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HELP - there's a mouse in the house

13 replies

mylittleman · 30/10/2007 15:15

Just sitting enjoying lunch at the kitchen table and a mouse ran across the kitchen floor into the cupboard under the sink. The door was closed so it musy have made itself as flat as a pancake to get in there. I am petrified of mice and now want to move out - feel like the flat is dirty etc.
Any advice of how to get rid of it/them? Landlord said he would go and get some poison but not keen on that idea as surely the rotting body is unhygenic and will smell. Have tried traps as suspected mice a few months back but no catchings.

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BettyBatShapedSpaghetti · 30/10/2007 15:23

Use a peanut or peanut butter in the trap -that seems to be excellent at attracting them

GrapefruitMoon · 30/10/2007 16:13

Snap! Saw one the other night - got one of those humane traps from a garden centre and caught him last night (used chocolate as bait).

Hope it doesn't come back in again (or have a family!) I should really put the trap out again tonight but dh managed to drop it over the garden fence as he was (ahem) disposing of the mouse and can't exactly go around and ask the neighbours if I can have it back

EffiePerine · 30/10/2007 16:15

big pointy killer traps. None of yer humane rubbish. They just come back.

serin · 30/10/2007 23:32

The important thing to remember is to clear away all food, so that the little pest has nothing to eat except what is in the trap.

We had a whole colony in our garage, they never went for the choc or bacon in the trap until I moved the Guinea Pig food that they were gorging on.

And don't bank on cats helping you out, ours is terrified of them!!

Shitemum · 30/10/2007 23:36

My mum's house is full of them, she's tried everything, this summer we were wiping mouse shit off the kitchen worktop every morning. There's no point in dropping them over the neighbours fence btw as they can find their way back from about 2 miles away....wee feckers.

Shoelacetripper · 30/10/2007 23:43

Mice can get through really, really tiny holes.

I solved it in several stages.

Murder. Get Little Nipper traps.
Sonic blast. Get more Little Nipper traps and some of those plug-in things that emit high pitched whines that aren't audible to humans (but are to guineau pigs, so don't do it if you have one of the latter. It will die before it forgives you)
Poison. Add to the traps and sonic blast above.
Give up on 2 and 3 and get more Little Nipper Traps.

Seriously, though - the traps are about £1 per go and if you put them on newspaper near the edges of the room/kitchen units, you can pick up the paper in the morning and use it to tip the corpse in the bin. Hygienic.

Best of all, keep all food in tubs, sweep away crumbs, and make a thorough investigation under all cupboards, definitely under the cooker, and also under the bath (you'd be surprised)...

NoBiggy · 31/10/2007 00:43

I saw one cavorting about the living room back in the summer (when we had the door open all day). I've seen no evidence of any since (as in, nothing chewed, no poo, no smell).

Do you suppose he was just in by mistake, or are there a bunch of them hiding out?

sallystrawberry · 31/10/2007 00:46

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jezzemx · 31/10/2007 00:57

We once had one and dh cornered it, then sucked it up using the hoover. he emptied the bag straight away but wouldn't tell me if it was dead or alive!!! SADIST

NoBiggy · 31/10/2007 00:59

When we had this one, we went after it with the hoover, a golf club and fly spray.

We didn't win.

We went to bed and left the back door open. We hope it left.

OMGhelp · 31/10/2007 01:05

We had a RAT once, living in the country can do that. My son chased it around the kitchen with the chefs cleaver and cornered it and chopped it in two. A bit drastic, but that one didn't come back!

madamez · 31/10/2007 02:36

No. Nonononononono. Back in the spring one of them ran across my kitchen floor, and every MNer said that I would soon have a houseful. I bought a sonic blaster and some traps, put the traps down every night for a week - no mouse corpses. No mouse shit anywhere. No chewed things. Little bastard was GONE

ONly last night I think I saw something run under the washing machine. No no no no. Will not have little furry bastards in house. Because the landlord wil say its my fault and evict me.

onebatmother · 31/10/2007 07:15

they are sly and cunning and horrid, horrid, horrid. They have bones that can fold flat, iykwim. Don't bother with humanity - you need poison. They don't die in the house, the poison sends them outside to look for water.

Last time we had them I got a pest control guy in who guaranteed to get rid of them for £50. Poor man had to come back 4! times. They had found a way upstairs and I found poo under the cot.

BUT will never ever complain again. About 4 months later, found a strange, fat poo-like thing in the bathroom. Stood wondering what it could possibly be. Was still wondering when a huge rat ran past dd 11 months gurgling on the floor..
I will never forget the sound of pure rodent muscle and scrabbly claws across the floorboards. Had to leave home for a month.

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