HELP! A mouse electrocuted me

[OctogenarianDecathlete]

Well, technically the dishwasher electrocuted me but only because a mouse has chewed through the cable.

I need all tips on how to get rid of it.

Not just any mouse, we have an Ultra Mouse.

We have a young cat. He went through a phase of bringing live mice in.

We bought humane traps and caught and released several.

Except one.

This 🤬 mouse will not be caught or killed. We've tried all kinds of traps, bait and poison.

We're in a 14 year old shoddily built house with holes in the walls that allow the mouse to move between kitchen, bathroom and garage. It's been getting into the kitchen cupboards from behind. It abseils down onto the worktop (we sprinkle bicarbonate and have footprints in the mornings).

We were trying to use humane traps initially but the 🤬 has had enough chances and needs to just go.

Please give me all your tips on traps, bait and poisons.

I'm this close to burning the house down (or at least, the mouse might manage it itself).

Old-fashioned mousetrap, with peanut butter as bait. Trying to be humane doesn't work!

Have you tried raisins to bait the snap traps?

We had some success with electrocution mouse traps (Big Cheese) once catching two at once in the same trap. However we took had to resort to glue traps in the end. It was awful but we had about 20 mice by then and lots of babies.

@OctogenarianDecathlete glue traps are incredibly inhumane, please don't use them. By that I don't mean that it will kill the mouse, it won't, it will stick the mouse to it and anything else that comes into contact with it. And the spare traps you don't need will some how end up in nature and wild birds will get stuck to them, anything that comes into contact with them will.

These don't kill anything, they cause the animal to get stuck to them, unable to move off them and they will be incredibly frightened and cause unimaginable levels of suffering, some animals actually chew their limbs off to get off them, they cause slow and painful deaths.

Please consider how you would feel in this position before inflicting this on another creature.

By all means find a solution that you think will work, but please don't use this type of device, it's terribly cruel.

If that doesn't stop you using them, then be aware it is against the law to use a glue trap.

Haven't read the full thread, so maybe somebody's already suggested this, but try putting out snap traps, baited with food (try chunks of Snickers) but not set. Do this for several nights, so the mouse becomes confident about entering the trap to get food, since nothing bad happens. Once you can see he's reliably entering the traps, that's when you set the trap.

Bang! No more mouse.

A piece of frankfurter In a proper mousetrap, works every time.

Information on glue traps being illegal, for anyone considering using them:

protectthewild.org.uk/uncategorised/england-glue-trap-ban-in-force-soon/

Those who break the law could face up to 51 weeks in prison, a fine, or both.

They're banned for a reason, they are unimaginably cruel.

Haven't tried raisins - I'll add them to the list of things to try (coffee and mushrooms tonight).

For those that haven't RTFT:

• we've tried humane traps (3 types), non-humane traps, and poison bait (2 types).
• we've tried peanut butter, almond butter, cheese, flour, mouse and rat attractant, seeds, snickers
• we have caught several other mice that the cat brought in, but not this one.
• this mouse came in with the cat, it has not 'got in' itself.

I have now ordered some glue traps (look, the bastard thing has had plenty of humane opportunities. I'll dispatch it as quickly as I can if a glue trap catches it)
I'll try raisins as bait tomorrow too.
I may yet try the electrocution traps (fair's fair, right?)

I'm hesitant at using the ultrasonic devices.

I'll PM you my address.

You get it out of my house any other way.
Please.

We've tried everything else.

That's genius.

Wish we'd done that the first time we put snickers out

Frankfurter!

On the list. Thanks

We have ultrasonic plug in things in the garage and the cats don’t seem remotely bothered by them.
I see you’ve ordered the glue traps.
My sincere wish is that you get nearly a year in jail plus a hefty fine.
And secondly that you come back as a mouse stuck in a glue trap in the next life.
You and the others advocating glue traps on here bloody disgust me.

@OctogenarianDecathlete I appreciate the situation you're in, but you are breaking the law, the law is in force for a reason. They cause horrific levels of suffering.

It's ok. It won't go in any of our traps anyway.

Sure.

Thanks for the ultrasonic device tip though.

@OctogenarianDecathlete so when they don't go on the illegal trap you've bought what will you do then, throw them in the bin so they end up in landfill somewhere and migrate their way into nature sticking every wild animal to them that comes into contact with them.

Please be considerate of the world outside yourself, if you can't consider the suffering of animals then imagine one of your children stuck to something much bigger than them as they suffer, struggling to get free and getting more and more stuck. Imagine the fear and pain they will experience and know it's because of someone as callous as yourself.

Second the screwfix traps. Peanut butter on it.

Horrific levels of suffering... worse than being electrocuted? What if the next chewing incident causes a fire? Or the next electrocution stops the heart of the victim?

Vermin destroying your home and causing you pain and harm can cause you to make some poor choices.

I'd be amazed if the plug in things did anything (they did jack shit in our house).

OP, good luck.

@whatsuplittle

So what do you suggest OP does to get rid of the mouse then ?

Right, you need to put a sachet of poison down and the little blighter will hopefully take it back to the nest to share with his pals. I wouldn't mess about with humane traps, no one wants a mouse infestation!

I didn’t know that glue traps were illegal (not that I’m using them). They are easy enough to buy on Amazon, maybe someone should tell them.

Checked all the traps this morning (humane and snappy) and no sign of the Ultra Mouse.

I'll leave these be for another night or two (he seems to not repeat a visit on consecutive nights) and then try raisins, and whatever the other bait suggestion further up was.

I'll contact the professionals again today too.

Hopefully it won't come to the sticky traps but I don't want to have to fix the dishwasher a third time or risk a house fire.

Success in trap with the (oddly appropriate ) kitkat bait here. (It was the old recipe chocolate though.)

At my aunt's farm the unfed feral cats (usually resident in the barn) were very efficient but thefastest catch was by any of the terriers.

@OctogenarianDecathlete

Gutted for you ! Have you tried fruit such as blackberries/strawberries or something like a piece of marshmallow that smells very sweet ?

Now that's a good plan