To put food down for the mice

[Mscombobulated]

We've got mice - i caught the little buggers in the kitchen yesterday, about three times, i even managed to trap one under a cup and put it in the garden, of course it came straight back and was sat there on top of the dog food laughing at me. There were there again this morning and i have found their escape hole and probably where there nest is - i am so tempted to stick a jammy dodger down for them. But i'm going to have to be all grown up and get rid aren't i?

I've given them names too - oh well, off to the DIY store for humane traps then

poor things

Glad I am not the only conficted mouse admirer/poo & chew hater.

I really do not know how to deal with our mouse problem. I block up holes but our house is 1930s so lots of holes in plaster and near skirtings etc.

We have just had a couple of weeks of PITA with our electrics and finally found the cable they had chewed through - lost a whole chest freezer of food in the meantime though!

Mine even go upstairs where there is no food for them. I open my boiler/airing cupboard and see them running across the linen.

Our problem is the amount of building work going on around here. First it was cable and pipe work outside then next door's exstension, then ours, now the other side's. It stirs the little buggers up no end.

I think someone is poisoning them now. We had one last week that was really wobbly and slow. Poor little mousy. I had to keep saving it from the dogs but I found it all soggy and dead one morning and my handbag dog all pleased with himself.

Bloody hell - you all sound positively fond of them. I'm terrified! Probably stems from when I found one cooked in my toaster years ago. We've got one (some?) at the moment and it's the bane of my life.

We've tried poison traps but it (they?) don't seem interested. I feel sick at the idea of it being in the house. DP keeps banging on about it being more scared of me, blah blah blah, which I KNOW but it doesn't mean that I can stop being freaked out.

I think we might have to go to the snap traps but I don't like that idea either. I feel bad for hurting/killing them [being a bleeding heart vegetarian - not that any of you eat mice, mind you - type] but feel worse at the prospect of them running/pissing around my kitchen. I just want them gone!

Ugh, sends shivers down my spine.

I love you Miscombobulated and agree with you totally. I always use humane traps but I find they are much too small and the mice are always wet with condensation in the morning so I have to take them to the woods straight away.

Its so lovely setting them free.

I like your bucket idea but can't the mice jump out ?

I'm obviously from a different planet from people who poison or use killer moustraps. I could NEVER do that.

Unfortunatly I know I'm in the minority.

Pinksmarties - The bucket was too slippery for them (like a spider in a bath), it was about half an inch too high for them to jump out (one tried when we picked it up to carry them to the common). It was just a standard mop bucket. We just put some cardboard over the top (with air holes) as a lid, that calmed them down for the journey and they ran out happily into a rotten log when we released them.

Oh ok and thank you MintyMoo and sorry for the name mix up. I'll go and buy a bucket.

right, they are taking the piss now - three of the little fuckers brazenly sat in my kitchen - going to have to trap them, does anyone have a spare fish tank?

DH saw mouse droppings when we went to put the Christmas things away.

I heard a horrible noise at 3 a.m one night.

All scratchy scratchy even though DH thought it was next door's flipping spaniel

Is mice apparently.

I want to kill them all obviously and don't understand posts about humane thingies. They are RODENTS and they spread DISEASE and they do not have very many things to offer the household in terms of friendliness or fluffiness.

Ive just watched another one of the little feckers running across the sitting room floor. Brazen little shite. We caught one of your children/siblings earlier. I like the 'double sized' humane mouse traps, they are clear so you can see in and you can fit multiple mice in. We've been using the plug in buzzers all week but they obviously arent working. I would love to get a cat but I am mega allergic. Oh well ... This is our first winter in the country. ANd to think I got stressed about a few clothes moths.

Dh told me that they piss everywhere as they have no bladder control?

We had a few, but thankfully they are gone, thanks to a few traps

We get them from time to time, Victorian house in London, I am just relieved that it's not rats. I found that they had gnawed the tread off of LO's trainers where she had walked on playdough at nursery - there's dedicated eh. I used the B&Q poison and just keep everything as crumb free as poss. Not easy with a rice cake spraying child.

We don't get mice in the house but we do have field mice outside. They have to be the most adorable creatures on the planet.
I went to put something on the compost one day and this little thing was sitting up with a strawberry clutched in it's paws that was as big as the mouse itself.
I get so sad when the cat gets them...

They are getting really brave, going to have to go out in search of a humane trap thing - three at once last night and they didnt even bother running away!

rolos are excellent for tempting them into traps.

don't leave it too long to sort the prob. we got them in the garage and didn't notice for a while. literally every box, drawer, bit of cloth or paper had been destroyed and peed on and when we came to clean out there were dead ones in everything

we had to use a poison i'm afraid as they bred so quickly, but if theres definately only a few try the choc in your humane traps.

We have had mice in the garage, they are eating the potatoes & cooking apples we store out there.

I checked out humane trap at 7pm one evening and found a dead mouse in it the next morning at 7am. Did it die of shock or cold or ? Honestly seems much more humane to just to shock them into death quickly with the electronic rat killer.