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omg!!! ladies aibu I looked in my baking cupboard and found that all ny bags of flour and sugar had small little holes in the corner and floor everywhere all over the cupboard. on closer inspection I discovered mouse poo!
well I shit myself sent dp in there to sort it out I can not even step inside gte kitchen until I know the little buggers gone.
aibu to not want to stay here I really am petrified I want to go to ny mum's tomorrow and stay there till it's gone

Mice are so cute, but I don't want them in my kitchen either. Once u have cleaned up buy some pure peppermint oil and leave cotton wool balls soaked in the oil all around your kitchen where the mice are likely to bee ie behind cupboards and units. They hate the smell and will never come back while they can smell mint. Don't let the kids get it tho, the oil is v strong and will sting eyes etc.

I'm sure they bite? don't they...?

I had pet mice for years. One bit me once, I was holding her, she didn't want to be held, she gave me a little nip and I still held her so she bit.

I don't think you are going to be holding a mouse are you?

Mice may be cute but they can also play havoc with electrical wiring. Get some traps, OP.

yep thabks everyone I'm definitely heading to the 99p store to grab some traps. I didn't know mice liked to eat flour

And I hate to be the one to mention it first but the chances of you having a mouse are slim.

"that beast"?

Sorry to break it to you, but its likely to be "those beasts". Not that they are beasts, just tiny, incontinent, mice.

Bacon sewed onto traps works well. Glue traps are hideously inhumane and poison will just result in slowly decomposing mice stuck behind your cooker.

Mice eat anything.

They like pasta, but for traps nutella or peanut butter are good.

Crossed posts with gin!

I feel your pain - we had one last week I didn't know whether to scream or cry. Got a trap the next day, it worked and no sign of any since. The amount of cleaning and disinfecting we had to do after nearly made me weep again!

that's what I can't understand I'm quiet ocd with cleaning gte kitchen I dettol my kitchen near on 4 x a day. and definitely a big old deep clean is in order.

Get some pet rats, they keep pests away!

I feel your pain, OP! We had mice last year in our kitchen. I always seemed to spot them running across the floor when DP was out - the first time I saw one I had a bit of a panic attack and locked myself in the bedroom and DP was about 3 hours away. I am really scared of mice, it's probably quite silly but doesn't make me any less scared

DP put a lot of cotton wool soaked in peppermint oil around the kitchen to fill up all the massive gaps that were around. We moved all our food, made sure that our kitchen was always spotless...but they kept coming in as we'd missed a hole behind the washing machine.

We don't live there anymore (not because of the mice, I must add!) and havent for almost a year but I still live in fear of anything crawling across the kitchen

The upside is that I'm no longer scared of spiders!

well I'm staying with mum dp has gone home armed with supplies from bnq

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