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Mice in the kitchen - eek and help please!

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fedupwithdeployment · 04/05/2012 16:22

We've been in our house (typical Edwardian terrace in London) for about a year - fab kitchen. In fact generally fab.

BUT, last week we found that one of our food cupboards had clearly had a visitor. We chucked out everything that looked like it had been nibbled and scrubbed and bleached the cupboard. We have rearranged things so that anything that might be attractive to mice is elsewhere.

And then last night a small brown mouse (definitely not rat) ran across the kitchen floor (nowhere near the ex-food cupboard).

What should I do? Mouse traps, poison??? Can we deal with this ourselves or do we need to get people in?

Help please! Thanks.

OliviaLMumsnet · 04/05/2012 17:20

We had mice in our london flat (third floor, cheeky penthouse dwelling rodents)
Get rubbish out every night.
Fruit in the fridge not in the bowl.
I remember going to get a drink of water in the night, turning on the light to find Little Mickey (as we called him, we like to kid ourselves that there was just one) sitting in the fruit bowl having a cheeky apple midnight feast,Shock - we had a stare-off across my kitchen
Anything that isn't in a tin is fair game.

You need to be totally ruthless and get yourself down to Lakeland/poundshop/wilko's/supermarket and buy a whole load of tupperware to put any dried goods pasta/rice/cereal etc in
They can easily smell through the plastic inner of cereal boxes andt they even eat sweets through plastic wrappers

Good luck

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