Mouse in my flat
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pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
Move out. it's the only way. It's what we had to do. The mice were living between the floors of our flat and the one upstairs. Our neighbours didn't show any interest in pest extermination, so it didn't matter what we did, the mice still remained.
I used to get so pissed off, coming home and having to wash mouse wee and poo off the pans every night before I could cook anything. Depressing.
I used to get so pissed off, coming home and having to wash mouse wee and poo off the pans every night before I could cook anything. Depressing.
butterfly child
Well-Known Member
Our mousetrap just got a mouse, frightened the life out of me when it went off.
We got all our mice before by using Tunnocks Caramel Wafers, although one mouse did successfully swipe one load once without setting off the trap...
I do hope that mouse was a one off, I was enjoying having my dining table back
We got all our mice before by using Tunnocks Caramel Wafers, although one mouse did successfully swipe one load once without setting off the trap...
I do hope that mouse was a one off, I was enjoying having my dining table back
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
butterfly child said:Our mousetrap just got a mouse, frightened the life out of me when it went off.
We got all our mice before by using Tunnocks Caramel Wafers, although one mouse did successfully swipe one load once without setting off the trap...
I do hope that mouse was a one off, I was enjoying having my dining table back
......did they mug your pigs for their food - our mice did? They'd eat all his food and then poo in his bowl.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Kill it, skin it, gut it, dip it in batter and then deep fry it. Lovely with chips and a side salad 
Ultrasonic device worked for me (and the mice) BUT only after finding out from one of many researched source that it can take 2 to 3 weeks for the rodents to 'learn' that they don't like the sound it produces.
Made more sense to the mice than it did to me.
Eventually, they left.
Made more sense to the mice than it did to me.
Eventually, they left.
I was watching that Hugh-Fernley-Wotnot the other day and they did some kind of 'spiritual cleansing' to rid themselves of mice. 
hmm...
Voice of experience - if you are tempted to run round the house trying to catch them, avoid trying to grab them by the tail, as you are liable to end up with a tail in your hand and a stump-tailed mouse running round your flat.
hmm...Voice of experience - if you are tempted to run round the house trying to catch them, avoid trying to grab them by the tail, as you are liable to end up with a tail in your hand and a stump-tailed mouse running round your flat.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Pickman's model said:get a pint glass, a very sharp knife and a bit of formaldehyde - and a mouse.
cut the mouse in half, and put into the pint glass. now pour on the formaldehyde, and - voila! - yr very own damien hurst.
mmm, I killed six mice last night - I could make an exhibit...
Structaural
in Chatsubo
niksativa said:
Yeah it's mine too - but I'll not bore anyone too much I hope.
The most humane traps are the classic mousetrap - they usually kill them instantly (I got 4 last night - all necks broken) - poison causes an painful drawn-out death (though I also use this - it's excellent in the snap traps 'cos the mice LOVE the poison).
My missus turned the oven/microwave on two days ago and there was this thump, thump from the extractor fan. So I took the outer casing off and there was a dead mouse in the fan - shaved down one side and a little pile of fur
and another one desiccated between two circuit boards. 'orrible little things. So it's war now... 
Paté is the best bait I've found - cos they have to dig it out of the trap - triggering it. Though they are pretty clever at times - they ate a load of butter of one trap without triggering it.
pembrokestephen
New Member
In my opinion, the only humane mousetrap is one that kills it outright. Any other sort leaves the animal trapped and stressed for as long as it takes you to find it, then you have the problem of disposing of it: if you release it too near home, it'll just come back, so you need to take it off to some bit of waste ground a way away. Where it will find itself exposed and in a totally alien environment, and probably be et by a predator within 24 hours. Which at least saves it from starving to death.giddygirl said:Hi suburban peeps
I saw a mouse today in the kitchen of my new shared house
It seems to live behind the cooker or in the cupboard with the boiler. I don't want to have to share my kitchen with mice but I don't really want to kill it and what's more don't fancy cleaning up mouse bits.
