Eek! We have a mouse!

[beansprout]

And not of the invited into our home variety!

Can anyone recommend something to get rid of it asap? I live in a very urban area so I don't think the "Born Free" option is really for us. I'm afraid I just want it gone!!
Thanks!

We had one that somehow got in through the drain pipe and lived under the oven. However our cat with one Fang got it! Not bad. Can loan you a cat if you like?

Either that or buy traps. They love choc spread that'll tempt them over.

Get one of those mouse-repellent plug-in thingies from Robert Dyas (hang on, it's called The Big Cheese Mouse and Rat Repeller). They emit some sort of high-frequency noise that mice can't stand.
THEY'RE BRILLIANT!!!

Call pest control, they came to us, put down poison and our mice have (I think, fingers crossed!) gone.

B & Q cheap wooden snap traps, baited with peanut butter and placed at right angles to the skirting boards works every time chez Nockers.

I put them out before we go to bed at night if I suspect we have a visitor and check/remove them in the morning

I then use ds's long handled plastic spade to scoop up trap containing stiff mouse corpse into a carrier bag and bin.

No close contact required.

We have cats who sometimes forget to kill and eat the little friends they bring home for dinner !

Thanks for the cat offer but I am very allergic.
Might ring the Council and then get one of those plug in things as back up.

Shudder. I'm not good with mice (I have discovered).

We get them every autumn when the harvest starts (live in the country with fields infront and behind) and I have to say that the only foolproof way is traps I'm afraid, and lots of them as there's rarely only one.

Poison works .

I never had any luck with traps - our mice used to go up to them, quickly retrieve the cheese and scuttle off unharmed.

Cats are useless if they are anthing like ours because they let the bloody things go inside the house.

Poison _ i hate the thought of then dieing somewhere inaccesible and then smelling for weeks

traps -yucky mice trapped by tails or legs and stil alive ughh

Get a humane trap. It's just a plastic box that tips over and the door shuts when they go in to get the peanut butter (B & Q or Homebase). No smells no yuck or danger to children and youlet the mouse go uharmed a long way from your home.

Have never had a live mouse trapped by tail/legs with a wooden snap trap, always back of the neck and very dead.

Cheese or lumps of food doesn't work brilliantly however. A smear of peanut butter and they have to lick it off the bait pedal, putting their neck in the right place for a "snap".

{{{{{{{{{SHIVER}}}}}}}}}}}} These mouse problems make my toes curl. Never had this problem in our home but MIL had terrible trouble with mice. Every time I go to visit I'm on edge looking around me expecting to see a twitchy nose and whiskers staring at me from a corner.

We found the humane trap really good. Couldn't kill them I am afraid!

Ive never had any roblems with traps neither. Also never managed to catch ne witha humane trap. Those repellant things are good too. We managed to use a combination of the repellant and traps to get rid of ours. We've moved sice but still use the repellant plug. Got ours off ebay.

We tried mouse traps with peanuts and raisons - the little bugger (who lived in our understairs cupboard) used to eat them or take them away without setting the traps off.

In the end I persuaded dp to try humane trap - he wanted to kill it asap and didn't think they worked. We caught it on the first try - lots of peanut butter was the secret! We let it go in nearby fields. Must admit through I keep expecting it to have found it's way back home - a bit like a homing pigeon!

The humane traps didn't work for us. We baited our traps with Mars bar - the hardware shop recommended it, as its stickier than cheese and mice LOVE it! That worked a treat!

we actually used french fries as bait. Nothing else worked, but they liked french fries!

Robert Dyas have a good set of humane traps. Whatever your views on whether vermine should be treated well, they are much safer if you have kids in the house. Chocolate is ood as bate, also doesn't go off too badly.

I'm close to certain there is no poison that will kill a mouse but not a human.

Maybe there's a message in that fact :)

I don't know if there is more than 1 variety of humane trap - ours were so humane that they never caught a thing! Really wound me up as these traps were £5 each, I bought 2 of them and the other type are only 50p - £1.....