There's a little mouse in my living room

My name is URL

I don't have any traps around to lay down.

Should I be concerned?

It's only a wee little thing. As I was about to turn of a lamp I seen it ran from under the stand to a corner of the room where there's a rarely used cabinet.

Should I leave it be for now... or crack out a can of Lynx and a Zippo?

Tail Docker

They come in for the warmth. Turn off all your heating, open all the doors and windows, make the place like an ice-box. Upside, no more mice. Downside, bloody freezing...maybe tolerate/trap the mouse..There's one here too, scratching around..little buggers..

Kovu

Does he have clogs on?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Sure leave him off until you can get some traps, what exactly do you think he's going to do to you between now and tomorrow?

Unless there's a chance he might read this thread, in which case you are royally fcuked. Mice are notoriously intolerant of threats.

NotCominBack

Lynx and zippo, yea yea yea

catallus

Mice like to lick people's faces when the people are asleep.

siblers

If it's a female mouse and it's pregnant you could have an explosion of mice, plus the fact that they **** everywhere so it's not exactly hygenic. Could get a humane trap I guess

Chunners

If there is one mouse the general rule is there is loads of mice, they breed like mad

Karl Stein

I don't mean to be negative but it's probably a baby rat that is carrying the deadly Ebola virus.

Lia_lia

At least it's not a spider..

Fame and Demise

Maybe its ancestors lived there long ago and it's just reclaiming his property. The right thing to do is move out

the evasion_kid

Get one of those humane traps and release it back to into the wild

Aongus Von Bismarck

Get a cat to kill the mouse.

Then get a large and aggressive dog to kill the cat.

You're going to need perhaps a bear to get rid of the dog... and he should be heading into hibernation soon enough. Problem solved.

Wibbs

Ahh jaysus, leave him or her alone. It probably came from your garden/outside because you left a door open and left bits of food about the place. So long as they're not eating into your cupboards I say live and let live. A few years ago I had one in my living room. No mess, no fuss involved. I think the poor little thing was old, as it was slow and built a small nest of sorts out of bits of paper behind a sofa where the heat was. It even let me get close at times and would pop out and look straight at me of an evening and amble within a foot of me. I suppose I wasn't threatening it. Then it seemed to get sick. At which point it let me feed it bits of food and even stroke it. In the end the poor thing pegged it one day. So for a while it was my wild mouse pet. Than again I'm weird as fook and have an immune system like granite. Your milage may vary.

My name is URL

Lia_lia wrote: »

At least it's not a spider..

There are thousands of those here. Spiders are bros, though

I don't know what this tiny mouse's agenda is

Kevin McCloud

Only one thing for it op is gallon of petrol and a box of maguire and patterson, let it off. Ill call tomo with the digger.

Cantremember

It's you or him / her.

the evasion_kid

Wibbs wrote: »

Ahh jaysus, leave him or her alone. It probably came from your garden/outside because you left a door open and left bits of food about the place. So long as they're not eating into your cupboards I say live and let live. A few years ago I had one in my living room. No mess, no fuss involved. I think the poor little thing was old, as it was slow and built a small nest of sorts out of bits of paper behind a sofa where the heat was. It even let me get close at times and would pop out and look straight at me of an evening and amble within a foot of me. I suppose I wasn't threatening it. Then it seemed to get sick. At which point it let me feed it bits of food and even stroke it. In the end the poor thing pegged it one day. So for a while it was my wild mouse pet. Than again I'm weird as fook and have an immune system like granite. Your milage may vary.

They generally appear indoors this time of year with the cold weather,I'd be the same can't stand to see them killed in a trap or a cat that just toys with them, poor little fcukers

Kevin McCloud

Wibbs wrote: »

Ahh jaysus, leave him or her alone. It probably came from your garden/outside because you left a door open and left bits of food about the place.

Thats fine to say but where you have mice you have rats.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

the evasion_kid wrote: »

They generally appear indoors this time of year with the cold weather,I'd be the same can't stand to see them killed in a trap or a cat that just toys with them, poor little fcukers

Aye, they're quite sweet wee things really, I've spent more time than I care to admit rescuing them. If they didn't pee and poop everywhere I'd just leave them be.

--LOS--

Do not leave your door open to make your house cold, really bad idea, you're morely likely to end up with more mice coming in.

