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I think I have a mouse infestation. There is SQUEAKING coming from my bedroom

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MardyBum · 19/12/2006 06:01

Every night at about 3am my DH and I have started hearing SQUEAKING coming from somewhere very close to the bed. Maybe under the floorboards. Do mice actually SQUEAK? Does it mean there's a NEST nearby? I am 41 wks pg and this is not what we need right now!! Have seen nothing up there, though did have mice downstairs that I thought we'd got rid of. Have been awake most of the night because of this. Am scared (and tired).

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Quootiepie · 19/12/2006 06:10

it wont hurt you, but, yes, mice squeak. Not sure how you can get rid humanly... xXx

mamama · 19/12/2006 06:15

I think you usually hear them scratching around rather than squeaking. We've had a couple of mice and I've never heard them squeak but I'm sure they do. You usually see droppings too.

Chocolate works well to catch them (so I'm told) & pepperami

Quootiepie · 19/12/2006 06:21

I had a mouse in my bedroom once as a child - squeaked like mad. One day I saw a blue flash from my lamp in the corner of my room, didnt think anything of it.... until I rearranged my room one day and it was hanging onto the wire with its teeth, all stiff. Yuk.

RubberDuckWithCranberrySauce · 19/12/2006 06:24

Try one of those sonic scarers (remembering to change the frequency twice a day - gives them a headache). May take a while though if it's a nest as the mothers don't like leaving the babies...

Quootiepie · 19/12/2006 06:26

awwww, dont make the mum leave the babies

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MardyBum · 19/12/2006 06:32

Ohmigod QP, v. funny about the lamp.

Maybe the squeaking is the babies crying when the mum's gone off to look for food then?

Will try to poision them I guess, but don't like the idea of the bodies rotting under the floorboards near the bed. Especially as we're about to have a newborn sleeping in our room! Nice welcome to the world for baby.

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Quootiepie · 19/12/2006 06:34

ooooh, no, dont poisen the little babies. Can your DH catch them?

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MardyBum · 19/12/2006 06:39

Will ask him to investigate when he emerges. Can't see him hunting them down with his bare hands!

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Quootiepie · 19/12/2006 06:45

there must be a way to move them on... maybe set up a nice box in the garden or a shed with straw in and leave a trail of chocolate?

RubberDuckWithCranberrySauce · 19/12/2006 06:47

Don't use poison - the smell of dead rotting mouse lasts for AGES.

If they're very close by then a sonic scarer should work well (just won't work instantly, iyswim)... they don't work so well on rats though, I discovered...

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 19/12/2006 09:47

"Don't use poison - the smell of dead rotting mouse lasts for AGES"

Exdcept I had quite a large infestation, poisoned them and never got a whiff of rotten mouse. According to the Mouse Man, most of the time they go back to the nest and mummify.

I didn't hear any squeaking, I heard constant nibbling from various points in the house.

It's very very difficult to deal with mice humanely Just remember thta they run around your kitchen etc WEEING on everything.

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MardyBum · 19/12/2006 09:53

Rats!?

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Quootiepie · 19/12/2006 09:54

its mice, not rats - rats dont squeak. DO the chocolate trail to a nice warm box of straw outside for the babies x

HowTheFillyjonkStoleChristmas · 19/12/2006 09:57

no, sorry, you need to get rid of them. they wee constantly and carry, i think, weils diesase? and loads of other stuff.

symapthise a lot. i had exactly the same when pg. also used to live in edinburgh-mouse city.

if you can afford it, rentokill are fantatic. they even will come out sameday to collect bodies . which is rather helpful when pg. their bait is laced with a human emetic also, so safer.

for us they also checked the house to see how the mice were coming in, and sorted it (we actually had mice entering from outside, the infestation was mainly in the garden)

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MardyBum · 19/12/2006 10:10

Thanks for all your responses.

Are Rentokil very expensive? Having someone else come in to remove the bodies sounds perfect. My dh has just called the local council, they are supposed to be calling us back, but don't know yet what pest control services they actually offer to homeowners.

I wouldn't be so upset about it if I wasn't about to give birth. Also booked for a home birth, so am supposed to recuperating in the bedroom - surrounded by squeaking mice/mouse corpses/a mixture of both!

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HowTheFillyjonkStoleChristmas · 19/12/2006 11:37

they were £450 all in

but came out next day.

I had a newborn and a toddler (actually was pg when realised there was a problem but stuck my head in the sand til i actually saw one

you also need to be aware that dead mice look unnervingly like sleeping babies.

Quootiepie · 19/12/2006 11:40

get a cat if needs must.

HowTheFillyjonkStoleChristmas · 19/12/2006 11:47

PSML at "get a cat"

Maybe take a look at the "my cat shat in the bath" thread first? (under Pets)

Quootiepie · 19/12/2006 11:49

Jack Russell are good aswell - I have one you can borrow, but he's more likely to widdle all over your kitchen than the mice...

Quootiepie · 19/12/2006 11:50

Jack Russels

Tortington · 19/12/2006 11:51

maybe its next door fucking?

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MardyBum · 19/12/2006 12:43

That'll be it, Custardo. Of course!

Actually, would quite like a cat, but right now is not the time.

Still waiting for the council to ring...

Last night the squeaking went on non-stop from 3am until well after 7 this morning. DH has moved the furniture around in the bedroom and it at least seems that they aren't nesting in the bed base. The guy next door (we're terraced) has been having work done on his roof, maybe that expains it.

Will have to sleep in my dd's bunk bed tonight, I think. Hope my waters don't break .

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jabberwocky · 19/12/2006 12:55

How about mouse traps? We get at least one mouse every year when the weather changes and dh uses the traps. I try to avoid looking anywhere they might be...

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MardyBum · 19/12/2006 13:26

Was put off mouse traps by an unpleasant experience when I was a student. We put a mouse trap in the kitchen and forgot about it. One day I noticed that the kitchen seemed even more stinky than normal, and found a dead and decomposing mouse had kind of melted into the floor and stuck there . Had to pay a friend a fiver to remove it. Hopefully I'm a bit less skanky nowadays, but still...

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jabberwocky · 19/12/2006 14:25

ewwwwww