Had a mouse problem for nearly a year. HELP

[SoSickAndTiredOfTheCuntingMice]

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The first time I ever spotted a mouse was last year August. I cannot tell you the amount of times I’ve posted on here trying to get advice on how to kill the bloody things.

I’ve tried poison (that they barely touch), snap traps with peanut butter, bacon and God knows what else. I’ve used electronic traps. I have sonar mouse repellent plugged into my kitchen walls. Heck, I’ve even used glue traps. And guess what? I haven’t caught not one mouse.

I hear them in the walls, I see the droppings too. I went in the kitchen to get DC a bottle of milk and to my surprise (NOT), a trap had gone off but no mouse? I’ve had pest control come out around 6 times and they do fuck all.

Yes I’ve filled all holes that I can find with wire wool and expanding foam. Truth is, the kids and I are in a rented property and we can’t exactly rip out the cupboards to see what holes may be behind the units. Does anyone and I truly mean anyone, have some words of wisdom for me? Maybe something else that I haven’t tried?

I’m just so sick of these mice. I hate going into my kitchen because I’m scared I’ll see one again!

Buy a couple of cheap drums of rat & mouse poison pellets, the blue ones that are sold in mini markets like Nisa. Go round all your rooms, find every hole & pour pellets down every one & the block with wire wool. Go around the outside of your house & look for missing pointing, holes where tv aerials, Sky cables, pipes or dryer vents go in, check for broken air bricks, fill all holes with cement, check under door & window frames & do the same. Then get rid of any long grass, outdoor rubbish, clear around sheds, put poison in sheds & garage if you have one. Go through your kitchen cupboards & put all food in tins, jars, or plastic containers, clear the crumb tray every time you use the toaster, hoover every day so that there are no crumbs around & empty the hoover in the outside bin, empty your kitchen bin every day, keep your tumble dryer door shut. The pest man failed to get rid of my mice, but I got rid of them this way within a week.

Don't get a cat. My car is an excellent mouser but the only times we've ever had mice in the house is when she's brought live ones in to play with and lost them when she's got bored.

Clear up your food, every single crumb, and they'll move on. That even worked for us outdoors and we keep chickens.

I can’t believe you are recommending glue traps. Unbelievable.
I had mice for months. The only thing that worked was being absolutely scrupulous about putting food in seal proof containers and washing surfaces down every night. They’ll leave if there is no food

We had a rat that kept returning and had to resort to the cameras down drains etc- it was using a disused drain and then up the heating pipes down through a hole at side of boiler - so they blocked it off - not nice, we heard it scrabbling around a wall one night and day later our kitchen filled with blue flys- but never had the issue again

We had mice in our old house. I put down flour across all the doorways - in the mornings you could see their footprints and figure out where they were moving.

Then used humane traps - the square plastic tube see-saw type ones - with peanut butter in them that would catch the mouse alive. The first couple of times I took it to the bottom of the garden and threw the mouse over the wall, but apparently they know how to get back to their home from about a mile away. Next time I caught one I took the trap for a drive and let it out in a graveyard a few miles away. A few more trips and they were all gone

You have to find out where they are getting in and you can’t leave any food or water source available for them. They can get into the tiniest spots. You need a wildlife expert in. They fined the entrance and exit spots where they’re getting in. Good luck. Find

Why have people resurrected a thread from June?🤣

Get a cat!

Didn’t look at the date. Why don’t you remove it?

Threads don’t get deleted unless it breaks the Talk Guidelines. You can’t delete threads yourself and I got a notification when someone quoted my post. Just the way MN is

At this point just give them names and keep them as pets.

Easier and cheaper.

Hope you got rid of them OP