Really this time of the year its better to take more preventative measures, don't leave your door open, don't leave rubbish or pet food around outside, use those ultrasonic mouse repellers.

Google "homemade humane mouse trap" or "homemade no kill mouse trap", there's loads of ways to catch it without a trap so you can just return it outside.

Also just coz you only saw one, there could be more so bear that in mind.

The Backwards Man

If it's a dormouse leave the wee pet alone. They are lovely wee things.

If it's a common mouse annihilate the fcuker.

greasepalm

surprised you dont have a ultrasonic pest repeller as it keeps house clear when you need it most.

the evasion_kid

greasepalm wrote: »

surprised you dont have a ultrasonic pest repeller as it keeps house clear when you need it most.

Does it work on humanoids too?

shadowcomplex

Have you considered he was there before you and now your living in his room?

Cantremember

Actually, do the decent thing and move out to the garden. He deserves the house.

Wibbs

My name is URL wrote: »

There are thousands of those here. Spiders are bros, though

Agreed. For nigh on a year I had a big feck off wolf spider that lived behind the mirror in my bedroom(yes I am a narcissist). I'd say she(the big ones are usually shes) was about two inches(in old money) across in leg span. I figured fcuk it, she's eating something and I'd prefer her getting fat on other creepy crawlies, than have them with the run of the place.

One night I awoke from slumber and what do my eyes sleepily focus upon but her on the pillow beside me. I froze in shock and the cool thing for me, so did she. Went stock still and then drew in her legs very slowly. Me a great ape in recline, her an arachnid, both of us thinking "oh fcuk!". So we sat there eyeball to eyeball(she having the advantage with eight of same) for a few minutes, neither moving. Then we both chilled out and she wandered off away from the statue of liberty sized human. We bumped into each other in similar circumstance on two other occasions. God knows what she was at when I was out for the count. Probably doing a jig on my sleepy head and fair play to her. And to add to my weirdness, I missed her when she was gone.

My name is URL

So seriously.. is it okay for me to ignore it for the night?

Every time I sit down the wee fecker breaks for the border and tries to scale the door frame looking for a way out. It legs it back into the corner when I or my dog looks at it.

Banjo String

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Thats fine to say but where you have mice you have rats.

Where ever there are rats there are cats,
Where ever there are cats there are dogs.
If you got the dogs you got bitches.
Bitches Always out to put their paws on your riches.
If you got riches,you got glitches.
If you got glitches in your life computer turn it off and then reboota.
Now you back on.
Can't just put the cap on the old bottle once you pop it that will spoil it, gone and drink it and enjoy it.
Mama i'ma Millionaire.

Kevin McCloud

My name is URL wrote: »

So seriously.. is it okay for me to ignore it for the night?

Ease off on the sauce no.1 anyway.

greasepalm

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Does it work on humanoids too?

that would be the 7-1 sound system turned up too high:D

Wibbs

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Thats fine to say but where you have mice you have rats.

Old wives tale. I've had a couple of mice in my time, but never rats.

kryogen

Kill it, kill it fast, kill it with prejudice.

Seek out and destroy any others of its kind, and there will be more. You are only seeing the baby, 80 ****s a night mouse, the big momma is off somewhere popping out another 20 or so of the little ****s.

Don't wait till morning, trap it in the room, get the sweeping brush or something you can swing and will do damage and smash the ****ers head in. Finally, leave his corpse outside your house, head stuck on a spike as a warning to the others.

Sauve

Aww man, those little doormice break my feckin heart so they do.
They are just the cutest, scarediest little mites

Wibbs

My name is URL wrote: »

So seriously.. is it okay for me to ignore it for the night?

Every time I sit down the wee fecker breaks for the border and tries to scale the door frame looking for a way out. It legs it back into the corner when I or my dog looks at it.

Sounds like it's a recent visitor MniU. Doesn't have the lay of the land. If it had been there for a while it wouldn't be doing that I reckon. Poor thing sounds like it's trying to escape. Your dog would add to that. The smell or dog or cat usually keeps mice(and rats) away.

Kevin McCloud

Wibbs wrote: »

Old wives tale. I've had a couple of mice in my time, but never rats.

I'm not telling you how to suck eggs, just because you haven't seen them does not mean they are not there.

conorh91

Tail Docker wrote: »

They come in for the warmth. Turn off all your heating, open all the doors and windows, make the place like an ice-box. Upside, no more mice.

