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Feb 13, 2017 13:24:48 GMT
Post by magggzzz on Feb 13, 2017 13:24:48 GMT
I've found evidence that we may have a mouse in our kitchen. I have a cupboard I keep cereal and biscuits in. It's ground level and the back has a gap between that and the wall. I've found a chewed Alpen box and the edge of a packet of digestives. I haven't seen a mouse though.
The problem is that OH is phobic about small rodents. I have to keep this from him. He's disabled and sleeps downstairs.The boys and I have had lots of whispered conversations in the last 2 days since I first found this. I've moved a lot of stuff out of that cupboard and I leave the door open at the moment.
I think i'll change the use of that cupboard to tins and move the cereals and biscuits to a wall cupboard but I still need to get rid of the mouse without OH finding out. I'm not kidding when I say he'd go batsh** crazy especially if he found out I'd been hiding it from him.
I'd get a cat but unfortunately we're all allergic.
HELP
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Feb 13, 2017 14:04:48 GMT
Post by jax on Feb 13, 2017 14:04:48 GMT
I am with your OH on this one, I am absolutely phobic about rodents and would have to leave the house until I knew it was definitely gone, so probably best not to tell him. Hope you get it sorted.
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Feb 13, 2017 16:48:31 GMT
Post by Bellatrix on Feb 13, 2017 16:48:31 GMT
My mum has a cat Magggzz and it was this lovely little furry friend that caused her mouse problem! She kept bringing them in and letting them go. Luckily mum isn't scared of mice, she thinks they're cute but even she put her foot down when one ran across her duvet in the night (she sleeps down stairs too). I got her some humane traps from the hardware store and she caught 4!, I kid you not! She put them all together in one of those plastic containers and gave them some food everyday. When my brother came over he took them up the lane and let them go.
I'm the same as you girls, rodents really give me the creeps and I wouldn't have been able to sleep knowing a mouse was running around.
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Feb 13, 2017 18:49:35 GMT
Post by 6herry on Feb 13, 2017 18:49:35 GMT
When you get your mouse catcher, don't use cheese, chocolate is best.
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Feb 13, 2017 20:06:17 GMT
Post by Beckyboo on Feb 13, 2017 20:06:17 GMT
And they like peanut butter - a lot! I don't mind mice as such but they don't have a bladder and wee everywhere they walk which makes me shudder....  |
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Feb 13, 2017 23:04:47 GMT
Post by vwcamperfan on Feb 13, 2017 23:04:47 GMT
We have mice at work. When the showroom is quiet I can hear them running above my head in the ceiling space. One came down some ducting one afternoon and I caught him by his tail and put him outside. He squealed like crazy. They don't bother me but wouldn't like them in the house for hygiene reasons as much as anything. They do prefer chocolate as 6herry said but traps are a definite way to catch and dispatch. Expect some blood!!
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Feb 14, 2017 3:14:14 GMT
Post by Lancashire Lass on Feb 14, 2017 3:14:14 GMT
Or you could put mouse poison down. My nephew is at university and showed me a photo of a dead rat they caught in a mouse trap in the kitchen. If you have one mouse then you will have the whole family living close by!
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Feb 14, 2017 16:34:33 GMT
Post by Jazzy on Feb 14, 2017 16:34:33 GMT
I would say mouse poison or mouse traps are the best thing, close the cupboard door and hide them in the cupboard, you don't want them running around the house.
A mouse got into our house and while we were asleep, bit OH's ear, twice, the first time he thought I had scratched him, he realised there was a mouse running off the second time, this is revolting, but there were mouse droppings all over our pillows.
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Feb 14, 2017 16:50:52 GMT
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Post by magggzzz on Feb 14, 2017 16:50:52 GMT
You are not making me feel any better about this!!!!
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Feb 14, 2017 17:16:14 GMT
Post by Jazzy on Feb 14, 2017 17:16:14 GMT
Sorry Magggzzz, but just to let you all know, they are not 'cute' once they get into our homes.
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Feb 14, 2017 20:25:56 GMT
Post by Bellatrix on Feb 14, 2017 20:25:56 GMT
A mouse got into our house and while we were asleep, bit OH's ear, twice, the first time he thought I had scratched him, he realised there was a mouse running off the second time, this is revolting, but there were mouse droppings all over our pillows.    oh my good god! Good job it wasn't a rat... perhaps I shouldn't say that  You can buy those gadgets you plug in to the wall sockets to keep vermin away, they sent a signal through the wiring which upsets the neurology of the mouse/rat. |
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Feb 14, 2017 21:38:10 GMT
Post by magggzzz on Feb 14, 2017 21:38:10 GMT
Do they work. What happens? Do I just plug it in and they all go away? That sounds a better solution.
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Feb 14, 2017 22:11:35 GMT
Post by Bellatrix on Feb 14, 2017 22:11:35 GMT
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Feb 14, 2017 23:31:10 GMT
Post by 6herry on Feb 14, 2017 23:31:10 GMT
If you are using traps, always put them up against the wall. They tend to run along walls.
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Feb 20, 2017 8:46:11 GMT
Post by badpuss2 on Feb 20, 2017 8:46:11 GMT
I don't mind mice outside the house but one ran up my trouser leg trying to escape me and the cats which had brought it in. It frightened the life out of me.
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oh my good god! 