Mice getting me down. How long before we go?

[Idontdocold]

We had mice last year and stupidly didn’t do anything. We saw some droppings, put some humane traps down and then we didn’t see anymore droppings... until a couple of months ago.

I tried the humane traps again and they didn’t pick anything up so now I’ve put some poison in a bait box in a cupboard where I think they are coming from. I hadn’t seen any new droppings until this morning when they were in DDs pushchair < not envy!

I’ve ordered more bait boxes and some big cheese snap traps which will arrive tomorrow.

How long for the little fuckers to die? I feel so dirty and like I’m gonna make DD sick having them around.

Ah title is meant to say “they” instead of “we” 🤦‍♀️

Depends how they get in.
Keep all food in sealed containers and keep things clean.
Good luck.

A couple of points:

1. They can smell your hands so load traps wearing rubber gloves
2. I couldn't get humane traps to work and after trying everything ordered an electric rat trap from amazon for about £30. That worked.
3. I assume you're putting traps around the edges of rooms as that's where they run around
4. They like peanut butter and chocolate.
5. Try to seal up holes - even a temporary bodge like wire wool and packing tape will do as they hate that.
6. I agree with pp keep food in sealed containers. I once had what looked like a flour explosion where they chewed through a corner. I don't think they ate it but it made an incredible mess so I have bought tupperware from lakeland to store my flour in. I have had them chew through a plastic peanut butter jar too so now keep my peanut butter in the fridge
7. Don't hoover their poo. It's very toxic and the hoover will blow it out. Pick it up with gloves and a bleached cloth and throw away.

Their sense of smell is phenomenal. I've had them a few times and at one stage they were climbing through a hole in the utility room wall (where pipes come in) and walking 40 feet to get to a bag of bird seed in a cupboard. Obviously I no longer keep bird seed.

Good luck, I hate the little fuckers.

You can keep mice out of birdseed & pet food by storing it in metal rubbish-type bins.

Is getting a cat an option? A young cat will hunt mice that get in the house and also deter others from coming in with their smell.

Otherwise I'd second what a previous poster said, you need to find how they're getting in and block it off otherwise no matter how many traps you put down they'll keep coming. Go around the outside of your house with some poly-filla or similar looking for even very tiny holes and filling them. They'll chew through eventually so you'll need to re-do it every year. Not sure if this is something you can pay someone else to do. I'd imagine it might be.

When I had them it took three days to get rid of them using ordinary traps

Personally, I'd get a cat. And try and find every where they might be coming in and block all the holes.

I second the cat option. We've never had mice (touch wood) despite our toddler leaving food in all sorts of inventive places throughout the house! Our cat is a killer and will hunt anything that moves (including large spiders and wasps- bonus). She regularly kills mice that were in our garden. If you go for a young ex-stray they tend to be quite good hunters. We have to let ours in and out though as she would bring in dead mice through a cat flap if we installed it.

Mine bring them in as gifts. We have a cat flap.