Mice

Rachels1979

I wasn't sure where to put this so feel free to move it if it's in the wrong place!

My Mum saw a mouse in our kitchen on friday so bought one of those sonic plug in repellers. However this morning she found more droppings and a very chewed carrot so I don't think it's doing its job!

The kitchen has been thoroughly cleaned so there's no crumbs or anything about, and all fruit and veg will be put in a lidded box or in the fridge till it's sorted. We don't really want to go down the route of traps and poison, has anyone got any ideas of what else we could do?

We weren't sure if leaving a light on and playing the radio all night might act as a natural deterrent but I'm after any other tips people can think of.

Thanks
Rachel x

starnight_2

I don't think the light on all night will work as mice can be quite sneaky in getting around. Have you thought of humane traps? It wouldn't hurt the critter in any way.

MX5huggy

This should sort the problem.

Lobell

In my experience, those sonic things only deter them from setting up home in your house in the first place...they do diddley squat to encourage them to vacate if they're already in. At one point, I had 3 sonic repellants in operation and the infestation continued to get worse.

Old fashioned snap traps baited with chocolate or peanut butter were the only effective things we found to work in the end.

Lotus-eater

Yep, I'm afraid you've got to trap and kill them somehow. So humane traps aren't really worth it.
Any basic sort of trap will catch a mouse.

sassyblue

Lights and music on will make no difference, yo need to get a humane trap to catch him. They love Mars bars and peanut butter so try those in the trap and do it quickly! he might have Mrs.Mousey up the duff ready to pop out another load :cool:

Not trying to scare you but they breed like bu99er

iris

I agree with Lobell, baited traps are the only way to get rid of mice. The humane traps are a waste of time, they will catch the mouse, but then mouse goes berserk and wakes the whole household up, usually in the middle of the night.

We live in the country and if we don't put traps outside our property every year (we find near our oil tank is good), they come in for the winter. They climb the walls and get into the loft and you can hear them at night. They also get into the cavity wall insulation.

We have never had them actually in our property.

We find a couple of traps baited with chocolate buttons does the trick.

Lotus-eater

iris wrote: »

We find a couple of traps baited with chocolate buttons does the trick.

I use those little jelly sweets, it lasts for ever and can be used time and time again.

I have another use for the chocolate buttons

Evansangel

I have something called an Electronic Mouse Killer. I got it from amazon, it kills them instantly so is meant to be much kinder.

I've caught 3, so its doing its job. Cost £17.

supermezzo

Sorry to break it to you but they never travel alone either, especially if they've found food! He'll have been off to twitter to his mates asap.
Humane traps are ok if you are prepaerd to drive a thousand miles to let it out else they'll be right back in again. Best bet is old fashioned traps, a strong stomach and find where they're coming in and deal with that. Also, they follow their own smell of urine (mice are incontinent) so wiping where they've been with a solution of biological washing powder (especially edges which they like to scurry along) gets rid of their mouse 'gps' system and makes it more difficult for them to pay 'follow my leader' into your house.

Equaliser123

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Yep, I'm afraid you've got to trap and kill them somehow. So humane traps aren't really worth it.
Any basic sort of trap will catch a mouse.

Don't agree.

We have a couple of little critters get into our garage from time to time. Tried all sorts of humane traps without success but can catch a mouse within about 30 minutes at night using this:

http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/live-capture-mouse-trap-p-9457.html?cPath=24_25_143

Much cleaner than sliced up mice in a trap. I wouldn't like to put poison around.

I bought mine from B&Q for about £3 and it is incredibly effective. Then a quick walk or drive and release the little chap. They do say you should release 1 mile + away or else the mouse could return but I'm not sure how true this is.