Please advise if you have experience of this, i'm tearing my hair out!!
Starting a coupl of months ago we very occasionally heard a scuttling noise, assumed it might be a mouse but checked for signs and there were none so thought it must be in the wall somwhere. Didn't do anything as we weren't sure and it definitely did not seem to be coming into the house itself.
Then a week ago found droppings in three sperate areas on each floor - so its now in. Eeeek!!
The next day noticed a horible musty ammonia smell which has stayed since. Checking every morning for droppings and there has been some new ones twice.
On thursday evening for about 3 hours and very suddenl the smell got very very strong then next morning back to the usual level.
I assume its just one mouse as there are not many droppings and we really dont hear anything at all. It has no access to the food and we are very careful about crumbs etc so cant see what it is living on.
So, could it be that its not actually "living" in the house, just popping in?
We put poison down the day I first found the droppings but will it definitely eat the poison?
And if it does, would it need to be here more often than it seems to be for the poison to work (it has a cumulative(sp) effect)?
And is it wishful thinking to think its only the one and that it doesnt really live here?
Honesty appreciated.