Humane ways to catch a mouse.

[Deano's Right Foot]

20!!!!! Bloody hell, how big does a mouse family get?

I won't tell Mrs Gritt that.

Right, we have a trap. I've spared no expense and spent a whole £3.99, so if that won't solve the problem, money isn't the answer. It's primed with peanut butter, and all I can do now is wait.

Where di you get the trap? We've lost our hamster and in trying to tempt it out from wherever it is by leaving food we appear to have invited the local mouse population within a couple of hundred yards into our house for a good tuck-in!

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I'm pretty sure the big tesco's sell the human mouse traps, somewhere in the pet food section

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Oh, and put the trap flat against a wall, as mice prefer to run along the side of walls rather than out in the open

 

[WATFORD zero]

Our cat caught a mouse yesterday, bought it in through the catflap and dropped it in the Utility room.

With incredible agility, I managed to lock the cat flap, throw the cat in the kitchen and catch the mouse. I was my daughter's hero as I went into the garden and released the mouse onto the lawn. I hadn't even got back to the door before a Magpie swooped down, dispatched the mouse with a single peck and flew off with it.

So if you want something more effective than a cat, go for a magpie (although i should think a crow, rook or raven would do just as well).

 

[JJ McClure]

A welly boot does the trick fine when our cat lets rodent go in the house. They tend to want somewhere dark to hid so just stick it by the skirting board near the little critter and it'll tend to run in. Then take the boot out and empty said mouse. Job done.

 

[mikeyjh]

Simple old fashioned trap with peanut butter will do the trick - But you need to put it in the right place. If you have a family they are not likely venture to far from wherever they're nesting. More likely that 1 has just wandered in, but beware he's likely to go and fetch the missus. You need to make sure all the entry points are sealed else they'll just keep coming. The furry bas*ards can get through very small gaps, as you probably know. We went through an period of sealing external and internal entry points, I 'think' that covering the air bricks with fine mesh was the winner. Good luck.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Also having problems with "Mr Jingles". He reappeared last night from behind the telly stand but luckily Mrs KZN had just gone to bed. We are currently trying a makeshift trap that we found on the Internet - basically a cardboard ramp up to a toilet roll tube baited with biscuit (will try chocolate next) hanging precariously over a waste paper bin. Has not worked yet of course!!

Would love to know if your trap worked Mr Gritt. Whilst an inconvenience, unfortunately they attract snakes and we dont want any of them in the house thanks very much!! If you do catch one, I am told that you must release them at least a mile from your house.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Maybe, maybe not. Because there has been a little fella bobbing along in the garden taking the bread thrown for the birds, and the little fella has been carrying it through the fence and off into next doors garden somewhere. We thought he'd just snuck in the back door (oohh-errr) the other day. However, it does seem to be at least two now though.

Sounds stupid, but how far away do you need to take the mouse after it's been caught to stop it just coming back in to join it's family?

Disneyland,Paris.

 

[ChapManiA]

We actually have a mouse, (or maybe mice) at the moment. I can hear them in the loft, they are living under the hot water tank, i know this as I can hear their feet on the plasterboard as there is no insulation under that part.

Strange thing is that they are getting behind of the kitchen cupboard under the sink. There is no logical way how they can be getting down there internally through the house. They've been living on dog meal and dog biscuits for weeks now!
I removed the kickboard to see loads of cloths have been dragged from the cupboard, along with big packeted items of dog treats. These mice must be strong.

I can only think that they are exiting the house through the roof, and then entering the kitchen via a ventilation brick, under floorboards and come out right under the kitchen cupboard? I've come to this assumption because my mother regularly spotted mice on our patio in the early mornings.

A funny thing happened on Monday. My mother was feeding the dog his breakfast of a weettabix, put her hand in the box, and pulled out the mouse and not the weetabix!
She dropped it on the floor and it ran between the washing machine and tumble dryer.
Late that night I heard chewing sound between the two appliances, wheeled the tumble dryer out and out ran the mouse that had probably been stuck when it was dropped on the floor, it ran back under the cupboard again.

We both want rid of the mouse, yet my mother wants to go out and buy some Hamster mix for it to eat

She doesn't know that I've been leaving dog meal and cheese under the cupboard for it!