Found a mouse in rental property

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greatcrested said:

The mouse should be paying rent. Either to you if it's a lodger, or to your landlord if you have a joint tenancy.

Seriously, buy this:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/pest-stop-sure-set-plastic-mousetraps-2-pack/70203

Peanut butter works well.

If the damp patch might be causing damage eg by rotting woorwork then your duty to act in a 'tenant-like manner' requires you to report it, in writing, to the landlord, at the postal address provided 'for serving notices'.

Hi

the property is managed by a estate agent. I did mention this when I move in, but they didn’t take any action. 

I can see the plaster is peeling off and getting worse, do I need to report again? 

babyblade41

I love mice, I have an old house and have a resident mouse , he drives the dogs nuts , our local cats deal with the other rodents .. the joys of living in an old house , in the country and having a menagerie outside !!!

AdrianC

greatcrested said:

The mouse should be paying rent. Either to you if it's a lodger, or to your landlord if you have a joint tenancy.

Hmmm. Might the OP be subletting in breach of the tenancy?

youth_leader

I live in a rental in rural Northumberland, and have the humane traps which I check regularly.  Bait them with chocolate, take the mouse as far away from the house as possible.  Mouse traps sometimes only injure them horribly by catching their leg, not something I want to deal with.

Slinky

youth_leader said:

I live in a rental in rural Northumberland, and have the humane traps which I check regularly.  Bait them with chocolate, take the mouse as far away from the house as possible.  Mouse traps sometimes only injure them horribly by catching their leg, not something I want to deal with.

We had that happen with a rat in a trap in our garden - caught by a leg and still alive. Husband had to despatch it amid a lot of squealing. Not pleasant.

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AdrianC said:

greatcrested said:

The mouse should be paying rent. Either to you if it's a lodger, or to your landlord if you have a joint tenancy.

Hmmm. Might the OP be subletting in breach of the tenancy?

lol, my landlord probably need to apply HMO as well

AdrianC

Slinky said:

youth_leader said:

I live in a rental in rural Northumberland, and have the humane traps which I check regularly.  Bait them with chocolate, take the mouse as far away from the house as possible.  Mouse traps sometimes only injure them horribly by catching their leg, not something I want to deal with.

We had that happen with a rat in a trap in our garden - caught by a leg and still alive. Husband had to despatch it amid a lot of squealing. Not pleasant.

Yeh, I'd be squeeling if I had to do that. <shudder>

theoretica

Other disadvantage of poison is if another animal eats the poorly or dead mouse it gets poisoned too.

greatcrested

youth_leader said:

I live in a rental in rural Northumberland, and have the humane traps which I check regularly.  Bait them with chocolate, take the mouse as far away from the house as possible.  Mouse traps sometimes only injure them horribly by catching their leg, not something I want to deal with.

youth_leader said:

I live in a rental in rural Northumberland, and have the humane traps which I check regularly.  Bait them with chocolate, take the mouse as far away from the house as possible. 

I did this a few times way way back - and then got suspicious. Finally a put some tipex on a mouse's back, drove about a mile away and released it.

It turned up again about a week later......

I wouldn't, unless you don't mind them wandering off to die and rot somewhere inaccessible, possibly leading to a pretty horrible smell for a few weeks.

Mice don't smell when they die/rot - at least not that I've noticed. Now rats! They really do....!

Falafels

Perhaps you could get him to earn his keep: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-bristol-47625284