Mouse in the house - nothing works its driving me crazy

[Ahmawa]

I have spent about £50 on the following

16 mouse traps
10 stick mouse traps
2 different types of mouse poison

There are mouse dropping under the bed, the mouse has even chewed the carpet in the corner and part of the corner of the door. I even found some in the kids wardrobe.

There are droppings next to the traps.

I have used peanut butter, chocolate, pretzels, toffee.

Nothing works. I have yet to catch one - but with droppings everywhere I assume there must be more than one?

What can I do. I am going insane. Please can someone help.

Yes, there will be many

Do not poison them. Because they go outside and die. And then another animal eats them and they die. It could be a neighbours cat

I don’t want to upset up further but if the snappy traps aren’t working, are you sure it’s not rats?

You can buy rat traps or call an exterminator in.

We get mice, it’s an old house quite rural,little field mice come in. The snappy traps always work. So if they aren’t, I’d say its not mice. I’m sorry,

Borrow a cat?

Cat.

I live rurally. We had mice. We spent a fortune and every device you can imagine to get rid: fail. Then we got a cat. I swear the mice fled the house within days. He can't have eaten that many. Eight years later the cat is still going and the only mice in the house are the ones he brings in to show off.

I get mice from time to time. I live in an old house in the country. I've found that Gummy Bears are the best thing to bait traps with. Really jam the bugger on so the mice have to tug it. Make sure the trap is very sensitive. If your mice are taking the bait without triggering the traps then you need to make sure the traps are more sensitive. Bend whatever you need to bend to make it go off if you breath on them. It should be difficult to put the things down without them going off. I wear gloves to save my knuckles when I do this Place traps against the wall - mice keep close to walls if possible.

We had a whole squad move in as my neighbour was taking his old garage down. Ended up buying a big rat zapper a d covering the holes at the end so once in the mice cant go back out. I never want to kill animals but my house was overrun, we caught 14 before it stopped. Shit myself emptying the trap everytime

I think you need to google rat vs mice droppings to work out which you have got.

Which poison did you use? I had a mouse and put down little green pellets (can't remember the name but they were from B&Q) - I put them in every corner in every room.

Try filling any holes you can find with expandable foam. Mice can get in through the smallest holes.

You can pay pest controllers to come in and do it.

I has some got the rodent man to come out 2 have been caught in attic but still hear movement he said it could couple of weeks

Could you borrow a friends cat for a week or two? Hopefully they’ll catch the mice and once their smell is around the house it might deter them returning for a while.

@HollowTalk

Which poison did you use? I had a mouse and put down little green pellets (can't remember the name but they were from B&Q) - I put them in every corner in every room.

Please don’t use poison. It’s a horrific thing to do due to the impacts on other wildlife or neighbouring pets if they eat rhe poisoned mouse.

Get a cat. Ours will catch anything in the house - spiders, moths, and will hunt anything outside too.

Mice can get in through the space the size of a pencil ✏️

Get a professional in or a cat 🐈

We had mice, professional got rid of them and I now how three cats!

No rats or mice in sight in the house, just in garden 😁

My DH caught three in four days using Nutella

Peppermint spray from Amazon

@Diverseduvet

Try filling any holes you can find with expandable foam. Mice can get in through the smallest holes.

Not air bricks, though. They need to let air in. Cover with mesh or poke wire wool in the holes.

It depends on your personal views, but my friend used glue boards, they were apparently keeping them up at night scratching and chewing, they seen them in the kitchen, there was a smell, they just had enough and we're worried about damage to any electrics or things saved in the loft.

They caught about 12 mice, the boards are not the most humane but they work.

They went around blocking up holes on the exterior walls after they believed to be mouse free.

Find all entry points and block them.

Do not use poison. Please not those sticky traps, they will chew their leg off to get away, they are horrible things.

If you don't knew where they come in, put some powder down (hard surfaces) like talc, and leave it, look for little footprints and see where they begin, then find the holes and block them.

Set traps and do not move them for many days unless you need to re-bait them, they take a while to want to show an interest in new things.

Get pest control, they should find holes and set traps. You can get shock traps if you want to kill them without poison. Pest control also know how to fill entry holes so that they won't chew through filler or push wire wool out if used.

Please please please do not use poison or glue traps. Horrific ways to die, very inhumane!

Humane traps work and you just drive them away. Either that or the viktor reusable electric traps are effective and humane.

I much prefer to catch them live and re home but sometimes you have no option.
Mice run along the skirting boards so place traps next to the walls so they have to run over the baited end I use Peanut butter.
Are they eating the bait but not setting it off?
Place a length or drain pipe along the skirting with a trap in it works well.
Glue traps are not humane, poison well they crawl under the floor and stink for weeks.
As above fill holes with filler and steel wool, air bricks cover with steel mesh motor factors sell it for filling cars. If you can get the end of a Bic pen in the hole a mouse can squeeze in.

Please don't use poison or sticky/glue traps - they are dangerous and barbaric.

Call in the professionals - you sound desperate - but don't let them use the above two methods
Plug-in anti-rodent system
Cat - borrow one - to be kept indoors only - for a week or two if you can do this 100% responsibly and if you are not a cat lover willing and able to give a good home to a cat for life
More sensitive metal snap traps with bait harder to get at - but check them several times a day so they are not left to suffer and you have to be prepared to humanely dispatch any that are.

The mice and there must be more than one have shredded the corners of our carpet. Tufts of carpet everywhere.

I am sick and tired of having to clean up mouse dropping and spray with disinfectant.