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!!!!

My cat is generally lazy, spoiled and the kind of cat that would like to be carried around on a velvet cushion all day, but when it comes to mice he is a stealthy, efficient killing machine. The dog is a breed that is meant to be good at that sort of thing but he is so enthusiastic about it the mice can probably hear him coming from a mile off.

I would be very wary about using poison when you have a pet.

A cat.

Thanks again. I take all your points about poison. We are very careful about putting it tucked away in places he can't get to but maybe snap traps would be a better option for more accessible areas.

Great point about decking - we have decking outside the kitchen so will think about that.