OMG HELP! There is a mouse under the cupboard in the dining room!

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Saw the cat staring under the cupboard then my son came home and saw the mouse. Have shut the cat in the hall because I don't want a bloodbath - but then useless son had to go to the dentist and won't be back for over an hour. His friend has arrived and laid a trail of grated cheese to the patio door, but the mouse must be fiendishly clever and has just dragged the nearest piece under the cupboard and presumably scarfed it down.

Any ideas/tips/strategies (I am a complete mouse wuss)

something it may be a tiny scrap off life, bit mice are incontinent and will wee everywhere. Op is quite right to want it out!

We had a mouse problem at work and got a load of humane traps but they didn't work, mousey kept getting the snickers bar and not triggering the mechanism! We spent a fortune on snickers bars...

Of and but. Sorry.

Get a BB Gun with laser sight

I'm a pro at this, one of mine seems to be trying to open a wildlife sanctuary in the house, given the large volumes of unharmed birds and rodents she releases in it. Alternatively she just enjoys the spectacle of me catching them.

Under furniture I use an old mop handle to push them out. With a shoe box on its side at the place I want it to go, and towels to block off the alternative exit routes. You then just have to be quick or have ape arms to reach the box before it scarpers. I don't mind holding them, but work on the basis they will be traumatised enough without me cooing over how cute they are.

I think it's very sensible to ask your adults sons to do it for you. That's what they are there for.

I really hope you aren't still chasing the mouse around OP. You started this thread three hours ago!

Mrs.K to type in bold, start and finish the bold type with * at each end.

Sorry all - had to go out but am back now and the mouse has left the building.

I prepared all sorts of ideas - toilet roll socks, cereal box and a glass jar all suggested by Mumsnetters - but they decided to go with the lifting of the cupboard and an encouraging broom. Mousey was all over the place and kept on finding other little nooks and crannies to hide in.

Eventually it ran into a little box of papers and DS2 whisked the box outside and mousey ran across the lawn to the hedge. Stupid, useless cat then obligingly polished off the trail of grated cheese and since then has been stalking what must be the stupidest mouse in the county in the garden. We have had to bring her in now.

Sorry - posted before I had thanked everyone for their ideas!

There is a huge difference between pretty little field nice and hulking ugly grey city mice. If you have the former, some good tips. If you have the latter, they tend to be immune to poison. The ones we had in my old house share didn't give a shit about it; they waltzed through it and lol'd at us. Hopefully you just have one pretty and nice field mouse brought in by the cat.

Thanks Ilostit