aibu to have a little cry about mice in the house

[Purplepoodle]

I discovered mice in the under sink cupboard in kitchen - food recycle bin. Put traps down, caught some, dh taught me to empty them blergh as he works away. After catching a few dh thought problem solved i wasnt because that little foam insulation balls from inside walls kept appearing near the traps.

tonight one ran along sitting room wall (nearly cried). Put trap straight down and caught it 30 mins later. So stripped sittingroom down and cleaned floor (droppings around walls and under sofa sofa - not loads but enough and scraps of plastic). This then sent alarm bells ringing as there are scraps of plastic on the stairs and upstairs hall - carpet brown so hard to see droppings but couldn't see any.

Went into one of my dc room and found droppings (about 8/9 in a corner and along a wall). I had checked the room when first found the mice but guessing there's more or they are on the move. Then I had a sneaky cry. I can't sleep now as freaked out.

I'm going to get poison tomorrow and put it in the airing cupboard which is in boys room - they can't reach in and under kitchen units. I can't work out how they are moving about. Iv filled all the holes I can see and I'm going to strip boys room tomorrow

Go around the house and fill every little crack in the exterior walls with brillo pads. If you have a old house you might end up going through two boxes.

After that get traps set all over the place. We use peanut butter and cheerios and not poison because they become immune to it. DH is away a lot and I had a nice neighbour come remove them. Put down a new trap!

Seal your rubbish. You also need to bleach everything down and throw out your toaster. Weils disease is nasty. Once you are mouse free get a new toaster. Until then use your oven, taking out the trap first! We caught four in our oven so def put a trap in there.

Oh I cried too.

I feel your pain. I live in deepest, darkest rural Brittany and have found evidence of mice in the pantry. I put down lovely mouse-dessicating poison and traps and caught a big fat mouse on the first night. Haven't seen any more evidence since. I've had to completely clear the shelves and wash everything in bleach solution as they pee everywhere. All dried food is now stored in lovely kilner jars and my pantry looks like a picture from Country Living magazine.

I daren't rest on my laurels though. We have an old house and I know they'll be in other places if I let up. We definitely need a cat or two.

Good luck OP.

We've had a few mice, but traps are better than poison, mainly because after they scoff the poison they then go off to hide and die, if they die somewhere then you have no idea of where they are and after a while the stench is absolutely awful, and it's very difficult to find the expired offending mouse

Would definitely agree with KissingPotion about the smell of decomposing micewe had them in ceiling and walls so had no access to the dead bodies after putting poison under floorboards. Traps are much better.

I would also try some mouse poison too. It is harmless to cats and humans.

oops posted too soon. There are some rodent poisons that dry out the dead bodies so they don't smell too badly when they decompose but I don't know the brand name. It might be better to get a pest control company in. Mice are very unhygienic as they urinate constantly. yuk!

Our experience of mice has been that traps basically don’t work – we’ve put them in places which we know (because we’ve seen them) that the mice pass and they still haven’t gone for them. Poison – from the pest control people – has worked and we’ve not had any issue with smells. What works properly is blocking up holes – no, you can’t get all of the holes but blocking up the obvious ones really helps. And a good pest control company can help with that.

Bait your traps with chocolate buttons. Little blighters can't resist them.

YABU, woman up , it is only mice!! Just think it could be rats! that could drive anyone to tears.

I cried when I saw one dip it's head out from near my oven bleurgh! Then cried when I found droppings under dd's bed where she rests her little head. I'm absolutely terrified of them I don't know how people keep rats as pets! We got a relatives cats in and not seen any or any droppings since but the bastards were running along in the ceiling a while ago. Get cats the scent will scare them off

Do they get in the toaster? Always had cats so only seen those brought in as sport.

In the oven? Eeek!

Theboody yes and it's a nightmare when they do! Haven't persobally had them in a toaster that I'm aware of but my friend had one go in there to die. You can imagine the smell when she went to toast a slice of bread

Cats are no good. The only time we have mice in our house is when the cats have brought them in and then let them go!

I use humane traps and bait them with Mars bars or garibaldi biscuits (mice love those). They also like peanut butter or a bit of banana.

If you had rats, there would be no mice, as the rats kill and eat them. We had rats in one of our compost bins a couple of summers ago - they ate everything in there: resident mice, slugs, worms. It was just awful. I did really cry then, as I hate rats.

Good old fashioned snap traps work best, just remember that they are there when you wonder half asleep into the kitchen in the mornings in bare feet.

Also, buy a BB gun, managed to kill three of the feckers from the comfort of my armchair.

Also, buy a BB gun, managed to kill three of the feckers from the comfort of my armchair.

PMSL

why do people advise a cat. Our Cat brings mice in as gifts , they are alive, they then hide and Cat gets bored. Then I find a mouse running about!

We don't mind mice. DD feeds ours in the winter when it is cold outside and let's them nest indoors. In summer, she catches them in humane traps and releases them at the end of the garden or in the woods.

My mice disappeared just by having a kitten in the house.

I think it was the smell.

Maybe cat smell could be sold to repel mice.

We have mice in the loft and I sympathise. It's that horrible feeling of being invaded - specially when it's quiet and you can hear gnawing in the walls. Sent me round the bend. Just before Christmas one came down the hole by the boiler pipe (now wire wooled up) and spent a couple of nights in the kitchen - it ate my M&S chocolate . Snap trap soon sorted that bastard out, and I'm hoping the poison and traps in the loft will do for the rest. I did manage to live catch and release two of em mind ..

I'm also sitting here typing this with three huge rats down my shirt, so I'm not totally anti-rodent. I'm tempted to send the fat lazy fuckers up to the loft to chase the mice out! Would make a change for them to earn their keep for once

i have mice to. i use the snap traps. i thought they just went where there is food. but one ran up my bedroom curtains the other day. i dont have never had food in my room. i have heard them im the walls as well and loft... i cant get in the loft so i threw several of the poison blokes in there. and i set traps where i have seen them run. im debating if i should get a cat. i seem to get rid of them for a while then they come back. unless thye have never gone but i just never saw them.