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Original poster

To bleach everything, burn the house down and then move?

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TwoDrifters · 10/06/2017 04:52

Currently awake, terrified, as there's a mouse in my bedroom. I've never seen a mouse in this house in 16 years of living here.

WIBU to bleach everything then torch the place?

Been lying awake shaking for the last hour, now sat on sofa with blanket wrapped tightly around me. Arrrggh.

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slothqueen · 10/06/2017 09:12

Get a cat. The only mice we see are dead on the lawn. I also heard that the scent of cats discourage mice from living in the house.

Babymamamama · 10/06/2017 09:14

I have the same phobia as you OP if you want to call it that. I think it is worth paying someone reputable to block up all the gaps eg behind kitchen cabinets, external pipe work etc, after working out how they got in. I've had that done and usually you get a guarantee for a year so if any further issues arise, they can be dealt with.

Has the critter been caught yet? Or maybe it has gone out the same way it came in?

valeriej43 · 10/06/2017 09:19

My cats have sometimes brought in a mouse, but they play with it, before attempting to kill, i have got the mouse off them and put it outside,i couldnt let them torture it, i just get it by the tail, and put it out
Mice dont worry me at all, spiders do,i have to get the hoover and suck them up,then block the end with tissue so they cant escape,even at 1am, cant sleep with a spider on the loose

bigbluebus · 10/06/2017 09:22

One of my funniest memories is of DH sitting in the middle of the bed with his legs up from the floor at his parent's house when we were staying there for a weekend. We had heard something scampering in the middle of the night and he was convinced that there was a mouse under the bed. As the floor was carpeted logic would tell you that there is no way that the mouse had run across the floor and made that noise - it was clearly in the attic/roof space above the room. DH is a strapping 6ft 4 for goodness sake - what did he think a mouse was going to do to him anyway!

How we all laughed when we told his parents the next day - and his 83 year old mother climbed up into the attic to put mouse traps down!

Original poster
TwoDrifters · 10/06/2017 09:43

Update: it has been disposed of.

:: shudder ::

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Babymamamama · 10/06/2017 11:07

That's good. It may have been just the one. Phew!

LakieLady · 10/06/2017 11:58

We realised we had mice when we came back from holiday and found mouse shit in the cutlery drawers.

I still nearly boak when I think that they may have been using our cutlery drawers as a latrine for a while before we went on holiday. . .

We used humane traps and relocated the mice to the next county. We also got some of those ultrasonic mouse repellers, and have never seen any sign of them since.

We did get rats under the kitchen floor though.

And as for cats, mine used to bring in slowworms, which was pretty unpleasant.

TimeIhadaNameChange · 10/06/2017 12:39

A cat may not help. We've had at least three mice let loose indoors recently (they're the ones we know of, anyway), not because she can't kill them, (we've seen more than enough guts to testify to that!) but because it stretches out the fun.

WhatALoadOfOldBollocks · 10/06/2017 15:11

I realise your title was tongue in cheek, but if you react that badly to a mouse have you considered getting professional help for your fear?

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 10/06/2017 15:30

I think it's a reasonable reaction tbh- they're dirty, piss and shit everywhere, scurry so make you jump and are generally a pain in the arse as you need to get rid of them AND keep you up at night chewing through wires

LorLorr2 · 10/06/2017 15:33

Omg I've got the creepy-crawlies just reading this!! There are always tough people who aren't afraid, but I think for the average person a mouse in the house is a right scare!

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TwoDrifters · 10/06/2017 16:35

Lakie Now rats really would make me move.

WhatALoad I didn't realise I was still this bad as it's been a while since I've been confronted with any rodents. Sad

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Nikephorus · 10/06/2017 19:21

Please tell me that "disposed of" means let outside happy & breathing to skip about the garden and enjoy a long & happy mouse life......

HerOtherHalf · 10/06/2017 19:31

It's just a mouse. We get them regularly due to living in the coutryside. I woke up once to find one on my chest. It look at me, I looked at it. I decided just to leave it be as making a fuss would have woken my wife and she would have freaked out. I just left it where it was and went back to sleep. We were still alive and unharmed in the morning, unsurprisingly. Obviously I never told her as she would have divorced me on the spot.

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TwoDrifters · 10/06/2017 22:32

Nike I'm sorry, no. But it was done as quickly and humanely as possible. I'm still sorry. I didn't wish it any harm, I just didn't want it in my home, especially not around my toddler.

HerOtherHalf Don't. That is the stuff of true nightmares.

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Dingalingalingaling · 10/06/2017 22:34

Rationally this is s a tiny creature who can do you no harm at all
One bit me once when I tried to remove it from my flat.

Idratherhaveacupoftea · 10/06/2017 22:38

When I had one, I wore wellies indoors.Grin

SirVixofVixHall · 10/06/2017 22:51

It is possible to have just the one. It may not even be a mouse if you live somewhere outside a city. I get bank voles in every Winter.
Humane traps are better than kill traps. Mice can deal with a level of re-location, or they would never move from their original locations. We once had a huge influx of mice when a lot of old railway arches were demolished near to where I was living. If we ever re-locate a mouse we put it somewhere where there are likely to be mice already, and we leave a little pile of nuts.

Ankleswingers · 10/06/2017 22:52

My university friends had a mice infestation in their shared house.

One of my friends found mouse droppings in her crunchy nut cornflakes once when emptying them out in the bowl. Shock

Made me heave. I wouldn't even drink a glass of water in there as I was so terrified of being contaminated.

There was mouse traps everywhere.

Cary2012 · 10/06/2017 22:58

I hate them, they make me curl up inside, shake and go to pieces.

I have three cats, one of which delights in bringing me pressies, often to my bedroom.

This is a true story, horrible, but true. I really should have had therapy for this. One Friday evening, many years ago our tortie, the above mentioned mouser, dropped a barely live mouse into my just delivered, king prawn jalfrazi. I went ballistic, threw my tray of barely touched dinner across the room, then went into pathetic mode, jumped on the sofa, screaming 'get it out, get it out' between sobs at poor H, who give him his due jumped up, saw the mouse had left the carton of curry, got our ginger tom in, who hunted the bastard down in minutes. Ginger tom killed it, and took it outside to 'play' with whilst I shook and cried and H finished his dinner. Then ex found jalfrazi mouse on the patio and disposed of it.

I was a wreck all evening. Yes, I was pathetic. Yes, I know how you feel.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 10/06/2017 23:02

OMG. Im so jealous. I adore little mice. They're so cute. Im thinking of getting 2, and calling them Marcie and Darcie. Grin

IloveBanff · 10/06/2017 23:11

"HerOtherHalf Don't. That is the stuff of true nightmares."

No, it's really adorable. They're dear little things. So cute.

Papergirl1968 · 10/06/2017 23:11

I know someone who found a mouse sitting on a shelf in her wardrobe. She screamed so loudly it dropped dead, presumably of a heart attack. Result!

IloveBanff · 10/06/2017 23:14

Papergirl1968 That's so sad. The poor little 'apporth! Sad

lolalola19 · 11/06/2017 17:49

It is only a bloody mouse - complete overreaction?!