Mouse under my bed

evolving_doors

Fine white pepper.. It'll sneeze so hard it'll bash it's brains out on the ground and kill itself.

Wossack

get a few snakes
then when the mouse situation is resolved, bring in the mongooses to clean up the snakes.
Carry on like that and by the end, its just a couple of bears to worry about. But they dont fit under beds, so job done methinks

Capt'n Midnight

you need to infect it with a retro virus to make it easier to find.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/343929.stm

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Melisandre121 wrote: »

I keep hearing rustling noises under my bed, usually very late at night if I wake up. It sounds a lot like a mouse. I've only lived in my current house about a month and I don't leave food lying around. I'm very squeamish so not looking forward to handling this.

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Fuzzy Clam

Well I've a mouse in my bedroom tonight.
Watching TV in bed, I noticed it sitting on top of my neatly scrunched up pile of clothes.
I think its under the dogs chair now. Dog thinks its under there anyway as she's lying on the floor waiting for it to emerge.
Problem is, the mouse isn't going to come out with a big black Lab lying there.

KungPao

For your sake, I hope it's not a mouse. As others said...one mouse usually means more mice are around nearby.

Had the ****ers in a rental a while back, LL was useless, gave me some plug in things...did nothing.

Cleaned and bleached the area I found them in, blocked holes etc...helped for a while but they came back. They are a pain in the arse.

Fuzzy Clam

Its a mouse alright. Its behind the large wooden chest the TV sits on.
It preformed a tightrope walk on the satellite cable trying to get away.
At the moment there's a game of dog and mouse going on.
I've a feeling I'm not going to get any sleep tonight.

La.de.da

Just set a frickin trap OP and if you catch a mouse, set another one... usually more than one about.

Also highly recommend getting a jack Russell.... ain't no mouse rat or other gonna survive with a terrier around.

The ultrasonic device things do work but not if the house is already infested. And the need to be plugged in and constantly left on.

iLikeWaffles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiv2OtLUyw0

BoatMad

Nice conventional trap, bang end of mouse. Empty mouse in wheelie bin. Reset trap , plenty more where that one came from. After about three they'll cease being cute and just annoy you.

Kill them aaaaalll

Fuzzy Clam

Just got rid of it now.
A bit of peanut butter in a paper bag. 3 hrs of chasing the thing from under the bed to under the chair. Eventually it ran into the bag. Its outside now, alive.
Dogs a bit disappointed now, she was looking forward to the kill!
I doubt if there's any more, I reckon it came in the window.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Years ago there was a mouse in my brothers room. Now he'd smoke an excessive amount of weed. He had two traps set, and each morning, after a marathon smoking session the night before, he would get up and check the traps, only to discover the food gone off both traps, but no mouse.

He reckoned the mouse was stoned and had the munchies at nighttime. It took him ages to catch the mouse, who he ended up naming Bob after Bob Marley.

Maximus Alexander

ScumLord wrote: »

Let the rat move into your bed, share and share alike.

What's Facebook got to do with this?

Maximus Alexander

In all seriousness, we had mice when I was a teenager. At first I set traps and used to catch one a night but after a few mornings waking up and having to deal with these unfortunate little buggers with their necks snapped under a metal bar I thought "Feck that" and stopped setting them. I wouldn't be a fan of killing something that I don't plan to eat.

For the next couple of weeks I actually managed to catch maybe 6-8 of them by hand. When you'd be sitting in the living room in the evening watching TV and staying still for a while, occasionally one would dart out from the fireplace and run along the skirting board. I'd just plop a tupperware container on over them and then release them in a nearby field. Obviously I was never going to get them all like this...

So we got a cat, and I never saw nor heard another mouse. People will tell you the cat will kill them or play with them and leave little mouse corpses all over the place or whatever, but that's not what happened. The mice were just gone. I assume once there was a cat on the scene they just went and found somewhere safer to live. So, in conclusion: get a cat.

Steve F

TherapyBoy wrote: »

If it's just the 'dead' bit you want to avoid you could try a humane trap. Take him/her down the park afterwards and reunite them with the great outdoors.

No good..they "home"

Squish it!

