Mouse in the house

[Mudball]

Move over Corona... we now have (atleast one) mouse inside the house. No idea how it got inside. Heard some scratching a few days ago.. put down some Raco that I found in the garage (I think it’s very old stock)

Usually our neighbors cats are prowling around at night so never had a problem before this. With corona, they seem to be staying indoors

Anyways looks like the mouse ate the Raco last night. No sign of it this morning. Been frantically searching for hopefully a dead mouse. No luck so far.

What is the forum view on best way to keep rodents out of the house. With full time jobs and kids, pets are not an option

 

[Bunkermagnet]

We had mice a couple of years back.
I bought bait boxes, the bait blocks, loose poison and glue pads from somewhere like the Pest Expert on web.
Sorted out my problem.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

We have a sonic emitter which are easy to find on Amazon. That has been very effective, plug it in and it does its job. If you have a persistent mouse then a humane trap, peanut butter as the bait, works well. When you capture one you have to take it a mile or more away otherwise they come back.

 

[Mudball]

We have a sonic emitter which are easy to find on Amazon. That has been very effective, plug it in and it does its job. If you have a persistent mouse then a humane trap, peanut butter as the bait, works well. When you capture one you have to take it a mile or more away otherwise they come back.

I have one of these... haven’t used it in a long while as the cats were doing the job. Had switched this on after I started hearing the scratching... the only problem I have with these is that there is no way of knowing if these are working or not ?

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I have one of these... haven’t used it in a long while as the cats were doing the job. Had switched this on after I started hearing the scratching... the only problem I have with these is that there is no way of knowing if these are working or not ?

Like the tiger repelling after shave I wear every day ?.

I know what you mean but ultimately if there are no mice then it is probably doing the job. The best ones have a random pulse as otherwise it becomes white noise to them, apparently ?

 

[CliveW]

Living in the countryside in an old farmhouse we have a constant fight with mice. Humane traps are pretty useless in my opinion as there are always mice round the farm and just taking the one you catch for a jolly doesn't stop others from getting in the house. We have plastic easy setting traps in various strategic places and check them regularly. Best bait is Cadbury's fudge or Rolos which are easy to attach to the traps.

 

[Mudball]

Living in the countryside in an old farmhouse we have a constant fight with mice. Humane traps are pretty useless in my opinion as there are always mice round the farm and just taking the one you catch for a jolly doesn't stop others from getting in the house. We have plastic easy setting traps in various strategic places and check them regularly. Best bait is Cadbury's fudge or Rolos which are easy to attach to the traps.

No being humane about it.. that pesky bas****d is going to die...

 

[CliveW]

No being humane about it.. that pesky bas****d is going to die...

They are vermin. End of!

 

[User62651]

If you can get a biro pen into a hole in skirting or whatever a mouse can get through that tiny gap so check for that. Little shapeshifters?
Even if you do poison one and it dies where you can't access I really don't think it's going to be a noticeable decay smell, too small. Regular sprung traps work fine.

 

[Captainron]

I've got one that electrocutes the little buggers.

Set it up in a cupboard where the dishwasher tablets were getting nibbled and nailed 3 of them in consecutive nights. Not had one since though.

 

[Hobbit]

Glass bottle on an angle with food in it. Mouse goes into the bottle for the food but can't get out because its too slippy. Not sure the policeman will believe you when you take it 50 miles to set it free.

 

[SocketRocket]

Theres a rat in me kitchen, what am I gonna do?

 

[Pathetic Shark]

A friend of mine in Scotland had a problem with an animal inside his property and he wrote a song about it too ..

"There's a moose, loose, aboot this hoose"

Which you can now annoyingly sing to yourselves for the rest of the day

 

[Mudball]

Theres a rat in me kitchen, what am I gonna do?

Make some Ratatouille

 

[Foxholer]

Theres a rat in me kitchen, what am I gonna do?

Oh No! It's returned!

Btw. Divorce her?

 

[jim8flog]

I put poison down under the floorboards of all the bedrooms. When I took the floorboards up I found a couple of mouse skeletons so the previous owners must have done something similar.
Hoouse mice can get in through the tiniest gaps so very difficult to keep them pout in the first place.

One of the funnies about it is was that I put the box of bait on the top shelf in the shed, the mice chewed through the shed wall climbed up to the top shelf and finished the box off.

The neighbours cat often sits staring at the bit of the garden where they nest or get in to my garden form under the back neighbours shed trying to work where amongst the tall plants to make a dive.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

We had this problem a couple of years ago. Little field mice came to visit.
Our Welsh Terrorist Terrier took a live and let live attitude.
I tried to catch and release them with humane traps, but they showed appreciation by continuing to come back.
Finally we had to call an exterminator.

Not my first choice as I don't like to kill fellow warm-blooded mammals.
I do eat meat, unfortunately, but I don't do my own wet work.

 

[USER1999]

good old fashioned spring trap, with peanut butter. All I need to remember is to shut the cats in a different room. Otherwise it's paw in a trap, and off to the vet.

 

[williamalex1]

Lucky it's not a Canadian Moose

 

[Bunkermagnet]

good old fashioned spring trap, with peanut butter. All I need to remember is to shut the cats in a different room. Otherwise it's paw in a trap, and off to the vet.

Or your fingers.....
I still prefer the bait box with the coagulant, it saves my fingers