HELP, there's a mouse in my house!?
Question:I have put a trap down but what else can I do? Environmental Health won't come out for at least a week - I can't just leave it that long. I saw one in my kitchen about an hour ago. It sat bold as brass staring at me!! There are no droppings anywhere and no other signs at all. Mice are my worst phobia and I am really, really freaked out. Can anyone recommend some mouse poison that works? All nice useful advice gratefully received.
Answers:
Since they are your worst phobia, I'm really sorry for you. I wouldn't mind having a mouse in my kitchen. How do you go in there; aren't you afraid it will attack you?
You can buy sticky pads; they come in both mouse and rat verieties. I found these most effective when dealing with mice in the office I used to work in.
There's also a non-lethal mouse trap you can buy which merely catches the little blighters, but I found we did not catch one mouse with this thing.
The problem with the stickly pads is once their stuck on there, they will try to get off. They won't be able to, but be prepared for having some animal torture on your head. After they were stuck down I would just throw the helpless critter in the bin, stuck to the pad, poor thing, but that's the life of a critter I guess. I could imagine leaving him to the fate of the rubbish bin would make him easy prey for all manner of insects and spiders when he was outside, that's if he survived that long without having a heart attack. It's not a great way to catch a mouse.
I don't know where you would buy rat poison. You can always try private pest control (Rentokil) too.
If you do decide to lay a trap using a sticky pad, just rock up in your kitchen like you own the place, and don't be alarmed, as mice will be more inclined to hide, even if you were close as opposed to launching a surprise attack. Put the pad on the floor next to the walls behind your kitchens utilities such as the fridge or washing machine creating a corridor of death to any mouse who may think to stray down this typically safe and secluded passage.
WARNING: Be careful when poking your head around that fridge! You will be crawling on the floor, that's mouse territory. This is your most vulnerable position; a mouse can come up behind you, can fall from the kitchen table down the back of your shirt or even worse, you can lay the trap, look down that dark corridor of death between the fridge and the wall, see theres something there, what is it, oh no, you look that mouse in its cold scary eyes and BOOM. Have you seern that film The Ring? Instant death. Anyway you've been warned, don't complain.
If however a mouse does land on your shoulder, know that it's got balls; and that it's aim is to give you a coronary. A mouse knows it could never take a person in a fight, especially if they are heavily trained in some form of martial art; It's only aim is to scare the living hell out of you.
Is the mouse you are trying to catch aware that you have a phobia; do you think he might have passed this information about your phobia on to some elder mice who will be able to use their power and influence in mouse society to plan an attack on your fragile nerves?
Remember planning attacks like this takes skills and resources; mice will not be able to sustain a war against you for more than six mouse years before the drain in diverted mousepower, resources and funding will take it's toll on the fragile mouse society, and cause the mice to seek new leadership, and in doing so cancel the war effort against you; in which case you may be worrying over nothing.
Also, contrary to cartoons, mice prefer a corn flake or a dollop of peanut butter to cheese.
I hope you have found this information useful, now go get your kitchen back.
You're welcome in advance
Put down friendly traps that trap the mouse, but doesn't kill it. You can lure it into the trap with a little bit of fresh veggies or peanut butter. Once the mouse is caught, you can either keep it as a pet or release it outside away from your house.
If you do decide to use poisons, any pets that you own might be attracted to the smell and try to injest the poison. You also run the risk of the mouse dying somewhere that you cannot retrieve his little body and stinking up where he is at.
call a local exterminator
be careful with poison..if they eat it and die somewhere in your house then it will smell bad until you locate it. Peanut butter on traps attracts them. Also you may consider using more traps such as the glue type or elecric type. Most important - look for small holes where they might have gotten in! If you don't plug them up then you'll definately have this problem again :)
do not put poison down, you will never know if you got it , put a lot of traps down with a little bit of mars bar on them
put the beat end to the wall with the wooden end sticking out to the room and you will get it the first night , and throw trap and all in the bin
a mouse can get through a hole the size of a pencil
First of all that little guy is more afraid of you than you are of him. They are very helpful in the food chain and will not hurt you. I suggest you clean very well the cracks and leave no food around. There is a trap called Have A Heart that you can get , put food in and the mouse will go in and the door will shut behind him . then you can let him out outside. It is much cleaner than killing him and having blood all over. Mice, Rats, Bats have all been bashed in literature so that people fear them . In childhood we learn they are not liked. I urge you to read up on them. They make very good pets too although their life span is short, they are quick to learn.
go round your street and find the nearest cat..
that should do the trick!!
