Mice in the house!

[scaredofmice88]

I was just sat on the loo in our en suite and a mouse ran out in front of me from under the shower! I shouted and it rang back to where the towel is now stuffed in the photo. I'd heard scratching a couple of days ago but thought it would be birds.

What the heck do I do now? How has the damn thing got in?

Any advice?

Snap traps with peanut butter or chocolate. If you have kids you can stick them under a basket with big ish holes

For mice use snap traps and Nutella. It kills them instantly. I think we a rat in the walls but they are much harder to kill. Muce can get into a pen width hole, rat a 50p so the pest control lady told me.

They chew through electric wires and piss constantly. And breed, fast. Its not a good idea to co-exist in the same house. If you release them the do it in the woods.

Good luck, you have my sympathy. It's a horrible experience.

I tried everything

The only thing that worked was the blue rice size poison pellets from Amazon

I think so. Apparently they are good climbers and can jump a foot in the air 😬

@ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea Yep, supposedly the ultra sonic things get rid of house spiders, flys, cockroaches, loads of creepy crawlies. Dunno if they work all that well because I still get spiders!

Omg … think I’ll have to move! Had the odd mouse sighting but only on floor 🤢🤢🤢 at the thought of them climbing on the worktops

Contact your local council pest control. There will be a charge but they will advise what to do. Mine were brilliant when we had a vermin problem.

I had a family of mice move in two years ago. We tried every type of trap, poison, and ultra sonic deterrent I could find (apart from glue traps) bit nothing worked. After spending a morning watching two of them scampering round my living room, and also sitting on top of one of the traps, we gave in and got a new kitten. I assume they could smell him when he arrived because the sightings reduced a lot, and when he was abkut 12 weeks old, the kitten became a champion mouser. He caught eight in the space of two weeks and we've never seen a sign of one since.

We had an infestation about four or five years ago. We couldn’t bring ourselves to use snap traps so we used humane ones, plus the sonar things and also we got little bags of a pot pouri type thing that apparently they don’t like. It took about ten days but we got rid, we also decided to get another cat to help avoid another incident.

Just buy a mousetrap, £1 from a hardware store