To burn my house down.

Ducksurprise · 2020-11-27T21:41:08+00:00

I went to my secret chocolate stash, in the crockery cupboard and there were none left, thought DH (who is the reason I need to hide it) had found it and left and empty bag. But no......... The bag wasn't empty it had mouse poo in it. Mouse. Poo. That means Mice (not mouse) have been in my house, my kitchen nothing is safe. I think the only action is to find the matches.

ghostyslovesheets · 27/11/2020 21:45

No

Get a cat 🐈

YoniAndGuy · 27/11/2020 21:47

You need to hide chocolate from your DH? Is he Augustus Gloop?

Burn his lederhosen, yes, but as for mice - aw, I think they add character to a home.

LindaEllen · 27/11/2020 21:48

We've just had a problem with mice, and my god did it drag on. We had traps (of many kinds) and poison all over the house, and it took us months to catch them all. In the end we caught 5, and every time we caught one we dreaded hearing the scrabbling that meant there was another one.

After mouse 5, we've heard and seen nothing, so we've got them all now. Thank goodness. Mouse 5 was caught weeks ago so I think it's safe.

Honestly though, ours got practically tame, it was fucking ridiculous. They kept coming in the bedroom in the morning and just standing there looking at me (I did think I was going mad at one point, as I said good morning, and when DP woke up he was confused when SS was still in bed and I had to explain that I'd been saying good morning to the mouse, and not him ...) and when I'm watching TV in the living room one would pop out from behind the couch and literally wander round like it owned the place.

So glad it's over.

Cover the house with traps. You'll get them eventually.

CatFearer · 27/11/2020 21:50

I have a mouse in the house too! It's awful. It's eaten its way through a food basket drawer and eaten lots of pasta and potatoes. It's stolen bags of cat treats and it's stolen bags of spices.

We hear it at night rustling the bags its stolen. It lives behind our dishwasher. I have a cat. And we've left out humane traps. But we can't catch the damn thing (or things).

BluebellsareBlue · 27/11/2020 21:52

@YoniAndGuy ha h ah aha ha I actually burst out laughing and the dog nearly shit himself!! Is he Augustus Gloop!! I genuinely have tears running down my face 😂😂😂😂

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Ducksurprise · 27/11/2020 21:52

@LindaEllen

We've just had a problem with mice, and my god did it drag on. We had traps (of many kinds) and poison all over the house, and it took us months to catch them all. In the end we caught 5, and every time we caught one we dreaded hearing the scrabbling that meant there was another one.

After mouse 5, we've heard and seen nothing, so we've got them all now. Thank goodness. Mouse 5 was caught weeks ago so I think it's safe.

Honestly though, ours got practically tame, it was fucking ridiculous. They kept coming in the bedroom in the morning and just standing there looking at me (I did think I was going mad at one point, as I said good morning, and when DP woke up he was confused when SS was still in bed and I had to explain that I'd been saying good morning to the mouse, and not him ...) and when I'm watching TV in the living room one would pop out from behind the couch and literally wander round like it owned the place.

So glad it's over.

Cover the house with traps. You'll get them eventually.

I actually think I might die in my bed if this happens to me.

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Ducksurprise · 27/11/2020 21:55

@YoniAndGuy

You need to hide chocolate from your DH? Is he Augustus Gloop?

Burn his lederhosen, yes, but as for mice - aw, I think they add character to a home.

Amazingly not. He is skinny as fuck but a selfish knob when it comes to sweet things. Honestly even the kids hide things from him. It is most unattractive but other than that he's alright.

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LindaEllen · 27/11/2020 22:01

@Ducksurprise hahaha honestly they were like my little furry best mates by the end! (Still happy when they died)

SunshineYello · 27/11/2020 22:01

Not the same, but I noticed a strange smell in my house which I kept mentioning to my husband (he has no sense of smell and thought I was mad).
4 DAYS later !!!! I'm sat there at night watching the walking dead, when the TV unit started shaking and rattling. I honestly thought I was having an out of body experience with the fear and confusion. A skinny black arm stretched out from underneath (I'm hyperventilating at this point), closely followed by the scrawny cat it was attached to!
No idea how/when in got in my home, or how long it had been there but I swear the shock nearly killed me!!!!

thosetalesofunexpected · 27/11/2020 22:01

LindaEllen its Allways best to use humane traps than poison, to capture mice, and then release them outside somewhere not nearby,as they have got pretty good homing instinct..

