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Mouse under my bed

Melisandre121

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.

Any tips on how to get rid of my friend (if it is a mouse) without the use of mouse traps or anything that would involve having to look at a dead rodent?!

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qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I was getting ready for work one morning when I opened the living room door and there was a mouse dragging a trap around by his tail

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Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

I've caught 3 this week. The first 2 looked like quick deaths but the one I found this morning wasn't. It had freed itself from the trap and died beside it. Some blood on the floor.

Breaks my heart. Genuinely does.

Set another trap, get over it.

They're pests to me. Like flies. I just have to have the steely heart!

Surreptitious

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LexieOnRale wrote: »

Christ almighty, fishing them out of a water tank????? I brush my teeth with that water. I shower. I am stressed out now. Is there nothing sacred?

You have been fine brushing your teeth all this time.

You're fine now.

I reckon every water tank in the country, and other countries, has at least one dead mouse in it, and always did. You're fine Lexie.

Put it out of the mind. Seriously. Don't concentrate on it!

BorneTobyWilde

Is moose still under the bed.

Spanish Eyes

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Christ almighty, fishing them out of a water tank????? I brush my teeth with that water. I shower. I am stressed out now. Is there nothing sacred?

Don't think about it, we all use the hot taps. And it is building up your immune system as we speak!

BorneTobyWilde

I'm sure you brush teeth with mains water, not the water from tank . And depending on shower it's probably mains water too. Tank water is hot water tap, goes to boiler rads, bath I think.

Spanish Eyes

Stigura wrote: »

Spanish; Podies are mad little buggers. They take a shine to things and nick them. Dragging them off to their little nests. There's no rhyme or reason. It's not like how magpies are said to nick shiny, bright things.

Podies just like things, like kiddies like teddy bears. It makes them happy to cuddle up to their toys.

In a roof space, used for storage, it can be anybodies guess what they may drag off with them. Literally anything they can manage.

Never heard them called "podies" before.

Are meeces called "podies" in certain parts of the country or what.

It's a nice term for meeces tho.

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BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

I'm sure you brush teeth with mains water, not the water from tank . And depending on shower it's probably mains water too. Tank water is hot water tap, goes to boiler rads, bath I think.

The water in the cold taps in the bathrooms comes from the tank, not the mains.

Only your kitchen tap has mains water.

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Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Never heard them called "podies" before.

Are meeces called "podies" in certain parts of the country or what.

It's a nice term for meeces tho.

Me either, and I'm studying animal science.

Spanish Eyes

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The water in the cold taps in the bathrooms comes from the tank, not the mains.

Only your kitchen tap has mains water.

This is what we were all told as kids. The only tap you can drink from is the cold tap in the kitchen.

But brushing your teeth in the bathroom (from tank) and washing your hands there, and having a shower didn't kill anyone yet AFAIK.

Urban legend territory maybe.

chillin117

kittensmittens wrote: »

Borrow a cat.....problem solved

You assume she doesn't already have a pussy ?

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Spanish Eyes wrote: »

This is what we were all told as kids. The only tap you can drink from is the cold tap in the kitchen.

But brushing your teeth in the bathroom (from tank) and washing your hands there, and having a shower didn't kill anyone yet AFAIK.

Urban legend territory maybe.

Yeah, it hasn't killed us! Maybe, just maybe, I wouldn't be sure, but I think the human race is tougher than the media will have you believe

JustAThought

Years back we were in an old appartment block - we could hear galloping from the suspended decorative ceilings when we 'slept' at night - knew it was mice but didn't mind too much because they were 'upstairs' & unseen amd therefore not our problem. Was woken one night by one walking over my shoulder & across my face. I can still feel it's little claws & its tail rolling across my cheek.

And yes - they absolutely can gnaw through plaster & walk up uneven walls.

Spanish Eyes

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Yeah, it hasn't killed us! Maybe, just maybe, I wouldn't be sure, but I think the human race is tougher than the media will have you believe

Course we are.

Too much love will kill you every time (Queen). I'd change that to "too much cleanliness and antibiotics" will do the same soon.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

This thread is like heroin for my eyeballs.
I can't help it. It's morbid. I can't look away.