Then why is my yard shed full of mice in winter?

Mice take their warmth where they can get it. Indoors are always warmer than outdoors, heating or no heating.

I have the inaccessible yard shed to prove it. Hate mice.

catallus

My name is URL wrote: »

So seriously.. is it okay for me to ignore it for the night?

That depends. Do you have a beard? That could anger the mouse when it crawls onto your face in the wee small hours and you can feel the little guy crawling onto your duvet and underneath onto your body so it can explore you with its scratchy little paws and its long tail and the tongue its going to lick you with. If you have a beard it could enrage it.:)

dudara

Wibbs wrote: »

Old wives tale. I've had a couple of mice in my time, but never rats.

Agreed, no real truth to that. And let's face it, no matter where you live, city or farm, there are mice & rats somewhere. It's winter time and mice come in seeking some warmth. We all gotta live after all. And mice are fierce fecking smart.

Me, I have no issues with mice as long as they're not up on the counters or eating food. I'd get a humane trap and release it outside. You might end up playing mousie ping pong for a while, in and out of the house.

I despise mousetraps, viciously cruel things that don't always kill cleanly.

In your case, it sounds quite agitated. Can you try to trap it gently, and release it outside?

sheesh

Take off and nuke it from orbit its the only way to be sure

Sam Kade

If your mouses tail is long it's a baby rat :eek:

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Lads, hang on now. Isn't the rule of thumb that if you see mice, you don't have rats? That makes way more sense. Imagine how fcuking terrifying a rat is to a mouse, are you feck going to compete for resources with a big hard bastard like that. It's half the reason I don't mind seeing the odd mouse around the place, means I don't have to worry about the rats.

Wibbs

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

I'm not telling you how to suck eggs, just because you haven't seen them does not mean they are not there.

I can pretty much sleep easy that they're not. In fairness, over the years my various hounds have been hairy holocausts to rats. My current hound has a very long list of "things that must fcuking die" and so far that includes one rat(while out on a walk by a local river), four magpies and a pigeon and the postman is on borrowed time... Mice they seem to be momentarily bemused by, but that's about it. Maybe a mice sized bite isn't worth the effort? A dog or cat is your only man for rodentia as a general rule. A mate of mine had a mouse problem, adopted a wild as fcuk cat and no more mice.

Sheep Lover

Glue boards, it's the best option really.

Kevin McCloud

Wibbs wrote: »

A dog or cat is your only man for rodentia as a general rule. A mate of mine had a mouse problem, adopted a wild as fcuk cat and no more mice.

Wrong on saying a cat is your only man, a cat will not face a nest where a mother rat has her young.
Are your hounds miniature to say they can do all this work?

masonchat

My name is URL wrote: »

I don't have any traps around to lay down.

Should I be concerned?

It's only a wee little thing. As I was about to turn of a lamp I seen it ran from under the stand to a corner of the room where there's a rarely used cabinet.

Should I leave it be for now... or crack out a can of Lynx and a Zippo?

I tried this once the little bugger was going into the stud walls , i thought it would be great idea to spray few cans in there and ignite, hhhmmmm really dont know what i was thinking.

End result mouse laughing at me while i replaced the slab in the next room which i had blown from floor to ceiling haha

Tail Docker

conorh91 wrote: »

Then why is my yard shed full of mice in winter?

Mice take their warmth where they can get it. Indoors are always warmer than outdoors, heating or no heating.

I have the inaccessible yard shed to prove it. Hate mice.

Erm, my advice may not have been entirely serious. Or even advicey. Or even sane.

the evasion_kid

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Wrong on saying a cat is your only man, a cat will not face a nest where a mother rat has her young.
Are your hounds miniature to say they can do all this work?

Jack Russell...better than any cat

Murray007

catallus wrote: »

Mice like to lick people's faces when the people are asleep.

TRUE

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Ugh we have them as well, my boyfriend wouldn't put the traps down so I got rentokil out. 200 euro to put down a few bait boxes. Disgusting little creptiles

Murray007

Seriously mice have no boundaries. My son woke up one morning to a sensation and thought it was me tickling him to get up for school. He woke up to a mouse leap frogging over him in the bed. We didn't believe until we seen the mouse droppings in the sheets, that was the last of him eating crisps in the bed.