Chuchote

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Woodies do humane traps so you won't have to see it or kill it. Then just release in the wild.

They're not that humane. You have to bring the thing about 15km or it'll find its way home. And if you do that, you've just released the poor creature in a place where it doesn't know where to find food and water, and where nothing is familiar and it doesn't know what's hostile and dangerous.

Fast-killing traps are best if possible. Bang, and it's dead, felt nothing.

Friends of mine used to store their year's grain supply in the attic. They didn't mind the mice - until they chewed through the rafters and the ceiling, the grain supply and the rafters came down into their living space.

Mice can chew through electrical wiring and cause fires; they can spread illnesses. Very cute, but not in the house.

chopperbyrne

vicwatson wrote: »

Its The Gruffalo

A Gruffalo? What's a Gruffalo?

Winterlong

chopperbyrne wrote: »

A Gruffalo? What's a Gruffalo?

Dont you know?

josip

KungPao wrote: »

For your sake, I hope it's not a mouse..
Cleaned and bleached the area I found them in, blocked holes etc...helped for a while but they came back. They are a pain in the arse.

Are you confusing them with gerbils perhaps?

Mr. FoggPatches

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

In all seriousness, we had mice when I was a teenager. At first I set traps and used to catch one a night but after a few mornings waking up and having to deal with these unfortunate little buggers with their necks snapped under a metal bar I thought "Feck that" and stopped setting them. I wouldn't be a fan of killing something that I don't plan to eat.

For the next couple of weeks I actually managed to catch maybe 6-8 of them by hand. When you'd be sitting in the living room in the evening watching TV and staying still for a while, occasionally one would dart out from the fireplace and run along the skirting board. I'd just plop a tupperware container on over them and then release them in a nearby field. Obviously I was never going to get them all like this...

So we got a cat, and I never saw nor heard another mouse. People will tell you the cat will kill them or play with them and leave little mouse corpses all over the place or whatever, but that's not what happened. The mice were just gone. I assume once there was a cat on the scene they just went and found somewhere safer to live. So, in conclusion: get a cat.

How do you get rid of the cat though?

Maximus Alexander

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

How do you get rid of the cat though?

If you get a tomcat and don't lop the balls off they tend to go wandering after a couple of years.

Mr. FoggPatches

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

If you get a tomcat and don't lop the balls off they tend to go wandering after a couple of years.

I couldn't handle a cat hanging around for a few years tbh.

minktrapper

minktrapper wrote: »

And waited ..........

After about 10 min. I heard the pitter patter of tiny little feet in the dark. I can highly recommend laminated timber flooring for listening to mouse steps. Can't remember what bait I used but the trap snapped and a brief struggle ensued as the little creature struggled for its life.I slept like a log knowing that I had captured the creature.

Maximus Alexander

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

I couldn't handle a cat hanging around for a few years tbh.

Well then there is no pleasing you.

Capt'n Midnight

Get some lizards to sort out the mices.

Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

minktrapper

Get a mink. I can personally guarantee the mouse will not survive.

Pinch Flat

Could be a daddy long legs colony, harmless enough little fellas. Takes a good few to make a rustling noise mind you

http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/science-world/an-invasion-of-200-billion-daddy-longlegs-is-on-its-way-experts-warn-419820.html

corner of hells

A Jack Russell is handy too .

iLikeWaffles

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

If you get a tomcat and don't lop the balls off they tend to go wandering after a couple of years.

Be an offal bang of cat piss around the house but hey no mice = win

Melisandre121

Hi all, OP here!

So as it turns out, it is a mouse... heard the little bastard running around the floor one night and turned on the light and there he was. I've been sleeping on the couch since

We set 4 traps, each time he managed to get the food without getting caught in the trap. So today the pest control company came and laid down some poison. I was hoping they'd check where the mice could be coming from and seal it up but he just told us they can get in anywhere you could stick the top of a pen in.

Is this really all the pest control companies do?

I'm now terrified we'll get more! I know some have recommended getting a cat, but I read online this is an old wives tale. Has anyone actually had success with cats? Or have any tips at all to deal with the little buggers?