To never sleep again after finding mouse???

[Gannicusthemannicus]

So I just found a mouse in my bedroom. I've never had a mouse in my bedroom before, and was woken 3 times by scratching tonight before I turned on my light to see him sat on the other side of the room looking at me!

He was only a little thing, I think a field mouse. I feel awful but I set out the snap trap and he got his arm caught, so he's been taken outside live and ran into the night according to my brother. I know he will come back but that is not a problem for 3am.

My question is, what do I do now?? I can't sleep in case there is another one, but I'm too scared to leave my room to get another trap. I don't want to leave the bedroom door shut and be trapped with whatever is in my room, but I don't want to leave it open and invite any other mice in! Even now I'm imagining a mouse behind me as I type...

Please help me get a grip!

I wouldn't automatically assume there were more in your room if the scratching noise has stopped. I heard one a whole ago and slept with the light on which seemed to scare the mouse away as the scratching stopped that night. The next day I cleared under my bed,

Whoops posted too soon....put all dry food in the kitchen in Tupperware. Bleach sprayed my skirting boards, plugged any holes with wire wool and sprinkled cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil around the place. It worked. Never saw one again.

Mice typically don't walk in through doors... So I don't think that bit matters. Leave it open.

Why are you scared?

It's a fucking mouse not the Candyman.

Go set the trap and go to sleep. If you catch another few call an exterminator in the morning.

I feel for you though, It's hugely unnerving. I find the if there's one you'll have seversl type of comments unhelpful as I never saw more than that one and it really stressed me out thinking that way. He was probably just a chilly little chap looking for a break from the snow.

If a mouse is in your house its probably not alone. Having said that the gap they can squeeze into is so small a shut door wont stoo them. There is the chance its a lone feild mouse who was sheltering from the cold but poson traps are more humane. A snap trap can break bones and then when released their going to die anyway but in pain and probably from hungrr

You need a cat.

Exterminator are pretty useless. They will just put poison all over your house so you’ll have dead mice around instead. And poison.

If the house is pretty new find where they’re getting in and fix the hole. If it’s an older place with lots of gaps just get used to it.

Or get a cat.

Also here’s a grip for you. It’s just a mouse.

Get a humane trap then take it far enough away, don't kill it! I've rescued loads of mice thanks to my bloody cat but I've never felt the need to kill them. It's a small mouse it's not going to eat you while you sleep.

Get a humane trap til then fuck off.

It's a small mouse it's not going to eat you while you sleep.

They do actually.

@puglife15 😂

Get a cat. I have 2 cats, one brings the mice in, the other eats it.

Well sorry, not everyone is bloody Cinderella

Thank you for the comments, both the sympathetic and not so. It is just a mouse, who never really did anything to me and there really is no reason to be afraid. It's not the candyman.

I still think it may eat me as I sleep but oh well.

It’s a tiny little thing and you’ve maimed it for life with your snap trap when you could’ve caught it humanely and released it. I just find the disregard we have for other species mindboggling.

Poor little thing.

Agreed otter and now we await the deluge of 'they're vermin' etc etc

Mouse is likely dead by now so not coming back.

There is also never just one mouse but if this is the first you’ve seen there also aren’t enough to be a real threat. They won’t hurt you tonight!

Just make sure all food is securely stored and all crumbs cleaned up. Consider getting a cat or at least some humane traps when you can.

One of my cats brings live mice in, I usually manage to pick them up as they seem a bit shell shocked and put them in a bucket with a lid and relocate them the next morning. I once woke up in the night to the other cat crunching something, switched on the light and he was eating a rat! In the bedroom! Had to wake DH up for that one. I now shut the door.

Get a humane trap but don't forget to keep checking it as you wouldn't want to catch one and not notice.

Growing up in a farm house I was always taught you don't get rats and mice together. So if you have mice you haven't got rats.
But yes a good cat will help the situation.

Ime field mice don't like to live indoors. He probably only came inside because of the cold outside. There doesn't have to be another one living there.

Poor mouse! Breaking his arm and sending him off to die in agony! What is wrong with a humane trap? Disgusting.

You all don't know that his limb was broken! Lots of modern plastic snap traps are not very snappy at all. They wouldn't hurt your finger!

My finger is a lot bigger than a whole mouse never mind a mouses leg. Also, snap traps are intended to kill rodents so I imagine if he only got his leg caught, it would have likely broken it. I just don't understand the need to kill/injure them when there are traps that capture them alive.
I hate spiders but wouldn't hurt one.

Your finger is bigger than a mouse? Width wise? Really?

And the traps lose their spring over time. Surely the OP would've noticed a broken leg?

And anyway, when you release them somewhere else, don't they then starve to death? Read it on here once.

Hope all the sanctimonious posters waxing lyrical about humane traps are vegan too?
OP, put poison down under couches, in the loft, under washing machine etc, check it every morning. If it hasn’t been touched for five days then the problem has sorted itself out.
Our neighbours have a mouse problem and I hate it when they come into our house!

You are being perfectly reasonable, OP. I would never sleep again until I had burned the house down and moved 100 miles away.