We've Got Mice-Help!!! (merged threads)

crawley_girl

We have had some furry friends at work (residential care home type place) and we called Environmental Health @ local council. It only costs £16 and so far they have been out 3 times in the last week to put down traps, check traps and empty traps - eeeeeeeek!

They also carried out an extensive survey of where the problem areas are and made suggestions as to ways of reducing further furry friends to visit. Well worth the £16 if you ask me!

Might we worth going via your local cuncil too.

HTH

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siaoeh

get a cat

chick-chick

We didn't have any success with humane traps. They took the bait, but didn't get caught. So we bought a couple of normal mouse traps, but they didn't get caught on those either! Very crafty. In the end we had to get the council in, and they put poison down. A couple of weeks later, and they were gone. Don't know where, but couldn't smell any rotting corpses.

stefejb

You could also try those sonic thingies - you really need one for each room and I also have one that plugs in and supposedly sends nasty noises through the wiring system which sorts out the ones in the walls - eeeeeeeew! I can't bear them and didn't want to use traps - humane or otherwise - because of the "emptying" but since we've hand the sonic thingies I haven't seen any evidence of them

jrrowleyws

Get a standard trap. Humane ones dont work at all and are usually expensive. Just dont buy a rat trap for killing mice as you will find it would chop the mouse in half they are so strong.

Poison at last resort unless you can see the area easily to collect the corpses.

greyteam1959

Have to say that poison is best for mice cos their wittle teeny weeny dead bodies dont smell that much when they die under your floor or in your loft.
Its different with their big cousins cos they stink for months

portsmouthali

we had mice in our last house, and tried humane traps with no success :mad: so we called in the council and within 2 weeks they were gone! According to the guy who came to our house, the poison they use actually calcifies the corpse :eek: which is quite grim, but it means that you don't get smelly rotting corpses. He also said that mice will instinctively go away from any nesting place to die, and we never found any corpses so he may well be right.

If I had them again, would definitely get the professionals in again - the damn things drove me mad for months! Worth every penny IMO.

TKP_3

We have humane traps - where the mouse goes in (peanuts are good bait) and a little door closes behind them. It works very well. They only cost £4.
You need to check EVERY day though, or the die of thirst in there (not so humane :eek: )
OH takes them to the bottom of the garden and frees them into the woods. We probably keep catching the same mice over and over :rotfl:

madmum33

We had mice last summer, used old fashioned traps to catch them and it was heartbreaking The worst was late one night, we heard the trap go off and then heard the mouse trying to escape, poor thing had been caught by its nose OH had to finish it off :eek:

I believe mice return to their nest unless released at least half a mile away, so TKP you're probably right, you keep catching the same mice! lol

*zippy*

TKP wrote: »

We have humane traps - where the mouse goes in (peanuts are good bait) and a little door closes behind them. It works very well. They only cost £4.
You need to check EVERY day though, or the die of thirst in there (not so humane :eek: )
OH takes them to the bottom of the garden and frees them into the woods. We probably keep catching the same mice over and over :rotfl:

We used one of these the other week, we put peanut butter inside, it took a few goes, but we caught him after a few days. The only problem we had was he was so cute DD wanted to keep him :rolleyes: