Mice in our bedroom at night, not touching any traps!

[Chris2315]

We first had them in our attic which we were catching humanely and releasing far away but now they are in our bedroom and the ones left are not interested in our humane trap at all (baited with cookies)

I bought snap traps, both wooden and modern plastic ones, and they’ve been done a few days now and the mice are just ignoring them. I’ve got a camera set up in our bedroom (we’re currently sleeping in another room) and we see them come out in the night and just sniff our traps and ignore them! I’ve even bought an electric shock style trap which is also being ignored. I’m using peanut butter and Nutella plus I’ve tried with milk chocolate (as they tore through a bar I had and was eating it)

Also either we have more in the attic or they are somehow going from the bedroom to the attic (I’ve got a camera up there too), but i’ve gutted the bedroom to find their source and I’m stumped as I can’t see any holes at all, but there are droppings everywhere including our drawers and wardrobes

Is it worth me calling a professional? I just really want my bedroom back to be honest!

Get a cat

All in the professionals. Apparently they can get through a hole the size of a pencil. We had them in the garage and manage with traps to get rid of them, but in the house would be hideous. I can't have a cat as I'm allergic.

Poison is likely to be the only way to eliminate them. I would guess that is what professionals would use.

Yes, the professionals will get them within a day or 2 usually.

Eventually I got a cat, cheaper and much nicer!

Funnily enough my neighbour has a cat and I was thinking of borrowing them lol, but not something I want to ask!

I want to avoid poison because I don’t want them dying slowly and painfully in our walls or anything…but I am so fed up, I’ve got 3 kids and our youngest (8 months) has had bites for weeks which I now know are flea bites from the mice!!

FFS, get the professionals in. They are disease carrying vermin and their presence is harming your children.

Oh yes, the dying behind the skirting board. A starling fell from our roof space somewhere in the walls and the smell was horrendous. We had to get people in to fumigate the place.

We found the plastic live catch traps to work well as they need to enter past the snap close door to sniff the food

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Stop putting baited traps down, you’re just attracting them! You may well need professionals but mice absolutely hate peppermint so get some peppermint essential oil and put on some sheets of kitchen roll and dot them around your whole room/house, especially where they’re accessing (if you can see it), and just leave them anywhere you know they are or like to go.

Put all food in kilners/glass storage or sealed somehow and if your house provides zero food and a pepperminty shelter they should (might) just leave - that’s how I totally got rid of mine at least as there was a problem when I first moved in. I reload the tissue with more drops of peppermint every so often (every few weeks).

But they were just downstairs and if they were in my actual bedroom is probably set up a sonar and ballistic missiles 😂

Yes borrow a cat - how are they coming in - block the holes and then poison the attic.

If it’s affecting your 8 month old, you need to get the professionals in

Thanks everyone, so I thought I’d try one more night and nope…my camera shows the mice blatantly ignoring the trap. Not only that but I’ve now seen one in my kids room…the council are coming out tomorrow, although I know it’ll still be a week or 2 til they’re gone 😩 so kids are on air beds downstairs and I’m on the sofa!

I second the advice to put down peppermint essential oil (cedar wood works brilliantly too). They hate any strong perfumey human' smells.

We've finally managed to get rid of them after catching 27!!!! in those big (not the small plastic ones) humane traps and taking them out down to fields. They haven't returned it's fab. We had them in the attic originally too. I put soap in the drawers in my dressing table and the little sods ate the soap!! But that oil spray really works! I put neat drops of cedar wood in the drawer s now. Good luck

Oh and we have cats they don't care about the house mice at all only the garden ones! Which they sometimes kindly bring into the house!!!! Weird or what?

We’ve found that chocolate raisins are the best bait, we got 7 last week. I’ll order some peppermint oil to stope them coming back

After my neighbour had a rat infestation two years ago who got through voids into my house (terraced), I was horrified to hear gnawing sounds again in my kitchen. I put down tubs of bleach behind the kickboards because they apparently don't like strong smells. They've not come back.

We had mice and got a cat now she catches them in the garden

You poor thing, definitely get professional exterminators.

The bait is highly poisonous, so make sure your kids go nowhere near it. Although they should put it somewhere inaccessible to kids. In my experience they will be able to look around your room and spot where they are coming from.

Don't worry about them dying in the walls. The bait dries them out so there shouldn't be a smell.