the garden under the decking, and are getting access to the house via the cavity boxing around the soil pipes. Thats usually how they get upstairs unless they are in your loft.

I put poison under the decking until they stopped visiting but also bought a sonic thingy from Amazon for about £20.

Ive had7 free weeks so far but am still checking cupboards daily and sleeping with the ensuite light on.

Horrible little s*ds.

Find their route in and line it with traps. We had them in the garage, put down poison, but then they made their way into the house along some pipes and out under the cupboard door in the kitchen.

We had a trap against the wall facing the cupboard and caught 6 within a day.

I struggled with this and the horror of it for years. Do you know what fixed it? £120 spent on a professional exterminator to come. He checked entry points, plugged and cemented all holes, and laid traps in the attic 3 times to get rid of existing mice. By the third time there was nothing in the traps and have heard nothing since.

Rentokil snap traps (Wilko sell them), bit of peanut butter and bit of chocolate in bait - has worked for me.

It's not nice but it deals with them quickly, you can reuse the traps, and I didn't like using poison as lots of neighbourhood cats here and worried about them eating a poisoned mouse.

Make sure no children or animals can trigger the traps as they are very quick and would hurt, and place them along wall edgings.