LindaEllen · 27/11/2020 22:01

Also, FWIW, I regularly hide food from DP and DSS, and in fact the mice ate some of my secret stash too. A bag full of chewy sweets. I'm not surprised they were so active - they were constantly high on sugar!

paganbilly · 27/11/2020 22:02

@SunshineYello

Not the same, but I noticed a strange smell in my house which I kept mentioning to my husband (he has no sense of smell and thought I was mad). 4 DAYS later !!!! I'm sat there at night watching the walking dead, when the TV unit started shaking and rattling. I honestly thought I was having an out of body experience with the fear and confusion. A skinny black arm stretched out from underneath (I'm hyperventilating at this point), closely followed by the scrawny cat it was attached to! No idea how/when in got in my home, or how long it had been there but I swear the shock nearly killed me!!!!

Had your cat gone under there for a mouse ?

SunshineYello · 27/11/2020 22:02

It was like those 'but I don't even own a cat' posts you see on Facebook!!

1manwenttomow · 27/11/2020 22:03

We had a mouse once it had eaten its way through almost a full packet of that really had caramel chocolate called reasons I think, they don't want cheese they want chocolate but I also felt the same regarding the matches 😵

sarahC40 · 27/11/2020 22:03

I got attacked by a mouse once....well it threw itself out of my saucepan cupboard and hit my knee as I shot away, ran upstairs and rang my friend. She laughed and said that it was much worse having rats eating through her wall to get in...

SunshineYello · 27/11/2020 22:03

@paganbilly Not my cat!!! No idea whose cat it was or when it got in; it bolted so fast when I opened the front door it almost broke the land speed record!!

LindaEllen · 27/11/2020 22:05

@thosetalesofunexpected

LindaEllen its Allways best to use humane traps than poison, to capture mice, and then release them outside somewhere not nearby,as they have got pretty good homing instinct..

We had a couple of humane traps, they never went near them. We actually caught one and chased it into a box (pic attached!) and released it a long way away at 1am hahaha. But yeah we did try humane first, then normal traps .. we really wanted to get rid of them humanely but you get to a point where you just need rid!

HappyDaze90 · 27/11/2020 22:05

@SunshineYello

Not the same, but I noticed a strange smell in my house which I kept mentioning to my husband (he has no sense of smell and thought I was mad). 4 DAYS later !!!! I'm sat there at night watching the walking dead, when the TV unit started shaking and rattling. I honestly thought I was having an out of body experience with the fear and confusion. A skinny black arm stretched out from underneath (I'm hyperventilating at this point), closely followed by the scrawny cat it was attached to! No idea how/when in got in my home, or how long it had been there but I swear the shock nearly killed me!!!!

Fuck me, I’d have died right there and then.

While you were watching The Walking Dead of all things 😂😂😂

Witcherfan · 27/11/2020 22:09

We had 3, got traps from b & q peanut butter and got them all very quickly. Then filled all possible entry holes with expanding foam and chicken wire.

SlopesOff · 27/11/2020 22:34

We had mice, lived next to a London restaurant kitchen entrance and close to the kitchen of a hotel. Used to hear rustling at night and one day I heard the bin bag rustle, looked in and there was a little mouse in the bottom, it was a clean bag. I took the bag out and took him for a walk and let him go.

Not long after I was watching TV when a really tiny little ruffled up mouse wandered out from under the sofa where I was sitting, sat and shook himself, I could almost see him yawning he was still sleepy and really cute, before wandering off into the bedroom. I never saw him again even though I moved all the furniture. I blocked all the holes I could find but being where we were it was probably a waste of time. It put me off eating out though.

Staffy1 · 27/11/2020 23:17

We also had some at a previous place we rented, which got quite familiar. They used to run past us in the hallway and come into the lounge and have a look around. I thought they were cute and left a few peas down every night. When we moved I bought a "hamster starter kit" (yes, it really was called that) from Argos and the plan was to catch them and take them with. Unfortunately I had to be elsewhere when the move date came, and it was left to DH who said he tried (probably not too hard) but didn't manage, and also said there were actually 4 of them, not just two as we originally thought. When me moved in to our present house there were rat noises under the bath and a hole into the drains that needed closing apparently. A pest control person put down a trap under the bath before the drain hole was closed by someone else. I wish I had been thinking straight at the time and told them to just sort out the drain problem first, which would have solved the rat under the bath at night problem, because I still can't bear to think of the hours of screaming from that poor rat when it got caught in the trap.

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Ducksurprise · 29/11/2020 11:02

I thought they were cute and left a few peas down every night. When we moved I bought a "hamster starter kit" (yes, it really was called that) from Argos and the plan was to catch them and take them with

I think this maybe the most batshit comment I have ever read on MN!

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stonebrambleboy · 29/11/2020 13:39

You can buy a plug in device from Amazon that emits a low volume signal that deters mice. My neighbour got one and said it worked brilliantly.

Backbee · 29/11/2020 13:42

Eurgh we had mice at uni, used traps with peanut butter on, felt cruel but fuck that. If you can afford to could get a professional round, they check the entrance points as well usually and can advise.