I think I just saw a mouse

[Rainydaysandmondays2]

Run across my bedroom floor. WTAF.

I am terrified. I have never had a mouse before ever.

It was a blur and I saw something rubbery fast. I’m now sitting up with my glasses on keeping very still.

It was either a mouse, or a rat, or a spider or a cockroach.

These are all the things it could be right? I am terrified. I have no idea what to do.

Likely a mouse and if there is one there are more

I once saw one in my house. I got in the car and left. I sold the house.

We've had a few over the years. Usually just one at a time. No big deal. Get traps. Problem solved.

Did it have clogs on?

@DustyMaiden

I once saw one in my house. I got in the car and left. I sold the house.

On the stair?

Where on the stair?

It was a tiny mouse. It looked terrified and just sat till under my chest of drawers for ages. I then tried to catch it and it ran out and down the corridor and under a gap in the front door. (I live in a flat above a shop).

I feel quite ill now. In 33 years of living in London, I’ve never knowingly seen a mouse where I live.

@BluePeterVag

Where on the stair?

Right there!

@RonaldMcDonald so mean

@Rainydaysandmondays2

It was a tiny mouse. It looked terrified and just sat till under my chest of drawers for ages. I then tried to catch it and it ran out and down the corridor and under a gap in the front door. (I live in a flat above a shop).

I feel quite ill now. In 33 years of living in London, I’ve never knowingly seen a mouse where I live.

It's winter, they look for somewhere warm. It's not a nest of rats which in London is just as likely.

Go to sleep, it won't hurt you. In the morning mouseproof your food. Hoover all the crumbs up and if you are hardcore enough to deal with the consequences set out some traps.

Borrowing a cat doesn't work in my experience, they just play with the sodding things.

I saw a mouse where there under the stairs. Did it have clogs on

A little mouse won't hurt you. But it will spread germs. So set traps or call a pest controller. And if you feel able to, raise it with the shop, because the mice might be downstairs too.

A mouse can fit through a gap the width of a pencil, so they're hard to keep out 100%.

A little mouse with clogs on

Well I declare!

Sorry op

Dunno what to suggest

[quote NavyKitchen]@RonaldMcDonald so mean[/quote]
Might be mean but also bloody true. There is no such thing as a mouse...

I had a large rat appear from under my bed when I was staying with friends in a little village in a West African country. It was a horrible experience. On another occasion I discovered a scorpion. I was very relieved to have a mosquito net.

Awh wee mice are cute (although they spread germs), use a humane trap to catch & release

I’m jealous OP, I’d love to see a mouse!

Generally speaking, they only appear if there’s food they can get to. Make sure all food’s secured, and look for teeny tiny gaps through which they can enter the property. Plug any gaps and they shouldn’t return. It won’t hurt you in the meantime.

Thank you for the non jokey responses. I feel quite upset by the whole thing. It was so small though that I feel much better. If it had been bigger I’d have been terrified and in a worse state.

I don’t tend to have food out but now I’m paranoid that my flat is really dirty. Tomorrow I will clean everything.

We have five cats. Only the females catch mice. The boys just eat, sleep and look cute.

You need to call Danny Dyer.

I don’t tend to have food out but now I’m paranoid that my flat is really dirty. Tomorrow I will clean everything

No it doesn't mean your flat is dirty. Just make sure you hoover up crumbs, wipe cupboards and sink so no food around, make sure it's done before you go to bed. Mice can exist on mere crumbs. Keep cereal, pasta etc in jars and put them away, preferably in a wall cupboard.

Make sure you check boiler cupboard if you have one, they like it in there as it's warm.

Get some steel wool (mix filler into it if you can) go around flat blocking up any holes/gaps you see..check stairs, skirting boards, around pipes. They squeeze in through tiny gaps.

Put traps down but if you're squeamish, use humane traps.

I always feel sorry for mice, they're prey for so many animals and they're just trying to be safe, and warm in the winter. But..rodents/germs so no good in your home. Cut off their food supply they'll go elsewhere.

Unfortunately, they're likely to be in the shop below. You'll have to let owners know, so they can deal with it

Now you have frightened the little mouse, so that's not nice. What kind of shop do live over, is it a food shop, if so, best to tell the owners.

Mice are common but spread diseases, including salmonella, as they wee everywhere. I’d get some snap traps and bait them with peanut butter, in case there are more than one!

Don’t get the ‘friendly’ traps as they cause the trapped mice a lot of distress, and when released the mice either make their way home or get killed by other mice as it’s a new territory.