Mice EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! come and tell me about poisons please

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Am sure it's been done to death but...

We have mice

We started with humane traps after finding droppings, caught 3. Hubby is severely mouse phobic and I am severely germ phobic so between us we simply couldn't cope with them.

Bought sonic plug in things and didn't see anything for a couple of weeks and then found more droppings last week and saw a mouse on two occasions, so obviously the sonic things don't work.

Took them back to B&Q this morning to get our £60 back and bought a £6 pack of bait boxes, but on reading the box have realised that we have to hunt for dead mice and on further online reading, that they are going to stink out the house!

Anyone who has used poison please come and share your experiences with me

Can they not just push themselves through it though, Soupdragon?

Apparently not.

Although they have been seen wielding small wire cutters and welding gear in an attempt to get through the air bricks.

at Soupdragon.

I had a really horrible smell in th house and it wasn't until I saw a live mouse that I relasied what it was. The strench lingered for about two weeks - totally foul.

I think someone else had poisioned the mice and they came to ours for water becasue the one I did catch was very easy to get hold of.
The council put down some poision and it cost under £10.

We had biggish holes in a couple of walls where a network cable used to go from downstairs to a bedroom - the mice were using it as their personal short cut to the kitchen - we mixed the wire wool with polyfilla & blocked the holes with that - very effective!

How to set a mouse trap....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojLVIRdahtQ&NR=1

I am sure you will catch yourself a few times before getting the hang of it. I know I did

Any tips on best places to put traps and should I do the whole house? Oh and how many in total?

We put them in the kitchen as thats where we had seen droppings.
I think we placed 3 or 4 under the units (on the floor) but I think it was always the same one under the sink that caught them. We caught 7 in total.

ok thats 2 down, no idea how many more to go

The poison bait boxes from B&Q are VERY effective, one poor mouse died before even managing to get back out again! Only prog is, I have to either be brave and dig him out, or bin the whole unit which is far more likely.

Ah mice. Unfortunately I scream out loud when I see one as the woman in Tom and Jerry. We have them in the garden and I'm hoping not in house. Not seen them. But could be in cavity walls or attic. How would we know? Being veggie we started off with humane traps and took them (well husband did) to fields. We live next to heath and woodland so we'll never get rid of them. Now we're onto major poisoning and hitting over head with spade. Yuk! Mice never live alone. Get cats. Lots. We have 2 dogs one a Jack Russell and she's killed 8 but messes with them. We got rid of compost heap, garden pond (they were living in both) and brought guinea pigs indoors as they were eating GP food. We never feed birds anymore as mice come for food. Think you have to get council in if they are indoors as carry disease because they're incontinent. Our council would treat them free as they're a health hazard. We also have bats (cute small ones or it would be Travelodge for me). In our last house in Devon we had slow worms, grass snakes and mice so consider ourselves better off here. I'm a mad keen gardener but putting hand under shrubs with snakes about was the end of gardening there for me.

Forgot to say. Done my research. A mouse can get through a hole the width of a pencil. So need to close up every tiny access from outside. You can get grilles to cover air vents and you must mortar any gaps in the brickwork. I tink to myself I must be calm, they are a part of nature but they move too fast. Very sweet creatures when you look at them closely.

awwww mice

are they really a health hazard? we had them when I was a child, it was like Beatrix Potter with them scampering all over the dresser while our fat, impotent old cat looked on . . . I wish we had them now but our 3 cats are probably too much of a deterrent

My sister in law (three cats) tells me that mice can smell cats and so avoid the place. Stupidly I looked up diseases (inc. Weil's disease-neurological) caused by mice on internet. Don't do it. You don't want to know. There are too many of them. They are completely incontinent so wee everywhere. Just don't want them in the house. Trouble is our dogs ferret them out. They jump out of bins at you, run over your feet when you're gardening, walk casually past when you're having a cup of tea outside. Bit of a cheek. My neighbour says that the best way to kill them is buy plastic traps (like a box)from Band Q or elsewhere. His were cream coloured. You put bait in them which is poisoned. They die in the box and then you chuck bodies in the bin and re-bait again. I'd love a cat but husband against because 2 dogs and 2 guinea pigs enough.