To think this is not the way to start a Saturday

[KeepInMindItsAlmostChristmas]

So Wednesday night I see a mouse in my living room, 2 hours of trying to get it were not fruitful so Thursday morning off to Tesco for enough poison to down and Elephant!!!!

So I am sat her eating breakfast and I hear it scrabbling, go and get DP and we find it is living in the bloody sofa
Now I have 30 people coming for Christmas open house next weekend, I have 8 people here for Christmas and I need my sofa, no where will deliver new ones before Christmas.

So we carry the sofa outside, we slit the back open and I beat it half to death as I am not impressed...

At which point 15 year old DS1 ask if I have ever considered anger management
Mouse dose a runner but is gone, sofa is then hoovered to with in an inch of its life and a whole can of dettol spray is used, I now have to duct tape the back closed (it lives against the wall) but all the same chavtastic!!!

DP is under orders to get me new sofas.

I don't think starting a weekend beating a sofa in the back garder is a good start, what the neighbours think I don't know, how ever mouse was last seen running in the their garden so I just might find out if they are beating a sofa to death in their back garden next Saturday morning

YABU

If you're having 30 people over, what's an extra mouth to feed?

I'm sure he'll eat like a mouse

Mice don't live alone. There will be more. Poison is pointless IME, get some snap traps but only use them when you are around to finish off humanely any mousey who isn't killed straight off.

Eww at the sofa. I do feel for you. We had a major infestation in our last house and it was horrible. YANBU.

I had mice in the house a couple of years ago, put poison down and, when I found a dead one, I realised it wasn't a house mouse. It was a delightful little harvest mouse. I did get over it though because I didn't want my furniture, upholstery or wiring to be bitten and spoilt.

Our garden backs onto a farm, and if we didn't put poison down every year I reckon the mice would make themselves so at home that there'd be no biscuits in the cupboard and I'd have to wrestle the remote control off of them too. Cat can't be arsed either. He prefers a vole.

Will be keeping the poison down, also have snap traps,
New sofas will be here after Christmas

yay for new sofas!

No more mice?

:( poor mouse...

why beat the thing to death... why not just let it go free... it is hardly likely to have a key to let itself back in..

Squeaky the op beat the sofa to death the mouse escaped

I think it was the sofa not the mouse being beaten, to make the mouse run away.

crying laughing

Sorry - but I have a cat - I find mouse corpses every morning .... occassionally one escapes - but nor for long .... then we havea new corse. I'm quite adept at snatching them by the tail and frizbee-ing them up the garden now sigh

BTW - one mouse = a family of mice - they do not travel alone. My mate still has cavity walls - her hosue is alive with the bastard beady eyed things

Good point

UABU .... The sofa should not have had to die! Murderer!

they beat the sofa to death, not the mouse!

It was probably back in the house before you were.

Is that really true? I have had a couple of mouses, but never mice.

it's just a little mouse, not a bloody rat, why such a melodrama? all you needed was a good trap (humane or not, whatever you prefer) and some peanut butter. Or get a decent cat. We live in the country and would be totally overrun without the cat.
Why destroy your sofa? YABtotallyU.

I had a pet rat and was down at PIL's house and let her out for a run around the room. To our horror she disappeared down between the cushions at the back and got right inside. The only way to get her out was to turn the sofa upside down and cut a slit in the bottom.

We never told FIL. It was a secret between OH, MIL and me...

Look on the plus side... you will be able to watch all the adverts that start on xmas eve for the sofa sales on boxing day with more interest than usual.

squeaky I think I leaked a bit of piss when I read your post about beating the mouse to death

I also live in the country tunnelmaniac but am not so naive sanguine about mice, they carry diseases and can chew electrics.....

Not always the case that there's more than one, I had one once, took me weeks to catch but there was never another, despite everyone telling me at the time there was probably hundreds (!). Hopefully you will be lucky OP! YANBU.

ooh I cross-posted rather elegantly - the 'not a bloody rat' wasn't there when I started writing.

I still have the sofa, it is just slit at the back (against a wall so no one will know, I have searched every inch of my house, under beds, behind wardrobes even took the kick boards from the bottom of the kitchen cupboards (placed poison in case) no mice, no poop, no chewed anything so hoping it was a lone mouse.

Will be getting new sofas as soon as Christmas is over.

Snap traps. First you'll get dad, followed by mum (or the other way round), then the babies will come looking for them. After a few days, the whole family will be in the wheelie bin. Check out where you think they're getting into the house. Fill any holes with wire wool and cayenne pepper. Don't leave any food around. Don't expect they'll be the last ones to break in.

I have snap traps down and enough poison to down an Elephant, some pipes in the downstairs toilet have a large gap round them so they are now blocked.