To be getting emotionally attached to the mouse in our house

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We've had a mouse in the house for last week or so.

We tired leaving cheese on the trap but he ate it.
We left chocolate buttons but he helped himself to those to and went back into his hole.

Every night me and DD, age 4, think of what food to leave out on the trap to catch him. Every morning when he get up, said food has been eaten.

He is becoming a house pet at this stage!

DH are getting pest control to come into and TBH am feeling a bit sorry for him.

AIBU/Do I need to get a life?

You'll go off him if he chews your wiring.

Or eats the motherboard/electrics of your brand new very expensive boiler.

leave a live trap? (oh, I see, you do have one). Are you putting the food far up the ramp enough? They can be very good at winkling food out. Put it down the back of the trap behind the little pedestal? You can't keep him but you could have one more go at getting the poor little blighter out alive...? Just make sure you release him a long way away. They like ginger nuts...

Don't feel sorry for him. You're thinking he's just one cute little mousie, how much harm could he do?

Where there is one, soon you'll have a whole merry tribe of them. And mice pee constantly, everywhere (I mean literally: they trail pee as they move). And the poo everywhere. And once they get in, they leave a scent trail so others can follow. And they can get in any space as wide as your finger.

My parents' house got mice about 6 years ago - just once, very cute, and they felt a bit sorry for it. The little bastards have now got into the upstairs bedrooms and last time I opened the door to the spare room there was mouse poo on every windowsill, shelf, cupboard, spare inch of floor ... even though they originally got in through a kitchen wall that has since been knocked down and rebuilt, they're now happy in the walls of the house and I don't know how they will get rid of them.

Yes YABU because you think you are becoming fond of one mouse but actually you probably have twenty one mice of which you are becoming fond, and frankly that's a bit adulterous.

Peanut butter! Mice love it. And please don't kill it, he/she is just trying to get by in a cruel world.

You do no have a mouse, you have mice.
They wee and poo everywhere.
They eat your wiring.

what soup said - there is never a lonely mouse. you have MICE!

Peanut butter in traps gets them!

Yabu and I agree it's mice. My last house was riddled with them one year. I became a nervous wreck and couldn't sleep properly (yes all because of cute looking mice!) We ended up killing loads and don't feel guilty. :) my mam has had them recently and one has died in the cavity and bloody reeks but there's nothing she could do until it decomposed.

One cute mousie soon becomes a hoard of mice.

I LOVE mice, especially the field variety we get in our outhouse during the winter. But if they come into the house, they die. (humane traps aren't humane if you forget to check them!)

Mice CAN be useful, because we have mice in the outhouse, we don't have rats. We have to check everything that's stored there quite often though because wow can those critters chew!

kill kill kill

it's not a pet

it's vermin

Block all the holes and put down traps and/or poison

aldi we have had mice AND rats - what makes you think you just get one or the other?

We have a mouse and have given it a name and everything!!

He/she pops out in the evening after the kids have gone to bed and dh and I are quiet. He/she has gotten quite brave!

We say "hello Button!"

We had a mouse in our house when we first moved in. We put out traps with all sorts of foods. Couldn't catch the blighter. The terriers went crackers trying but couldn't catch the blighter. The husband and the father-in-law dismantled half the kitchen and couldn't catch the blighter. Pest control came out and couldn't catch the blighter.

2 week later the cat arrived from England. First morning after his arrival, we came downstairs to a dead mouse in the middle of the floor and cat sat next to it, polishing his claws with a real smug look on his face.

do you live in a windmill?

We have a mouse in the garden. He's called Keith. I don't think he's come into the house, the overwhelming smell of pet rat would put him off.

Hijack:

How big are mouse poos? Like apple pips? Or about 10 times smaller?

Kladdkaka

Yes like apple pips but bit thinner if that makes sense?

www.assured-enviro.co.uk/pests-rats-and-mice.html

YANBU
I loved a spider that lived in my shower.

Spiders are not generally a health hazzard in the UK

PIctish - you have mice. They are teasing you and laughing amongst themselves because you don't realise it is a different mouse each night - say "Hello Crumbs!" next time and really freak them out.

We had mice evil chewing bastards and at first we were lovely about them.

After the Plague of Flies incident due to the dead mice and the Ate The Contents of the Loft incident and the Why Are the Phones not Working Any More incidents we decided that they were evil chewing shitting crap monsters and got proper traps and poison.

we have a spider in the kitchen (called charlotte). her web is huge and we have to duck underneath it to get to the table.

pet rat: That's your cure.

You get some rodenty love (i wonder if there's a specific name for this this?) and the mice can go before the wiring does!

Did you know rats can giggle and like to be tickled? so much more fun than a chocolate button munching invasion of mice