Mice ...

[BloooCowWonders]

We seem to have a mouse living in the garage. I put down a trap loaded with peanut butter (I think it was a tip from MN :) )

The mouse has licked off every trace of the peanut butter but the trap didn't spring (although it did 4 times as I was setting it).

What now?

One word: cat.

Allergies!

Although I wonder if we all could dose up on Piriton and borrow a cat for a short while???

Yep borrow a cat to wander round your garage. Even if it doesn't catch any mice, its presence will put them off hanging around.

If all the peanut butter has gone you almost certainly have a lot more than one mouse.

I'd get the pest control people in to advice and help.

Poison - put in the lids of jars along the walls where they tend to run. Refill it daily until it is no longer emptied. Modern mouse poison tastes delicious to mice but absolutely horrible to children. We have to do this two or three times before they are all gone. They tend to go away to die so you don't have mouse corpses to deal with.

My cat caught two mice yesterday and another this morning.
He does make me sneeze though.

Here's what to do when you catch him.....

Buy a better spring trap. I have a black plastic one that has never failed. As it's not in the house you could also use a bait box. I have a cheap refillable bait box, bought from Amazon, and a tub of poison bait. You just fill up the box and put it somewhere you know the mice are running. Check it every few days and refill it until they stop emptying it. Then you know they're all dead.

There is never just 'a' mouse

We have a cat who proudly brought us a mouse at 6am this morning.

Pre cat we used snappy traps loaded with chocolate buttons stuck on the spike bit

Thanks all.

The first 2 days I was just feeding the mouse (I'm in denial about the possibility of plural) peanut butter. Licked the trap clean and went away. Grrrr

So tried a choc button, and moved the trap to the edge of the garage - success!

1-0 to me. Finally

I bought a two traps from hardware shop last week - with pre loaded bate - have caught three in 24hrs!! shop told me that you dont need to add more bate as they dont get to it. they were £2.50 each..havent seen any droppings since and will just leave the traps in place in case any relatives come looking