To think there is just the one mouse?

[Noodlesoup1976]

Ok so Saturday night I heard scratching and rustling in the corner of my bedroom, turned on the lamp and there is a mouse sat on top of a box!!!

Everything I've read since leads me to believe that if you have one mouse then you have a houseful.

Since then I've left the traps and poison down just in case, but no sign of anything. So I was just wondering, am I kidding myself that this was just a Lone Ranger or am I likely to find more?

[RachelRagged]

Oh Yes , Arfarfandarf , I hear you .

My cats bring them in then they escape their clutches . I know they are tiny and we must be huge but with me its their sudden appearance, usually at speed, that I don't like .
It is odd though as I've had pet rats and loved them . . they WERE pets though

[Noodlesoup1976]

Thanks everyone, I'm kind of hoping that my daft dog has brought it in to play, he dropped a spider on my lap once!! Or maybe it's come in the back door which has been open pretty much all the time recently for the dog to come and go.

[RachelRagged]

I think that's how my latest one got in as door open for dog and cats nowhere to be seen. It's gone though as I got it out and shut garden door and looked a bit later and there was cat 1 licking her lips

[Bragadocia]

Sometimes there has to be just one. They don't parade along the street in crocodile, do they.

[Guiltismymaster]

Don't be fooled OP! Our traps were unsuccessful for ages until we changed their location and then we started catching two per night.

[OneInEight]

Depends whether it is a house or a field mouse. Field mice are much more likely to be just the one. Mind you our one field mouse did a surprising amount of damage before we caught it. Was rather partial to chewing book covers and definitely preferred the more expensive covers. Trust us to get a mouse with "naice" tastes. Was only the one though.

[TondelayaDellaVentamiglia]

no such thing as a bachelor mouse!

you have not baited your traps with yummy enough stuff, or put them in the right places if you haven't caught any. Or they already have access to the good stuff in your cupboards and have no need to risk their necks getting stuff from traps.

you want jammy, sticky sweet, gooey stuff as bait and set the traps around the edges of rooms/cupboards

find out where they are getting in and block all holes with wire wool/crushed foil...hole for a mouse can be as small as your little finger.

Use snap traps...using humane traps and relocating them to the park is not humane...they will die of stress, or starvation as they won't know where they are.

[northernshepherdess]

All the 3 times in 15 years that we've ever had mice, there's only been one.
On the farm it'd different but in the house its just loners.
We use friendly traps

[Sienna29]

I'm sure it's only one!

[Noodlesoup1976]

I baited the snap trap with peanut butter which is how I caught the little bugger. I've had the house upside down and inside out since, there are no dropping or signs of chewing or anything.

[Noodlesoup1976]

My hilarious friend sent me these earlier

[user1473106504]

Depends I have had one mouse but then In my last flat I had a family of them, was so disgusting found one in the kitchen sink!
Mice love peanut butter and hate mint oil if you seal up all holes and put some mint oil on cotton balls they should not come back but leave some peanut butter in the traps