Mice deterrents that work

fabforty

Hi everyone. The house is detached. The flats on the first floor have no problems but the basement and ground floor flats had various issues years ago. Strangely enough, apart from the scratching and fresh droppings on day one (Monday), there has been nothing since. Perhaps the plug in thing works after all. The vermin people are due on Monday, so hopefully this can be resolved quickly. I also suspect that they are in the roof space. I don't care - I just want them gone.

mgdavid

I'm very surpised no-one's mentioned humane capture and release; our cat has discovered that young mice are a bit dim and easy to catch so he brings them in alive, plays with them, gets bored and lets them escape!
We have great success with this sort of trap
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141424285354
using a single raisin or sultana as bait.
The captives are released over the fence onto a bit of waste ground or wild garden.

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I had problems with a mice invasion about a year ago. Its quite funny, my children were saying they'd seen them but I wasn't sure until some cool little furry dude appeared while my older son and I were having a conversation sitting at the kitchen table! No denying their existence after that lol. Used snap traps. Got about 12 of them. Then there was a gap of about 5 months, and they were back (or possibly I didn't get rid of them all). Caught 6 and not seen sign of them since.

I put tracker powder down and couldn't see how they were getting into the house. But the powder did let me know how they were getting in and out of the kitchen so laid traps around these points and caught loads.

Been very very careful with food since. Everything is in plastic boxes (even if they get into the boxes, I will know) and kitchen gets cleaned, floor hoovered and steamed daily at least. I move furniture to check for mouse droppings on a just in case basis and don't have things stored around the fridge freezer any more (one of the places I found lots of mouse droppings originally).

In my experience, they weren't that hard to get rid of (on reading lots of posts on various sites saying how difficult they were to get rid of I thought it would be a nightmare, thank goodness it wasn't). I purchased rentokill traps that were cheap at the time from Amazon. Easy to set. Used chocolate spread as bait which seemed to work. Initially I purchased ultra cheap wooden snap traps but they were a complete pain to set.., the rentokil plastic snap traps were well worth the money.