To be utterly fucked off with bastarding mice!!!!! AAAAAARRRRRGGHHHHH

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We live in a 6 year old house. 2 years ago our row had a horrendous infestation of mice. 3 of the 4 houses in the row all got the council out. Took about a month or so but we got all the little bastards.
Last year and earlier this year, more mice. Not as many but still
Two weeks ago neighbour called round to say she thinks she may have heard them again and keep an ear out. We heard nothing. Last 2 days our upstairs (bathroom, landing and nursery) stink. Absolutely vile.
DH takes side off the bath and there is a errrr crusty mouse by the pipe and a hole burrowing through the floorboards.
We cant get to under the floorboards under the bath and the smell is getting worse. I feel dirty and shit and so fed up with having our home fucked around by mice every year. What the hell can I do. I just want to scream (and move).

You have my sympathy. Mice came into our house a few days ago and DP placed traps, poison, plug-in-thing etc everywhere and caught one. I was foolish enough to hope that it was just the one...DP is away for work until next week and I have just seen another one. I am just sitting in the bedroom crying and feeling helpless.

Oh I hate mice in the house. I grew up in a house that had them routinely and I never got used to the horrible scratching sound in the ceilings.

The first winter in my own house brought mice once again and I thought I would go mad. We were in a terrace and the mice came in out of the cold apparently. Others in the terrace were a bit more blase about it than I was.

I began a war of attrition on the little feckers.Besides blocking holes etc ( although I was told a mouse can come in through a hole the circumference of a ballpoint pen), I bought many, many traps and baited them all with peanut butter and chocolate. I laid the traps on newspaper because there is no way Im prising mouse corpses off traps to save 50p. Once the trap had been sprung the whole thing was gathered up and thrown away and a new one laid immediately. It took a while ( a couple of weeks all told I think) but eventually there were no more mice. None the next winter either and when a new batch of mice tried their hands at living with me I was ready for them. They didnt get a chance to get established.

I didnt get a sonic deterrent as I couldnt afford it then although maybe I would get one now if we ever get them again.

First of all DONT get a cat they bring mice in to the house and release them to play with later! I have real sympathy for you and when we repeatedly had mice we got so desperate we knocked our house down and built another one on the same spot. Still get the odd one in the new place but mouse bait placed all over the house and replaced frequently seems to work. Oh yes those sonic things seem to be a waste of money.

these are the only things that worked for us. I have a couple under my kitchen units at all times and replace every so often.

We'd tried all sorts of traps, sonic things etc.

Kay what is an odour bag and where do I get one.

Cats, much as I love my 4 they are not really the answer. We only have mice in the house when one of them brings them in. If we're lucky he'll kill it and leave it somewhere obvious. Alternatively he'll kill it and leave it somewhere where we eventually find it by the smell : if we're really unlucky he'll lose it somewhere in the house.

Oh and there's the torturing and injuring it but not killing it scenario too. I have actually on 2 occasions scooped up severely injured and paralysed but not dead mice in to plastic bags ,put it under the front wheel of my car and driven over it to put them out of their misery.

Humane traps PMSL you can have upwards of 30 mice after a few weeks you would be up and down the road like a loon trying to get rid. We called in the experts after retiring from a two week holiday they were everywhere it was worth every cent.

Returning not retiring

My sympathies OP. We always get mice (no cats, oblivious dog).

Catch-and-release traps are crap. 1, they don't work. 2, the advice is to drive the mouse out into the country and release it someplace where no one lives. Well, I live in the country. There is no place where no one lives. I tried c&r traps last year. Again, they didn't work, but additionally, there was nowhere to release the mice -- I was just dumping them on my neighbors. If you can see a building where you are releasing the mouse, then you are dumping it on that person, which is just pointless, not to mention rude.

This works extremely well and at least kills quickly and humanely www.amazon.com/Victor-Electronic-Mouse-Trap-M2524/dp/B000E1RIUU/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Buy snap traps and declare WAR!!

humane traps just stress the mouse and relocating them means they will die of starvation.

The only thing that's worked quickly for me is the sticky pads.

Possibly the least humane method?

But definitely the most successful.

The sticky pads are vile - slow death by starvation - not good. Poison not good in the house either, stinky dead bodies, but a cat would have to eat quite a lot of poisoned mice to get ill. I can't remember the numbers, but this makes it easier. If a 20g mouse needs 0.5g of poison to kill it, a 4kg cat needs 100g so would need to eat 200 poisoned mice in a short period of time which it would be unlikely to do.

We get a family mice in the house every October, and trap about a dozen as soon as it gets cold. They only go up though the walls and into the loft though, so easy to deal with. We keep nipper traps set at all times just in case.