Tips on how to catch a mouse...

[ChatterMonkey]

Either for myself and DP, or for our two incompetent cats who initially caught the damn thing, then let it loose in the living room and cant catch it again...🙄

It seems to go between under the sofa (whch is large and cant be moved) and behind the tv (which is difficult to access and is messy with cables)

Oh and this may or may not be the same mouse that they let loose in the kitchen, and ran behind the kitchen cabinets, so mouse count may actually be 2...

Snap traps work best I’ve found, they will kill the mouse. Bait with something that is hard to removed from the spike. I suspect you have more than one mouse if you are seeing them often

I’d suspect you have lots of mice too. Snap traps. Humane traps are pointless, drive a mouse a mile away to release and It’ll just die slowly of starvation/ get eaten anyway.

You're going to need a mousetrap, no other option, one with poison.
If you don't act fast you're in danger of them breeding.
We bought some sealed ones from B&Q but you need to keep the cats away from it.
They could chew through your cables too.
We tried humane traps, they didn't work, OH actually tried to catch one with a Tupperware pot and a spatula, I say tried to but he was sat on the kitchen worktop screeching "there's a mouse" armed with a Tupperware pot and a spatula 😂
That's where I left him while I shot off to B&Q.
Good luck

Snap traps based along the skirting boards. Load with Nutella.

Works every time.

The only thing that worked for me was quality sticks boards, I had numerous pest control over but the boards got rid of about 6 in 2 days flat

Most of the mice my cats bring in alive, I have been able to trap with a dustpan and brush. Quite scary the first few times, but now I seem to be a bit of an expert!
There was one stubborn bugger though, who managed to evade me and all four cats while living behind the toilet in the bathroom for a couple of weeks. The only thing that worked for him was a snap trap.
Unfortunately he was so bloody stubborn, although he got caught in it, it didn't actually kill him, so I had to 'finish him off'.
Not pleasant at all.
You have my sympathies.

Humane trap with peanut butter in. You have to drive them far away to stop them coming back. Although if your cats have brought them in, they're not coming in your house by choice.

For situations where the mouse has just been “delivered” I’ve been successful with a Wellington boot which I’ve managed to position so they can run into and then just left outside for them to escape on their own. Apparently a Pringles tube works too…. Anything dark that looks safe to hide in. A cat bringing them in is different from them coming in on their own ( which would necessitate finding the entry point and blocking)

I caught a rat with a humane trap baited with peanut butter.

Definitely just one, and Definitely brought in by the bloody cat...

Wasnt actually seeing it, was guaging location based on cat interest in various locations of the room.

Update though, came home today to a dead mouse on the doormat, and two chilled cats, so hink that's solved the problem...!

Think i just need to train them to kill more efficiently!

humane trap and a spoonful of peanut butter. works every time.

Humane traps with Nutella work great, I banished mice this way once we sealed their entrance (beside tumble dryer flue)

Mine bring them in regularly from the fields. I usually chuck a tea towel over the mouse and then scoop it up and put it outside on the grass and watch it run off.

Really do try to get rid of the mice, I have had a cable chewed under the bathroom floor by the little bastards, and I have two cats. Are there droppings anywhere. they look like black vermicelli. Scratching noises at night? You can buy mouse poison capsules but don't put them anywhere where cats can access or if you have young DC obviously. I put them under the skirting boards between two rooms where they'd chewed a hole and it seemed to get rid of them. I hate the idea of killing an animal but they do cause electrical fires with their behaviour and it was scaring me.

I saw a humane way of catching them with a kitchen roll tube some paper and an elastic band. You put the paper over one end and secure with the band and then lie it down near the mouse. It should run in as it's dark at one end and it wants to hide. You can then take the tube holding it upright, outside and leave it in a safe place and pick up the tube the next day.