mice!!!!

[anderlee]

Hi
Got a mouse (well I hope its just one) tends to go in kitchen and back living room where we sit. I know its been upstairs cos ive seen the dropping. I live in a terrace that backs onto an alley so I know mice can be drawn to these houses. How do I get rid?? Tried rentokil poison that I bought myself and some cheap plug in devices that didnt work. Is there another plug in device that definetely works??? please help

[joannie10]

i have had them in my attic previously. I know it is cruel but I got a traditional old metal type mouse trap out the hardwear store and was advised to put some chocolate on it. Put it on top of some newspaper so when the dead mouse is there you can just fold up and throw away. I did eventually get the council environmental health in and they put down poison and come back for a few weeks until clear. I have only ever had them in the months through November - January so hopefully will soon be over for you. I got one of those plug in things that is supposed to transmit 'waves' through the house and not been anything this winter (fingers crossed). We cannot work out how mine get in (well too many pipe areas to try and block up) - anyway of you blocking an entrance? Cant be nice them being right in the house.

[Gok Wan]

Phone a pest controller. I had mice a few years ago and they charged �30 and came once a week until they had gone. Mine were in the airing cupboard upstairs and on the back bedroom. I never saw any evidence of them downstairs but they still laid poison down there as well.

Apparently with the poison they use, the mice take it back to their nests and it kills any babies in there as well.

Sorry but if you've got one, you've got a few.

[Lil O'lady]

There is never just one. A cat is handy. Both Joanie and Gok are right, it's horses for courses whether you trap or poison / DIY or get an expert. But make the eradication permanent by finding where they get up into living spaces and sealing off. eg holes left by plumbers when pipes have been moved, ditto electrical work. If a space can ge a pencil in it a mouse can get in through it. I'd gunge a load of sealant into these if were you. Don't worry about the mice in the foundations - they're always there and if they can't get thru easily they'll clear off. You just don't want them near kitchen and food 'cos theyve got no bladders so puddle constantly on every surface spreading disease.

[foodluva]

Pest Control services are paid for via your Council Tax so phone your local council's environmental health dept. It'll cost you nothing and hopefully resolve the problem!

[smurfchops]

If you want a humane method, you can buy Humane Mouse Traps, they are a little glass box which you oopen one end, when the mouse goes in for food, the end shuts. They are air holes in and you can just let the mouse out the other end. Just try to find out where they are getting in and block it up otherwise you will be forever putting out the same mouse !!

[Bathsheba]

Not had a mouse problem, but had squirels in the loft a couple of years ago. It was a nightmare- we tried traps, poison, the lot. Eventually we got a plug-in sonic device- only cost �12 or so, and it solved the problem immediately.