MOUSE IN THE HOUSE

[WineLover21]

We've got a mouse in the house.

I'm TERRIFIED! How do I get rid of it asap!? It's even coming out in the day!!!!!

@youhavenoshameonyourface
No i absolutely don't call myself an animal lover.

I was pregnant and putting my unborn child's health before that of a rodent. I do not feel ashamed.

Stop overdramatizing and get a snap trap.

Raisins went down very well with our mouse population.

This is good to know!

I've had great results with humane traps this summer. Caught 7 mice in total. I once saw one waltz in through the patio doors during the day, under my nose, no fear 😂. And we get the occasional shrew as well.
We've found a couple of entry points (in addition to the doors...[, so have blocked those. For the moment, there are no signs of any activity.

Those are absolutely brutal and should be illegal.

@WineLover21 Please don’t use those.

Look on you tube as to the brutality of them.

Where you have one mouse you’ll have a family of them.
They come indoors for warmth.
They can squeeze through a tiny gap ( again videos on you tube showing this)

Sealing up all external gaps is only way.

Difenacoum but a a toxin that is “ Supposedly “ humane , more so than glue traps where they gnaw their own legs off to try to free themselves ( to no avail)

Or get a Whippet.
A fast death without a second.

Nuke the whole place from orbit

We haven’t had a mouse 🐁 family since having a Whippet ( they stay away!)
( Whippet at friend’s house) listening for mice.

Not bothered enough about your child to prevent the poisoning of their future water supply with organochlorines though.

It doesn’t work.

Get the quick kill mouse traps.
Bait them with peanut butter, Nutella, or some other nut butter. They like chocolate too. Also bacon fat.

Set them by walls, up on your counter by the wall, under your oven, behind bookshelves, etc. Make sure you don't leave a baited trap where you could snap it on yourself. Ideally, set a few in spots where you've seen a mouse. If your stove top lifts up, lift it and set a trap underneath.

Get some bleach and sponges. Bleach your kitchen. Throw out the sponges you use. They pee as they travel, so your kitchen in particular needs to be decontaminated. You will see droppings like caraway seeds.

Make sure you don't leave any crumbs or other food for them. Don't leave pots or dishes in your sink. If you have a sink food catcher/ grille for the plug hole, clean it out.

Go around your house and look for tiny gaps and holes, which you can plug with steel wool from the hardware shop. You can buy it in bags (not Brillo pads). You're looking for holes no bigger than a pencil in diameter.

I recently had an influx of them and caught four. I hate the thought of them in my home, though they are very cute and have lovely eyes.

@youhavenoshameonyourface

Oh pack it in. I'm sure your eco foot print is impeccable.

Well I don't pour bleach on live mice or suggest that other people do.

I'm allowed to point out mindless animal cruelty when I see it.

All of the above.
Keep the floors and surfaces free of crumbs .
You can block holes with wire wool. Mice hate this stuff.
Mice also come inside for water so try to make sure they can't easily access it.

@youhavenoshameonyourface

You are yes.
But mindless animal cruelty would be me killing mice for fun.
I will readily kill rodents for a purpose, i.e, if they're in my home.
back in the real world, people do not want to be infested by mice.

And they all wear cutesy pajamas and lottlenold fashioned clothes, and have names, and make tea from berries, sing carols around their teeny tiny Christmas trees, and carry hantavirus, which they spread through urine, feces, and saliva.

There are plenty of more humane ways (than pouring bleach on them) to rid your house of mice and keep it mouse free.

See above at the many, many suggestions.

Please don’t use the sticky pads. I’m horrified that anybody would suggest that. What an utterly vile person you’d have to be.

We live in the sticks and get a lot of mice. I use the humane traps with something tasty in and check the traps every day or so. I’ll then release away from houses.

Statistically, if youre in the UK you’re very likely to be against hunting of any kind. If this is the case, then you are a massive hypocrite.

@youhavenoshameonyourface
Not really sure why you keep writing that I poured bleach on them.

But anyway, I exhausted all other options and desperately wanted rid of a whole host of mice that where causing a lot of stress during covid and pregnancy. I would do the same again. You haven't made me think twice about my actions here.

Yes, do this, but also check the outside of your house for entry points, otherwise new mice might return. The issue for me was a few missing mortar joints. They only require a gap as big as a pen to get in. Fill any such open joints with mortar. I use pest control, cost £100 I think. He used trays of poison, but I'm not sure this is suitable with young kids.

Oh thanks so much for this!!! I haven't seen one mouse dropping yet - we've got a eufy though and I'm constantly wiping the sides down. Our kitchen isn't particularly big anyway.

I can't see any holes but I know it's coming from a part in the skirting board between the cupboards. I'm terrified to pull it out incase a whole family come scuttling out!

They are very cute but I'm so so so jumpy now!!!!

This is the gap it's coming from and I sprayed some method grapefruit cleaner in there! Next thing it's come scuttling out!!!!!

There is never one mouse, mice do not come in ones unless dropped in the house by a cat.

Remove all food sources (or put it in mouse-proof containers) and stuff they can hide behind/nest in.

You may see mice during the day where theres a population explosion and they are forced to venture further/out into the open to find food and water.

Mice are not harmless, they spread diseases, lepto and hantavirus being two pretty unpleasant ones.

Humane traps may not kill the mouse, however if you dump them close to home they'll return. If you dump them a long way from home they'll die trying, or die because the area you dumped them in doesn't support mice, or has a high predator population... or you dump them in an area that does support mice and they're killed by the resident population (they are vicious little bastards). Humane traps are merely passing the buck so you don't have to take responsibility for killing something.

Snappy traps are the most effective kill traps - they don't suit all locations though, they need to be placed where mice will naturally go, where you can check, without disturbing them frequently (or you put the mice off from visiting the traps). Sometimes, poison is the only effective way to deal with a big infestation.

Pest controllers charge by size of the property as this affects how much work they have to do, product they use etc. They need to know this in advance or they may not bring enough traps/poison with them or allow sufficient time for the job.

Really not sure what the relevance is of the visiting fox. Having a visiting fox certainly doesn't mean you only have one mouse!

Tell that to my poor mum who had one bite through a water pipe and cause tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage - she’s been staying with me for three months because her house is uninhabitable.

that said - they are lovely and sweet but outside!