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.

I wonder how many people have read this thread and rushed off to buy sticky boards because well meaning posters keep reminding everyone that they will be banned from April.

Have you tried baiting the traps with dried fruit - sultanas etc?

maybe it's a posh mouse
try caviar on sourdough?

Probably not as many who find it really really weird how amusing you find that idea

You might have tried such things already, and it may also drive you a bit mad, but have you used one of the very high pitched /ultrasonic things that emit noise that technically only animals can hear, perhaps in tandem with a product such as a fox urine spray (near the holes and ground levels where the rodents probably go)? This usually repels smaller prey animals and should do the trick for rats too.
(I also wondered about the rat or mouse question - rats are a lot cleverer and will have marked out trails to follow that they tend not to want to deviate from. Most I have seen make good use of drainpipes or roof spaces and go 'up' very easily).

That said, fox urine may be a hardcore attempt, inside - I would think that the commercial sprays do contain other ingredients than the real thing, but probably also the real thing, which may be just as gross as mouse pee.

*Shame on you for such a barbaric way to prolong a mouse suffering. They literally bite their own limbs off trying to get free.
*

@Mademetoxic oh chill out. I'd never even heard of those sticky traps before today.
Let alone used them.

Do his feet smell exceptionally cheesy?

@VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji

Like roses 😉

Quite! What a bizarre thing to say.

If you lived near me I'd bring my cat over, she'd have that fucker in no time.

Have you seen Mouse Hunt? 😂

I have a terrific mouser, actually 3 but one of them is ferocious. I wonder if there is a good business idea in this, I move into your home for a week to see if my cats could kill it/them for you.

Humane trap and Lindt Chocolate would be my Dads recommendation. He used Lindt as it was "too sweet" for him. Tbf if I was a mouse I'd go in a trap for that!! You then have to release over a mile away as apparently they can find their way back.

Sorry not RTFT but you can borrow one of my cats ... they bring in mice all the time! Seriously good at catching them!
The dog however, saves the bloody things ... so they get deposited over the fence from wence they came!

... oh and block up any holes they may have come in through too - my IL's had to do this in Their holiday cottage ... many weeks unused and the mouse chewed through the sofa, made a nest and had babies!! Stinking house and had to bin sofa plus all the stored bedding inside (sofa bed) 😳 they found the hole, blocked it and toodles to the mice issue!

You have to be a real scumbag to use glue traps. evil thing to do

Please forgive me, re the sticky boards, my last venom control recommended them to me and so I thought they were all fine and dandy.
Building works led to an intolerable situation, with a newborn and mice roaming worktops , leaving droppings everywhere.

I shan't use them again and will not endorse them

At your service 🐈‍⬛

Ask on FB if anyone local has a trained ferret or polecat (trained to recall on command - you don't want a lost ferret also living in your house).

They are much more effective than cats at hunting rodents. They can fit into the same small places. We used to hire our ferret out to pest control companies.

Humane traps are inhumane, btw. Mice and rats live in family groups. They cannot survive on their own. If you trap one and take it far enough away that it cannot find it's family it will either be killed by other rats/mice or predators or it will die a slow and painful death of exposure and starvation. Snap traps are the most humane.

My husband swears by chocolate
We have had quite a few mice but a trap with a bit of fudge bar or a Malteser works a treat!

Just coming on to say we had exactly the same problem, small children and a mouse that was super smart in avoiding the traps. The thing that made me go nuclear was when we had been away for the weekend, came home and there were droppings on my baby's cot mattress 😡

Like yours, mine would go into the cupboard where the trap was but avoid the trap. So after the mattress droppings, I bought enough traps to cover the entire base of the cupboard, meaning there was literally no way of it getting anywhere once it had got in. That worked... they all went off in a kind of domino once the first was triggered.

Hope you can manage to get rid.

Probably not as many who find it really really weird how amusing you find that idea

Oh god if my eyes roll any further back they will roll out of my mouth. Bugger off with your projections.

Like yours, mine would go into the cupboard where the trap was but avoid the trap. So after the mattress droppings, I bought enough traps to cover the entire base of the cupboard, meaning there was literally no way of it getting anywhere once it had got in. That worked... they all went off in a kind of domino once the first was triggered.

This is basically what I'm spending my evening doing. I'm blocking all holes with wire wool except for one cupboard. Then putting a load of traps in it. I've even put our ring doorbell in so that I can record to check it's actually a mouse! It's the only cupboard with the child lock so the only option.

Much experience of mice here, I'm afraid. Ideally wait/watch to see where they're accessing the kitchen and where they go.

Once you know where to target, lay glue traps at night. Yes, they're not very humane, but they are effective.

Mice tend to stick to the outside edges of rooms, lay the traps alongside walls and all around your kickboards.

We've tried every method over the years, and the glue traps are most effective for the really stubborn/smart mice. It's a quicker death than poison too, providing you're happy to despatch them in the morning.

Racumen. The end.

Yes you do 👏🏻