There's a mouse, maybe even mice, in my rented accommodation...

ginger_nuts

I thought I had one mouse in the house .I bought the sticky stuff that catches them live ,caught 5 mice in two days . I would use the same stuff again .

Mattchew

I want some mouse traps now to catch the little !!!!!!s. Thing

PINGLEIST

Break a jaffa cake in two and use as bait on your mousetrap, they can,t resist!

fc123

SquatNow wrote: »

If you do manage to house-train one, I have a cat, 4 guineepigs and 2 horses for you to start on next.

Foam up any holes. Traps are OK, but you can't beat a cat or 2....except LL don't allow them.
SN; never had you down as a guineapig owner

wombat27

I have had mice at some time in all of the houses I have lived in, both as tenant and owner, and I have always sorted out the problem myself (usually by getting a cat, works wonders).

I certainly didn't expect the landlord to leap into action, or to give me a rent reduction or alternative accommodation. The landlord didn't invite the mice in, but you seem to be blaming him. Attitudes like yours are what puts me off renting out my house

3plus1

There's a rat in our flat - well, sort of.

We heard it in the walls when we turned on the panel heating for the first time, so haven't used the panel heating since as we don't want to attract it to our part of the building.

There's no way for it to get into our flat at present, so it must be running up and down the building through the cavity walls - no idea where it's got in, although I would assume one of the ground flats or the communal basement.

There's about a dozen flats owned by various people and I'm not sure if they're all actually occupied? Haven't met any neighbours yet (heard a few though) so can't exactly tell them all to watch out for rat droppings!!

Just wondered if anyone had any ideas as to how to solve this problem? It's not actually getting into our flat so we can't trap it. Bit of a funny one.

We've been using little heaters away from the wall since we moved in (we have to have heating - it's a listed building with single glazing!) and I'm worried we won't be able to continue to afford this for much longer. I don't want to turn the panel heating back on if the rat is still running around up/down from us as I am scared of it coming to our part of the building, dying in our walls and essentially rotting in our flat! We like the flat and want to stay, but obviously not if it smells.

My partner and the landlord aren't unduly worried by the rat, but they're not the ones who pay the elecricity bill. :rolleyes:

DGJsaver

get a cat

solved

Soprano

DGJsaver wrote: »

get a cat

solved

I was told by an exterminator, of all people, they are the only real proven method of keeping away mice.

Also, nobody has just "a mouse". Where there is one, many more are nearby....

Mattchew

wombat27 wrote: »

I have had mice at some time in all of the houses
Attitudes like yours are what puts me off renting out my house

All I am trying to reiterate is that we have lived there less than a week and there are mice. They were clearly there before we moved in and the landlord was aware that there were mice in the building. He did not have chance to clean the flat before we moved in, had he, he would have discovered mice dropping and could have done something about it then.

Fliss_Harper

Cats: the only way to stop mice.
Also unbearably cute.