Can't cope in this house...please help!

christopher1977

get your partner to put some mouse traps down.

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xxkelly888

I'm calmer this morning lol. It's just the night times that get to me, but I absolutely must get rid of these mice

I left some chocolate out last night on the floor and it's gone. So that combined with the squeaking and rustling means they are definitely done here in the flat. I have emailed the landlord asking for Rentokil or something to come out. If this is expensive though, my landlord probably just won't respond to me. Thank you for all your help last night...even if some of you were making it worse lol. It certainly helped take my mind off the mice for a while xx

xxkelly888

Ok...genuine question - I am too scared to lay traps because if it works then I will actually have to see one What would I do with the dead mouse? Put it in the bin?

I wasn't scared before I lived in London in a bedsit for a while absolutely infested with mice and rats in certain areas. I can't shake the memory of seeing one - it was my first time EVER seeing anything like that. To me, all mice are the same as those big rats - the size of kittens and no matter how irrational I know that is, I can't stop it

englishrose19

If you're that scared then put some traps down, no one wants to see a dead mouse but surely it's better for you than alive ones?

My boyfriend spotted one the other day coming through a hole in our bathroom (we are very clean, no food out etc!) and ran and jumped on the bed which I found hilarious!

DRP

xxkelly888 wrote: »

Ok...genuine question - I am too scared to lay traps because if it works then I will actually have to see one What would I do with the dead mouse? Put it in the bin?

I wasn't scared before I lived in London in a bedsit for a while absolutely infested with mice and rats in certain areas. I can't shake the memory of seeing one - it was my first time EVER seeing anything like that. To me, all mice are the same as those big rats - the size of kittens and no matter how irrational I know that is, I can't stop it

When we had the council pest control visit for a couple of mice, they left poison in the loft and under floorboards.

Apparently the poison dehydrates the mouse and the leave the property seeking water (and then pass away..awwwwww).

So any corpses won't be visible to you - even if they die in the loft or under floorboards, after a few weeks they dry up and basically disappear :cool:

somethingcorporate

xxkelly888 wrote: »

Ok...genuine question - I am too scared to lay traps because if it works then I will actually have to see one What would I do with the dead mouse? Put it in the bin?

I wasn't scared before I lived in London in a bedsit for a while absolutely infested with mice and rats in certain areas. I can't shake the memory of seeing one - it was my first time EVER seeing anything like that. To me, all mice are the same as those big rats - the size of kittens and no matter how irrational I know that is, I can't stop it

Never go to pet's at home! it'll be a horror show for you.

Seriously, buy some traps and put them down. Problem solved.

You should be able to buy some that hide the body when it has died, get these so you don't have to see the terribly horrifying monster mouse.

Then phone your GP surgery and get an appointment to discuss your disproportionate phobia. You also need to get your gas safety sorted pronto, a faulty gas appliance is far more dangerous than a harmless 2 inch mouse.

Miss_Poohs

Kelly - your landlord is happy to take your rent money, let him/her earn it, their financial woes are not your concern.

Phone environmental health and report the problem, tell them you have a young baby and who your landlord is.

In our council it costs about £40 for pest control to treat a property and that's for as many visits as it takes to rid the problem.

Gigglepig

To me it Sounds like you are massively overreacting, like others have suggested please go see your GP

lostinrates

pigpen wrote: »

Mice can climb walls with very little to hold on too... usually a tactic they use to escape from crazy cats and hysterical women with brooms.. (you've seen Tom and Jerry, right?)

They are tiny, and so cute! Unlike their bigger counterparts that make me squeal like a girl.

I have squeakers in the loft, we have had a few in the house but the cats soon remove them.. they are absolutely harmless.. but dead ones in your shoe stink to high heaven.. not recommended.

I read somewhere you are never more than 10ft from a r.a.t.... and of the 2 I know what I'd prefer!!!!!!!!! I prefer mice to flies which spread more diseases.

They like chocolate and peanut butter.. if you decide to get traps..

Nutella is brilliant for traps.


The rat stat is slightly inaccurate....there was a brilliant radio four more or less piece on this . I'm closer to most people are to them sadly. :mad:

We live in a rural house undergoing renovation on a smallholding with a farm next door and often have mice in the house. When we had a particularly resistant fat chap living in the kitchen this winter I decided to keep all my dry goods in lidded plastic boxes (mice are incontinent and really, who wants mice piddle near their flour) but other than that he and we coexisted quite well until he got so chubby the cats got too quick for him. (It took him too long to wriggle into the walls where we have no skirting.....renovation project you see,). Now we are mouse free in the house again, but its the time of year I'm leaving all the doors open....so who knows....one might wander in, or the cats bring something in not quite dead.

Mice are fine. I'm more concerned about your other issues of lack I'd gas safety cert etc.

shelley_crow

I can sympathise, it's a horrible feeling, knowing they've been anywhere near where you are.

Look for droppings, they normally run along the floors nearest to walls. There's a very distinctive musty smell if mice have been around. The droppings are smaller than a grain of rice and black. They tend to leave a greasy residue along pipes and walls if they have been visiting regularly, look down the back of cookers and appliances.

The traps that break the mouse's neck are the best ones IMO. For one, you'll have evidence that they are hanging around and if one does get trapped then it's one less that can come back! We bought these, £3.50 for 2 from Wilkinsons and already baited

http://www.wilko.com/pests-control/the-big-cheese-ultra-power-mouse-trap-x-2/invt/0313556?VBMST=mouse%20trap

I've never seen one in the day, I caught one sneaking in through the open door at 7pm. Mouse problems are easily sorted by pest control, please don't worry. Is there any chance someone in your family could look after the kids while you have a break?