mice everywhere in house

riamu

riamu

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hello, i live in 3-storey house and there have been many mice running around the place for a long time now, even on the kitchen worktops and in bedrooms, at night i can hear them moving around and scratching stuff etc.

The council has been to put some special poison which didn't work and i have tried various rat traps etc of different sizes and baits but to no avail. I will have to call Rentokil soon i think but if anyone has any suggestion as to how to get rid of them quick and easy i would be grateful.

I have a back yard and garage but the doors of the house are kept closed during the day and I am not sure how they are getting in.

When I go to the kitchen at night, around 3 am to get water to drink, it is not a pretty site: as I enter the kitchen one mouse runs from behind the toaster, towards kettle, then runs towards fridge, where he jumps off the worktop and hides into a whole behind the fitted units. I also see one during the day jump onto the dishwasher and then hide behind the dishwasher.
 
ive used sticky traps before, but they're all different, some will fall for other different traps.

i had 3 once, but since moved, they used to eat foam and soap, my gf makes soap, pretty annoying as they make you feel like you live in a dirty home when its not that at all, its just they've took a liking to your home and its easy for them to get around.

our place had massive gaps everywhere, it was a new build which wasnt built too well, i tried to fill the gaps as best i could and cought them in the end.

wire wool is the best stuff to use, filling gaps as they dont like chewing through it
 
i burst out laughing when i say the replies "get a cat" and "get a rat" thanks for cheering me up i have been down in the dumps sharing my home with so many flippin' mice. One of the problems is the house is old and very big, it's on the corner, and I also have a basement which is only used for storage. My brother-in-law has been buying a special kind of bait from B+Q store and smaller traps but nothing's working. I sometimes don't even feel like eating at home, and sometimes, before entering the kitchen at night, I knock on the door to alert the mice so that they will get lost before I enter. No joke!

The reason I can't get a cat is that I live with my brother who has a lovely staffordshire bull terrier called Leo who I don't think would tolerate a cat around. Mind you, the dog barks when he sees the mice. Can dogs and cats live peacefully together? It wouldn't be a problem getting a cat, as I live very near to Battersea Dogs Home.
 
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A cat will sort them out, seriously. They have evolved over millions of years to solve this exact problem.

Plus then you have a cat, and cats are awesome.
 
thanks, will make enquiries about compatability of dog and cat with the dogs home. Battersea dogs home also have a cat section.
 
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Zefan said:
Plus then you have a cat, and cats are awesome.
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I have two cats, plus one that ran away and one that died. Two living cats. And I can confirm that cats are not awesome, and they didn't manage to solve the mouse problem at my massive house. Zefan is incorrect. Sorry. :( But not really. :)

I found that setting trap, after trap, after trap, after trap, after trap for a few weeks sorted the buggers out. Peanut butter, smothered over the trap, they couldn't resist it, and now they're all DEAD.
 
we tried peanut butter on the traps and nutella but it doesnt work, one problem is that the mice are incredibly small.
 
Chocolate works on mousetraps, but if the infestation has gone beyond one or two mice then you need to call in pest controllers. They should get to the burrows.
 
I breifly lived above a pub once for a few months and the flat had 2 mice. I was like you so paranoid about doing anything. They were coming in through somewhere in the kitchen... never knew where.

In the end i spent 3 nights with my loaded Webley Nemesis (Air pistol) and peanut butter and biscuit bait. On the second night i shot and killed mouse number 1, the 3rd night i shot at and missed mouse number 2 but got him about 3 hours later.


Problems with this are:
1)you may shoot something you own
2) you may ricochet and shoot yourself if you miss
3) Mouse blood if you get a kill
4) Probably the biggest problem..... hours of boredom and no sleep!


Not the most effective but it worked.... eve after that though i moved within 2 months because the landlord had refused to do anything about it and the flat never felt clean anymore.

If you want i can lend you an army of cats (7) between my 2 housemates/workmates and myself we've got 7 cats and Sydney and Melbourne (the two older ginger toms) are amazing ratters.
They've caught rats, mice, pigeons, rabbits between them.... few mice is an hours work for them lol
 
HybridX said:
I breifly lived above a pub once for a few months and the flat had 2 mice. I was like you so paranoid about doing anything. They were coming in through somewhere in the kitchen... never knew where.

In the end i spent 3 nights with my loaded Webley Nemesis (Air pistol) and peanut butter and biscuit bait. On the second night i shot and killed mouse number 1, the 3rd night i shot at and missed mouse number 2 but got him about 3 hours later.


Problems with this are:
1)you may shoot something you own
2) you may ricochet and shoot yourself if you miss
3) Mouse blood if you get a kill
4) Probably the biggest problem..... hours of boredom and no sleep!


Not the most effective but it worked.... eve after that though i moved within 2 months because the landlord had refused to do anything about it and the flat never felt clean anymore.

If you want i can lend you an army of cats (7) between my 2 housemates/workmates and myself we've got 7 cats and Sydney and Melbourne (the two older ginger toms) are amazing ratters.
They've caught rats, mice, pigeons, rabbits between them.... few mice is an hours work for them lol
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Haha I also have an army of cats (7 :p) and they are indeed very good at catching things. Forever finding remains of various things on the floor. One of my cats catches thing to play with. They all end up fighting over it :p
 
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