How to get rid of mice

[How u doing]

Check everywhere.

[Ian Lancs]

From the YouTube thread - NSFW (language - not dying mice)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeOZgz_FzYw

[sociopath]

How u doing said:

Check everywhere.

I found a nest in a subwoofer once. I bet that was fun to live in.

[ReverendCounter]

This PHer will probably take them off your hands:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[paintman]

ChevronB19 said:

Scrump said:

Get a cat

Definitely don’t get a cat. They bring them home to show to idiot owner how he/she is a crap hunter, and 50% of the time let them go to play with another day.

+1.
Ours brings them home at all hours of the day & night.
Catching live mice in the bedroom at 3am whilst both cats sit & watch - no doubt commenting to each other on our efforts - is just sooo much fun.

[andyjo1982]

We believe we have a mouse living above our lounge, and under one of our spare bedrooms. We've heard him scurrying around a couple of times in the last week. Praying its just the one, but well aware could, and likely is more.

How the hell would it get to the middle floor? Can only assume its climbed up the walls somewhere/how. We cant see any signs that they have been finding food in the kitchen, or in any cupboards, nothing chewed in the garage that we've found yet and we've not found any droppings either.

The bedroom has laminate flooring, so again, I don't really want to have to pull any of that up, though may be the only way. I have some of the plug in anti pest things scattered around the house, though they aren't strong enough to go through walls/floors. Got them mainly to deter spiders a month or so ago.

I'd like to plant some traps, but just no idea where to start. We also have a dog, so I dont want to leave traps around, and poison is a no go.

We have a pest controller coming out, hopefully at the end of the week, just for a consultation, to have a look around and see if he can spot any obvious signs of entry that can be covered up.

Any other suggestions/help/ideas please?

Thanks in advance

[extraT]

My solution was to get a West Highland Terrier. It worked!

[oldagepensioner]

croyde said:

sociopath said:

A mouse can get through a hole you can barely see.

Be careful with poison a) because it can harm other animals but mostly because b) if one does in void in your house the stink is indescribable and takes a while to go away, and that will happen just after your massive fly infestation. Don't ask me how I know, and then imagine how much worse it is when a rat dies!!

Had a mouse die under the floorboards, first the smell, then the flies.

After years of blocking holes, poison, traps etc we gave in and got two kittens.

The mice disappeared, apart from the odd ones the cats brought in from the garden as presents.

I don't live there anymore but the house now has 7 cats with one being pregnant.

Still no mice though.

We had rats at my place of work one of which died on an underfloor central heating pipe under my managers office floor.Suffice to say it stunk.The mice thing though is not strictly accurate.Its true they can squeeze their ribcage through a gap the size of a pencil but not their skulls.

[andyjo1982]

We ended up getting one of these, and seems to have done the trick. Plugged it in 2 weeks ago, heard the mouse the next day, and then nothing since. Also not seen any spiders either, so double win.

https://www.primrose.co.uk/advanced-rat-and-mouse-...

Worth having a look if you ever get rodents in your garage.