Mouse under my bed

17-09-2016 12:25PM

Those high frequency plug in jobs don't work.
I have a friend who runs his own pest control business and he said if they did work, he would be selling them.

OP you need to look under the bed, even just to see if there is mouse shyte.

If you can't, ask someone to help you or call pest control.

amtc · 17-09-2016 12:31PM

Had some last year.

Two things. There is never one. And chocolate as bait works. Oh and they climb stairs. Mine was behind the fridge but scuttled anywhere it could.

Degringola · 17-09-2016 01:12PM

Our mice ate our oven gloves. True story.

Also found one poor mite frozen to death in the freezer. Field mouse that strayed indoors I think.

They also ate holes in our sun umbrella in the garage.
They have wide-ranging tastes.

iLikeWaffles · 17-09-2016 01:34PM

Hammer89 wrote: »

In my experience, a cat might not actually kill the mouse. It may catch it alright, but it would proceed to torture it, and more importantly you, by letting it go over and over again just for the fun of re-catching it. I'm spoken as a man who has spent about an hour standing on my couch and shouting, 'F*cking kill it this time'. Eventually the poor little thing had a heart attack I think, and I wasn't far off that stage myself.

That's true, Cats will usually bring the dead/dying mouse to their owner because their instincts are trying to teach how to hunt. Its a natural trait more common to female felines but toms do it too. I have had three tom cats and they all left a present at the back door on occasion.

OP you could try this inexpensive trap using a news paper and a tall bucket filled 1/4 the way with water (type you get flowers in probably best) its not the most humane way to go but you could not fill the bucket with water and bring it to a field instead. Be sure to have a bridge onto the paper.

Samaris · 17-09-2016 01:49PM

People who ask for advice in AH be warned, this is what happens. :pac:

Your options have gone from "possibly a mouse" to "Could be a mouse, rat, ROUS, ghost, possessed corpse, thing from the Ring, the Babbadook, a giant spider, a -really- giant spider, a spider riding a rat, a homeless person, a migrant or the bogeymouse."

A humane trap should work on most of them, but it's probably best to inspect for droppings first, at least to identify the species of origination.

Note - if you find balloons rather than droppings, you have a clown infestation.

Samaris · 17-09-2016 01:54PM

Also, this thread resulted in a several minute singalong to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody in my house around the topic of your troubles.

maudgonner · 17-09-2016 01:55PM

Samaris wrote: »

People who ask for advice in AH be warned, this is what happens. :pac:

Personally I'm just shocked at the lack of Mickey jokes.

CFlat · 17-09-2016 01:58PM

Melisandre121 wrote: »

What am I gonna do?!

Do you know any pied pipers?

dreoilin · 17-09-2016 02:00PM

Sounds like you've got yourself a raccoon. It's his house now.

maudgonner · 17-09-2016 02:03PM

CFlat wrote: »

Do you know any pied pipers?

There is that girl from the other thread who plays a flute. Is that close enough?

She's looking for somewhere to stay, so you could probably come to an arrangement.

RobertKK · 17-09-2016 02:05PM

Mice are cute, rats are not, but would want neither in your house.

Donald Trump · 17-09-2016 03:14PM

maudgonner wrote: »

Samaris wrote: »

People who ask for advice in AH be warned, this is what happens. :pac:

Personally I'm just shocked at the lack of Mickey jokes.

I heard you're a divil for Mickey alright

dublinman1990 · 17-09-2016 09:58PM

If you're not able to do anything for yourself; make a call for a pest controller.

If you can't afford that ring the environmental department of the HSE to let them set up traps in your home for next to nothing.

http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/1/environ/Contact.html

You can read this leaflet for more info on rodents in the home.

http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/Publications/Environmentalhealth/Rodent_Control_for_Householders.pdf

forestgirl · 17-09-2016 10:35PM

Okay let's call a spade a spade here,a frigging mouse under the bed is better than a man in the bed,I know trust me.now having said all that if you posted that you heard a butterfly under the bed that's a different matter entirely

Esel · 18-09-2016 06:43PM

It could be a rabbit...

