Best traps for mouse

[pedropony76]

Pls help! I know people will make fun of me and tell me to get a grip but this is the first time I’ve ever had a mouse in my flat. I’ve never lived in a home with a garden as I know this is the norm for many people. I’m the sort of person that goes hysterical when a wasp flies into the house.

I have a kitchen (where the mouse is) with no door, it has more of an opening which you step in to. The kitchen is attached to the living room which also has no door! I live here with my two babies and will probably be going to my mum’s as my ex tries to catch it.

Can anyone recommend the best traps they’ve used pls? I don’t care if it kills the mouse or keeps it alive. I just need it gone. Can someone also advise what to do once it’s gone? To I need to close up any small spaces or what do I do??? I genuinely cannot believe there’s a mouse in my flat fml

Glue traps are disgustingly inhumane - nothing wrong with killing the mouse but find a tiny bit of empathy, take them up and get some snap traps instead.

These work. Bait them with peanut butter and put them down next to a wall near where you’ve seen a mouse if possible. They tend to run alongside skirtings. Expect to catch more than one. If you are catching a few then you may need to use poison like Sorexa to deal with them. I don’t like doing it either but it’s them or you.

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I had one in my garage last year & it ate all my Christmas chocolate I’d stored in there. I put those snapper traps down (I got from Wilko I think or Boyes) and baited with melted chocolate on the pin. I caught 10 in all! 10!!
They also ate holes in a blanket that was in there out of my car, and the leg off my pig (it was a little stuffed toy not a real one!)

My local council has a pest control, was about £50, best £50 I'd ever spent. I tried every trap going. I did catch a couple in a big cheese trap but not all of them. Like you I saw 1 and prayed it was just the one but had 2 grown ups and 3 babies....that I found.

Well, kind of.

I live in a flat and much to my horror, saw a little mouse running across my kitchen floor a few years ago. I got pest control out and they poked around and couldn't find evidence of any nests. They set these little bait stations and when they checked them a week later, hardly any of the bait had been taken but I never saw any more mice. At least not until a few months later, when I set a trap and caught him. I've seen mice occasionally since then, but usually a single trap does the job.

Obviously there is a nest of the little gits somewhere near my flat, and maybe one mouse gets lost and turns up in my flat. Or the nest is disturbed due to building work. So yes, you can kind of have just one mouse.

As to traps, I agree with the others. Old-fashioned snap traps baited with peanut butter work best.

I had a mouse last year. I'm Sure it was only one , tho did keep seeings its droppings, and could hear it at night. Tryed several kinds of traps and bait, including poisined traps put down by pest control. And spraying peppermint oil all around the house. As apparently they hate it. I was going crazy cleaning so much every day. But the bloody thing was just too clever to get caught . In the end the only thing that worked was a device that you plug in , that gives off ultra sonic sounds that they can't stand, and it buggered off. Never had one since, fingers crossed . Also my husband used wire wool to block any gaps up. You can buy the device from Amazon or Screwfix. Good luck.

I've had mice, on and off, for years in my loft. Didn't particularly want to kill them so bought a humane one, that traps them alive.

Set it up one evening and in the morning checked it. Yep it had worked - one small mouse inside. However, it had bloody suffocated. The mess inside where it had struggled and died was horrible. Absolutely nothing humane about it.

I binned it and bought an electronic one from screwfix that electrocutes them instantly. Worked a treat.

If you're in private then I would contact the landlord first.

House mice cannot survive in the wild. They will die a slow and terrifying death if you set them free.

I’m a huge animal lover and when we moved
rurally DH and I said no way would we set kill traps for mice. Cue two years of trying to get them to sod off ‘humanely’ and we realised a. releasing mice not evolved for the wild was cruel and b. we would never be rid of mice by doing this.

We had a terrible mice problem, every day they would brazenly run across the kitchen worktops, leaving a trail of poop and urine. They would eat our dogs’ food, and anything they could get their paws on. Every morning, DH would take the little ‘humane’ trap with its cute contents to a field a good three miles away. Yet the mouse problem prevailed.

Imagine the germs and disease that was living in my house. It went against all my principals but DH and I finally gave up. We set a few traps and haven’t had a mice problem since. It still doesn’t sit comfortably with me that we had to resort to such action. But try living with a poop and urine covered kitchen for years.

Oh don't be wet. They're vermin and spread disease and yes, I would and have killed them. Snap traps, quick and effective. We had a major infestation.
"Nature red in tooth and claw", folks.

I have the humane ones that the mouse runs into, the door shuts and they're stuck inside. I use peanut butter to attract them, but usually they are running for their lives away from the cat that brought them in to play. I put them along the skirting board. They are very effective and I just pick up the brown plastic box and take them far away & release. Bought from Amazon. About 25 cm long.

I was a dead set "you can't kill innocent animals" until our current mouse problem. We have humane traps, snap traps, electric traps, bait boxes. We have seen at least three mice in the kitchen and have finally, after months, caught ONE of them! I hate the idea of killing them but they're chewing everything, they're sitting everywhere. The bloody dog came face to face with one yesterday, sniffed it and walked off. Wtaf?!

Nasty op. Just get iron wool to block them out, no need to give living things an awful death.

Doesn't work. Ask me how I know.