Eeeeeek I have a MOUSE help!!!

Froglet

Glue traps are barbaric and should be banned.Can't imagine a more unpleasant death(well,yes i can, poison).

Humane traps for me.Work every time.The mouse could just be a harmless field mouse.

poet123

Froglet wrote: »

Glue traps are barbaric and should be banned.Can't imagine a more unpleasant death(well,yes i can, poison).

Humane traps for me.Work every time.The mouse could just be a harmless field mouse.

Glue traps are barbaric, as is poison but the humane traps didn't work for us I am afraid, they took the bait and got out!! Sadly, we had to resort to the spring traps. They were just two little field mice, but in time they may have been 22!!

HPoirot

calicocat wrote: »

...i'm just as bad as you with spiders.

I could do with spiders as long as they promised to keep the mice away!

So, OH found it last night in the glue trap. He promises it was already dead, the pest control guys told him that the nose gets stuck in and they die quickly.

I apologise for affecting sensibiities (I did demand humane traps but he half believed me about the mouse until he saw droppings), and I'll draw a line under this... that is, after I've cleaned up the larder...

elsien

poet123 wrote: »

Sadly, we had to resort to the spring traps. They were just two little field mice, but in time they may have been 22!!

Ditto. After weeks trying and failing to catch them using choc spread, peanut butter, cheese, birdseed and umpteen other options, the final straw was when I realised a pregnant female mouse was nesting under the bathroom floor.
The mice seem to appear in the attic and wander the house from there, possibly coming through from next door, which I can do nothing about, and my paranoia about wires and fire hazards has overcome any scruples I had about trying to get them out alive.
Now I just keep spring traps down all the time and check regularly for the unforunate deceased.

lostinrates

We have had a few humane traps sprung and not caught anything too.
Also, I know of some one who stupid ly put them down in a weekend cottage and returned to dead mice. That's very misguided attempt to be kind where a spring trap would have been very much less bad.

I let our cats hunt them in the house (not sure how I'd stop them) and the terrier....same, really. Far less kind than any trap,:( but 'natural order of things'.

twiglet98

Our 2 year old cat brings a live mouse back almost every time she goes outside. She'll drop it indoors and go back for more. She only had use of a catflap for a month and it got quite out of hand, I locked the catflap after she brought five live woodmice indoors in the space of an hour. The old cats watch them but can't be bothered to hunt. Young cat does occasionally kill one and eat a bit of it, but usually loses interest when they die. The old terrier will snap one up from time to time and luckily kills them a lot quicker than a cat does.

I don't keep packet food at low level since three woodmice set up home behind the kitchen trolley and broke into the bags of porridge oats that were in a jute bag at the back of it. A four-inch square of the jute had been used to make their nest. They all scarpered out of the back door when I pulled the trolley out and swore at at the sight! I pull the trolley out a lot more frequently since then

Pretty little things but I'd rather not have them in the kitchen.

Coveredinbees!!!!

I got mice in my attic, I blocked up everything I can find but they are still getting in somehow. I hadn't got any for about a week but heard something last night and this morning there was one in one of the trap. I'm thinking of trying an ultrasonic deterrent anyone had any success with them? I've run out of ideas of how to stop them coming in.

fly_dragon_fly

thought i best update, we put down humane traps and caught one then saw another so kept them down but this one smart, so used the spring ones, still smart and stole the stuff without getting trapped, so left both humane and the other ones down and this morning caught another one in the humane trap, was only a tiny baby one so we let it free near fields and the motor way which way it decided to go was down to fate....