last week and this morning at 4:25am me and my boyf woke up by sudden noise downstairs in living room when we went downstairs we saw we had a unwanted guest(mouse) last week my boyf took 2hrs to catch the sneaky little thing then this morning it took us about 5/10mins to catch it. its a clever little mouse he keeps coming back how do we keep him/her from coming back dont want to hurt it tho.

Hammer.
Pellet gun.
Meat cleaver.

All would suffice :D

flush it down the lav with a spot of washing up liquid.

It'll not drown, just be taken off elsewhere. :thumbsup:

It's vermin. Mouse trap and blob of chocolate. Sorted.

Is it a council property? If it is, give them a call about it.

Originally posted by ilaria
last week and this morning at 4:25am me and my boyf woke up by sudden noise downstairs in living room when we went downstairs we saw we had a unwanted guest(mouse) last week my boyf took 2hrs to catch the sneaky little thing then this morning it took us about 5/10mins to catch it. its a clever little mouse he keeps coming back how do we keep him/her from coming back dont want to hurt it tho.

if you've seen and caught one then you've probably got hundreds of them....

try putting flour down where you suspect the runs are overnight and see the foot prints the next morning :(

Get a cat, it's natural pest control and you won't have to feed the cat.

the house belongs to my boyfs mother,i know its vermin but i dont like killing creatures except for spiders :hihi:

Once saw a tv programme.about cookin/good life type of programme .There was a mouse in the pantry eatin him out of house an home.He got this couple of weirdos to come and talk to the mouse and explain that it was not welcome,they did this seance type of thing:loopy: Cost him about 50 quid..Personally mouse trap does a better job for about 49p.:rolleyes: Eyup I must be in the wrong business,50 quid for talkin to a bloody mouse:loopy: :thumbsup:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24979&highlight=mouse+house

This has had forum members tearing their hair out in the past and there was some good advice on this thread.
I do sympathise but if you do catch it make sure you release it a good five miles away from your house otherwise it'll be back. There again it may not be the same mouse if you've got one you could have loads, happy hunting.

I once had an arguement with my sis and was really angry - I heard a mouse in the kitchen, it'd been annoying us for days . . anyway, I grabbed the first thing that came to mind - Yellow pages and stomped into the kitchen, .

I threw the book at the mouse and killed it in one shot!

We were both in hysterics after that!:hihi:

If you want to be sure it's the same mouse, release it a few miles from home. If it 'reappears' then I think you could have an infestation!

But mice only come into houses for one reason - FOOD! Maybe it's time to make sure absolutely everywhere is squeeky clean, including behind your units, fridge, cooker ect. Then check the backs of cupboards to make sure it hasn't knawed through to snack on your foods.

If you keep the place spotless for a few weeks they should stop coming in. :thumbsup:

Originally posted by WallBuilder
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24979&highlight=mouse+house

This has had forum members tearing their hair out in the past and there was some good advice on this thread.
I do sympathise but if you do catch it make sure you release it a good five miles away from your house otherwise it'll be back. There again it may not be the same mouse if you've got one you could have loads, happy hunting.

An excellent thread and well worth every minute spent on the read.

Originally posted by WallBuilder
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24979&highlight=mouse+house

This has had forum members tearing their hair out in the past and there was some good advice on this thread.
I do sympathise but if you do catch it make sure you release it a good five miles away from your house otherwise it'll be back. There again it may not be the same mouse if you've got one you could have loads, happy hunting.

Our next door neighbour mentioned finding a mouse last week, and last night it ran into our living room from a gap in the skirting board!
I'm going to buy a repelling-thingy from B&Q tonight but does anyone know where to get the humane mouse traps that Wallbuilder mentioned in the old thread?

You can buy humane mouse traps where the mouse gets tempted into a little container by some food, and then a spring slams the door shut on it so it can't get out, and you can release into the wild.

The sell them at Middletons pet shop just off the Moor.

The humane mouse traps can be bought from most pet shops, I think I got mine from the one at Millhouses. They have a big metal one that can catch and hold several mice at a time, I know I caught several. There are little plastic ttraps that are geared to the one mouse at a time, these are very light in weight and if you leave them where you think mousey is runing along [base of units, back of cupboards] they will sometimes annoyingly seem to push it out of the way without actually going into it.
Mice are very good at jumping so if you do catch anything don't be tempted to open the trap and peer inside or you may get a faceful of mouse!!

You can also get the humane mouse traps at garden centres.

Could turn into a serious problem if you don't sort it out quickly. You could consider an ASBO because if not you could end up with gangs of them hanging around and making a nuisance of themselves like THIS ONE (http://www.newlandsoftware.ltd.uk/Gallery/odd/slides/burberry%20mouse%20copy.jpg) :D

Get a cat. They are the best way to keep mice in check.

My mum ran a mouse over with the fridge freezer once. She used to roll the fridge out to clean behind it every month and when she wheeled it out one month we found the little thing, stiff as a board, with a tyre track across its little belly.

We'd been wondering what had happened to the mouse when the tracks and droppings stopped suddenly.

This was after months of not getting caught in the traps placed around the house and garage, and simultaneously eating holes in virtually everything edible in the kitchen.