I know how you feel,i hate them because of the germs they can spread,all i can say is put chocolate on your trap,they love it more than cheese.
we had similar situation a month ago. we putted more than one mouse trap all over the kitchen. We used the sticky ones. Then we covered up all the holes with cement. and borrowed a cat from a friend.
The simple, inexpensive wood-based snap trap is effective and can be purchased in most hardware and grocery stores .Rodenticides are poisons that kill rodents. They can be purchased in hardware stores, feed stores, discount stores, garden centers and other places where pesticides are sold. Do not buy unlabeled rodent baits from street vendors or other uncertain sources. Do not purchase baits that have an incomplete label or one that appears to be “homemade.” Hope this helps.
Just a tip: put peanutbutter on the traps in stead of cheese. They smell it a mile away and they love it!
Council Pest Control will have to respond... it's the law. It's probably only a field mouse anyway. What could it possibly want in your house? It will soon leave - unless you've shut all the doors and trapped it in the house.
But don't worry they wander in all the time in Summer months when we leave doors open. It will leave, unless you kill it first.
The trap is best, don't use poison unless you have to as it is very cruel and makes the mice bleed to death. They die in the most inconvenient of places too and end up decomposing and stinking behind your kitchen cupboards, under your fridge or under the stairs.
It's rats you need to have a phobia about, now they are really nasty, germ carrying fiends... they'll stop you from sleeping with worry they will.
Mice are cute, I used to have them as pets. You can put a food trail down for him that will lead to an open window or door and let him escape. He would most likely prefer to be outside anyhow. With poison, if he dies inside one of your walls or between your floors you will have to live with the stench until his body completely decomposes which of course will invite other things like bugs galore. Traps can sometimes maim without killing.
my boyriend had one in his house once. man, those things are fast! it makes it almost impossible to trap them. here's what we did:
we were sitting in his room and we saw it run in the closet. we shut the closet door and called his dad in. we closed the bedroom door and blocked off the crack under the door and opened the closet door to let it out. my bf's dad took a small trash bin (the see through wire kinds) and trapped him inside. he threw one of those sticky traps in (they put these all over the house with food on it, and the smart mouse took the food without getting stuck) and the mouse was jumping around inside the bin and finally fell on the trap.
sorry for the long story, but now we know the best thing to do is to trap it in small areas and throw one of those sticky traps.
i didn't want anyone to hurt it, but it wasn't my choice. my bf's dad took it outside and i think he killed it. =(
id ask tom hun, dont know what say
Just a tip mice no longer like cheese. Try some chocolate in the trap.
Traps and poison you can buy in the shops just don't work. Have a friend who is a professional pest controller, he puts special plastic traps down, with a type of poison which is bright blue, and very greasy, he says that your average modern mouse will eat greasy food more than anything else, they adore peanut butter, so try putting poison in this and see what happens, but he says you need to use professional pest controllers, who use stronger poisons. The other alternative, and I am not taking the p*ss, it get a cat, borrow one from someone, preferably a female. Another friend's house was overrun with mice, environmental health missed three appointments and she was at the end of her tether. She looked after someone's cat for a week and the mouse population was instantly decreased. She ended up keeping the cat for three weeks to make sure she had caught all the babies as well, and she really was overrun with them.
Put another trap down if you want, but forget cheese, try chocolate, left over greasy food, or peanut butter, but its a bit gruesome if you are using the old style snap-trap.
Good luck, I'd borrow a cat until environmental health get their act together.
firstly, clean ur fridge, empty ur bin and wash ur knickers...it could be the cheese attracting him. Secondly, do not use a glue trap, after 9 months in iraq, ill never forget the sound of a crying mouse 24 hours after he pulls away from his own skin. I suggest u move into the garden...live there...hopefully, when the mouse is all grown up, he will forget what his parents taught him about hygiene, and become a dirty bastard..thats ur chance to strike, and get back in there. Who knows, in 20 years, the mouse could be asking the same question
My hubby is an exterminator. He says to put a tiny amount of peanut butter on snap trap. Just enough for the mouse to have to work at it to get a taste and that way it will cause the trap to snap. Place the trap along the wall since mice travel along the baseboard of the wall. Hopefully this will help you.
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