Possibility of Mice?

[lifeinagoldfishbowl]

Today I came across a carrier bag which had been absolutely shredded within an inch of its life - ended up as confetti all over the carpet - as it didn't have anything inside I was slightly curious as to why this had happened.

Spoke to my flat mate who said that she had heard what sounded like scravvling above the ceiling in my room - so possibility of mice (?)

I can't see any droppings in my room and also can't see any holes or ways into the room.

What should be my next course of action?

Hi! Would you believe I came onto this topic to post about having a mouse??

I was in the bathroom this morning and one ran right past me. First time ever and really shoke me.

My dear dad came round tonight and we've set some spring traps - fingers crossed. There's quite a few old threads on here that seem to recommend them. I asked in work today and apparently they can get through a hole the size of a biro!! Somebody also said this is the time of year for them as it starts to get colder.

Why not try putting a few traps down?

Will let you know if I catch any.

Rentokil poison traps - they are about £7 for two. Plastic sealed units. Pop them behind your sofas and anywhere a mouse can hide. Put all food in tuppaware do not leave anything out - they will even scoff washing powder in extremis!

The bag may not have had anything in it when you found it's remains but if something had spilled inside - particularly chocolate, they will have been all over it. Or they may be building a nest, they like plastic bags for nests. We had them in our bag for life drawer

NB the spring traps are not so good because you lie there at night and here 'snap' and then feel compelled to investigate.

Humane traps are good too - peanut butter as bait and then release the mice somewhere away from home. The problem with the spring ones is finding slightly maimed mice bleeding about the place!

My bloody mice ate through the humane traps within three hours! And you have to check them at least five times a day. And then drive three miles to release the mouse.

The rentokil poison ones are good, the mouse walks in, eats and walks out. Goes home. Goes to sleep. Dies. No more mouse. Hurrah.

Scraveling above your room means they are above your room, not in it.

Trap & Cats, I say.

Room mate says she thought she heard something - however neither of us have seen anything - now having visions of waking up to a mouse in my bed!!

Now the carrier bag thing - eeek (or should that be squeak!!) We have cracks in our ceiling due to bad plastering and am now anxious about looking for holes the size of biros [argh!!]

We had them 2 years ago, during the coldest part of winter.
We eventually caught 6, 2 big 'uns and 4 littluns so presumably a family.

They would get under closed doors and the bath panel. It was truly horrible, hearing them scratching around

We used spring traps, poison traps and we also bought a mouse alarm (from Wilko, about £7) plugged it in next to our bed so we could at least sleep at night! It emits a low noise, inaudible to humans but annoying to mice.

Huge sympathies - do not leave so much as a crumb of food anywhere.

We have a mouse problem in our garage. We have spring traps and poison traps (humane traps are the opposite of humane unless you check them very frequently so not too good unless you're being woken regularly anyway by a small baby). Trouble is, the garage is home so thats where they die, we have to do a regular corpse check - the nastiest was behind the tumble drier.

The little buggers nested in a padded garden chair, chewed a hole in my bike pannier and ruined a paddling pool and a water slide - apparently they really like the taste of plasticizer. And we now have to store the sacks of dogfood and wild bird food in the house (well what else is a downstairs loo for?) - they'd got into the really thick metalised dogfood sack and carried off and stashed a couple of pounds or so!

Our mice must have been especially dumb! We set the trap (under kitchen sink) and 20 mins later one walked in. Released in field and then caught the next one 30 mins later. No more mice!

Hi could you let me have the exact name of the Rentokul poison traps please? I had a look online but it wasn’t obvious to me which particular product you were referring to. Thanks.