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How to get rid of mice in flat?
I just saw a MOUSE in my flat!! A little brown one ran out from under my fridge. 
I must admit I have been a little lazy on hoovering and keeping up with my washing up lately as I've been very busy.
If I keep the place immaculately clean will that be enough to stop them coming? My bed is in the same room as kitchen as it's a studio. I'm worried they will run on my bed as I sleep.
I must admit I have been a little lazy on hoovering and keeping up with my washing up lately as I've been very busy.If I keep the place immaculately clean will that be enough to stop them coming? My bed is in the same room as kitchen as it's a studio. I'm worried they will run on my bed as I sleep.
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You need to block all of the gaps they use to get in - often these are round pipes. They only need a very small gap to get through as they can flatten themselves down to get under a door for instance.
We had a mouse last year and resorted to using traps. There turned out to be seven of them - either I trapped them all or the survivors gave up.
Would borrowing my mums cat for a couple of hours help any to leave the smell of cat?
Gaps under skirting boards can be big enough. If you can work out where the mouse is coming and going you actually only need one trap. I caught nearly all of mine in exactly the same place, between the washing machine and the wall. I did put some bait in the trap, but suspect that they just walked into the trap because it was in the way.
We did try leaving the cupboard door open at night so the cats could get in there, but the mice seem to be onto this trick and just don't go into the cupboard on such nights.
Bought a trap the other week (a humane one) and have caught and relocated 5 mice to the countryside over the past couple of weeks. No evidence of any for a few days, so hopefully that is them all
I was all set to go out shopping for all manner of traps and things to catch it but, fortunately, it wasn't necessary. I was even looking online to find out whether the council could possibly help me. But, in the end, I managed to catch the mouse in a small upturned plastic container. I then slid -in a piece of card to stop it escaping, took the box out into the street and then let it go. I felt a bit sorry for the mouse, actually, and there was no way I would ever have killed it, but you just can't start having those things in your house. I just gently dropped it onto the road and it ran away!
Thankfully I haven't seen any more mice, so it obviously wasn't an infestation; probably just a single mouse that managed to walk in while I happened to have the door open.
I'd avoid using certain types of bait for a couple of reasons. Firstly, baits containing anti-coagulants work by causing internal bleeding. Rodents are generally quite clumsy animals and can bruise themselves quite easily. The warfarin based baits work by causing internal bleeding which is a painful way for them to die. They're not actually trying to kill, you they're just trying to survive so making them suffer if you have to kill them isn't really fair.
Also, if you have quite a few of them and they die in the wall cavities they can stink the place out as they decompose. My mate had a problem them with them in a student house he lived in, and I swear I've never smelt anything like it. The smell also lingers and it can take a while to go.
Maybe take a trip to B&Q and get those humane traps. Put some food in it and then leave it over night and see if you have any joy.
It wasn't particularly cold at the time. I gave the mouse a chance, but I do know people who would have just stamped on it
Nope, I'm on the top floor.
I've tried everything and blocked up everything...fingers crossed all okay now, but I'll never say never!
These are probably the same folk who shower 3 times a day and call the rest of us dirty. and smelly.
Oh....:o........ Now that's something you don't expect!, to see a mouse up there.......
any food you keep open or on the work top get into poundworld and buy some of those plastic boxes (think you can pickup six in a box) same with cereals etc. Might be worth checking in the cupboards at some of the boxes you might not have used in a while to see if they have been feeding on them. Being on the top floor it could be another flat is invested and you are just getting overspill.
The best thing for us was putting peanut butter in a mouse trap. It caught a few but it got so bad we had to call the exterminator to fix it (in our second year).
Yeah my old colleague brought humane traps once for some mice and complained that he'd wake up in the morning to find the food in it gone and no sign of the mice.
people with clean houses get them too.
if you`ve seen "one" you`ve most likely got a few. when you set traps use peanut butter for bait.
or you live in an old property. or you are rural. or next door is infested...................
So far so good, not seen or heard anything.