So i saw a mouse in my kitchen....

Well ive had a good clear out of my cupbooards and pantry. Its had a nibble at my seabrooks crisps :mad:

But theres droppings in the pantry and a few by a little recess that goes behind a fitted unit.

Anyhow ive called in the pest control people from the council.
 
I had a persistent problem with mice in my flat, living close to a railway and large gardens. Last summer we had 3/4 of them, managed to kill them by getting the council in to lay down poison and I went out and brought glue traps.
Glue traps are quite effective, managed to get 2 of them this way and the poison trays were empty after a couple of weeks. Although it you may find it inhumane, they carry all sorts of germs, urinate and defecate everywhere and breed constantly..all over your kitchen counter and floors.
Your first port of call should be to block any way they could be getting in if possible.
I had small vents close to the ground, that the council advised my landlord to cover up. Make sure your cleaning everything after meals and not leaving any potential food for them, or they'll keep coming back, the toaster is a main culprit.
 
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Only seen a mouse in my house once and managed to catch it without using any traps or anything. Just a waste paper bin and some shreddies, then released in the woods outside.
 
Badgi said:
If it's a common house mouse, where there's one, there's more, many many more.
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This. Don't underestimate them, don't laugh it off. I posted up a thread on here towards the end of last year (November?) about finding "a" mouse in the house.... We backed onto fields too.

Two weeks later we were in a homeless shelter, and continued to be so until after Christmas and into the new year when we were rehoused by the local HA.

Pest control came out to the old house and found that despite us only seeing "one, or two" there were hundreds of the buggers living quietly in the cavities. The house went from being apparently empty, to over-run and destroyed (chewed to pieces, full of pee and poo) in a fortnight.

Environmental Health placed an Unfit for Habitation order on it, and the landlord is still trying to kill the buggers three months later.

That's an extreme example, but it doesn't detract from my point. Seek professional help, and do it yesterday. You want your entire property exterior rodent proofing (air bricks, knackered pointing, pipes, brushes on doors) as well as poison laying pronto.

Good luck. :o
 
Catch him, lynch him and leave him strung up for all the other little gits to see as a warning. They'll soon get the message.

Or, decapitate him and put his head on a skewer. That should be equally effective to get the message across.

Or, hang, draw and quarter him and send the parts to the four corners of the field to spread your warning far and wide.
 
Rainmaker said:
This. Don't underestimate them, don't laugh it off. I posted up a thread on here towards the end of last year (November?) about finding "a" mouse in the house.... We backed onto fields too.

Two weeks later we were in a homeless shelter, and continued to be so until after Christmas and into the new year when we were rehoused by the local HA.

Pest control came out to the old house and found that despite us only seeing "one, or two" there were hundreds of the buggers living quietly in the cavities. The house went from being apparently empty, to over-run and destroyed (chewed to pieces, full of pee and poo) in a fortnight.

Environmental Health placed an Unfit for Habitation order on it, and the landlord is still trying to kill the buggers three months later.

That's an extreme example, but it doesn't detract from my point. Seek professional help, and do it yesterday. You want your entire property exterior rodent proofing (air bricks, knackered pointing, pipes, brushes on doors) as well as poison laying pronto.

Good luck. :o
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Crikey :eek:

Thankfully the councils pest control are coming tomorrow
 
MeatLoaf said:
Crikey :eek:

Thankfully the councils pest control are coming tomorrow
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Forgive my bluntness, but do you own the home or are you renting? Council pest control are a nice bunch, but as it's a free (or nearly free) statutory service they are very limited in what they can or will do. A couple of boxes of rubbish poison blocks, and that's yer lot.

In our last place, the mice wouldn't even touch the stuff pest control laid. The landlord got Rentokil out, and they emptied the tubs of poisoned grain overnight.

My point being, if you rent get your landlord (or council, or HA) to contract Rentokil ASAP. They're really good, and will soon get you sorted out. Even if you own the home, I think it was about £250 for the first set of visits, the poison and basic proofing. Not bad really (and you'd lose a lot more if you DIDN'T tackle this full-on tbh, as we found out).

Again, not trying to scare you, but I wouldn't want you to end up like we did. Better to be overly safe, than very sorry. Good luck. :)
 
Hah, exact same thing happened to me, turned on the kitchen light and then the bugger went under the toaster, they move really fast! We put traps down but eventually it went away on it's own, I guess it knew it wasn't wanted :p
 
Rainmaker said:
Forgive my bluntness, but do you own the home or are you renting? Council pest control are a nice bunch, but as it's a free (or nearly free) statutory service they are very limited in what they can or will do. A couple of boxes of rubbish poison blocks, and that's yer lot.

In our last place, the mice wouldn't even touch the stuff pest control laid. The landlord got Rentokil out, and they emptied the tubs of poisoned grain overnight.

My point being, if you rent get your landlord (or council, or HA) to contract Rentokil ASAP. They're really good, and will soon get you sorted out. Even if you own the home, I think it was about £250 for the first set of visits, the poison and basic proofing. Not bad really (and you'd lose a lot more if you DIDN'T tackle this full-on tbh, as we found out).

Again, not trying to scare you, but I wouldn't want you to end up like we did. Better to be overly safe, than very sorry. Good luck. :)
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Yeah its council rented, i'll see what happens when they come friday.
 
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