Mice

[Simster]

I've just seen a massive mouse (no, not a rat) leave our bedroom and go into my sleeping 3 year olds room. I'm not happy, and I daren't tell my wife cos she'll freak out.

I just had to tell someone. Thanks for listening.

 

[Braders]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeek

*jumps on chair*

 

[Simster]

I tell you, it freaked me out. I turned round as I was hanging up my ironing and saw it scarper into my son's bedroom. I've sneaked a mouse trap upstairs (without the wife seeing) and hidden it under the sofa that it disappeared to.

I hoovered behind that sofa in his room yesterday and there was loads of mouse shit so this shouldn't be any surprise really.

 

[sams dad]

If you haven't got a cat,see if you can beg,steal or borrow one from a neighbour

 

[timseagull]

If you haven't got a cat,see if you can beg,steal or borrow one from a neighbour

My cat is too fat and lazy and would probably purr at it

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

I've just seen a massive mouse (no, not a rat) leave our bedroom and go into my sleeping 3 year olds room. I'm not happy, and I daren't tell my wife cos she'll freak out.

How can you be sure it wasn't a rat?

 

[Bozza]

And you just happen to have a mousetrap sitting about the house?!?

 

[Waterhall Wizard]

If you haven't got a cat,see if you can beg,steal or borrow one from a neighbour

This is good advice Simster. Even if a cat doesn't catch them all, the mice may be spooked by its scent and move on.

The problem is, if you've seen one mouse, there are probably many. They reproduce rapidly too.

Make sure that everything that your youngster comes in to contact with is thoroughly cleaned. Mice have the habit of pissing all over the place and that's how they spread infection.

Something else you could try is leaving bars of scented soap around. I'll tell you why.

We keep our supply of soap in a cupboard under the sink. I went to replace a bar one day and found that two had had large chunks, including the wrappers, eaten away. There were the tell tale signs of mouse droppings left in the cupboard.

I swept up the droppings and washed everything in the cupboard with disenfectant. I left a couple of piles of mouse poison in saucers for a month. They were never touched and there were no mouse droppings anywhere in the house.

Our conclusion was that the mice had been killed by eating soap, or they had been made so ill that they had buggered off.

Good luck, Simster. I hope that you find a remedy to your problem very quickly.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Sounds like you need to come clean to the Mrs and get Rentokil in.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Though the Council should do it for free.

 

[Zeitgeist]

I had the same problem about a month ago. One neighbour has two cats and the other three, so this mouse either was fearsome or had no sense of smell! First of all I tried the new style humane mouse trap. Waste of time. Next, a couple of old coventional "snappers" with cheese. For a week, the little shit managed to get the cheese off the trap despite it being set on the most sensitive setting! HOWEVER....I was advised to put a piece of hamster food coated with a small dab of peanut butter on the trap. Less than an hour after putting the trap down. BANG!!....Gotcha! Luckily, we appear to have only had the one mouse as there's been no sign of droppings since.

 

[Simster]

We've had them on and off for about 2 years. All over the house, including upstairs as you can probably deduce. In fact, its always been a problem: while we were waiting to buy the place, we thought it would be cool to sneak a look through the lounge window when the previous owners were out - and there was a mousetrap in the middle of the floor.

And Waterhall Wizard, cheers for the advice. You're right about cleaning everything, we've been doing that anyway. But I'm now paranoid because my little boy got a fever a few days ago although it went as quickly as it arrived.

Rentakill is a non-starter - they charge a fortune and only wander round the house laying traps and coming back a few days later. I know that because we had a mouse in our previous flat and I called them out (my wife; girlfriend at the time) was in Thailand and I was petrified.

Bozza, it is not a rat and I know that because it looked nothing like a rat.

 

[Bluejuice]

I tell you, it freaked me out. I turned round as I was hanging up my ironing and saw it scarper into my son's bedroom.

Never mind the mouse, what the f*** you doing the ironing for when you got a Mrs?

 

[Simster]

Never mind the mouse, what the f*** you doing the ironing for when you got a Mrs?

Good point well made.

 

[Gully]

Simster, where do you live, I can easily find you a cat if you need one, I will just catch the one that keeps shitting in my front garden, hand on a minute have I got the right thread...

 

[Yorkie]

Forget putting cheese into a mouse trap. Chocolate works far better.

My youngest cat is a brilliant mouser - available at cheap rates

 

[clapham_gull]

I had mice in my old flat, they would always go for the bread but leave the crusts.

Not sure how that helps......

 

[Halftime Oranges]

Get a cat or borrow one it works.

 

[pasty]

I guess that because I found half a dead mouse on our kitchen floor yesterday that our cat is quite adept at catching the little buggers

 

[Lord Cornwallis]

Any of your neighbours, farmers wifes? Might help.