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?

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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.

thesecondcoming > think nice thoughts! Think cuddly kittens with soft little paws and big cutsey eyes

Thanks - calm thoughts - helps that it's snowing gin here and we are toasty warm

snowing gin

Now that would be bloody calming?

Honestly, like rats they are actually very scaredy animals and will not want to go anywhere near you if they can help it.

How would you shit one in to outer space?

thesecondcoming oh my pelvic floor please stop, I only mopped this morning and wouldn't want it all to go to waste.

Seriously though, my husband walked in to the living room at the weekend to find my nine month old clutching a dead mouse..

Just as he was telling me about it an hour or so later and we were working out that it was one next door had poisoned, brought in from the garden by the dog; her eyes she started rolling and she went floppy.. Cue A&E dash with us thinking she'd somehow been poisoned too. Turned out to be a fever due to chest infection. Twas a weird Friday.

YANBU!! Filthy meeses!!

Pedigree cats are beautiful. I used to breed persians though so I'm probably a bit biased. One of mine from a few years back, he's a Champion now and got his first Grand champion certificate (you need three certs for a title).

If you get a cat, make sure it's isn't a stupid one like mine. It catches mice outside, and then brings them (still very much alive) into the house. We can usually wrestle them off him, but he did let one go once and it lived in our bedroom for about a week until we saw it waddling about the floor nonchalantly. We caught Robert the Field Mouse and get him free.

Luckily, it is winter and they are now hiding somewhere far away from my cat.

you need a cat! Even if it's not a good mouser, mice smell the cat and it scares them shitless so they go bother your neighbours, and hey presto, it's not your problem anymore.

Could you at least borrow a cat for a day or two to get the cat smell in your house and freak them out.

His Mother was a good mouser Sydney, He himelf is a bit of a wuss, so I'm told by his owner. Girls are definitely much better at rodent eradication.

BTW - most mice are incontinent so you might want to take some detol to everywhere you think a mouse has been. (but not your face, I'd just wash that - a lot)

Finally somewhere I can feel free to share my mouse trap story.

The lovely old fella i our harware shop told me he never used anything but the little nipper traps.

Yes they worked on that first night as I said. And no blood either - I'd put them all on newspaper so just scooped them up.

But I'd forgotten all about them then heard a scraping one night. I got up and turned the light on (thinking I'd scare it away)

TO SEE A MANGLED MOUSE WITH A TRAP AROUND ITS NECK SCRAPING ITS WAY ACROSS MY HALL

Where the fuck it was planning to go I have no idea but the sight stays with me...

FakePlasticChristmasTrees you are teaching a grandma to suck eggs here. I hoover every day (sometimes twice) and use stardrops on very surface.

My brother had a similar trap experience with a rat in his kitchen (yes, really). The trap snapped on it but it was such a big bastard that it didn't die, just thrashed around screaming in agony and spurting blood all over the place. I think he ended up stamping on its head trying to put it out of its misery as quickly as possible. Not what you need when you're midway through immune system-suppressing chemo!

If you pay the council (free if you're on benefits) they will keep coming relaying traps until you're clear. This happened to me, whole house just infested, it just does your head in in the end.

Also you have to keep traps down and put peanut butter in them. Mice love things like loo roll inners and paper, so keep the floor really clear or leave these things near the traps.

If you use a humane trap you have to release the mice at least 2 miles from your home else they return.

Their breeding cycle is 6 weeks so you need to keep traps down the whole time otherwise they just take hold.

Oh, good luck, so horrible. xx

cyteen

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Mice I guess are not so bad (my mumd id say why did you that bloody hamster when you hate the mice and are trying to poison them )

but Rats oh no

Theres a rat dragging itself and smearing blood in my kitchen what am I gonna do?