One can also purchase an English Bull Terrier. The best lines usually retail at around £700. Not only will they kill mice and rats as speedily and efficiently as any Jack Russell, they will also tackle unwanted human interlopers too, such as Liberal Democrat candidates, Jehovah's Witnesses, Double Glazing Salesmen etc.

Regarding mouse traps; I recently had the privelege of meeting Blackpool's chief mousecatcher and he informed me that a mouse trap will never work twice. Even if you wash, steam clean or sand blast a previously used mousetrap it will never catch two rodents. Therefore you might as well bin it and purchase another.

Originally posted by timo
One can also purchase an English Bull Terrier. The best lines usually retail at around £700. Not only will they kill mice and rats as speedily and efficiently as any Jack Russell, they will also tackle unwanted human interlopers too, such as Liberal Democrat candidates, Jehovah's Witnesses, Double Glazing Salesmen etc.

ive a jack russell but shes not caught any yet ive got 3 mice at the moment and no luck at getting rid , done the humane method and its not working so im afraid its going to be a proper mouse trap and poison

Originally posted by JonJParr
Regarding mouse traps; I recently had the privelege of meeting Blackpool's chief mousecatcher and he informed me that a mouse trap will never work twice. Even if you wash, steam clean or sand blast a previously used mousetrap it will never catch two rodents. Therefore you might as well bin it and purchase another.

This info is totaly untrue,,,how does ten mice with two traps in one weekend sound

Originally posted by tango2
This info is totaly untrue,,,how does ten mice with two traps in one weekend sound

can i borrow yours please:)

Originally posted by JonJParr
Regarding mouse traps; I recently had the privelege of meeting Blackpool's chief mousecatcher and he informed me that a mouse trap will never work twice. Even if you wash, steam clean or sand blast a previously used mousetrap it will never catch two rodents. Therefore you might as well bin it and purchase another.

Total fabrication,
I caught more than a dozen using two humane traps and one morning found four little rodents in the trap at the same time. Rather worrying as I had to open it and shake the little monsters into a plastic swing bin as I had to wait till dark so the neighbours didn't spot me relocating them to a river bank a long long way away from my house. One of the little monsters hung on to the air vent in the trap and I almost didn't spot him, I had to shake the trap hard to dislodge him otherwise he'd of no doubt made good his escape.

Originally posted by GazB
Hammer.
Pellet gun.
Meat cleaver.

All would suffice :D

Crossbow,quick fast and silent if you dont mind the holes in doors from your failed shots.

Stop putting so much cheese on the floor
might help.

-Mr Purple

We had a few about 5 years ago.

The first one was heard in a box of junk (mostly PC bits) in my bedroom.
**Heard rustling. I took each item out one at a time. No mouse. Put everything back. Got back into bed. Repeated from ** about 5 times before it leapt out of the box and made a run for it. By this time I had decided there wasn't a mouse there and I was cracking up. I have never had a fright like it :(

Within a couple of days we had several. Tried the humane traps with limited success, but more kept arriving (I'm sure some clever mouse was renting out our house to the other mice :) ).

So we opted for the poison method. The good thing about this is that it supposed to make the mouse really thirsty before killing it so the mouse leaves the house itself in search of water.

The other day my partner found a little hole in the wall of our cellar. He put some rice down to see if we were being visited. Tonight he checked, and all the rice has gone.

We think that a little mouse may have joined our happy home. I may have to follow the 'humane trap' advice on this thread.

(What if it's a Rat?) :suspect:

Originally posted by JBee
But mice only come into houses for one reason - FOOD!

Nope. We've got a 6 month old kitten who thinks playing with mice is great fun. Also got an older cat who thinks killing them is even more fun (when he can actually be bothered)! And we have a cat flap....

Last Sunday morning my other half was sitting in the living room and suddenly spotted a mouse run from under the 2 seater settee to under the computer desk. Both cats were asleep in the same room at this time.

Kitten woke up at the noise from my wife, and then immediately started eating the cheese my wife had put out! Once this was taken away from her, kitten started looking for her 'prize', obviously remembering it from some hours earlier. Older cat was put to work to flush it out but couldn't be bothered and crawled back onto his chair.

Kitz quickly tracked it down under the computer, ran around for a while and then there was this squeak from the mouse, a growl from kitz and she appeared triumphant with said mouse held gently in her mouth!

My (brave) wife picked her up and threw her out of the front door, leaving her to play with the mouse. Never thought to lock the cat flap! Two minutes later the mouse was back in the house no doubt thinking that things couldn't get any worse after surviving the previous nights fireworks and multiple abductions!!

My wife, getting a little annoyed by now, managed to separate kitz from the mouse, pick the mouse up by its tail, and hurled it into the front garden. (I had the more dangerous job of keeping kitz in, dodging claw and teeth attacks by inches). Mouse did a triple somersault, landed on it's feet and legged it, never to be seen again!

Moral of the story; If you've got a mouse in your house don't just think it found it's own way in - it could have been 'mouseknapped' :hihi:

After three traps and a whole pack of poison we've finally done for the mouse that's been inhabiting our cellar for the past fortnight. Now having seen the size of it I'm wondering if we've caught a large mouse or a small rat. :gag: How do you tell the difference? Does it matter? :help:

I shall be spending the weekend fumigating the cellar...

naked tail = rat :(

furry tail = mouse :)

(smiley faces are relative to each other :P

Phew! Furry tail! Thanks for that.