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.

Tell you what thesecondcoming, I'll deal with the mice for you, if you deal with the spiders!

YANBU, I'd have DIED!

I had unwittingly provided a grain store for them in an outside cupboard (attached to the house) where I kept bird seed! The first I knew of their existance was when I went into a cupboard upstairs to get my winter leather boots (£150 quid's worth) to find them half eaten. We got the snappy traps and caught 9 on consecutive nights. We thought they'd all gone only to get them again 4 weeks later when we discovered 2 pairs of retro adidas trainers also demolished!

We then got the council in to put poison down and fingers crossed they have now gone. In my hysteria I also bought a sonic plug in device (no idea if it worked or not but it was only £30).

I'm not ashamed - especially since I know Kirsty Allsopp and India Knight have had the same problem lol!

god op, I would have needed one of those heart jolting paddles that you see on tv

CLEAR!!!!!

I'm confessing to cruelty now.

Just this morning I was clearing the DCs bath toys and a mouse leapt out. I waited for a bit (freaking out) then came back.

It was a half dead drowned mouse in a 'cat in the hat' hat bath toy so I just tipped it into the toilet. It was trying to climb out as I frantically flushed.

I felt dirty.

about 14 years ago I was doing some voluntary work in Zimbabwe and every night we slept in the school house on tables to avoid the worst beasties. we all slept under mosquito nets. one night a I was woken when a RAT fell on my head from a rafter above!!! it was really awful but the worst thing was knowing I would still have to sleep there for another few weeks! at least I was under the mozzy net, it made it slightly less freaky

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We have mice in the garden but not in the house- my friend had mice behind the skirting boards and it drove her batty.
My mum had rats the size of rabbits in her garden when it snowed in Feb- they were driven from the nearby river through lack of food. They would watch her through the kitchen window
Pest control laid poison out, and I saw one lurching round the garden a few days later. I moved a plant pot to see if it was dead yet and it SCREAMED at me and lunged for my legs so fast I nearly shat myself. Rats and mice don't bother me at all- had many as pets- but bloody hell, that noise was horrific.