Bloody Mice!

[StopItAndTidyUpNow]

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I was rudely awoken 2 nights ago by the sound of mice having a fight above my head in the attic. Then heard them running around for a short while afterwards

I'm devastated, I'm due to sell my house in the next couple of months!
Went up into the attic the next day and yep sure enough, mice droppings everywhere :-(

I never had a problem before my new neighbours moved in, I regularly go up to the attic to put things away, bring things down as I don't have a huge amount of cupboards or storage space and have never seen mice droppings. Neighbours have rubbish out the front and back, garden is so overgrown it's now towering above my fence, the stench that comes from their property when they do bother to open their windows is just absolutely vile.

It's privately owned so council are not interested in the mess.

I rang the council again yesterday and they told me there is nothing they can do about it as its privately owned and that I will have to deal with the mice infestation myself!

I have spoken to next door about the mess, and yesterday i mentioned the mice and just got shrugs and "oh well's"
They really do not care that they are living in a pigsty ffs!

So my question is, I am just going to be flogging a dead horse by trying to eradicate them myself as they are clearly being attracted to next door and can get into my house via all the gaps.
Blocking all the holes up between my house and next door would involve me ripping up every floor, pulling out all my kitchen units, pulling out my fitted wardrobes so that's a no go idea.

I have set traps and put down bait - 10 blocks of bait have gone in one day but no traps have been set off as yet.
It's definitely mice btw the droppings are too small for rats or squirrels.

I rang rentokill but they are too expensive for me to afford at the moment, council also suggested rentokill as they don't have any non housing tenant facilities to offer.

What else can I do? Do i just resign myself to the fact that i am just going to be completely over run with them and there's nothing I can do??

We live in the country and every autumn they try to come into the roof - using the sonic plug in sensors works every time. We don't have to use any traps or poison.

I use the sonic plug ins,they've worked a treat.

Snap traps are the kindest way to get rid of them. The big cheese traps are good.

Surely the fact that the neighbours are dumping stuff outside will make it impossible to sell your house?
I'd report seeing rats in their garden to the environmental health (even if their are none) and lob every dead mouse carcass into their garden when they are out.