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

thriftlady_2

We had mice in our garage and my OH built this humane trap very easily. We caught two mice (not together) and relocated them to a nearby hedge. They haven't come back- we removed the birdseed from the garage which was what they'd been eating. They weren't half cute.

If you can use a glass dish to build the trap, then you can see the mouse running around in there. My kids thought they were great.

generaloneill

HairyHandofDartmoor wrote: »

Today a OH and I saw a mouse shoot from under the fridge, right across the kitchen floor and down between the washer and the tumbler:eek:

How can we get rid of it? We have a fireplace which has quite a few gaps between the bricks so maybe it is getting in that way. We intend to cement up all the gaps tomorrow, but then the mouse may be trapped in the kitchen :eek:
I'm not afraid of mice (they're quite cute) but I am worried about the hygiene aspect of it. We would love to get a cat but most of us suffer from asthma and fur allergies, so that isn't really an option

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

dont bother cementing up the gaps, a mouse can get in anywhere you can push a pen through. Get a cat. seriously. The mice will smell the cat and stay away, also cats eat all your daddy longlegs, spiders beetles etc.

Penelope_Penguin

HairyHandofDartmoor wrote: »

How can we get rid of it? We have a fireplace which has quite a few gaps between the bricks so maybe it is getting in that way. We intend to cement up all the gaps tomorrow, but then the mouse may be trapped in the kitchen :eek:

If we get mice (in the shed eating the chook food :rolleyes: ) we have success with a "killing-trap", baited with nothing Put the trap next to a wall which they run along, and they'll stumble upon it in the dark.

I'll add this to the older thread - we've got mice!, later.

Penny. x

xxvickixx

I bought 2 humane traps for about £5 in Pets at Home a couple of years ago. The pet shops usually sell traps in case someone needs to catch their escaped pet!

v8monkeyboy

Peppermint oil is meant to put them off too.

pawpurrs

Theres a mouse in the kitchen, what am I going to do?
Theres a mouse in da kitchen, what am I gonna do........

Any one else get this going through the brain as soon as they read this?

madmittens

I also have cats that lose interest/get distracted five minutes after bringing the bloomin' things in to the house!

I've found that the best thing is a humane trap baited with Snickers Bar - it's never taken more than two hours to catch a mouse this way As previously posted though, you need to release said mouse a long way from home...

Regarding asking them to leave - in my house this seems to work with spiders but not with meeces

Farway

I just used the "break neck" type of trap from Wilko's, baited with chocolate and placed near wall

Caught both the blighters on consecutive nights, not had any troubles since

tomterm8

I firmly recommend NOT using poison, because although the mouse will certainly die, it will find a nice dark hole first. And you will never find it.

foreign_correspondent

I dont like poison either, for the stinking dead mouse problem, but also becuase of the slow painful death, and the effect on predators (owls, hawks and cats)! I also have to watch my dog very carefully anwhere there may be poison, as she would wolf it down given half a chance.

I have used a mouse repeller with fantastic results - you need the sort with the ultrasonic and electromagnetic functions though - this sort of thing...
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/rat-and-mouse-repeller-whole-house-p-36.html?source=googlebase

Used one in a heavily mouse infested flat I lived in, and my grans house when she had a rat recently!!! Worked in both cases, no mess, no bodies to deal with and no poison.