A little mouse with clogs on. Pah! How do I get rid of the ****er?

[GrrFFS]

So moths don't like camphor/moth balls
Slugs don't like salt
How can I get rid of the mouse that appears to be living in my top floor flat?

We originally found him late at night in the kitchen about a month ago, but hadn't seen any evidence except actually seeing him (no droppings under fridge which was where he ran to when we disturbed him).

So we have been absolutely meticulous about floor sweeping since and installed a mainspowered highpitch "pest deterrent" thingy and thought we had got rid of him.

But no! He's just moved on. Last night got up in the night, turned the light on in the hall and he ran from the office (next to kitchen) into the airing cupboard.

I fully appreciate it's possibly not just one mouse so what can I do? Esp since there's no EVIDENCE anywhere until we see the little fucker.

I'm about to go on hols so don't want to trap for now (ugh, the SMELL!) but any other deterrents I should know about?
Please please please help.
TIA

A large ginger cat?

ggg!

get a humane trap and entice it in with something sweet

I feel for you, I have one living in my lounge apparently, found droppings this morning on my window sill!!!!! No idea where it's got to now and I have 2 cats! Off to buy mouse trap later and slap some sense into the cats although I suspect they are the ones who brought the lodger home

mice hate peppermint

try essential oil dripped on cotton wool balls

We caught our mouse with a humane trap. Baited with Galaxy (they love choc). Caught him the first night we tried it.

We managed to work out where he was hiding and put traps down in key places - honestly I wish we'd done it earlier than we did (spent two weeks doing the cleaning thing waiting for it to move on and it never did).

Really, chocolate?? Hmm might try that tonight thanks. I dare not tell dp there's one lurking about he'd never walk in there again!

They also like peanut butter...and they have to work to get that off the trap, so there's a better chance of guillotining (sp?) it!

Also, I wouldn't take it personally that it's (they're!) in your flat. Mice go between flats in a building in the wall cavities.

You might want to think about where they're getting in and block off any possible entries. Eg a space around a water pipe - that sort of thing. They can get through the tiniest of spaces.

Good luck.

I can recommend chocolate brownies - I caught our mouse (one of our mice?) tonight with a bit of brownie in a humane trap.(It didn't even wait till we'd gone to bed before coming out - I'd set the trap in the hall just outside the understairs cupboard & the hall light was off)
If you do use a humane trap, don't forget to take it a long way away before letting it go - they can apparently find their way back from a quarter of a mile away.