To ask how the HELL do you get rid of a clever mouse?!

[Squeakingmad]

Not an AIBU but traffic etc.

We've got a wild mouse living under the floor in our house. Discovered about a month ago when the thing scurried across the floor.

We immediately put some traps down. No luck.

For three weeks we've had pest control in, putting poison down, laying traps. He is coming back today and I've just found fresh mouse droppings so the little fucker is still alive.

My kitchen is a mess because nothing can be in the cupboards. I'm knackered with constantly vacuuming and cleaning up. We know it's getting out and about and I'm actually full of RAGE about it this morning.

I've got two kids. I don't want a fucking mouse. If pest control can't get rid of it, what else can I do?! This is really affecting me now.

🐈‍⬛ a cat is the most effective mouse control you can have in my experience, if you're able to have one

You never get A mouse. There's a whole nest under there, sorry OP.

I would get pest control out again, possibly rip up the floor and rent a cat.

It's almost certainly more than one mouse.
I would get a pest controller in, see if your LA will help.
Also look for where it is gaining access and block holes with wire wool.
Depending on your weather it may be a temporary resident driven in from outside.

There will be lots of them or more coming in from the cold.

Keep going - they’ll be gone eventually.

Humane mouse trap and peanut butter. Our cats occasionally bring in a live mouse and this seems to work, especially when they've got behind a cupboard or skirting board.

You need a clever cat!

You would think a cat is the most effective pest control, but I have one which lacks teeth, as she was a rescue cat and had an infection when she was brought in. She is, bless her, the most terrible hunter in the world. She catches mice outside and brings them in, still alive, which means we need to play ‘catch the mouse’ and put it back outside. However, her presence means we no longer have mice under the stairs.

Jack Russell better than cat ime!

I know it’s cruel, but the sticky glue traps all along the kitchen kickbacks worked for us when traditional traps didn’t…

I think people have missed that I've had pest control in TWICE! They come back once a week to check etc. I've gone mad and set up my ring doorbell and caught the mouse in the same cupboard as bait on there. It just avoids it! Clever old thing. Pest control have put all sorts of tempting things in the traps.

Yes - fully aware of the "you never get one mouse" but even pest control have said it's very likely to be one from the very very limited droppings I'm finding and from the fact nothing is touching the bait. Believe me, I've had the whole house out and have been keeping tabs on where it's going.

Cat - no. Don't want one and both my family members with cats have to put traps out because the bloody cats bring mice in.

I started out with humane traps but I'm at the point now where I don't care. I just want it gone.

You've never, ever, only got just one mouse op (unless your own stupid cat brought the fucker in, but that's a different story).

Mice like chocolate in snap traps. Just sayin'

@VerticalSausages ooo that's an idea! It's definitely using the kick backs to hop over and get into the kitchen. We have holes in some of the cupboards for plugs etc and it's using those too so it has a nice little set up.

The glue traps are hideously cruel. I'd rather have a mouse than have that on my conscience.

I have used proper mouse traps with a piece of frankfurter, works every time.

Tried chocolate. Trie peanut butter. The thing ripped apart some crisps so have also tried crisps.

Mouse man trying all sorts of seeds and poison and says "this mouse has been sent to try us".

Pretty sure if we were overrun with mice something would have taken the bait by now.

You don't. You just move.

My cat caught four rats in one day once but she isn't quite efficient at killing them as a JR so we have to do it. She was abandoned/stray/feral so obviously did used to do it.

The glue traps are hideously cruel. I'd rather have a mouse than have that on my conscience.

I would have said the same. Before having a mouse pissing and shitting all over my house when I have two small children and enough on my mental plate. And when I've exhausted other options.

Apparently humane mousetraps are cruel unless you set the mouse free within an hour. Poor things die a prolonged death of stress etc.

I had mice for a couple of years and tried everything including rentokil and nothing worked. Finally, I used glues traps, reluctantly, and that did work, it was a last resort. Mice seem to be immune to all the bait nowadays.

I had one mouse. Each year, one seems to come in, I spot it, put down snap traps baited with Nutella along skirting boards and I've never had to wait more than an hour to hear the trap go off.

Mouse caught.

Never any more droppings after that. No more sightings. I keep fresh traps down for weeks. No more mice.

it is entirely possible to have just one mouse.

Is it accessing food somewhere in the house? If so it may not be interested in the traps. We've had mice in the utility that the cats have brought in and found the only way to get them in the humane traps was to remove any possible food source.

Oh and Pest control also can't figure out how it got in either. He's been all round the outside and all bricks in tact etc. so I'm not thrilled a new mouse could take up with us

We humans think we are so smart, oh apex predators that’s us.

Then you go on rat catchers forums and see these people pitting their wits against rats professionally and loooooooosing

Honestly I find it hilarious

To keep rodents at bay I trained my puppy to be ratter and they only rats and mice I ever see are dead

Can you borrow a cat? Or adopt one if you would be up for a pet! Even the smell of a cat is a deterrent to mice.

When we moved into our crumbly old house there were mice droppings everywhere and I saw two in the first week. I haven’t seen any mice or droppings since our two cats arrived.

Cheap snap traps. We baited with Nutella & caught 2 persistent offenders straightaway. Not nice to dispose of but cheap enough to just wrap up & throw the whole thing away.
If we ever had mice again I'd never use anything else, I think they were £3 for 6.