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

floyd

We found that jam doughnuts work really well for catching mice but have to admit we used the 'executioner' style traps too after many unsuccessful attempts with humane traps. We then got a cat and haven't seen one since!

babyblooz

ditto, get a cat, or borrow one.

Years ago, we bought a house next door to an old lady. She used to get up at 5 am every morning and used to see mice (and rats) playing and running around on the concrete backyards.

We moved in, complete with tiny 6 week old kitten and she said they just vanished overnight, and she never saw them again. She insists that they KNOW when there is a cat in the vicinity and they just stay well away.

Years later, with a different cat, we found out we had a small fieldmouse that had come in through some broken mortar where the washer pipe went through the wall. Poor little thing probably came in out of the cold cos it was a perishing winter. Anyway, our old cat KNEW straightaway and would not leave the side of the freezer for anything! He stayed there until we had caught the mouse in a trap baited with mars bar. He was most annoyed that we wouldn't let him have a go at it. Once mouse was despatched to the great promised land, he resumed his usual position smack bang in front of the gas fire and became the lazy old soul we knew and loved so well. I guess that old warrior spirit never really leaves them!

MJMum

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PennyPinchingPrincess

I caught a mouse! And all it cost me was a crisp and a couple of grapes Probably not much use for mice in lofts, but may be of use for a single mouse in the house!

All I did was put a bucket on its side with my bait (a crisp and two grapes - one green, one red... didn't know which mousie preferred ) near the bottom, then I waited. Mouse creeps into bucket, I tip bucket rightside up, mousie in a bucket ready to be released elsewhere :T

I had looked for humane traps - no point in paying for snappy ones with four cats in the house, they'd happily have killed mousie themselves. Pets at Home sell humane traps but didn't have any in stock. So I tried my bucket idea and in about half an hour I had caught my mouse. The little thing had survived two cat attacks so I thought it deserved a chance... how else will a race of supercatproofmice evolve if the toughest don't survive?

apples1

I think that they do come back unless you take them a long way off and to be honest even then there will probably be more nearby. You can't risk wires etc if they are in roof space of extension - could be dangerous.

We had same probably and best thing we did was to call out the expert. He used blue/green coloured blocks which came in big white tub. They are called Top Cat 2. He put a few of those where the mice had got into the roof space. Said it would do the trick for two years. It did. Two years & 1 month later the blocks were gone & the mice were back. Now we buy the same stuff at Garden Centre and put it down ourselves. He said it makes the mice very thirsty and they go away from house to their water source and die there. I have never seen a dead mouse but the blocks outside get eaten. The ones inside now are untouched as we are getting them before they get in!

Our neighbours tried traps and they kept getting mice back. Now we all use the same poison (there are three barn conversions here) and although we see mice nearby outside (we have fields all around) nobody has them in the house or roof spaces.

poppy_f1

we got the humane traps from homebase which got them successfully and they have never come back although i think thats more to do with next door neighbours cleaning up their garden

FunkyFairy

They only way we got ours was with a after eight on the trap.

We put it so that the mouse could only access the choc from one side. Got it straight away

competitionscafe

These are those sonic things:
http://www.signsealedelivered.co.uk/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=33

Do they work?

stefejb

competitionscafe wrote: »

These are those sonic things:
http://www.signsealedelivered.co.uk/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=33

Do they work?

Well they seem to have worked in my house - that's a good price too - i paid double that at least

Pink.

Hi MJMum,

We have an older thread where you should find lots of OS ideas on getting rid of mice so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

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