i think i may have mice! argh...

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have called pest control they should be out this week...what else can i do? kitchen extremely clean...will be even moreso now.
do you think i should pull out the friidge to see if there is any sign of them behind there? only sign seems to be in my pan cupboard where a basket has been chewed.
may i add that im petrifed of anything with a tail! makes me vomit....

I have never called out pest control on the occasions we have had mice. A few stragetically placed traps filled with peanut butter have done the trick, and wiping up any crumbs/scraps. No food open either like biscuit packets ets

Can you borrow a cat? (providing you don't have allergies, I suppose). Really, they are pretty effective. Could you cat sit. apparently the people who owned the house before me had mice......... then I moved in with my brood of part feral rescue moggies - mice no more

trouble with pest control is that they wont trap mice ... they will just poison them

I know this sounds better but they will go off and die somewhere inaccessible and smell awful

I hate all rodents as well but if you can trap them it is better all round

we have littl humane traps which are basically just a little box .. mouse goes in the box tips and the door shuts

Its horrid .. I know .. but once you get it you know its gone.

We put poison in humane traps. Defeats the object I know, but the humane traps make it easier to dispose of the body

i did put traps down as well last time, might just go and buy some this afternoon and put them in a couple of cupboards to see if it can rid me of the problem any quicker...thing is i hate them so emptying them then became the problem. like i say i get physically sick at just the sight of them, my othr worry is that its (says very quetly) rats, next door arent the cleanest of people and they dont see the problem with any rodents (vom), may have aword with their social worker to check that the kitchen is clean and that bins are being put out.

"trouble with pest control is that they wont trap mice ... they will just poison them

I know this sounds better but they will go off and die somewhere inaccessible and smell awful"

I have poisoned large infestations of mice on at least 3 occasions and not had a single corpse or foul smell. According to the Mouse Man, something like 95% of mice go back to the nest to die and mummify.

I've had mice before, my advice is: make sure there are no crumbs anywhere; look for access points and block with wire wool; borrow a cat if you can. Good luck!

Oh, and mice only go round the edge of rooms as they have terrible vision.

i clean up all the time hoover at least twice a day, ive not even seen any droppings...may have to pull out the fridge, to see if there is any evidence there.

we had mice, you can get these plug things that emitt a high frequency (i think we got them from B&Q) they're great as you just plug them in a forget about them, and ive not seen a mouse since .
oooo but they are no good if you have hamsters etc at home as ot affects them too

As thefinerthingsinlife says, the sonic things really help.

I had a couple of kitchen mice in my old house so MIL lent me her plug in thing for a while and they disappeared. When I gave it back, the mice reappeared in full force.

I have got plug in things and they did not work. We live in a very built up area loads takeaways etc and however clean I keep getting them back. But what is effective is stopping up holes, being clean borrowing cats and i am quite tempted in trying balsam fir oil as it is a smell they don't like