To expect to live in a nice calm world where a mouse doesn't jump onto my FACE as I'm watching tv in bed?

[TheShowMustGoOn]

Sodding mice.

It was on my windowsill, I clapped my hands to alarm it, it did a somersault through the air and bounced off my cheek!

I have no idea how to get rid of the feckers. Maybe I'll just give in and get them litle food and water dishes.

AmazingBouncingFerret, I thought that TSMGO had paid for her neighbour to be bumped off too! Like you I'm not scared of mice, but one in the face might not have been met with my usual animal-loving joy.

Btw, I do have an amazing bouncing ferret but would warn TSMGO not to take the advice of another poster and have one as a mouse-deterrent.... lovely as ferrets are they smell pretty bad and are a bugger to housetrain!

cyteen my friend as an enormous snake (properly - at least 8 iinches wide and 3 metres long) - no idea what type. DS told me it was plastic because it was too big and didn't move hehe.

But no - I don't think I'll ask to borrow it.

An enormous snake eh? Sounds good, even if it is plastic.

A ferret bit a hole in my favourite cardigan when I was 7 years old. Since that day I hate them all.

Another vote for Feline Rodent Removal Operative. A colourpoint persian might be nice - the girls are usually very good hunters but sufficiently placid to be permanently indoors.

jemart thats interesting. I'd love a cat. But the two I had at my mums when youd were sruffy feral little things that just came home for food and to sleepin my bed.

I'm not so sure about pedigree cats.

(sorry I'm not a bad speller my keyboard is dying agai)

I would have had a heart attack.

We get mice and I hate it. Espcecially since our landlord won't let us use poison as they're just lovely little field mice and thats just part of living in the country apparently.

Umm I've lived rurally for many many years and mice in my house is just grim.

Thank God we will be buying our own house next year and I will be free to get lovely Alan from the council out again if necessary with his van full of poison.

There are always grown-up cats in need of rehoming, lots of them will have been housecats all their lives or have other reason to need to stay indoors (e.g. FIV+). You could get in touch with a local rescue...

My girlcat has always been the more vicious and efficient of the two, by the way. Boycat is an overgrown kitten who is laughably crap at hunting but his sister is a cold-blooded murderess (when she can be bothered).

A low point for me was taking a pan out of the cupboard and just as I put the oil in noticing it was full of mouse poo.

Just the thought I might have fried some sausages in oil with melted mouse faeces (shudder)

They get everywhere! It's bloody horrible.

I'm guessing you've already tried one of those sonic things?

"Or a terrier, they keep the rats at bay too."

Blimey I wish this was true, I have a minature schnauzer allegedly a "ratter" by trade, he is blooming useless, one ran right under his nose once and he just sat there and goggled at it.

YANBU.

We used to have mice and I rang Rentokil to see what they could do. Apart from it costing £400 for a 2-bed flat, apparently if there is a hole with the diameter of a Bic biro in an outside wall somewhere, mice will get in through it.

Snappy traps, baited with peanut butter, and put loads out over one night as they seem to get wise to them. My DP did it, I am a bit squeamish, and for some reason he took a Polaroid of the trapped bodies in the morning (some sort of hunter gatherer thing I think ). I screamed blue murder when I found it!

I'm told that mice really like chocolate so you could try baiting the traps with that?

I get field mice sometimes but I do have two cats so they're not around for long!

I've caught mice with the hoover.
Was terrified and had to do something.

coffeeinbed - I am impressed!

They are so fast how did you do it?

Recently I was washing up turned around and saw one on the hob, tried to catch it under the pan I was washing but it was gone in a flash. I was left with a soaking wet hob hehe.

At uni I saw a mouse by the wash basket. I turned around to get something to catch it with and when I looked back it was dead... I don't know what that says about the grotty state of the uni flat but it was very odd

Oh and thanks yes I've baited with choc, peanut butter, even tried cheese as a last resort.

The one night I caught 6 I baited with quince jam. Maybe I have posh mice?

I hate mice which a passion that can only come from profound fear....

Another vote for cat(s) and deffo females - far better mousers in my long history of cat-owning. Have had pedigrees and mogs and the latter have more of the necessary killer instinct.

Or move house?

thesecondcoming

thanks for giving me MY second coming. I'm revisiting the moment again.

aaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

tiny weeny human hands - yes and argh again

"fuck me, that's my ultimate nightmare- a mouse trailing it's pink,cold,semi bald tail over my mouth and scampering with it's tiny weeny human hands across my FACE."

Is it wrong that my reaction is "aww"?

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhut uuuuuuuuuuuup

(not to be rude)

just stoppit.

Oh my god what if one jumps in my mouth tonoght.