There's a fucking mouse in my bathroom

[UncomfortableSilence]

Just that really, got up to go to the toilet, as I put the light on saw something dart across thought that's a mouse or a massive fuck off spider, both as bad as each other to be fair from my point of view. Then it shot back out from behind the toilet, completely shit myself whilst standing on the landing holding into the door handle. Have left it in there with the door shut for now.

Two questions, how's it got up here ( the fact it's got upstairs is really freaking me out, I know they have legs before anyone points that out) does this mean we've got a mouse family living here and how do I get it out.

Get a snap trap or a humane trap. Glue traps are barbaric.
Mice are good climbers and can squeeze through little gaps. You don't want them in your house though, they're harmless in themselves but dribble urine and get into your food which is unhygienic.

That's just not true ,it really depends where you live ,I used to live near a river in and we would occasionally get a field mouse ,and it was always just the one

If the one you got doesn't cut it op, get this. It was the second one we got and it caught all FIVE of our furry intruders one after the other. Really good.

Also, pop wire wool in any holes you find.cant be chewed through.

Why would you want cohabiting mice?They are incontinent and spread their wee and poo everywhere they go, they chew through food packets, and the droppings can spread diseases that are harmful to humans.

I've had mice before in my kitchen and the only thing that worked was stuffing every hole with steel wool, and using a trap to kill the ones that were still there. The humane traps were no good for me - no cat and I wasn't going to take a mouse for a trip on the tube. I used an electric trap, it zaps them instantly so there's no suffering.

Peanut butter or good quality chocolate will get them in the trap. Don’t leave any other food source around, not even a single crumb.

Ours resolutely ignored peanut butter, chocolate, every other recommendation. Just stood next to the trap squeaking and flicking us the Vs.

You catch mice with your hands??!!
I'm freaking out just reading that.

@dilligaf78

We feed the rats in the garden anyway

You don't actually do this, do you?

The decision on its life depends to the answer to this question: which way does the mouse leave the toilet paper end facing?

We had a mouse in our bathroom, midwinter, the week the bath panel broke. Mice often live in lofts and the wall cavities in houses. Sometimes there is a hole where the bath plumbing comes from the wall cavity into the bathroom which gives them access.

In your case, is there a gap, somewhere around the bath panel that it could have squeezed through? Mice can dislocate their hips to wriggle through gaps, so less than an inch is enough.

In this weather, it's probably just looking for water or somewhere cool to hide.

I've gone through the house, I can't really see any gaps and there's no droppings anywhere. The bath is tiled in so no panel as such, the only tiny gap is next to the toilet water inlet pipe so if what a PP said is true and they can contort themselves to the size of a pencil then I guess that's a possibility? The only other thing I can think of is our back doors were wide open till late so it came in that way?

I ordered the trap a PP posted a picture of however DH found some old traps we got years ago when I had suspicions. I put some Mars Bar inside it and it took the bait. DH is now en route to a nearby country park to release. I'll put the new traps out today and see if there's anymore Please god there isn't

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It obviously was trying to cool itself off in the shower as that's were the droppings were, can't blame it to be fair.

Glue traps are beyond evil. Mice try to chew their own legs off to escape them. Should be banned, vile things.

If it’s a house mouse, catching it in a humane trap and releasing it far from home just condemns it to death by predation or starvation. Those traps should only be used for field mice or voles which cats have brought in alive from outside.

The most humane way to deal with house mice is the old-fashioned snap traps. You can buy disposable ones so you throw away the trap and mouse and don’t have to touch the mouse. Poison is cruel as the mouse dies a horrible painful death.

"There's a fucking mouse in my bathroom" well if it's fucking there will now be loads of baby mice running around in a couple of weeks!
Does it help you in anyway if I say I had a mouse in my kitchen last night? Sitting in the sink looking up at me (before trying to jump out), if it's any consolation I abandoned my idea of a glass of water and returned to bed... mouse was gone this morning!

Ha ha to all of it!

I have Gerbils that have free roam of half the house every evening, they're just small rat/mice too!

Seriously OP if you get a trap, please make it humane. There is no need to use poison (excruciating painful death) or inhumane traps.

It may have helped if you hadn't preceded it with I will be run alive with baby mice in weeks

I think your open door and a thirsty, hit mouse looking for water is the most likely explanation. So highly likely you only have the one. Just keep a baited trap down for a week or two and check it daily. Fingers crossed no more mice.
You could put a shallow bowl of water out in your garden for the animals… might persuade them to stay out of the house. Helps hedgehogs, rabbits, birds too. ..

Fill any and all gaps
Ensure all food and drink is packed away in glass, metal, or sturdy plastic containers
Ensure house clean and tidy

Optional extra, if you have any friends with a terrier or whippet, ask them AND THE DOG round for tea

You need a terrier OP.
Preferably a JRT.

If you have a fucking mouse, you are going to have lots more soon.

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I wouldn't use poison the smell of a dead mouse that crawled under our bed (thanks cat) was beyond awful. Ditto rats. Our mice run up and down the bird feeder at night sweet to watch. They chew wiring unfortunately so you have to catch.

We did buy traps built a rat run used peanut butter and dispatched them. This was outside

I wouldn't use poison the smell of a dead mouse that crawled under our bed (thanks cat) was beyond awful. Ditto rats. Our mice run up and down the bird feeder at night sweet to watch. They chew wiring unfortunately so you have to catch.

We did buy traps built a rat run used peanut butter and dispatched them. This was outside

I'm afraid that mice that resist being caught by me, and I do catch lots with my hands, and have been bitten too, do get the snap trap treatment. You lose patience with them eventually, and you do not want half dead ones dying behind your cupboards, or in your oven. Trust me, the smell is horrendous.

Nutella is my go to for the traps btw. Seems to work better than anything else.