HELP: Mouse/Mice?!?

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Please reassure me 😅 Just over a week ago, i saw a mouse in my living room (🥲) and immediately got traps down with peanut butter in. Ive had 3 down since that night, and in the last few days added another 4 in my living room, hallway and kitchen. I found (a lot 😭😭 of) droppings behind a unit next to my back door in a corner - no sort of trail to show where they had come from) and there was no holes in skirting etc - so assumed one had come in from when the back door had been open for a few hours a couple of days before.
So this whole week has been silent (apart from my daughter saying she’s seen it run along the kitchen floor?) UNTIL about half an hour ago when I heard her scream — she actually has seen it scuttling towards the gap between the dishwasher and cupboards 😭😭😭. The kitchen door is shut and its now in there with 2 traps. I can’t help but imagine it on my countertop 🤢 and don’t know what to do next - if it hasn’t been caught this week why would it be caught in a few hours?!?
Please tell me there has only been one mouse before (she said it was same colour as one i saw - and like i said no holes in wall by droppings)

😓😓😓

I have heard that in London mice have become accustomed to and love highly spiced foods. Can confirm that when we had mice and were frantically checking and cleaning cupboards they hadn’t touched pasta etc but packets of chillis and seaweed in the back of the cupboard were absolutely ripped to shreds. I keep every thing in jars now. We stopped up the gaps with wire will which they can’t chew through.

Mice will die if you drop them off miles away from their food sources and scent trails. I’ve no idea why it’s considered more humane to have a mouse slowly starve to death or get eaten by a predator than a quick death in a snap trap.

@RenamedOMG 😭
Well I am dreading it but I heard something in the pantry move (pans on floor in big plastic tub, and tins stacked on ikea billy shelves, with packet spices //noodles etc and lighter things as you get further up them) and assumed it was nothing and 2mins later I hear the trap door shut whilst I’m making dinner 🤢🤢 I do not want to go through the pantry but it must be done 😭😭

They're cute little things and they're obviously looking to come as it's getting colder outside. In general with mice, if there's one, there's many. Check underneath your kitchen units and seal all wall gap with wire.

We had a couple of field mice come in a few years back and my husband left some cheerios on the kitchen floor for them to nibble on, just adorable. We used live traps but one of them had a heart attack as soon as it was trapped and died.

Not sure I would say adorable.. 🥲
i really hope it was just the one.