Can anyone who knows anything about mice, patter over this way please......

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

Just wondering how a mouse came to be in my bathroom last night?

Can they climb stairs? Through open windows?

I am very puzzed.

While we are on the subject do you think IABU to have got very pissed off with dp waking me 3 times in the night to-

a) tell me mousey was in the bathroom

b) ask me how to catch said mousey

c) Bring the sodding box with the mouse in to our bed and ask me to identify whether creature was a mouse or baby rat

Walkthedinosaur - we are sure we saw a shrew too but have never found it. Our cat also likes to bring live things in to 'play with'. Shrews apparantly give off a bad smell/taste so cats don't really like them as a snack!

Well thanks to the shrew all the spiders are up in arms because I've been into all the dark places of my dining room trying to find it - spiders are even bigger than the shrew. Scary times in Walkthedinosaur's dining room at the moment.

Would it be really cruel if I shoved the nozel of the Dyson under bookshelves, dresser and in dark crevices to try and get it out? It's only little I don't think it would get stuck it would possibly just go into the plastic bin thingy.

mouse glue was the last resort, nothing else was working (they were very cunning trap-defying mice) and as soon as we caught them we'd put them outside for foxes and cats to sort them out (sort of nature's way).

(you have to put the glue down on some wood or card, not on the floor )

Never tried mouse glue - sounds horrific. Afraid we have resorted to the breakback traps. These have worked fine (mostly) apart from once when I heard the trap snap and then lots of thrashing noises! We only get little woodmice though which are quite pretty and it's a shame to murder them.

Do the humane mouse traps work? Only asking this because recently we have had a rat looking at us from the patio. Dh went out and bought a humane rat trap as well as a breakback rat trap, and it wouldn't even venture close to either. There was an array of tempting little treats on both, but obviously it was wise to our tricks. This rat was huge.......and I mean HUGE. It was like watching a rat-faced chihuahua running around. Fortunately rat has moved on since we stopped putting bird seed out for the birdies.

we have mice*. have tried everything to get rid of them - snap traps, poison, high pitched ultrasonic things, shouting when you see one (worked the best out of all of them I think). It's really hard in victorian terraces as the mice just run between them. We have to make extra sur that no food is left out (even the fruit bowl) which is a bit annoying. The traps caught one, but then the others knew what it was. They seem to munch the poison and quite like it. Anyone have any other ideas other than getting a cat??

[*we do keep quite a clean house honest]

I have had mice, dealt with them by way of snap traps baited with bounty bars. But I am still terrified that more may come even though I have blocked up all the possible holes with wire wool and taken to actually doing housework

THanks all, no more mousey sightings yet, solidgoldbrass, at apalling waste of bounty bars, nobody but me gets to eat those here!

Off on hoilday in the morning, hope not to come home to house full of mice!

He really shouldn't have released it in your garden. You need to release them about 3miles from yor home or they will find their way back....