Junkyard Tom · 18-09-2016 07:00PM

The average person will unknowingly consume approx 300 rats while sleeping.

yellowcandle · 18-09-2016 07:32PM

The alarms are brilliant. Highly recommend them. My aunt lives in a big old house, mice ran rampant. Had the traps etc. Once she got an alarm she has had no problems.

Academic · 18-09-2016 09:52PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8D8EZopSvs

RoyalMarine · 18-09-2016 10:01PM

Maybe it's mama.
That movie scared the **** outa me when she had the dream that it was under the bed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aHQMJjdZ_U

Calahonda52 · 18-09-2016 10:07PM

Esel wrote: »

It could be a rabbit...

Rampant

Thespoofer · 18-09-2016 10:12PM

Get one of those standard mouse traps that snap when set off.
Put a small piece of bacon on the prong part.
Next take a lighter and hold it under the bacon for a few seconds, essentially cooking the piece of bacon.
You won't have to wait long after this.

endacl · 18-09-2016 10:13PM

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Ya cant go wrong with a couple of grenades.

Overkill. One would do it.

minktrapper · 18-09-2016 10:17PM

I had the same problem last winter.Heard something rooting and tearing down at the end of the bed.So I left the light on for maybe 10 mins and then it appeared.It was making so much noise that I was expecting a rat. Didn't want it to be a rat obviously. It was a sweet little mouse. I had some traps in the car so on with the clothes and off down to the car. I set the trap.Switched off the light and waited.

Thespoofer · 18-09-2016 10:21PM

minktrapper wrote: »

I had the same problem last winter.Heard something rooting and tearing down at the end of the bed.So I left the light on for maybe 10 mins and then it appeared.It was making so much noise that I was expecting a rat. Didn't want it to be a rat obviously. It was a sweet little mouse. I had some traps in the car so on with the clothes and off down to the car. I set the trap.Switched off the light and waited.

And ? Did you get it ?

minktrapper · 18-09-2016 10:21PM

And waited ........

Barry Badrinath · 18-09-2016 10:23PM

Thespoofer wrote: »

And ? Did you get it ?

Dont mind him!

He's a minktrapper..mice are way out of his league!

minktrapper · 18-09-2016 10:27PM

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

iLikeWaffles · 19-09-2016 12:06AM

minktrapper wrote: »

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

Still waiting?

Tuco88 · 19-09-2016 01:01AM

Best set the bed on fire and smoke em out, I've seen this done to Charlie in Nam (Full metal jacket). For best results get in a good high advantage point with a machine gun or a brush in your case and finish the job.

Fire department will sort the rest...

You could use the trap from mouse trap board game, it never worked anyway if you don't want to hurt it.

scdublin · 19-09-2016 02:41PM

We were all sitting downstairs a couple of winters ago and started hearing noises from the bedroom right above us. We turned down the tv to hear better and could clearly hear something being dragged across the floor. My mam and sister were too scared to check what was going on so I slowly went up and into the room but couldn't see anything except a mini chocolate lindt bunny in the middle of the floor. The ear had been slightly nibbled so could tell it must have been a mouse or rat.

I sat on the bed for a few minutes and waited and sure enough a little mouse crept out from the floorboards back to the bunny to drag it off again. Not going to lie, it was so cute. I couldn't think of getting a trap to kill him so I got one of those humane ones from woodies and set it the next night with some of the lindt chocolate since it obviously was a fan.

I heard the trap closing from my room a while later so I got my sister and we went in so we could pick it up, put it in a box just in case it got free and go to the nearest park to release him. Only when I picked up the trap, it was just as light as when I'd put it down so I slowly peeked inside.....nothing. Not even the chocolate. Somehow this clever little brat had got the chocolate and ran off with it! This happened again at least twice and then we never saw it or heard it after that.

I like to think of it lying somewhere in a chocolate coma and not being able to make it back for more because it got too fat.

Mouse under my bed

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