Mouse traps

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I have a mouse in my kitchen (I saw him twice this morning). Can anyone recommend a trap that kills them (sorry) but is easy to use?

really easy and effective!

Thanks for the recommendation - they were certainly easy to set (but I made DH dispose of the bodies!) We caught two mice overnight - which now makes me worried how many others there are!

Had mice problem last year. Although the traps caught a few we ended up going all out to get rid of them: traps, plug ins and poison. Haven't seen the this year...yet.

Just keep setting the traps . . .
Once you stop catching mice, then copletely change your bait - if you've been using bacon rind, then switch to chocolate, for example. I found that marmite on crusts caught loads, and then we switched to chocolate and caught loads more. Chocolate eclairs are good, because you can stick them onto the trap very securely and the little buggers mice can't run away with them.

the council will come and do it for you for a very small fee or for free. i prefered this rather than mucking round with traps and poison myself with the kids around.

I live on the edge of a field and every year when the farmer comes along in his combine harvester we end up with field mice.

You want the traditional snap-trap ones like FairyLights has linked too. Homebase do similar Rentokil ones. The ethical ones just dont work.

You set the traps against a wall (I tend to put them behind stuff like the sofa so the dc's and dog cant get to them).

Peanut butter as bait works well.

Sorry to say it, but if you have 2 already its likely you have more.

Our council charges £100 to deal with mice so we'll keep with the traps for a while yet! (I may change my mind if the problem continues) But thanks for all the advice.

£100! Ours only charges £25!

Oooh - this reminds me of a friend who bought those 'sticky paper' sort of traps - where the mouse runs onto the paper and finds it's feet firmly glued down so it can't run away. The only problem, of course, is that it's still alive - and impossible to remove from the paper. So short of cutting little feet-shaped shoes out for it and releasing into the field to be mocked by other mice, the only option is to actually kill the thing yourself!

So my advice is to avoid these at all costs - definitely stick to the traps that do the whole job for you!

Can you work out where they are getting in? Our sneaky little feckers were coming in under our floor and up through a tiny space where a hole had been cut for a radiator pipe. Cheeky little...soon stuffed that with tin foil.

Anyhow, they nearly drove me to OCD. Never has my house been so clean - laughable if you knew me in RL! I was sweeping the floors several times a day, everything was in sodding tupperware, I had to move food from low to high cupboards.The last straw for me was coming down one morning to see one of them sitting next to the kettle. Didn't even offer to make a cuppa.

Oh yeah, you need to block up the holes. They only need a space the thickness of a pencil to get in. They dont like to chew wire wool, so you could use that if you dont fancy replacing floor boards, skirting boards, replastering walls (which is probably what I would have to do!).