Mouse in the Kitchen - Best Course of Action

Mouse in the Kitchen - Best Course of Action

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whatxd

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419 posts

100 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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My missus just screamed the place down, I thought someone was in the house and rushed downstairs, only to be told that she'd seen a mouse. I've never encountered a mouse in the house before. What is the best course of action?

Best traps? Best electronic repellents?

I've read about these electronic repellents but would they work in my kitchen? It's 16x30ft, 20ft ceiling.

I was thinking I'd put a few traps down and get one of these repellents to stop more coming back, but which ones are best?

Thanks

Robbins

110 posts

136 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Get a cat. We had mice when we first moved to a rural location. They soon disappeared when they realised our two hunters were about.

55palfers

5,893 posts

163 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Little Nipper baited with Twix. Toffee side on pin.

227bhp

10,203 posts

127 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Read the other sixteen thousand mouse threads that arrived at a rate of one per fortnight?

otherman

2,190 posts

164 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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This contains all you need to know.

Roofless Toothless

5,614 posts

131 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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I do hope another war never breaks out.

hyphen

26,262 posts

89 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Glue traps.

Yipper

5,964 posts

89 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Just leave it be. They are pretty harmless. Leave a door ajar for most hours of the day and it will find its own way out in the search for food.

HTP99

22,445 posts

139 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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We had mice last year; in the kitchen too, fortunately (or so I thought) we have 2 terriers, unfortunately they are both a disappointment to their breed; scared of the mouse!

So I bough 2 of:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/pest-stop-sure-set-plas...

Laced them with peanut butter, put them down just before bed and hey presto, dead mouse in the morning.

edc

9,231 posts

250 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Robbins said:
Get a cat. We had mice when we first moved to a rural location. They soon disappeared when they realised our two hunters were about.
My 2 cats bring the mice in, albeit dead most of the time biggrin

carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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What are you gonna do then?

Justin S

3,637 posts

260 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Robbins said:
Get a cat. We had mice when we first moved to a rural location. They soon disappeared when they realised our two hunters were about.
This is the cause of the problem in the first place, he brings them in to play and then murder and eat, but if they go behind the cooker or fridge he cant be bothered and sends our terriers nuts trying to find it. I found one had made a nest with the cookers insulation once , so I just set couple of traps and a splodge of chocolate and usually catch them. 'If' I catch them live, which we have done, I have walked them 200 yrds from the house to let them go. One had a shrivelled manky tail . The next day the sodding cat left the same tail on the kitchen floor. Somehow he found the poor sod again and terminated it.

EW109

290 posts

139 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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In my experience, Little Nipper traps are good (and they are cheap). Bait them with flour.

Mice (apparently) are wary of new objects, so it is best to leave the traps down for a while, even if you do not at first catch anything.

CardinalFang

639 posts

167 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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What about a humane trap?

Problem is, you can get the Justin S problem where the little critter finds it's way back & then if you're me, trying to do the right thing, the mouse then dies of shock inside the (IN)humane trap. Pretty much everything that could possibly go wrong...Oh, and we had a cat at the time. Well, I say cat, what I actually mean is furry cushion with learning difficulties...

Didn't sell that very well, did I?

CABC

5,536 posts

100 months

Monday 22nd January 2018
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whatxd said:
only to be told that she'd seen a mouse. I've never encountered a mouse in the house before.
I've got bad news. "mice" are rarely singular.

z4RRSchris

11,221 posts

178 months

Monday 22nd January 2018
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im having an ongoing battle with mice, it is usually a single one i see for a few days running, wakes me up at night, then i finally kill the fker.

nothing for months, then another appears.

best is the standard traps,

z4RRSchris

11,221 posts

178 months

Tuesday 23rd January 2018
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i spoke too soon. meet marcel the mouse.

i have him an humane death and threw him out the window


whatxd

Original Poster:

419 posts

100 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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HTP99 said:
We had mice last year; in the kitchen too, fortunately (or so I thought) we have 2 terriers, unfortunately they are both a disappointment to their breed; scared of the mouse!

So I bough 2 of:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/pest-stop-sure-set-plas...

Laced them with peanut butter, put them down just before bed and hey presto, dead mouse in the morning.
These are the traps I got, literally caught one within 15 minutes of the trap going down, haven't seen anymore since. Looks like the mouse was running solo, at least that's what I'm hoping.