Mouse in our House!?

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A month or two back a scream from the lounge shattered a peaceful eves entertainment in front of the computer.

Said "yelp" came from a female associate of mine and was a clear sign of distress and/or anxiety.

Upon investigating and questioning said female, it became apparent that she had been traumatised by a small black creature known as "Mus musculus" or "mouse".

She proclaimed that said rodent had scurried across in front of her very eyes and legged it behind the refridgerator. Upon removeing the large white appliance there was no sign of rodent activity and we passed the incident off as a drunken vision (although she was sober).

Fast forward if you will to tonight. 5 young attractive girls adorn the same lounge space chatting about festive events past. A scream breaks the ambient noise as "Mus musculus" appears between two of the girls legs from the sofa!

I arrive to find carnage in the lounge with sofa cushions aplenty, tossed aside like limp rag dolls from an unwanted golly *** collection.

The rodent was back, a clear vision now more than ever before and witnessed by 5 people. It appears to have poo pooed under all the cushions and ripped through some of the sofa base and cushions to form an impenetrable fortress within.

One is not sure if "house mouse" is in the sofa as some say he vanished again behind the generic white good appliance.

We've set a trap but nothing has happened yet. If this plan fails, what other options should one employ to rid ourselves of this intrusion?
 
I'd suggest getting a cat but that won't do any good, it will more than likely make it worse. One of our cats bought in 3 mice through the catflap within one week just before xmas. He comes in and drops it and then we loose it under the sofa/freezer/cabinets etc. I doubt we would have mice in our house if we didn't have any cats.
 
lol, we had a rat problem back home over summer, and our cats killed 4 of em. No problems since :p Get cats with bigger teeth!
 
Aside from the mouse, I'm slightly concerned at how you write.

I'm sure that kind of thing got kids beat up at school... Watch out for the bullys ;)
 
get one of these:

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I once spent an hour in my kitchen waiting for a mouse.

My ninja like reactions left it caught under a seive .( with its' tail trapped squealing like a ...mouse?)
and taken to the end of the garden for a nice nights sleep

:p
 
I thought mice were brown, rats are black.

Not all wild rats are black... or mice brown..

Try the little electronic things that you put in the plugs. I know if I ever go into a room with one and I have one if the rats with me they go mental so I assume it works for mice too since it is a rodent deterrent.
 
This mouse is obviously a "Ladies Mouse". Ask the nice ladies around again and see if it reappears.

A non-fatal trap and releasing it into nearby countryside would be my suggestion.

Rgds
 
I once spent an hour in my kitchen waiting for a mouse.

My ninja like reactions left it caught under a seive .( with its' tail trapped squealing like a ...mouse?)
and taken to the end of the garden for a nice nights sleep

:p

...and it would have been straight back in the house within 5 minutes probably. You're supposed to take them a fair distance away to stop them scooting back in.
 
I had a mouse problem last year in my uni house get some big old nasty rat traps and load them up with sweet sugary sticky crap the mice get into it and as long as you don't get the mechanism all messy it will break the little blighters in half and they love the sweet stuff.
 
I've caught two recently that were hacking into our gerbil's food stash. Cut off their food supply and they'll likely go away. I used two traps and broke their backs instead. :)
 
Using humane traps takes so little effort, in fact it's pretty much the easiest method due to the fact that there's no real mess to clean up.

People who use traps that kill - why do you do it?
 
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