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.

TSMGO I used to live in a Georgian terrace in Islington and could never ever get rid of the little bastards. The council said that they run up and down the whole length of the terrace - which sounds positively Dickensian to me. They are always so FILTHY in London too.

Some of these stories have made my skin crawl, I have so much sympathy for you OP.

Ha I'm in Islington too.

Maybe I need to move house

We used to have mice at the old house and I nearly shit my pants hwen I picked up a baby quilt (of all things!!) that had been left outside and and fucker and had eaten into it and was asleep and then JUMPED OUT

I am scarred for life

Mind you the rats at this house were WAY worse

A mouse on my face is pretty much my worst nightmare. Ugh. I had them in my flat when I was at uni and one night I woke up to see one watching me sleep from on top my desk. Completely freaked me out, as I realised, if it can get on the desk, it can get on my bed.

are you setting the traps up right by the way?

you need to put them at right angkles to your skirting with the uppy bit facing into the room. They need to be right up against the wall too

Ok, so it's Christmas-time, so isn't it the time for Mince pies?!

Need to be very careful with rodent wee - horrible diseases in that stuff.

Mouse pooh looks a lot like bat pooh - to tell the difference you have to rub betweeen fingers, if soft and sticky = mouse, dry and scaly = bat. Bat pooh makes fantastic feed for hanging baskets etc so if you have a bat roost, gather up the bat pooh (they pooh as they leave to go hunting at night) and sprinkle on your hanging baskets etc?!

Sorry, random thoughts at the end of a long day....lovely thread though

A question haven't addresed if you don't mind.

My bed is a good 6 ft from the windowsill - how can such a tiny thing leap so far?

And does that mean they may have leapt and shat all over the top of my wall cabinets?

have not read the whole thread - but just wanted to say, whilst I lived in the USA, I was woken at 4 one morning by a mouse running across my face. I count myself lucky that I didn't soil the bed as a response. It was the same house where I woke up one morning and found a 10 cm long cockroach on my pillow. bleurgh.
you have my sympathy OP

eeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

Cockroaches too. Oh no.

Back in the days when our house was still semi-derelict while we tried to scrape together enough cash to do it up, one morning I put a piece of bread in the toaster (as you do) and pushed it down. A couple of minutes later there was a frantic squeaking noise and I saw a little snout and a pair of paws scrabbling to extricate itself from the other toaster slot.

I screamed. A lot. I think I switched the toaster off at the wall and ran away fast.

When I came back there was no sign of the mouse, alive or toasted, but there was a distinct smell of singed hair.

[shudder]

I too have had mice. It took weeks of traps and finally two expensive visits from Rentokil to get rid of the buggers. Not read the whole thread but do you think it's worth trying those plug-in thingies that are meant to emit an irritating sound through your house's wiring system and drive the little beasts away? A friend swears by them. We didn't go for one because at the time we had a rabbit and we didn't want to upset her . Anyway, since then, no mice.

Talking of flying mice, we once set four traps, caught three mice (we swear by Toblerone), the other trap was sprung but - no mouse to be seen. Months, perhaps years later, I was ferreting in the dark deep recess under the sink where I keep teatowels, saw something odd, stuck in my hand and lifted out - a Mummified Mouse. Shrieked and flung it across the floor. When DS picked it up he said it had a huge dent in its head, probably from the trap. We think the trap must have caught poor mouse a deadly blow, catapulted it through the air and into my towel recess. RIP.

When I was on holday in Thailand I woke up and knew something was on my back. Jumped out of bed and slammed the light on as a 5" cockroach fell off my back and onto the floor.

At least I got to come home and not have to live in a place where wildlife jump on you!

Oh good! Just as I clicked on this a fat rodent ran across my kitchen floor! Meanwhile, my (borrowed) dog who is meant to be a fabulous catcher totally ignored it and instead tried to eat my daughter's pasta!
Am also in a Georgian terrace, like others here, that we're trying to do up. Not fun.

Am off to buy a cat.

Georgian terraces - pretty on the outside - Georgian era filth on the inside.

Get a cat, a big cat

Op, you have my upmost sympathy. Currently trying to deal with infestation here. I have a massive phobia and am struggling to deal with it. I cannot even be in the house without dh present in case I see one. Makes for a difficult time.

Nobody has mentioned bacon rind to bait your traps with. Also, put the traps down for a few days to get them used to them before you set them.

Good luck with dealing with them

hth

I'm going to get those sonic things tomorrow - might aswell try after all else has failed.

Yet another vote for a female cat. The boys are cuddly but useless. My girl is a killer through and through. Wouldn't be without a cat, can't stand rodents.

Nightmare!

We had one which used to like to walk along the back of the sofa when someone was lying on it.

Tried humane traps baited with everything from peanut butter to maltesers (sp?), but it just stole the food. Eventually DH set a fatal trap after I went to bedwithout telling me and says he caught it within a few minutes.

Don't know what to suggest other than traps or a cat.

sonic things don't work - we have one in the room we can hear the mouse scratching in ! They do have a nice green glow which is handy for creeping around in the dark - but apart from that they don't seem to have any affect on mice.

Thanks that's saved me some money.

So screw sonic things - what next!

OMG and rofl at all these.My father used to be the headmaster of a boarding school in the tropics.Rats would nibble at the hard feet of the pupils in the night.

I lived abroad for a while and was woken up one night by a lizard running across my face! We also had cockroaches in every cupboard [shudders].

We had mice at home too, little bastards ate a hole in my wedding dress at which point my humane attempts to catch them ended.

We had poison put down and that seemed to end it. I did feel bad though.

sticky pads and mouse traps are best - and poison if it has been used a lot in the area already.