Mouse on patio this morning

[Zooeyzo]

Spotted a mouse this morning on my patio so I banged on the window it ran off and then came back after a couple of minutes.
This went on around 5 times and I was quite surprised firstly that its daytime and second that it's an annoying little bastard mouse who won't go away.
First time I've seen one. No food or anything on patio of interest. It's also paving not a wooden one where they might live under. It's also very clear so I spotted it straight away.
I've kept the back door open all day over spring and summer.

How do people keep pests away from the house.

Ignore @Woopzies comment - poison is despicable, quite likely to be picked up by a non target species and is inherently cruel. Internall bleeding, raging thirst and slow death anyone?
If it is a woodmouse or fieldmouse species it is unlikely to come into your house and, even if it does, is unlikely to do any harm. Unlike house mice, an entirely different species, they are not carriers of zoonotic diseases.

My garden is full of them - along with voles, shrews and many other small mammals - all welcome, it is their home too

So whats all the drama about then? Its a mouse in its natural habitat and you're saying there is no access points in your house and you aren't putting traps down......kinda a pointless post then!

@Thirstquenching I normally leave the door open so I'm now concerned they might come in. But seems from other posts they normally stay outside.

@Hedgesfullofbirds how do you tell the difference between the types?

Quick! Shut the door and lock it!

How strange of a human being you are!

My thoughts exactly 🙄

Cats are gonna cat.

They're hunters. It's what they do.

Next door fed all their animals outside, so we often had mice in the garden, they never tried to get into the house. A Blackbird hopped into the kitchen once, calmly ate the worm he was holding, and then flew back out. I was gobsmacked 😂

Last week a frog hopped in, sadly the cat saw this one and despite my best efforts she was better at frog catching than me 😢

@ManateeFair nope, cat does cat things non-shocker. Mice and rats have no bladder and leave a trail of piss everywhere. The only way to be sure there are no disease-spreading piss trails in my very rural house is my brace of feisty cats.

if you want to live in a stinky rodent-ridden hovel, knock yourself out.

Here is my mouse deterrent. As you can see, he's vicious and poised for the kill 😂

It can easily be living under the patio. When my backing neighbours pulled theirs up it exposed at network of rat runs . If you put food out for birds (or neighbours do) it's probably eating that. If its not in the house I'd leave it though in winter its more likely to find a way in (eg loft space)

@MistyGreenAndBlue what a gorgeous void!

Black cats are the best. We have three!

God it's vile that's the first thing you think of

Got news for you, they've been there all the time, you just didn't see them

If it's outside, what's the problem?

I was expecting it to be there on the stair

Most might do but loads of mice go into houses, it's valid to consider how to stop that if you don't want mice on your house surely

I don't understand your point

Don’t put poison down. If another animal catches the mouse (which they likely will as the mouse will be in a weakened state) then they too are poisoned if they eat whole/part of it.

Actually the first thing I thought of was the diseases spread by such vermin and how much from a hygiene perspective it is definitely not preferable to have them in the house.

I actually find it vile that people are happy to risk mice getting into their homes.

We have a garden mouse (field mouse species) and it is very sweet, lives in hedge next to patio. It hoovers up bird table seed spilt by birds. I haven’t seen it for a while and I think our visiting badger may have had it.

Any poison given to a mouse might also poison badgers, people’s cats, birds of prey, owls, other wildlife etc. Hedgehogs might also eat mouse bait.

@Woopzies humans carry far more diseases that could harm me and mine, but they still come into my house.

Noone wants to share with a mouse, but you don’t need to nuke them, humane traps and deterrents work just fine.

The field mice were there before the houses. We have invaded THEIR territory. It’s really sad how humans are unable to see that we must live side by side with our wildlife, which are all part of biodiversity and the food chain.

It was checking out it's new residence.. Now has gone to hire a coach for all the family....

@Zooeyzo, they are not easy to tell apart unless you have one of each species side by side, for comparison, but, generally, wood mice and yellow necked mice are fractionally larger, more rounded snouts, slightly lighter in colour, larger ears and big eyes. House mice are actually native to India, but arrived here with early explorers and have adapted. They also largely live outside, but are more likely to enter human habitation than other mouse species.
It is only the males which leave urine trails and it is not constant - it is done to scent mark territory and leave a pheromone trail to attract females.
Please avoid using poisons - secondary poisoning of non target species is a real risk, there is a reason why poisons should only be used by those who have had training in the ckrrect use of second generation anti coagulant rodenticides and I believe I am right in saying that only trained, professional users are permitted to use rodenticides in an outdoor environment, for tjis very reason.
Incidentally, I have a woodmouse in my house which appears in the living room every evening for a daily snack of biscuit crumbs! I don't mind sharing my living space with other living creatures.

This is like the indorex spider thread. Kill the fucking mouse using any means necessary, if there is collateral to other wildlife so much the better.

What the fuck is wrong with people that they are so indifferent to the welfare of other species living around them? Poisoning is a despicable way to kill something and I would rather kill the cats than any of the small creatures they predate on. I fucking hate people.

Did it have clogs on?