Please help! How to get rid of mice?!

[MiceMiceBabyy]

We discovered last week that mice had been getting in our kitchen, in the pantry and under the kitchen sink.

We managed to find how they were getting in the pantry and have blocked it off. So far they haven't gotten back in.

We put out some trap boxes with poison in under the sink but we don't know how we can block the space off?! They've gone through all the poison but we've not found any of the little bellends. Apparently the poison works in a few feeds. I'm just worried that we will just get more coming back even if the poison does work, and what if they chew through our pipes?!

I've posted a picture of under our sink so you can see that there is a huge gap at the back that we have pipes going over.

We've had the kitchen in for a year with no issues, I genuinely don't know where they are coming from. We don't have a cat that brings them in but the downstairs neighbour does have 2 cats, although they have lived below us very happily for a few years with no mice issues.

Any suggestions?!

Haha - send them a bill 😂

honestly, snap traps, it’s the only way, check them every day. After a couple of weeks you’ll stop catching them. Problem solved. Don’t waste your time trying to plug gaps unless there’s anything major - they can squeeze through the tiniest gaps you can imagine.

Can you regularly check under the sink? If so you cane get humane traps that you can check and let them out a few streets away.
Also worth trying the plug in repellants.
Finally do you have air bricks? You can put a wire mesh put over them.

We are having a mare with them at the moment. Snap traps are fine, until you come down in the morning to find a mouse with its leg caught dragging the trap round the floor.
We've also had trouble in the past, where we blocked up the holes with wire wool and the little bastards caused a flood by chewing plastic pipework in order to get up the hole where the radiators were plumbed in.
The sonic things don't work.
Hate them. I feel like Lee Evans in Mousehunt.

You have 3 things to do:

1. block off all entry points with wire wool + foam. Look for every single crack/hole/gap under/behind cupboards/fridge/understair/ anything ‘built-in’
2. if you still have them then probably they’re the ones stuck inside and you need to trap/poison them - but this step may not be needed if you manage to block them out
3. in addition we added a bite-proof metal mesh over our air bricks on the outside - for us and our attached neighbour. Ultimately this is the source where they get under the house and then inside and needed blocking.

took us months of looking/blocking and fixing to get rid of all of the mice. We had nothing chewed but some food packs bitten through and lot of droppings. It was a nightmare!

And they do go up the stairs! We found droppings behind furniture in the loft when we moved some months later!!

Why do people catch mice (and presumably rats) and let them go? It’s inflicting them on someone else, unless they die after being dropped in a strange place, in which case surely it’s better to despatch them quickly?

Imagine living near to someone who dumps pests close to you…I’d be livid.

Find entry points and block them, that is the key!! I put whole packs of poison down under the kitchen units in hope that they would take it back to their nests and share with their friends. It worked to an extent but we had to keep removing the plinth to remove the dead ones - they absolutely stink after a day or 2! My kids thought I was cruel so I looked into humane traps but frankly they are a waste of time. When we had the kitchen done we blocked all the holes and haven’t had a problem since…..

Within a certain radius they return home, otherwise they die. Mice are territorial and kill interlopers.
There's no good way of dealing with them. Snap traps can injure, sticky traps make them chew off their own limbs, poison isn't always fast, they stagger round the house and you risk poisoning other wildlife, humane traps as above, sonic plugs don't work.
The only thing that looks promising is electrocution, but the battery traps apparently don't work.
I hate the little bastards, but I'm loathe to make them suffer.

dont get a cat! Mine is a hunter and brings the buggers in, dead and alive ones. Noticed one in my living room on Wednesday, purely by chance, despite thinking I’d managed to find a way for them to not get past the kitchen.. but no… 😫😫😫

We have had mice appear in three rooms this week ! Fortunately me and dh were away and poor ds who is 24 and has a dreadful mouse phobia was home alone. He has decamped to his gf's house and refusing to come home.
We came home on thursday am and put humane traps down and have caught 2 in 24 hours ! Will need to start looking for gaps holes now. Apparently they can get through the tiniest of holes.

Sadly, I now know the difference between rat and mice droppings so if you find any, I’ll be able to identify them for you 😂😂😂

Unfortunately the traps sometimes don't actually kill the mouse.

We've taken our caught ones to local fields/ woodland away from other homes. It's hard to know what to do. I don't like to kill them. I don't even like the thought of them being caught in the trap for hours before being released.

Mr again. Wire wool is only cheap and will be worth it!

You did kill them though. You just didn't have to watch them die slower than with good snap trap....

Ok well hopefully will get killed quickly by a predator. I could not put a snap trap down as pp have explained the risk of them dying a horrible death paralysed but not killed outright or caught by a leg is just horrible. There are no great solutions either way.

You can get humane traps, but when you let them out you need to be a few miles away.

No guarantee I’m afraid. We have 2 cats and we still get mice sometimes. The cats do catch and kill them but DH does a better job with spring traps.

We used a mix of snap traps and poison. It took a few weeks but eventually they stopped coming in. We could never block up their route because they were coming through next doors house, under the floor boards and in round the back of our hot water tank. Next door had been having problems for months and were using humane traps. They don't work.

The size of the droppings tell you if it is rat or mouse. I came face to face with one while on the loo, and it was eyeballing me from under the cabinet...oh I never knew I could run so fast. None of our 5 cats or 2 dogs wanted to bother to execute, and one dog was ill as a result of invading pests. You need to wear protective disposal gloves when cleaning and bleach anywhere they may have been in touch with to kill the bacteria in their urine/ faeces. Rodents carry nasty diseases that can put you in hospital (like happened to me when rats invaded and gave me MRSA). Peppermint and lavender are hated by rodents so get some essential oils. Wire wool is brilliant at stopping them. On a dry day, go around all outdoor brickwork with a torch looking for gaps. It only needs to be a crack and they get in. Keep all food items in plastic boxes with lids on until the matter resolves. If all DIY methods fail, get a pest controller in. As for traps, they love good quality chocolate or fish so try either. That got our last rat who was not scared of us at all, or our dogs. In fact he was downright evil and enormous. I couldn't look at him in the humane trap, and we drove him 2 miles away to let him go in a rural field near a forest in the hope we would never see him again.