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

grey_lady

Look in your local yellow pages under pest control and see if you can get someone out.

OddjobKIA

gone4gold62 wrote: »

thank you will do first thing monday am . but was thinking what i can do now !

book a hotel room for a few nights and convince yourself your health would be damaged if you didnt...:D

BonBon_3

First dont worry. It's not unusual for mice that lived outside during the summer to come inside when it gets cold and wet. The visit by uninvited guests does not mean you home is dirty.

The traditional methods are the most effective - moustraps (you can get humane ones but one you let the mice out they tend to get back in again).

Mouse poison is available in most handware shops and works.

Squeak squeak.

stefejb

There is a long thread about this at http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=159477&highlight=mice and I expect someone clever will come along and merge this too later.

anyway - I feel for you - i hate them too. we had great success with those sonic repellent thingys - you need one for each room. Traps and such like were no good for me as I can't deal with dead'uns either. Within days of fitting them we saw no evidence of mice and four years on still haven't. You can't use them if you have small rodents as pets of course but I'm guessing that you haven't. they don't seem to affect anything else except my exoh who swears he can hear it but not enough to repell him sadly

HTH

parsonswife8

We used humane traps just outside our patio doors as they were running past too close for comfort and were just itching to come inside.

We baited the trap with peanut butter, watched one go in and get trapped and then watched it's mate shove an Autumn leaf into the flap and hold it open, whilst the trapped one got out again. :mad: :mad:

The cunning little blighters!

annie123

sonic mouse repeller http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/stop-pest-pest-repeller-p-1273.html

all mice left my sons place within 48 hours, still has it plugged in and they have never been back.

Olliebeak

parsonswife8 wrote: »

.......watched one go in and get trapped and then watched it's mate shove an Autumn leaf into the flap and hold it open, whilst the trapped one got out again......

Bet the trapped (stupid) one was a male and the one outside (with the ingenuity) was the female :T .

Seriously though, I have used the humane traps indoors and they work fine - you just need the nerve to take it some place well away from your property and release mickey/minnie into a woodland where they can make a new home.

But please be aware that when you pick up the trap with the mouse inside, that mice have no bladder control and any urine will leak out of the trap. I got it all over my hands, as I walked a quarter of a mile to a copse to release the one that I had caught.

Much scrubbing of hands with bleach and dettol followed :mad: !

parsonswife8

Olliebeak wrote: »

Bet the trapped (stupid) one was a male and the one outside (with the ingenuity) was the female :T .

Seriously though, I have used the humane traps indoors and they work fine - you just need the nerve to take it some place well away from your property and release mickey/minnie into a woodland where they can make a new home.

But please be aware that when you pick up the trap with the mouse inside, that mice have no bladder control and any urine will leak out of the trap. I got it all over my hands, as I walked a quarter of a mile to a copse to release the one that I had caught.

Much scrubbing of hands with bleach and dettol followed :mad: !

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Eeeuww!!

I read somewhere that a person who took a trapped mouse miles away, marked it with a red lipstick and was surprised to find that the same mouse made it's way back to her house.
:eek:

Obukit

I read somewhere that a person who took a trapped mouse miles away, marked it with a red lipstick and was surprised to find that the same mouse made it's way back to her house.
:eek:

You're meant to have to take them three miles away so they can't find their way home!

Seriously, though, the best way to get rid of mice (in order) is: -

1. Cat.
2. Non-humane mouse trap, baited with chocolate. If you can't deal with the dead mice just put the trap in a cardboard box - they're pretty cheap anyway and that way you can throw away the entire trap, mouse and box together.

Much better than calling pest control because they use poison which just means you will have a house of decaying mouse corpses!

No need to be scared of them though, they'll do their best to avoid you! Just make sure any food mice are interested in (especially chocolate!) are packed somewhere secure away (a cool box is ideal for this).

Pink.

Hi gone4gold62,

There's an existing thread that may help so I've added your thread to it to keep the ideas together.

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