So do the humane traps work? Do you have to put bait in them? If we catch one mouse will that make the others (and I'm sure there must be others) leave?
Cheers
I really, really tried to find a humane way of catching and getting rid of mice when I lived in a house with a mouse problem, and the more I looked at it, the more I came to the conclusion that Mother Nature isn't going to miss a couple of Little Brown Jobs every night or so, and that it was less cruel to dispatch them than catch them.
pembrokestephen
New Member
Yeah. Chocolate - they love chocolate. And peanut butter.trashpony said:Humane traps work well but the key is the right bait. Avoid cheese - it is a little known FACT (and that's for ONS) that mice actually prefer Nutella.
pembrokestephen
New Member
We had a mouse get into the hamstercage once. She wasn't very impressed - I couldn't see the mouse at the time, but I could see a very stroppy hamster trying to jump up and down on something, and it was only when I went to see what the fuss was about that I spotted it.pinkmonkey said:......did they mug your pigs for their food - our mice did? They'd eat all his food and then poo in his bowl.
(and it was slighly unnerving just how the damn mouse managed to get INTO the cage - there couldn't have been a gap bigger than a centimetre anywhere. I gather that they have some neat trick where they dislocate their jaws to get through very small gaps, or maybe that's snakes)
Structaural
in Chatsubo
I read that they can get through a gap as wide as a biro
Structaural
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Batboy said:
prunus
Tick tock.
giddygirl said:Thanks guys. I think I might go for a sonic repeller like this
Sonic repeller
Hopefully it will get the buggers out of my flat
These things don't do diddly.
What you want is a Snap-E Mouse Trap - they really do work. Not that humane, as they break the mouses neck, but they do work.
Peanut butter is the preferred bait round our way.
5 mice caught in the past 5 days.
hungry 4 kicks
Active Member
giddygirl said:Hi suburban peeps
I saw a mouse today in the kitchen of my new shared house
It seems to live behind the cooker or in the cupboard with the boiler. I don't want to have to share my kitchen with mice but I don't really want to kill it and what's more don't fancy cleaning up mouse bits.
So do the humane traps work? Do you have to put bait in them? If we catch one mouse will that make the others (and I'm sure there must be others) leave?
Cheers
0800 917 1981
Rentokil in Wadnsworth killed my mice....
they lay a trap and charge about 60 quid but come back to check they're wacked....
I found a mouse in my bed the little ratbag.....
Structaural
in Chatsubo
I'm on 9 in 3 days now, they're bloody endemic in this city. I throw the traps away with the mouse usually.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
same here but I've a 2 month old kid - can't be having vermin around the place.
but I've a 2 month old kid - can't be having vermin around the place.
Treacle Toes
Time
I have caught 3 mice in my dads house using those sticky trap sheets, available from any pet shop. Once you work out where the little buggers are eating...in my dad's case, they were feeding from the bin in the bin cupboard... I just put the traps down next to the hole they were getting in by and 3 times this week I have found stuck, dead mice on the traps and put them in the bin!...They are fantastic!
Mouse questions
I suppose the humane thing would be to find where they're getting in and block it. But they're in the loft and I think they get in via some ventilation hole or something. How would they get up there? Can they climb up walls as my friend says? And do crows eat them? And is it seasonal this mouse business? My mice always seem to crop up when it starts to get cold. (They're grey.)
I suppose the humane thing would be to find where they're getting in and block it. But they're in the loft and I think they get in via some ventilation hole or something. How would they get up there? Can they climb up walls as my friend says? And do crows eat them? And is it seasonal this mouse business? My mice always seem to crop up when it starts to get cold. (They're grey.)
nogoodboyo
New Member
Borrow a cat for a few hours. Ask first, I mean.
The cat will leave a catty odour bothersome to mice.
The cat will leave a catty odour bothersome to mice.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Rutita1 said:
how do they die?
(sounds good though - the mice have managed to eat all the bait off of the snappy traps lately - how do they do that?)
