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My other half just said he didn't want to freak me out but he thinks he's just seen a mouse run in the sitting room. We live in the first floor flat of a converted house. Switched all the lights on and looked under the TV stand, sofa etc. Nothing.
I haven't seen any 'droppings' nor have I heard any scurrying sounds previously I don't think. But now I am F R E A K I N G O U T about possibly having a mouse in the flat.
Anyone have any ideas of how to get rid of them if I have. No flippant responses please as I am totally freaked at the moment and that'd send me over the edge.
I haven't seen any 'droppings' nor have I heard any scurrying sounds previously I don't think. But now I am F R E A K I N G O U T about possibly having a mouse in the flat.
Anyone have any ideas of how to get rid of them if I have. No flippant responses please as I am totally freaked at the moment and that'd send me over the edge.
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Because mice freak me out. If anyone has any ideas of how to get rid of them that would be great. Pls.
Ta. Well I haven't seen anything. And now OH is saying it might have been a spider (!) but I am too far gone about it now. Apparently he's not seen anything for a half-hour in the sitting room but I won't go in. We haven't seen any droppings etc. so I hope he was wrong but I am going to get some poison tomorrow.
That'll surely make them show themselves - or, maybe, scurry away to come back out when it's darker.
Get traps rather than poison. With a trap you know whether you've caught it or not. With poison the mouse goes somewhere else to die, and then in a few months you move a piece of furniture to clean, and you find out where that was :eek:
If you are squeamish then live traps are less messy than the ones that kill. Although you do have to empty the trap later which you might find difficult if you don't like mice.
If you do use live traps then take them a couple of miles away to release, because mice have quite a good homing instinct and will get back in if you just release them outside.
Awwww - it's only a mouse!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fg7w49UnGA
I agree about the trapping bit but I'm afraid I'd go for the all out kill. It's not nice but it is effective.
Chocolate makes a good bait.
Good luck!
Nope, the light will keep them away. I remember a memorable trip to Louisiana years ago, when we were staying in the students' residences at Tulane University. The soap had obviously been nibbled by something, and there were big holes in the plasterboard of the walls, not to mention the gigantic (3 inch long) Louisiana cockroaches everywhere! We slept with the lights on for the whole stay!
It's daft I know. But there aren't any scratch marks, droppings, or chewed cables that I can see. And we haven't heard any scrabbling about etc. So hopefully it wasn't a mouse.
I've bought a repellant that you plug into the wall and it sends out a sound/EM wave through the wires so hopefully that'll send them on their way. And some poison just in case.
Tonight's job will be cleaning the house from top to bottom *to be on the safe side* !
Apart from the buying of traps and poison, you could go through your home and block up any little unneeded hole or gap you find. You might just end up barring the way the mouse got in - but where you find one, you have to look for any other because if you don't find it, they will. Good luck.
Ta for that! We're moving house next month anyhow but I don't want to pack any boxes in case any get in! (Assuming of course there is a mouse.) I bought an electronic deterrent that you plug into the wall which is supposed to make them run away. It has mixed results apparently but I got some poison too which I'll use in a day or so if I think it's still there. So we shall see.
Go for peanut butter they love it and if there is no mouse, it keeps well and can make a nice snack on toast.
Anyone got any ideas as to how we can work out where they are coming from (we have already blocked up any holes we've seen and places like that, but they are still getting in)?
Rentokil told us they can even squeeze under your floorboards and through the edges of your carpets.:rolleyes: They can compress their bodies almost totally flat to squeeze through the smallest apertures.