oh my god I nearly pooped my pants

[wakeupandsmellthecoffee]

Please please make me feel better
We have had a lone mouse. We have set Humain traps but couldn't get the (not so little as it turns out ) bugger.
Today as I came in from work my DS says "mum I can hear a mouse "

Well as a treat seeing as it's Friday I've bought home two burgers one for DH and one for DS and a lovely caramel Sunday for me.
Well I sit on the sofa to eat ice cream Sunday and noticed that one of the cushions was askew.
Yes you've guessed it I straitened the cushion and put my hand underneath.
I felt warm fur on top of a boney body.
I screamed and ran. I feel very lucky that it didn't bite me.
We searched for an hour turning everything upside down.

We got him and he is now in mice heaven.
I've never been so scared in ages and now I feel sick as a dog.

MURDERER MURDERER MURDERER MURDERER MURDERER MURDERER

No point releasing a mouse just outside, it'll just come straight back in.

A lone mouse destroyed a room in my house. I used a kill trap. I spied mouse shit in the shed last week, kill trap again. Both times, I've left the trap set and caught nothing further. We must have weird solo mice round here.

Awe poor mouse.
I was in our sitting room once when I saw what I thought was a huge spider running along the dado rail. Closer inspection revealed a mouse. We eventually caught it and released it at the end of garden. It ran straight back into the house, they are speedy little fuckers.
Anyway, searched everywhere and couldn't find it. We assumed the cats would eventually get it.
The next day I opened the freezer and there it was, standing on its back legs with its little paws up frozen to death, poor mouse

I wouldn't be able to string a sentence together if that had happened to me...

Mousegate 2 is happening as we speak

I had a LOT of mice a few years ago, I live in an old building a stones throw from a river.

I now have 2 cats and not a mouse to be seen😊

My DM once put her foot into her wellies and there was a mouse in them! I would have screamed the house down

Getting a cat isn't a guaranteed solution. We acquired another cat last year after a break of about five years. Never had a single mouse in the years between. It's the cats that bring the buggers in, and they are toys to be played with. If you get a cat you might just increase your mouse population.

I've never had a mouse come back in once it's been released outside, unless the cat finds it again and brings it home for more entertainment. It's the cat that's the problem, not the mice .

There WILL be others!!!!

Don't get a cat, I have three and have a mouse about once a week. I usually catch them but recently had to set a trap as one had set up camp in my bedroom.
Humane traps just don't work.

Queen...you might be right. Only time i had a mouse was when i lived with a cat for a few months. Mouse free since...

Humane traps when we moved the house had a few mice (empty for a year). We had to use the old fashion traps with a chocolate raisin to get them. We've always had cats they've never brought a mouse in just ticks and fleas you could get a ferret

Lol, this happened to me recently.

The cat caught a mouse in the kitchen - it popped out from behind the units!!! I screamed and dashed into the hall, shutting the cat in the kitchen, she was running round with it in her mouth! I wouldn't go back in the kitchen to let her into the garden and she wanted to come through to the hallway with the damn mouse in her mouth! Suddenly it disappeared - DH went to investigate and thought it was in between the double radiator; asked me to get a bamboo cane from the garage. I asked him to pass my slippers (I was stood in hallway behind the glass door!) and to check the mouse wasn't inside them. He checked and said it wasn't (I saw him do this), so gave me the slippers and when I put my hand in to check, the mouse was INSIDE!!!!

ROFL, more screaming (me), DH peeing himself LOL, it was pandemonium!
The mouse escaped from the slipper and the chase started again, Cat and DH both in pursuit and me safely in the hall shouting instructions!! Eventually the cat caught it and we let her out and it managed to escape.

Haha, God it was funny, we must have looked like a right crazy pair!!

Meanwhile, DS2 carried on working on his Maths coursework!! 😂

YABU for using 'pooped'

I use humane traps from time to time when Twat Cat loses one of his toys and it escapes behind the kitchen cupboards. Digestive biscuits and chocolate spread are very successful bait. I've always caught them after a couple of days. I could never use a kill trap. Poor little sods.

London that's a fancy rat! Not a mouse! Fancy mice are also cute and as a rat owner I am biased and love them too, but I'd hate to have a "wild" mouse (or rat!) In my home! Can you set up more humane traps?

Put something that smells strongly but is nice in them, like tuna, baked beans or watered down peanut butter? If you stop by a pet shop you can buy malt paste for ferrets which smells as strongly and I'm told that they love that too? My rats sure do and can smell it across the room!