Help we have a cheeky mouse!! (merged threads)

MissG_2

Jay-Jay wrote:

I suggest that you check the back of your kitchen cupboards for packets that have been nibbled. Also check any wiring lying about in your home. Don't leave any food out on worktops or in living areas.

I have been checking my cupboards, the are no nibbled packets but i have droppings. I don't leave food out apart from the dog's crunch's but i have noticed it one or two where the dog can't get so i will be removing it from now on. All wires seem to be ok.

We had mice in our last house (old stone farmhouse surrounded by fields). I discovered we had mice when I found droppings IN my daughters bed. Within the next two days I found droppings under my washing pile, they'd chewed some of the clothes too. Then I discovered that they've chewed the towels in the airing cupboard.

We have fields all at the back of us. The only room we have not had the mouse in is the bedroom as far as i know and hope. We live in a house but it is a flat the top is a lady and we are at the bottom, i have not asked her if she has the same problem. We have had o materials chewed thank god. I can't imagine how it must of felt to have know it was in your daughters bed.

I moved the settee one day and found some Chuppa Chupp lollies that they'd dragged underneath and started to eat. They'd also partially chewed through the surround sound speaker wires......oh and the had eaten two of the chocolate Xmas tree decorations, leaving shredded tin foil on the carpet.

I had a load of droppings behind my settee but i cleaned them all up the other day.

The cheekiest thing was on Xmas day my daughter had left a mince pie out for Santa. Well Santa had taken a bite (as he does ) and left the rest of the pie as proof that he'd been........... only by morning the whole bloody lot had gone :mad:

:rotfl: Sorry i know i shouldn't laugh but i can't help it. At least you can say a santa did come and i hope he had his outfit on.

My first defence was to borrow a cat for a week..... worked a treat but just for back up I phoned Rentokill!

I couldn't borrow a cat as my dog can't stand them. I have landed in a bush as i was walking down my path before now as my dog chased the cat that was sat in the bush

When he came he said that they'd been living under the floorboards and under the kitchen cupboards behind the kickboards. He left lots and lots of those poison filled boxes and we never had another problem.

We don't have floorboards so i know we don't have any unless they are semented in

carrie78

We had mice (multiple). These plug in units from QVC have worked well http://www.qvcuk.com/ukgscripts/detail.dll?item=819480&frames=y&from=se&cm_scid=srch&cm_ssi

We bought some for my partners nan who lives by lots of fields and used to get lots of mice. They have worked well for both of us. We have been using ours for about 8 months and (touch wood) have had no sightings or droppings since.

I can't link the sight with all the frames. Product linked about but for full site go to https://www.qvcuk.com put in item number 819480.

Hope this helps.

Carrie

MissG_2

Lemoncurd wrote:

We tried a humane trap once - after he'd discovered how to knock it over and get the food out the mouse then went on to eat the trap!

:eek: Oh my god how cheekey was that. Are you sure it was a mouse and not a rat:rotfl:

MissG_2

carrie78 wrote:

We had mice (multiple). These plug in units from QVC have worked well http://www.qvcuk.com/ukgscripts/detail.dll?item=819480&frames=y&from=se&cm_scid=srch&cm_ssi

We bought some for my partners nan who lives by lots of fields and used to get lots of mice. They have worked well for both of us. We have been using ours for about 8 months and (touch wood) have had no sightings or droppings since.

I can't link the sight with all the frames. Product linked about but for full site go to www.qvcuk.com put in item number 819480.

Hope this helps.

Carrie

That looks good i will tell him later

elizabethp

They love chocolate! I had one last year, drove me scatty! We did catch it eventually, in an unhumane way. I then went out and bought two cats!! So far no problems this year! Thank goodness!

coolsteel

Replace the cheese with a blob of butter and you WILL catch the mouse.

Coolsteel :cool:

tweetie_2

I am so glad someone asked this question!

we have/had (I hope they are gone!) mice that seem to come and go - the last time they got into our kitchen cupboards and ate my digestives and nibbled all the chocolate off some of my baci chocolates (they didn't like the wafer though) and then started to nibble on a ribena bottle I had on the floor!

so will be off to buy some of the ultrasonic things asap

Lemoncurd

MissG wrote:

:eek: Oh my god how cheekey was that. Are you sure it was a mouse and not a rat:rotfl:

Definitely a mouse, we saw it quite a few times!
A word of warning, if anyone does use a traditional trap make sure it is a powerful one, after this my housemate got a traditional one and caught the mouse but the mouse was still moving around with the trap attached to it. I don't think it was badly injured (wouldn't have liked to have to finish off the job) so we released it some distance away from the house but it came straight back in.

fluffymuffin

My sisters father in law (!) made me a humane trap that catches them when they take the food - worked a treat. When you release them take them miles away - into the middle of nowhere in a nice field and let them go cos they do come back. This is fine for one mouse but if you have problems like Jay Jay you may need to resort to more drastic techniques - beware of poison though - mice often want to go and hide when they are ill and this might mean they go hide and then die under your floor boards - you will notice them when you smell them - lovely! I have found cats to be the long term solution.

MissG_2

Thanks for all the advice and chuckles you have given me. I will try the chocolate until i get the ultrasonic thingy. The only concern i have with this is my parrot, i have heard they are quite sensitive to high frequencies.

Does anyone know if this will harm my parrot or my dog?