Eeeeeek I have a MOUSE help!!!

fly_dragon_fly

Help help help!!!

I have a mouse i have a mouse i have a mouse and it's giving me a heart attack every time i see it! It may be tiny and cute looking but i don't want it in my house when i have a 10 month old crawling, I've seen it 4 times in the last half a hour and i just want it gone! Any suggestions to kill it / free it please!

meritaten

Er - this is PETS board - not PESTS board! I suggest you buy a humane trap and then set it free elsewhere. I know wild mice are not desirable in your home as they are incontinent and pee everywhere - but please don't ask for advice to 'kill' them!
I hate to say this - but, are you sure its the same mouse each time? because they are not solitary creatures. if its your own home then consult a company specialising in this - if its rented accommodation then your landlord should be taking care of this.

lostinrates

Bait into a trap with Nutella. Its unbeatable. If you use a humane trap don't just pop the little thing outside, take it some way away.

Most importantly.....how did it get in? Is it a cat gift escapee or do you have a gap? If its a gap then......its not likely to be one mouse.

Fwiw, I have mice often, ( various reasons) keep things clean, food in packets etc. you'll all live, even the baby .

Miss_J

I had a patient recently ask me to help her get rehoused because she had a mouse and she said it was unsanitary fr the kids. I was dying to tell her she needed to live in a really old house like me where they come up through the gaps in the floorboards. Cat used to sort the problem but at 18 he's too old to keep up wih them. We resort to standard methods these days.

meritaten

my mum spotted a mouse in her house and we actually tracked it to its nest - which was accessed through a hole in the back of her sofa! the er mouse family was trapped and then set free about a mile away - as none of us wanted to kill them!
she hasn't had a problem since as we went round the house sealing up all possible entrances and telling her to store her sugar bowl in the cupboard instead of on the worktop etc. and NOT to leave chocolate about!

gettingready

Had a few, in a 2nd floor flat - managed to catch most and set free but I am afraid my then cat got 2 himself

Sorry no advise on killing the poor thing...PET board as someone already said

Fluff15

We once had a mouse, he nibbled the bird feed we had and chewed through my bag of protein powder! He's probably the bulkiest mouse out there now, bruising up all the other mice. We suspected it came up from underneath the kitchen cabinets through a hole the size of a 50p. Once we sealed that up, we've not had a problem since. Check your house for holes connecting to the outside, however small. If a pen can fit in the hole, a mouse can!

Please, please don't kill it. At the end of the day it's only looking for a source of food to survive. Use a humane trap and release it far away from your house, so it doesn't find it's way back again.

stir_crazy

We used to have mice - lived in an old house between two fields. One of the cheeky beggars even ran out from behind the fireplace and watched TV with us for a while. Eventually we got cats. Apparently just the smell of cats should keep them away, although I'm not sure how true that is. As everyone else has said, trap them humanely and take them away. Then make sure you dont have crumbs, etc on worktops and all food is put away.

fly_dragon_fly

ok maybe kill was a bit extreme but i typed this in fear last night! and as there is no other board for just pests ( i don't think!) i resulted to the pet board as mouse can be pet ( be it not usually wild ones)

We live in a old terraced house with wooded floor boards, open fires that don't work and holes in the walls behind the washing machine and the sink so am sure they are getting in there and they must have been a problem for the previous tenant because when we pulled the machine out last night there was lots of old bags that weren't mine.

Shall go and get some other traps i think today

HPoirot

How freaky is this, I just found a mouse in my kitchen and then found this thread! I am freaking out, I just locked myself in the bedroom and am not venturing downstairs again. Until OH comes tonight to tackle it, eek it slid out from the larder to behind the fridge, I will need to throw everything out from that larder. What can you do if there's a mouse about???

lostinrates

HPoirot wrote: »

How freaky is this, I just found a mouse in my kitchen and then found this thread! I am freaking out, I just locked myself in the bedroom and am not venturing downstairs again. Until OH comes tonight to tackle it, eek it slid out from the larder to behind the fridge, I will need to throw everything out from that larder. What can you do if there's a mouse about???

Quit smoking . ( joke)

Buy Nutella. As I said before, its the best bait in the world.

Anything in sealed packets like glass, plastic/Tupperware just needs a wipe over with a good cleaner.

I live in a farm house on a farm. If we threw stuff out everytime a mouse was seen we'd through stuff out.....every autumn anyway. The cats bring them in and ATM the walk in through the whole that's meant to be a back door :mad:. We have unsealed pipe runs under the floor still from renovation work and its better than any pet toy, having a cat at one end and a terrier at the other .