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

nuno

Just had a mouse and successfully got rid of it. We used a peanut butter baited spring trap. Once the mouse is gone make sure you go over all the floors/skirting boards etc with a good disinfectant. This is important. The smell of the mouse must be completely got rid of or else it's friends will come and investigate what was so interesting. Be really thorough (it's a good excuse to give the place a clean )

MrsBartolozzi

We had a mouse problem this week and I bought a pack of 2 easy set traps and a sonic thing from B&Q. Totally not impressed with these traps. They were quite cheap(£3 ish) but didn't work. In the morning I went in, saw a trap had been sprung and promised myself I'd clean it up once dressed. DS2 had a look and a poke about and said it was still alive!! It escaped, still attached to the trap and ran under the bed and promptly got caught in the other trap. this seemed to have killed it so I left it til DS2 was out the door and scooped the whole thing (mouse and 2 traps) into a bucket to deal with outside. This seems to have revived it, buddy thing had survived 2 traps!! I did put it out of it's misery and chucked out the traps as they seem to be unable to kill a mouse, just trap it which is decidedly cruel.
Having looked at the reviews online it seems I''m not the only one to have found this so I'd definitely not recommend!!

Oh and I returned the sonic thing too as both myself and son could hear it even though it claims to be inaudible to humans, so if you can hear the teenager-deterrant mosquito thing then you'll probably hear this too!!

no-oneknowsme

It was round about this time last year when i discovered we had mice in our roof space.

I heard one scratching above us one night as we lay in bed .

Next day we got some of the spring traps and and baited it with nutella chocolate spread and within an hour we heard the "thump" above us as the trap was set off.

Getting into the roof space we were very relieved to see the bloody thing had been caught but decided to leave the other traps set up there and just check them daily.

For the rest of that day we didnt hear any scratching so thought there may have only been the one little mouse , next day upon checking , we found another two mice had been caught in the traps.

Unfortuanely this went on and on until we had caught twenty five mice in the space of 2 and a half weeks !!!

Needless to say the traps will be staying . We have them set everywhere in our house . At this time of the year you can never be too sure.

nuno

no-oneknowsme wrote: »

It was round about this time last year when i discovered we had mice in our roof space.

I heard one scratching above us one night as we lay in bed .

Next day we got some of the spring traps and and baited it with nutella chocolate spread and within an hour we heard the "thump" above us as the trap was set off.

Getting into the roof space we were very relieved to see the bloody thing had been caught but decided to leave the other traps set up there and just check them daily.

For the rest of that day we didnt hear any scratching so thought there may have only been the one little mouse , next day upon checking , we found another two mice had been caught in the traps.

Unfortuanely this went on and on until we had caught twenty five mice in the space of 2 and a half weeks !!!

Needless to say the traps will be staying . We have them set everywhere in our house . At this time of the year you can never be too sure.

:eek:

hide ya kids, hide ya wife!

no-oneknowsme

nuno wrote: »

:eek:

hide ya kids, hide ya wife!

S"cuse me ? dont know what you mean ?

nuno

ignore me - silly reference. Someone will get it one day.

no-oneknowsme

nuno wrote: »

ignore me - silly reference. Someone will get it one day.

Wheres that confused icon when ya need it most ?:(

Aesop

googling it, I hope nuno is referring to something else!

bluebag

I bought one of the electrocution type traps off the internet and I have to say they are superb, work well and make getting rid of the corpse easy.

We get mice quite frequently as we live in a big old cellared terrace.

I have always used the wooden spring trap ones before and found they are quite good if used properly.

It pays to leave them unset but baited for a few days as mice are suspicious of anything new so it's important to make sure they are put back in exactly the same place.

After a day or two of them having a free feast, set the trap.
I always use chocolate raisins to stab on the spike of the trap as it makes it difficult to remove the bait without springing the trap.

Occasionally though they do manage to beat it, but keep setting it eventually they lose the gamble.

Turtle2010

Eeeek!!

Last night whilst trying to drift off, I heard a horrible scuttling around above me...I think it's a mouse (or mice!) :eek:

A while ago we were up there pulling things out of boxes for a car boot sale, and in a box right at the bottom of a pile I found some (not a lot) of droppings and an old pillowcase in there had been chewed a little. We couldn't hear anything and after a few more checks (and our old central heating system being pulled out for renewal) there were no more signs so we left it at that.

However last night (whilst hubby was on nights - so he doesn't believe me) there was a definite scurrying around!!

I'm not sure that it actually is a mouse, it could be a rat (uurrghh!!) or a squirrell...and i'm too scared to look, am such a big scardey cat. Hubby's no use either. A rufty tufty copper by day, a big jessie by night. Dependant on shift pattern of course. :rotfl:

I don't want to kill it, whatever it is, so do you think I should get a humane trap? I'd rather do that and let it go by the woods near our house!

Help!