Stigura

Fuzzy Clam; It can't be helped, mate

I've used practically every model of snap trap out there. I've been through the good. The bad. And the stuff I've taken a f**kin lump hammer to and then screamed from the roof tops, not to touch the bloody things!

Anyway, I won't go into a discourse about mouse traps of the last half century. (Ooooh! How I could! And I'd bloody well enjoy myself too, getting lost in it! But, no bugger else would!

) Suffice it to say that I'm now, long since, using the very best ones out there. And I still get a foul catch. Even as often as about one in twenty?

And these are automatic, enclosed traps. There's nothing we can do to alter their setting. I'd take a guess that you'd be using " Lucifer " ones? Or, have ye found some " Little Nipper ", treadle ones?

I preferred 'Nippers, myself. Disgustingly efficient with them, I was. Take ye time setting them. They must be so fine that ye need a steady hand to put them down.

That way, ye tend to get the mouse across the back of the eyeballs. Effectively cleaves the skull and brain. They don't even have time to register they've just died.

Anyway, yeah; 'Tis the season of their return. Let's get amongst them.

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JustAThought wrote: »

Years back we were in an old appartment block - we could hear galloping from the suspended decorative ceilings when we 'slept' at night - knew it was mice but didn't mind too much because they were 'upstairs' & unseen amd therefore not our problem. Was woken one night by one walking over my shoulder & across my face. I can still feel it's little claws & its tail rolling across my cheek.

And yes - they absolutely can gnaw through plaster & walk up uneven walls.

Ah yeah, my ma and da had a mouse in bed with them one night! (Possibly why there are only three of us, not four). I had a mouse run back and forth across me in bed with my cat behind it for about an hour but I was too tired to even care!

Mice are actually harmless to be fair. Only problem is that if you tolerate them they will infest the place. Got to nip that in the bud.

Rats on the other hand carry actual dangerous diseases. You can die from a rat bite, or even contact with an open wound on rat urine.

My cat is a little bollix for bringing in her "kills" alive to play with and kill in the confort and warmth of the house. One day it was a blackbird. I took it from her. Another time a mouse, I just picked her and mouse up and threw them out. Then a frog! I put the frog in a paper bag and released it. Then it was a rat. I know she was dropping it and letting it run, then pulling it back and torturing it, then letting it run, then pulling it back... I was just so afraid she would lose interest and let the rat run around the house. I locked her into one room for an hour. I had to clean up after but at least the rat was dead!

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LexieOnRale wrote: »

This thread is like heroin for my eyeballs.
I can't help it. It's morbid. I can't look away.

Lexie, you're probably living with mice right now. You probably always have. They're like the giant house spiders. They're always there and can't hurt us.

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Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Course we are.

Too much love will kill you every time (Queen). I'd change that to "too much cleanliness and antibiotics" will do the same soon.

Agreed 100%.

Coming from someone who ate pizza after dog grooming and not a hint of hand soap in sight.

Stigura

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Never heard them called "podies" before.

Are meeces called "podies" in certain parts of the country or what.

Apodemus sylvaticus. Scientific name for the Wood Mouse. (Also commonly called Field Mouse)

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

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Lexie, you're probably living with mice right now. You probably always have. They're like the giant house spiders. They're always there and can't hurt us.

I have been helping my brother on his farm the past few weeks. Last week I touched a dead one that was drowned my my bare hand. I spent over 2 hours trying to scoop it out with a poker (all that would fit down there) and he kept falling off it. I cried so much, I woke up the following morning vomitting and with a migraine. I sobbed so hard that even when I went to sleep my oh told me I was sobbing in my sleep. I don't know why I have such a curious mind. Ignorance is bliss. And my life seemed like a perpetual orgasm up until reading about brushing my teeth in water with a side of mouse, and that mice run over our faces when we sleep.

Spanish Eyes

Stigura wrote: »

Apodemus sylvaticus. Scientific name for the Wood Mouse. (Also commonly called Field Mouse)

Ah yes, get it now, you had a reply earlier where you mentioned Apodemus Sylvaticus, but TBH I thought that was the user name of a poster :pac:

Podies they are now!

