That it disgusts me to find mice droppings in babies room? (boak)

[Snufflebabe]

I pulled out my babies cot last night to pick up something I'd dropped, and I found mice droppings. Not a lot, but yuk!

Has anyone had this problem, and how did you go about sorting it? Are the plug in things ok to use in a babies room ( she has just turned one).

Has anyone used the peppermint oil remedy? Is this ok for children?

Sorry for such a yukky topic on a Sunday morning.

Oh gosh how horrible!
Listen out for any scratching in the evening to try to work out where it may be coming from and place traps strategically against the skirting board. I found peanut butter works well. I had to call out the pest control department of my local council and they were excellent - we were told that the plug in deterrent sensors were useless and a total waste of money.
Good luck!

Yabu

get in pest control, don't bother with the mouse bait in the shops our environmental health dept told us it is rubbish. cost us £20 and they came back to check it had worked, never seen another one since. only thing that can go wrong is the smell if one dies under the floorboards near an air vent or something, we have bare boards under the drawers in the fitted bedroom and one clearly died under there, yuk, had to wash all my frillies to get rid of the smell... looked like an Anne Summers party when they were all on the line!

I'm a nasty person I hide poison under everything downstairs. Haven't caught the little monsters upstairs yet.
But I have big DCs who know what it is.
Normally I only see the mice in winter if it's very cold, but this year we had a black one

(or a family of darker than normal ones) appear mid summer.
I feel a bit sorry I've probably killed it since I'm sure it was only trying to escape the combine, but if I trap it it's sure to spend the winter in my shed destroying my new parasol cover.
Yes, you've guessed, I only needed a new on because the last generation of rodents chewed a big hole in the last one
It's an expensive fairy light frame and new covers rather than whole parasols are stupidly hard to get!

Hi trillion you said you were on a policing mission-
I wish we could paint mice pink- then thed be someone else's problem

Use a trap. bait it with something sweet like fruit cake old christmas pud etc. when you catch one shovel it and the trap up into the bin. poison means they die elsewhere and smell. humane traps? How humane is it to trap an animal then let it go outside in the freezing cold where it will likely starve or freeze to death. short and sharp has to be more humane.