Seen a tiny mouse in my house :(

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Last night I saw a mouse run from the living room into the kitchen and under the fridge!! Only moved here 2 months ago, not seen anything in that time, no droppings anywhere cupboards etc
The back alley has communal bins, do you think it could be just one that's come in, back door has been open past few days!
I have the things!!!

I've used the rat sized snap traps - never found a live mouse in one of those. Caught about 8 mice over a 10 day period (we thought we had one...) Watch your fingers when setting them though

"Humane traps" = driving a mouse miles away to be left in an unfamiliar environment to starve to death or be preyed on by other animals.
Glue traps = slow torture. Mice will chew off limbs or rip off skin only to get stuck again in and in a state of constant panic.
Cats = play with, terrify and mutilate them.
Snap traps = quick and clean death while salivating over something delicious. Use a good quality one.

Snap traps ARE the humane way. And don't talk about "murdering" mice. They spread disease and chew through wiring and housing structures. I love rodents, but I will not tolerate house mice.

I think the typo at the beginning is quite matching. You have those things and have the right to hate them.
They're rather cute in a very verminy way and have those scared black eyes, I always feel sorry for every corpse I have to pick up from the floor and throw away.
That said, we have the best cure. 2 cats who love to hunt.

@NorthenderNamechanger, the advantage of having cats is that they are bad news for mice and rats. They would normally avoid the house because they smell cats.
Truth, at least in our case.

The old fashioned snap traps baited with Nutella are best. Close to the wall.
I caught 18 of the buggers last year. There is never just one.
They are incontinent so pee everywhere.
Yuck yuck yuck!

Forget humane traps and sound plugs and cats find the hole plug the hole with wire mesh and seal any gaps and holes use glue traps to catch any left and poison but it stinks believe me you dont have just one mouse they are a community

Fill all the gaps first of all as a op has suggested. If you have seen one, it's likely there are more. I used the snap traps baited with Nutella. Quick death. Pls don't use glue traps, they are really horrible. Mice are such a pain - we had them when ds was little and I had to bleach the kitchen every morning - a right pain!

Pest control companies are really expensive! Does anyone know if the landlord has any responsibility in this? Or could they say it could be ( not saying it's yours OP! ) the tenants fault crumbs etc.Maybe one off but u need to find that mouse! Droppings are weeny.

We had a field mouse (DSD dubbed him Mickey) who came in when it was very cold. No droppings, nothing chewed (not even the chocolate stash which was in a paper bag on his route!). We got the plug in deterrent which seems to have worked.

We also put down cotton wool pads with a mix of peppermint and lavender essential oils everywhere he'd been seen (Dr Google suggested that don't like the smell). As DSD said "So what if we smell like a branch of Lush?"

We had mice in our flat. We followed the poos and found out where they run between. We bought Tupperware to secure all flour, sugar, rice etc. We blocked any holes and possible exit points. We used one of those plug ins (they do work). I once caught a mouse using a glue trap and it made me vomit (horrible to hear the squeaking and the sight of it, eugh). Snappy traps don't work ime. We were mouse free for years...

Then they came back. We bought a kitten (We are not allowed pets in our lease but our neighbours turn a blind eye and no-one blabs on each other) and her mere prescence has seen them off, for now. Until SuperMouse inevitably arrives, but we will battle him/her when the time comes.

All very well people saying dont use glue but the plastic snap and some wooden traps just dont trigger with the very small mice ive put them out seen them eat the nutella piss all over it and it hasnt gone off thats why food factories use glue over snaps and poison. Dont care if its evil I wanted them gone and it worked when I saw one on it I just put it in a bag and bash it with a hammer quick death. Better than disease I dont see a mouse any different from a cockroach they both spread disease. The most important thing is to find point of entry and seal every gap they will come back again and again if you dont. Exterminaters do fuck all and just want your money. Seal them our and you cant go wrong. You need to do every room in every room pipes and perimeter. Put brush insulation around the doors especially the bottom keep the house clean as a whistle tea tree and all that doesnt work because when you think of it mice can stand up to the stink of sewers so I doubt sprays work. Always look around in winter as they seem to come in from the cold and keep checking dont think because you havent seen them they are gone at least then you can find the hole before you see them.

Mice can get in easily and could have made a hole in the wall somewhere. Get some snap traps and be done with them. If they keep appearing then you need to find the hole and block it up.

Maybe the landlord will pay for pest removal people for you? Though you're going to have to help out with traps as it can take a while to get rid of them.

Rural dweller so mice could be an issue if we’ve let it but I hate small furry creatures.
Get pest control in - generally they don’t live in isolation.
Forget about being humane if you don’t want to be overrun. Just get bait traps down.
Ultrasonic are reasonably effective if properly maintained - ours are hardwired.
Attack vermin at property perimeter. We have bait boxes around edges of land as neighbours have a compost heap and we live beside a graveyard. If you keep the garden clear they’re less likely to get in house.
Be mindful of where food is available. Store in plastic tubs. Clear up spills. No open food on surfaces. Dry goods stored well above floor level. Think about where bulk dry goods such as pet food are kept.
Think about how it got in and take action to seal off run routes. We have grids over guttering and downpipes, copper wire under floorboards and behind skirting to stop chewing through, eaves sealed off completely.
We’ve still had maybe three mice in ten years but that is three too many!

