mice

[ghostspirit]

hi i have mice in my house. i got them last year around this time as well. last year i used the snap traps. this year the mice did not seem to be taking it. so i ended up putting poison down. just heard really loud squeaking. so had a look and there was a dying mouse. seemed to take a while to dye. so im wondering if it would be better to go back to the snap traps but maybe use the posion as bait on the trap. so then they will die fast. i has been using chocolate and peanut butter. worked last year. and also i think i would rather see them dead in the trap and not rotting where ever they end up

Dame - I had no idea about that idiot I am so do they travel then, the mice?? from house to house.

I suppose well my DB lives with SIL in a flat (apartments, private, late 80's/early 90's built) and they have mice - there seems to be some run through in kitchen or other area and they're on 2nd or 3rd floor up, so would make sense re the neighbours. Trouble is they charge lots of service charge surely (Peverel/Om) would sort out pest control for that eh?!

Conjoined houses are like a giant mouse run.

I'm imagining the mice like in that game Mouse Trap racing over the house...

the flat where we had them was a mouse heaven, gorgeous pine floorboards but the type with gaps between - and HUGE gaps between radiator and walls etc... The garden was lovely and wild which apparently they like and the grille at bottom of front door (Victorian) the pest control man told me they got in through that too.

I was just thankful it wasn't rats.

Mrs devere mice spread disease and wee everywhere. I know for a fact there are no mice in my house apart from when I chose to let my 7 month old kitten outside!

MrsDeVere

I think I'd see them by now… the kitten certainly would!

there are field mice in garden but not in my flat/maisonette.

rats, yes in garden or they were.

But if you're happy letting them wee everywhere in your house…

I know there are no mice in my kitchen because there is no mouse shit and if I leave something out, it doesn't get nibbled.

I am 100% confident I don't have mice either. In previous properties there were always tell-tale signs as OwlCapone says.

I have a mouse or two. I am well freaked out.

We have had Rent to kill to deal with them before we moved in, but tonight we've seen one come and hide in the living room. Husband then shook down all large furniture looking for it but could not find it.

I am really afraid.

Glad I've found this! Just minding my own business when a mouse ran across the floor! We had mice some years ago, and used humane traps which cleared them out. (We also had a cat at the time, and she ignored them) I have dug out the old traps, ready to catch the blighter(s). There is a gap in the wall which could be the entry point - I will buy wire wool tomorrow! Maybe the dog will catch it. Maybe....

Change the food. Put jam on the snap traps. Never failed for me. Good luck.

Rentokil came by again. The house keeper has bought her own methods (she is Sri Lankan and has a few home tricks up her sleeve that she is swearing by)... I'm so scared, I'll do anything right now.