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Oh dear god .....MICE

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Kimi · 06/02/2008 13:08

In the cupboard under the sink, found droppings and eaten kitchen roll.

Could only have been there 2/3 weeks and cant see where they came from......

Help

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Kimi · 08/02/2008 20:34

ALL going sort of OK but have giving in to the idea that gall stones and I are going to have to part company.

Will email you over the weekend.

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madamez · 08/02/2008 20:39

Have a huge virtual hug as I know how you feel, have just been there myself, little fuckers running round my bloody bedroom.
You need: Wire wool to block up any holes
Tom&Jerry style snap traps (I found milk chocolate bounty bars very effective)
Poison bait if you can handle the possiblity of having to have a corpse hunt.
It;s worth ringing your landlord/local council as well - my local council will charge £72 plus vat so I have dealt with it myself.
And after a horrible week of excessive housework I have had 3 dead mice and no signs so far of any more. Good luck.

anorak · 08/02/2008 20:56

Kimi when are we going to have a chat?

PotPourri · 08/02/2008 21:00

You have my sympathies. We have had a few run ins with mice. We live in the country, so I suppose that is to be expected. Expanding foam is good for filling holes, and peanut butter for baiting the traps.

I am usually very humane, even with spiders. But seriously, the humane ones are just not that humane. The poor little things are stunned and covered in their own pee and poo. I seriously doubt they recover.

All the options are horrid, and involve dealing with corpses or living ones that need dropped off somewhere in the car. I do think the snappy ones are the best, and cheap, you can chuck the whole lot out.

Giving me shivers thinking about it again.... Am pregnant and total clean freak, so very upsetting.

Gingermonkey · 08/02/2008 21:43

Great - look forward to the email and a chat. Now get DP and DH1 to join forces and catch that little f%&#er!!!!

GreedyGecko · 09/02/2008 22:25

PotPourri, how can you say 'poor little things'? They're horrible little things, I can hear one chewing away in my cupboard right now. They're having a whale of a time in my house atm. I'm moving, and after having packed up the cupboard under the stairs last week, they've been having a party in the rest of hte house and they don't care who's about, running around my feet while I'm trying to make dinner, scuttling around the fireplace. I've been coming up to bed as soon as the boys are in bed this last week, and then last night I bloody hear them up here!

I was going to nick a couple of rentokil boxes from work earlier, but forgot!

The poison I have got seems to be having no effect at all, thought about borrowing a cat, but then was reminded of the clean up operation afterwards and that really doesn't appeal.

Although they have been good and stayed away when I've had viewings!

It really gets me because the house is now so much cleaner than it ever was when xp was here!

Tillyboo · 10/02/2008 17:10

Mars Bars in a mousetrap ! They can't resist them ...

NoNickname · 10/02/2008 17:17

Peanut butter or nutella is great for bait.

These things work a treat.

ScarletA · 10/02/2008 17:29

Get a cat! We had mice on and off for years and tried everything. Eventually we gave in and got a kitten. We've had her for a year now and she even has a star chart on the fridge for every corpse she presents us with (often to be found in my crocs...). She is on 25 now. Evil killer.

However, they do have their downsides, cats. Came home today and found her in our bedroom torturing one. Maybe it was the same one she was torturing in the middle of the night. I was forced to rescue it and release it into the garden because I CANNOT STAND the noise she/it make racing about the room in fear and excitement.

Anyway, today's mouse almost leapt into dd's lap while she was looking under the bed, wondering why the cat was making the strange noise she was. It has now escaped somewhere under the mass of cardboard boxes and rubbish under the bed. Have not told dp because he will not sleep in here tonight if I do. He has been know to jump skillfully into my arms when we come across one.

GreedyGecko · 10/02/2008 23:29

Have spent £30 in B&Q today on some traps (armed with nutella, I know they love chocolate), and got some rentokil boxes for the bedroom, really don't want to hear them clawing at trap trying to get out.

I thought about getting one of the electronic zapper traps. How do you get rid of the dead bodies?

Ledodgy · 10/02/2008 23:40

Weird we saw a mouse in our house for the first time on Friday too. We're going to buy one of those sonar plug in things from JML. They let off sound waves that rodents can't stand a friend hasn't seen mice in her house since using it.

Ledodgy · 10/02/2008 23:43

can't find the JML one but there's one here

NoNickname · 11/02/2008 09:48

GreedyGecko - you can just flip the lid opena dn empty the mouse into a bag or bin. I used to send dh a couple of roads away to leave them in the undergrowth of an alleyway as I didn't want them in my bin.

GreedyGecko · 11/02/2008 10:14

ledodgy, I have one of those (bought it when I was doing my kitchen up), doesn't seem to be working now though!

PotPourri · 11/02/2008 10:46

I have those sonar things too, they don;t seem to work,. I still have em plugged in in every single room just in case though! But there is a dear one that DH got from teh ironmongers (I think) that goes into the walls too - that seems to have had an effect... might be worth a try - and as it is a repellant, no mess to clean up...

Gecko - I know, they are not poor little things when eating your house adn peeing and pooing everywhere, but seeing them in those boxes, unable to event get out when you open it up did strike me as cruel. A quick, sharp death is much more humane..

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Kimi · 11/02/2008 16:18

Well still no mouse in the trap, but no mouse poop either so maybe the brillo pads did the job.

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GreedyGecko · 11/02/2008 18:10

Good news there's no poo. I have EHO coming round tomorrow, then I'll be armed with my huge roll of wire wool to stuff the holes!

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Kimi · 12/02/2008 16:55

Got the little f*&@$^.

One mouse dead in trap this morning.

Hoe that was the only one.

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GreedyGecko · 12/02/2008 17:33

ds2 picked a dead one up this afternoon!!! I spent the next 1/2 hour scrubbing him!

EHO man has put lots of poison boxes down. Horrible little things were running around front room & back room all yesterday evening, and there was one this morning perched on top of the conservatory blinds!

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Kimi · 12/02/2008 17:46

Thank god we have not got to that stage.

I have bleached the cupboard again, and so far (tempting fate) they /it has only been in the one cupboard

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GreedyGecko · 12/02/2008 19:48

This is literally in the space of a week that we've got here. I emtpied out cuboard under stairs, and they've been loving it since!

Fingers crossed that one is it for you kimi.

GreedyGecko · 12/02/2008 20:01

There's a little one running round now, if it were in a field, I'd think it was really cute...but its in my BLOODY HOUSE!!!!

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Kimi · 13/02/2008 13:00

no mice or droppings today so far

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