Mice have moved into our house a few weeks ago. During a heatwave

We’ve had pest control out last week who’ve laid bait but I can still hear them.

Pest control did a thorough check for entrances and reckon they might be coming from next door as the only possible entrance had cobwebs across it.

They’re not actually entering the main house - just between the floor boards and ceiling and in the walls but I think it’s only a matter of time

believe If you can hear them and not see them yet and have had the place bated with poison. Be prepared for the stink when they die and you cannot reach them its foul. Just keep checking for any holes now its been bated and fill any gaps you find with wire mesh they dont like metal deal with it before your over run as once they are in its a ww3 expensive battle to get them out.

The place with cobwebs is your place to start. Pest control is all very well but many dont deal with prevention that is down to you or landlord. No good keep calling them out to lay a bit of poison then they die it stinks then more come back. Honestly prevention is really better than cure with mice it takes time and is annoying pulling everything out but nothing is worse than seening them shit and piss up the place and eating your food

Glue traps are horrific! Don't use them!

Killing the mice is one ting, torturing them is quite another and it's unnecessary.

The human traps are very effective. Catch mouse - release moue into wild. It is probably out of your house already - it may have come in looking for water - there is very little available for most wildlife at the moment.

As others have said - don't leave food about (I'm sure you don't) and put a couple of traps down.

Mice poo constantly - it's like a mini-production line of poo - so if there are no droppings, there are no resident mice. It's a stray. Nothing to worry about.

And as a PP has said - cats are useless for getting rid of mice - they are more likely to cause an infestation than get rid of one, because they bring small rodents in to play with, and many of them escape and take up residency behind the skirting etc. Don't get a cat.

If anyone feels they need a predatory solution to a mouse problem - get a terrier! They're fast, they kill quickly, and they don't mess about (also deal with any "R" problems in a trice).

Behind Kick board are notorious for mice around the bath and kitchen gaps around radiators and plumming pipes fire places and gaps in skirting boards around plugs and sockets. Check check check again and again and plug it the hell up with something they cannot chew so not foam or ordinary mastic or paper. ebay sell a mastic with bits of wire even the smallist of holes they can get in so you can fill the hole with wire wool then seal it with that. Its hell.
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Poison is worse than glue and bating traps with food can just encourage get over the idea you have 'Just one that you can blissfully release into the wild for it to just turn back looking for its nest of babies. Glue is not that bad of you check the traps daily and you can use oil to get them off if you really want. If we had the humane attitude all the time we wouldnt have any food to eat all food factories bate with poison and use traps that harm and or kill mice they dont go catching them and releasing them. But above all prevention is key

There won’t just be one - more than likely a family.

Humane traps, while nice and lovely for everyone and your conscience, won’t or will hardly work - we had 7 humane traps. Caught 1. Snap traps are the best, quick death. We had more so had to resort to poison, you can buy poison that is ‘humane’ - I think it decomposes the body after the mouse has died. We still hade the annoying things so we have a few sticky traps down, nothing caught yet.

If you call the council, for a small fee they will come out to you and assess the situation, that’s what we did.

Good luck.

My landlord is covered and pest control came out yesterday and found about 5/6 mouse droppings in the living room cupboard where baby's toys were
He's laid down poison boxes and is going to come back next week to check on it, I've purchased some snap traps also!
He couldn't get under the kick boards unfortunately

Like I said thats all well and good but he wont be finding where the holes and entry points are so that is your next step go around every room and look for gaps and holes and get them filled in. Or your just playing pide piper and will be killing the ones already there and more will be born or come in. Mice mainly poo where they find food not near the hole they live in. So dont just rely on pest control they come they bate they leave and charge you if you dont want to have to call them again when the babies get big and start running riot you have to make a firm effort if you want them gone and be strict with cleaning keeping food away and hole/gap filling or you will feel like your in Tom and Jerry cartoon being outsmarted. Give the area where he found the droppings a good clean they follow smell more than sight. And be prepared for the smell of rotting mice as they dont die where you can see them all the time. And all clean the skirting around the walls as they scent mark the perimeter and use this to travel round they rarely go in the middle of the floor when they are moving. Even if you catch some kill some there will be more if you dont get where they are.

Pull out that cupboard too and get behind it and under it if you can and put the snaps near there bet you will find one triggered but no dead mouse. You mainly see them at night too when its quiet. So it is hard to find where they are listen out for scraping and chewing too that may give away where they are as they sharpen their teeth on things and make a racket

Keep all your food in high cupboards, Nothing that they can access at floor level. They won't come back if there's nothing to eat.

Oh and look out for areas with black greasy stains around it this shows that they have been coming in and out of the area and a strong ammonia smell. Its hard work getting rid but this might help you if your landlord has been slack with repairs and you need things redoing as this is why they are able to get in. Defiantly stock up in wire wool and wire mastic and fill in everywhere around the perimeter if you cant do this get him to get a builder in and do it. Bate traps and hope are really not enough.