getting rid of a mouse.....in the house...

ACID

hi i live in an area which is known for a rat/mice problem and more recently cockroaches

not very nice i know

but i guess i get a mouse once a year

the rest mabe a rat in the garden whic hdisappears

not bad i guess
but i hate them...

used my council service a while back
said i had mice and they gave treatments which they came back to check for 3 weeks
to be honest the mouse did nto care

the service now costs £60 and it was a waste when it was free!!!

now i notice that i have sealed a majority of the outline to my house
but i heard one last night trying to come up a floorbaord on the upstairs main room??

how did it get in? why is it under the house?

assuming it came in from th ground

is there nothign i can do??

my house is completely carpeted if that helps not wooden flooring at all as we are thinkign of movign but unsure of progress yet..

please help
dont mind a good ocmpany or som home tips

but if its coming in from the ground then that is too diffcutl to control or is it

if they are undergroudn what can be doen then?? also ready have a dog..but it cant reach the confiend areas..
the house ive sealed up already

but what traps shall i jut buy glue traps as they seem the safest and morst effective..

Butlers1982

if a little mouse wants to get in your warm house, it will do!! they can get in a hole that is the size of a pen top i believe.
Use chocolate in your traps I heard that was supposed to be good

quickstepqueen

Avoid the humane mouse traps as they really do not work. I had a mouse who liked to sleep in my car!!! I used a humane trap initially as I knew the mouse was only from the field next door but it kept scratching the outside of the trap to get to the food. I guess Lincolnshire mice must be a bit thick!!!

As Butlers1982 says, mice can get in through the tiniest hole. I would also recommend chocolate as bait and get a trap down asap as mice can very quickly breed. I really hate killing mice but they can cause real damage.

Our local council now don't seem to do pest control so you have to pay a private company. My Aunt recently paid over £130 to have 6 traps laid down by Rentokil so perhaps you could shop around. Hopefully others will respond to this thread with more useful info. Good luck.

skylight

Check out the Oldstyle board - big thread over there - added to recently with the same problem!

jenniferpa

If you need to use a kill trap please use a spring trap - it's fast, clean and effective, and much much less cruel than a glue trap. I'm pretty soft when it comes to animals, but sometimes, you have to do what you have to do. I don't think it's necessary to cause ongoing suffering though - hence the spring trap.

mjfusent

Our cat brought in a mouse & released it (useless moggy) last year. We had to trap it as it was hiding behind the gas fire (the mouse that is!). Tried both a humane and spring trap, the spring one worked. Penut butter is a good bait, as crafy mice can easily pick more solid items off the trap without springing it.

ACID

what about under the house

no solution to that

im still going to opt for the glue

ACID

charlotte664 wrote:

Check out the Oldstyle board - big thread over there - added to recently with the same problem!

where is that?

itsfrommark

Hi, the humane and most interesting way is to use a Longworth Trap - used on all good nature reserves for research and monitoring small mammals. It's a live trap with bedding and a little food (seed) required. I have used hundreds of these and the mouse is never harmed - in fact some become trap addicted. Once caught take outside to a safe area....see here for price

http://www.alanaecology.com/acatalog/Longworth_Small_Mammal_Trap.html

- but ask your local nature reserve if you can borrow one...Mark

raymond

Forget all the traps and use a bucket.

Put some nuts, chocolate and even cheese in the bottom of a bucket and put a bit of wood from the floor to the side of the bucket for the mouse to climb up. It will jump down into the bucket to get the food and then its trapped.

Zend

Please, please, do not use a glue trap. I've known of mice etc chew through their own legs/arms in order to escape.