Little mousey fuckers have eaten all the stocking fillers

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One large Lindt bear
Four bags of chocolate coins
Two marzipan logs
One tube of smarties
Box of heroes
Tube of chocolate buttons
Tray of Reece’s treats
The cotton bag the coins were in

Little shredded bits of foil, plastic and paper all over the cupboard. Cat gives me a nonchalant look and goes back to sleep.

AIBU to fire the cat, go through all our food cupboards to check for recon mice and engage in all-our war with the little buggers?

Try not to use poison, they sometimes die within the building structure, and the smell will be around for sometime, followed by a host of blue-bottles which may or may not have consumed the poisonous flesh and be toxic themselves. You never know, said cat might actually be keeping them down, fire the cat and get twice as many mouses. Have a great Christmas, put the chockies in a tin box.

These are what you need, bait them with peanut butter the moment mousey touches it - a thousandth of a second later he ceases to be!

And take the cost out of that cats pocket money!!

www.toolstation.com/sure-set-mouse-trap/p26996

If you've got an attic or loft, put lots of those 'little nipper' traps in it. A pest controller told us that house mice tend to stay high in houses and come down to forage. It may be complete bollocks but it did help with our mouse problem. We also lost lots of stocking fillers to them one year.

We've got an old house so we're very unlikely to completely get rid of the little mousey bastards and it seems like cats aren't the answer I thought they were! However the monster spiders we seem to be breeding may be able to prey on them soon

sticky traps are your friend

Sticky traps are No-Ones friend , they are vile and in humane .

If you want to kill them use a Snap-Trap , read the instructions and you'll do it safely . You won't snap yourself , just keep your fingers out of the way when you spring it and place it down (out of the way of the cat )

If you use Sticky Traps what do you DO with the poor little live buggers who are stuck to it ? .

Sticky traps work but then you're left with an alive and often loudly screeching mouse, which is horrific.

Glue/sticky traps are awful

I had a mouse, had to actually call the cat over and point at it before she would be anything😂.

I think she brought it in to play with it, then it got away from her.

I have out a few humane traps down.

My cat is also not a mouser. The one time he did catch a mouse it was outside and he brought it in the house - alive! It was still a baby and pretty much frozen in fear in my hall carpet. The cat looked rather pleased with himself. I did think it was dead at first but then it started moving. I caught it in a tub and took it back outside. Cat was really annoyed at me for that. Didn’t want it escaping and setting up home in my house so it had to go. I couldn’t bring myself to kill it but I suspect the poor thing probably died of heat failure later on from the sheer shock of the whole experience.

Mars bars seem to be a bait they love

We had a similar infestation recently - got into a large tupperware bin which hadn't been closed properly and annihilated the contents - sugar, flour, rice, marzipan. Got rid of them with humane weapons of mouse destruction due to the fact we have a curious terrier and didn't want to risk her eating a poisoned rodent.
Sack the cat, I say.

Time to sack/retire the cat and get a feisty Jack Russell terrier.

I tried a humane trap once; our spaniel broke it open and ate the mouse!

We had a cat who failed to even try to catch the mouse.

We bought traps.

She was so disgusted at us for doubting her, the next day she caught it and killed it.

She then caught three more in the garden and brought them in to the house alive and let them go....we were quite good at catching them in Tupperware tubs and chucking them outside after that!

I feel for you we once had some eat all the Christmas decorations. Pulled box our of loft they had chewed a side of it off...nibbles lots of the wooden Dec's and there was a trail of tinsel leading off in to the insulation. The thought of all the glittery mouse nests made me smile a little though .

I seeing mars bars as bait. We caught loads of wee bastards with it. Mash it between your fingers until it’s tacky then it sticks to the trap and the mouse definitely gets caught. We couldn’t get rid of them and they only appeared after the dog died.

All out war on the Mickey's and don't feed the cat, let the cat survive the old fashioned way
On a more serious note, check all the food cupboards and look for telltale signs - little black faeces which look like onion seeds.
Put down traps baited with cheap chocolate or peanut butter - not Lindt.

Voice of experience: never, ever ignore scrabbling noises in the night. They are never your imagination!

^^This! When I was a teen I heard scratching noises from the walls in the middle of the night. Shat myself and legged it to my parents room, then paused looking at my sleeping Mam thinking 'wtf this is crackers, I can't wake her to tell her I heard a ghost'. Turns out it was mice

Nuclear mouse warheads! Brilliant.

Go for it. Deal with the disease ridden but very cute little fuckers with extreme prejudice.

Our cats bring mice in as treats for us.
Last year the a mouse made its home in the drawer under the bed and proceded to nibble not only the stocking fillers but the stockings too. We spent Xmas eve scrubbing the drawers out and looking for mouse free stockings.
We always use humane traps with peanut buttet and return to garden.
I was in hopistal recently and came home looking and feeling pretty rough. The cats decided that the only cure was a freshly caught mouse deposited on the bed

Your cat is too regal to eat mice though, I have one like that. I think tabby cats feel too superior for mouse diet.
Here are my slacker cats

We used a humane trap, baited with peanut butter. The mouse goes in, and the door slams shut behind it. It's perspex so you can see if the mouse has been caught. Then you take it outside and release it quite far away from your house.

Cats are far too busy sleeping, grooming and being pampered to do menial work like catching mice.

Our last cat did catch one and proceeded to play with it, at 2am under my bed! She was most put out when I refused to allow her onto my bed with it.

My cat then got bored and the mouse managed to hide and I found it the following day, worse for wear and I put it out of it's misery and finished it off. The cat was most put out with me removing her toy and would leap off the bed and pretend to hunt in corners to spook me for months afterwards. Cats have a sadistic sense of humour!

No cat pictures here but we did find a sonic vermin repellent very effective in the kitchen of our last flat.

My young Male cat has only just started bringing "gifts". Came downstairs this morning to feathers and a bird carcass all over my BRAND.NEW.SOFA

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Time to sack/retire the cat and get a feisty Jack Russell terrier.

I have a jack Russell ..I also have constant mouse invasions
Snap traps work and I hope kill quickly...they do however have a habit of pinging off across the floor , or in our case under the kitchen units .....out of reach....I went to help myself to a Jammie Dodger from a box on my living room coffee table....it had been well and truely chewed !!

They like to have a lot of babies too , one year in a box of cornflakes and toaster