AIBU to start screaming up the stairs as I have just seen a mouse?

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OK. I am not very happy with scuttly things. However, as long as they stay the fuck out of my house, not bothered. A mouse has just run across the kitchen floor. We have had rats before. It is just gone 6.00am. DH is in bed. Feeling very unhappy, can't go near the kitchen. Should I ring him? Is screaming over the top? Will someone come and kill the fucking mouse?
HELP

It's a mouse. Pull yourself together FFS.

YANBU at all. You poor thing, I am so scared of rodents too. (Too much reading,1984 as an impressionable youth.) Hope your DH can sort it for you.

I don't get the dh thing. Mine would more likely ask me to sort it out. However we have two cats and a dog that would all be in their first and the poor mouse would be dead and gone.

I don't think it is unreasonable to scream if you were shocked by the sudden mouse appearance, but really it is a small animal likely way more scared (and for good reason) by you than you should be by it.

Right. Have calmed down. DD2 fed, husband has deployed killing things. Grevling thanks for the reality check. We have no furry guardians to keep the little ones out. Next doors cat was a very good mouser, but he has died. Husband allergic to cats. He may have to get used to a bit more piriton in his life.
The quick scuttle it made shocked me, as I was half asleep anyway. And, Nooka I did the reverse think about size and I feel slightly ashamed of my over reaction to something that is miniscule in comparison to me.

We have had rats before and it took ages to get it sorted. We have had hedgehogs before who are good at keeping the mice population down, but they have decamped as well. They may return. Tried to get one rehabilitated into our garden but the charity said we were too far from them to be monitored properly. Gutted.

Make sure you bleach down all surfaces if they are in your kitchen as they wee everywhere!

Get some traps and poison - lots of councils will come out and do this for you, some free of charge.

Make sure all food including the fruit bowl is put away in sealed containers and wipe down all crumbs after cutting bread.

Remember - there is never just one mouse, mice are not lonely creatures

It is a mouse, not a rabid lion that could eat you! And it could be a one-off field mouse that has just lost its way..

You could get a cat that lives mostly outside.. that might help with your DHs allergy.

I can't bear big babies.

I'd avoid anything to do with the stairs tbh. Especially if you live in a windmill in Old Amsterdam.

Glad it's getting sorted. Bit of a shock, eh?

Glad you managed to calm down OP, I'm a bit nonchalant about rodents myself (maybe I wouldn't be if they were hanging out in the house with my PFB?) but eight legged animals spin me out.
If you really think furry defence league is in order but can't have feline sort- could consider jack russell or similar? My auntie's russell is a rats worst nightmare (but loves cuddles)

Croydonsortofmother I suppose you're not afraid of anything. Irriational fear are irrational not babyish.

i can't stand rude people with no empathy.

I am the most practical person I know, don't scare easily, pretty brave and don't get spooked easily, would happily walk down a dark alley etc but mice and rats actually make my knees turn to jelly and I feel so rattled by them I feel sick and faint. I have absolutely no control over the way I feel nor can I 'get a grip.'

We had rats in the garden recently - I nearly had a cow!

Croydonsortofmother yank up your topknot a bit higher, blood might start seeping into your frontal lobe.
Thank you all for your help. I want a jack russell. And damn it I shall have one. They have short hair too...which means I don't know what.
Have deployed all sorts of killing things. Poor the mousie, just don't want him seeping urine (as they are incontent) all over the place.
will update on corpse count.
Moomin i love the furry defence league. really do. i shall have badges made.

Just a note; there were no clogs..so thats alright then yeah?

Used to work in a school that had a lot of fields around it (and fieldmice). They'd regularly get into the school, you'd hear a blood curdling shriek, come running to find the secretary and year 4 teacher stood on the coffee tables in the staffroom gibbering hysterically.

After a few episodes of this - my little class of reception bods would just roll their eyes, shrug their shoulders and comment "Mrs Smith's found another mouse" and carry on.

I can cope with field mice and shrews funnily enough.