Mice

[loonybin]

Does anyone have mice? How do you get rid of them?

Peanut butter in several strategically placed traps, or poison in an inaccessible place to children. Best thing we ever did was to adopt two cats!

One thing about poison is they go off and die, if they already have a nest in your house they will die there, meaning if you don't find them they will start to smell.

I bought a tip trap humane trap & put peanut butter in to catch them - It worked after about three days then once I had coaught 1 I caught another 3 really quickly afterwards - the only thing I had to be brave about was transporting them to the nearest field to get rid of it!!

We used chocolate on those nasty wooden traps and then had to get rid of the dead bodies

Ooh, peanut butter? Pretty sure we have mice under the lounge floor boards - they've bitten through our sky cable rendering sky box office useless!

Where do you get teh traps?

I bought the humane one from homebase or b & q I think!

Would it be worth contacting a professional?

B&Q - hardware sort of places.

Oh thanks - might nip there tomorrow! And you put peanut butter in it???

I got someone in from the council - all they did was put poison down but they couldn't be sure that they had got rid of them - which they hadn't plus it was cheaper for the trap and I didn't have the risk of poison arround

I put peanut butter in mine - a good teaspoon full

DS made us get human traps, got mine from B&Q

HUMAN traps?

I got a humane one as I didn't fancy dealing with dead mice!

The first time I thought we had caught one I had to get a friend round to check it all to find there was nothing in it

I posted a thread on this recently as we have mice in our roofspace. We shove poison in straws up there and hope for the best. Have to say there has been no smell.

Yesterday DH was clearing out our new house (I say new - it's not, it's an very old stone house in a real state of disrepair). Anyway, he moved out this old cooker from the kitchen - you know what's coming don't you? A huge rat jumped out from inside it and landed on his chest! Bad news huh? He walloped it with his spade as you would and it ran off (back into the house). 3 other rats then leapt out from the cooker & one joined his mate in the house. Nice. Not looking forward to going in there again I can tell you. Sorry, just thought I'd share this with you.

I wouldn't go back in the house - it was bad enough with the mice !

I wouldn't go back in the house - it was bad enough with the mice !

it must be the time of year, third thread in two days. we've got one humane and two killing traps. they can choose their fate......

Yes the mice were bloody huge so we ahd to get human traps the humane ones were too small.

My MIL had a rat in her loft, she put poison up and it all went quite, week later she sent me up to ivestigate a foul smell. Huge thing was wedged under a floor panel.

yes they have started again. Last year after trying everything to get rid ofthem - we found a poion that works so fast that the mouse doesnt get to move from the tray of poison. useful because you knopw where to look and get rid of them - so no smell. I cannot remember what it was called or where we bought it from but am searching everywhere. I read here though that homebase ( I think?) have a fast acting poison but I cannot get hold of it - any ideas?

we have had loads this year - and I have lost patience with them and don't care about being humane anymore . They don't like our traps, and won't eat the poison. So we resorted someting akin to some really sticky paper. They just get stuck to it (ugh). DH hit one over the head - very quick but messy, and another was up in the loft so we didn't find it until after it died.

Whatever - don't leave it - they will breed and you will have a much bigger problem.

i am desperate toooo! has anybody used the ultrasonic device?

The fleas die off....the mice arrive. Ah, isn't nature wonderful.

I've got an ultrasonic device, it's crap.

Every few months I get mice, no matter how careful I am about not leaving food around etc.

Poison seems to do the trick and I don't find it smells. Apparantly they dissolve the bodies really quickly.

Nice.