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LexieOnRale wrote: »

I have been helping my brother on his farm the past few weeks. Last week I touched a dead one that was drowned my my bare hand. I spent over 2 hours trying to scoop it out with a poker (all that would fit down there) and he kept falling off it. I cried so much, I woke up the following morning vomitting and with a migraine. I sobbed so hard that even when I went to sleep my oh told me I was sobbing in my sleep. I don't know why I have such a curious mind. Ignorance is bliss. And my life seemed like a perpetual orgasm up until reading about brushing my teeth in water with a side of mouse, and that mice run over our faces when we sleep.

They do eat our crumbs and stuff though. The things that would attract an infestation of rats. I'm happy to see mice!

Also those big spiders. Terrifying. But they take care of so many small bugs that could have wiped us out with their disease spreading had the big ugly f**kers not been here to protect us.

Stigura

JustAThought wrote: »

And yes - they absolutely can gnaw through plaster & walk up uneven walls.

Most of all, due to their propensity for inhabiting our buildings voids, along side our electrical cables .....

Deleted User wrote: »

Mice are actually harmless to be fair.

The above, and the UK Fire Service would beg to differ there. UKFS reckon 70% of fires " Of Unknown Cause " are actually down to rodents gnawing cables.

Mice also carry quite the little arsenal of nasties too. Granted, most people wouldn't shrivel up and die of, say, Salmonella or E Coli. But, do ye want it there, on ye kitchen counter?

Stigura

Lexie; I wrote a post on here, earlier. It's not there

Now, whether that was me ~ I was in a Chat Room, being talked at by a mate. Thinking about getting my dinner on. And fielding emails like a loon. Maybe I hit the wrong button and sent it off into the void?

Short and sanitised version ~ seeing you're here and ye reaction to ye experience there .....

I left a blue barrel - ye know the ones - with some bird seed in it, under a hedge.

Six months later, it had filled to the brim with rain water .......... and ..... Let's just say; It would have kept you and ye poker amused till xmass!

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Stigura wrote: »

Most of all, due to their propensity for inhabiting our buildings voids, along side our electrical cables .....

The above, and the UK Fire Service would beg to differ there. UKFS reckon 70% of fires " Of Unknown Cause " are actually down to rodents gnawing cables.

Mice also carry quite the little arsenal of nasties too. Granted, most people wouldn't shrivel up and die of, say, Salmonella or E Coli. But, do ye want it there, on ye kitchen counter?

Your birds probably carry the same you know. As a fellow bird owner!

And definitely reptiles!

Also, birds have been shown to cause fires in a lot of houses by the amount of dust they create just by being birds. Especially small birds like budgies!

Saying this about the big clapped out mansion I used to live in that was overrun with mice, humans, budgies and the one cat - which had dodgy wiring too!

La.de.da

Those snap back traps are only good for like two/three uses, hence why little mousers aren't killed instantly, if traps are reused a lot.

Mice only need a hole less than the size of a biro to get into a place.
I have a little jack Russell whom won't leave anything into the house or garden great little hunter she is.

Bought one of those sonic things that you plug in two years ago. Seems to be working so far.

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La.de.da wrote: »

Those snap back traps are only good for like two/three uses, hence why little mousers aren't killed instantly, if traps are reused a lot.

Mice only need a hole less than the size of a biro to get into a place.
I have a little jack Russell whom won't leave anything into the house or garden great little hunter she is.

Bought one of those sonic things that you plug in two years ago. Seems to be working so far.

We have two cats and a jack russell and still get the odd mouse. Just the one though. Either the cats or the terrier gets it. Best deterrents. But I never, ever advise getting a cat or dog for pest control. You have to want that pet, and be willing to take care of it properly.

exaisle

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Try tying a piece of rasher rind around the bait, they will pull on it (sometimes set the trap off without getting hit though). But they keep working at it.

No....melt some ordinary milk chocolate on the bait part of the trap. Then if you catch a mouse you don't have to replace the bait...