Think we have a mouse

[CarolSwimmer]

In the loft.

What should we do?? We can hearing rustling noises and shuffling.

Mouse poison in the loft? Call pest control?

Freaking out because I hate anything creepy or.crawly .or mousey or worse - ratty (🐀)....

He is v loud and sounds like he's making a nest :(

This is a long shot, but one time I was sure we had rats in the attic. I could hear little footsteps, scratching, and all kinds of noises. It was magpies on the roof. Sometimes they hop around the roof without making any other sounds. I always go outside to check just to be sure.

How was your Costa ☕️ OP? Any update on mouse-gate? 🐭

But where to you take them to? Don't they either make a new home in someone else's house or die because they can't fine a house to move into?

Gestation is something like 3 weeks and then they can get pregnant again very quickly

@dizzydizzydizzy we’re in the country so if I’m feeling very soft I take them to the barn. If I’m feeling less soft it’s a further field with a nice hedgerow.

They won’t die outside, they’re meant to live there rather than in my house

Proper 'little nipper' traps.
Quick and simple.
"humane traps" are nothing of the sort

We have 4 cats. And mice. And we found the most adorable little nest made out of cat fur - really warm and luxurious it must have been...

They will because the mice into whose territory you have dropped them will kill them.
House mice are just that
and highly territorial

I would check into a hotel until it was gone!

How adapt for the night before Christmas.

Mousetraps - use peanut butter 👍🏼

Twas the night before Christmas
When all through the house
Its was eerily quiet
Apart from the scratching mouse

Hubby was fuming and stomping about
And all I could hear was him scream and shout
Costa was calling I needed a break
A lovely hot chocolate and even a cake

Hubby cottoned on and realised my plan
And all I thought was
Damn, damn , damn

We have so far evicted about 10 mice . We use the humane traps and agree that peanut butter is irresistible to them. Neighbours are getting used to us walking over to a nearby field with them and then releasing them. They are cute but so destructive

@Imbluedalale ha ha ha genius!!!

We have some in the garage. Would put our Staffie in there but she's scared on them!

@Talkinpeace well, they’ll have to take their chances or find another house as they aren’t staying in mine (don’t mind attic or wall mice (old property, thick walls) but do mind them in the main downstairs rooms where we prep and eat food. Mice in these rooms face eviction via humane trap

Old fashioned snap traps. Buy in bulk, throw away entire thing, inc dead mouse. If you poison them, they go away and die in your house and the smell is horrendous.

We tried those. They worked for a bit but then the mice must have got immune to them or something, because they came back.

Mouse trap with Nutella. They bloody love Nutella. If you get humane traps you have to take them at least two miles away, or they hike back. If it's the loft it may well be a squirrel. Not sure how squirrels feel about Nutella tbh.

@CarolSwimmer how are you doing and any more incidents with the mouse, mice or rats?