We have a mouse in our new house!

[lucysmam]

Any humane ways to get rid of it? Barring getting a cat as they're definately not my oh's favourite animal ever

Any suggestions welcome, cheers

This is what I did;

Packed my bags and my girls and went to my mums for a week.

When we returned to a freezing house with no food, the mouse had disappeared completely (touch wood)

lmao fuzzy, I would love to but we spent weeks in a freezing house before our landlords agent took pity and moved us here!! I couldn't face coming back to a freezing house again.

It's a brave little thing, sat next to the fireplace watching me last night while I was oogling watching Pirates of the Caribbean

I wondered about some kind of humane trap kind of thing maybe? Or is it the kind of thing my landlord should deal with since it was obviously here before us?

Get the landlord to deal with it, and humane traps just encourage the little buggers to come right back, with a load of friends in tow....bleurghhhh

The inhumane ones work, they are quick too. Bit of choc spread or peanut butter on it, by the skirting board in a 'hidden' place, and you'll have it by morning.

Keep replacing the trap after you have killed one, seeing one mouse usually means there are another 5, or maybe 10...I wiped out a family of 5 in 4 days once.

Nibble nibble scratch BANG

perverse satisfaction

never use poison, they just die in your clothes drawers and stuff

I'll scrap the humane trap idea if they encourage return visits! My oh can deal with the trap trap kind of ones instead of me though.

Flihgt, I was trying not to think about there being more! The one I've seen is bad enough! Keeps scuttling across the back hall in front of me!

Ah, where there's one there's more!!!!

Brace yourself.

We never caught a damn thing in a humane trap......the mice are just too wily. Breakback traps are the only way to go, and it's a very quick death. Our's usually still have the bait in their teeth!

They just seem so mean! Definately not what I was hoping for but hey, if that's the road we have to go down then we will