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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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After moving out of parents home 25 years ago, we’ve just found our first mouse in the house 
Not sure if it was here when we moved in recently or it decided to pop in to meet the new neighbours and stayed, but it’s here now.
So I’ve just ordered a humane mouse trap, but what do I put in there? Any help would be welcomed. Also once caught where do I take it? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The big cheese mouse bait/attractant worked wonders for me. I put it in humane traps in my attic and always caught the mouse within 24hrs.
It’s available online |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I ad mice last year and tried everything - humane traps, usual traps, peppermint oil etc nothing worked
They were back this year. Paid to get people out, poison down, job done "
Oh no! I’m hoping we don’t have to kill it. I’m proper soppy and I’d end up crying.
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"I ad mice last year and tried everything - humane traps, usual traps, peppermint oil etc nothing worked
They were back this year. Paid to get people out, poison down, job done
Oh no! I’m hoping we don’t have to kill it. I’m proper soppy and I’d end up crying.
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I felt guilty at first seeing a few on the traps, but they have diseases and as bad as I felt I thought I can’t share my home with them!
Sadly there won’t just be one I’m afraid |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
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"After moving out of parents home 25 years ago, we’ve just found our first mouse in the house
Not sure if it was here when we moved in recently or it decided to pop in to meet the new neighbours and stayed, but it’s here now.
So I’ve just ordered a humane mouse trap, but what do I put in there? Any help would be welcomed. Also once caught where do I take it? "
Mice love bird seeds even the fatballs and once caught if you have a park close by that would be great or farmland |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Put a cat in it."
Genuinely the best advice for getting rid of your mice. Well, for getting rid of live ones. Been brought so many dead ones from outside lost count now. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The big cheese mouse bait/attractant worked wonders for me. I put it in humane traps in my attic and always caught the mouse within 24hrs.
It’s available online "
Thank you will look at this. |
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By *edheadjMan
over a year ago
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Peanut butter.
Be aware that when you catch the little thing, you have to release them a long way away as they will make their way back.
You'll also need to keep the traps around after you catch them, as they may have family members - who breed every two weeks. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I ad mice last year and tried everything - humane traps, usual traps, peppermint oil etc nothing worked
They were back this year. Paid to get people out, poison down, job done
Oh no! I’m hoping we don’t have to kill it. I’m proper soppy and I’d end up crying.
I felt guilty at first seeing a few on the traps, but they have diseases and as bad as I felt I thought I can’t share my home with them!
Sadly there won’t just be one I’m afraid "
And now I’m not going to sleep lol
One to catch didn’t seem as bad. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Thank you!!
Will make a trip to the shop first thing, ready for the traps to arrive.
Really hoping we’ve only one that’s snuck in. Hopefully the kittens will deter and not befriend the buggers! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Mice love bird seeds even the fatballs and once caught if you have a park close by that would be great or farmland "
There’s a park I was thinking of, no houses to close and some rabbits and Guinea pigs kept there. I know I’ve seen mice around there, so figured would be ok? |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
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Mice love bird seeds even the fatballs and once caught if you have a park close by that would be great or farmland "
There’s a park I was thinking of, no houses to close and some rabbits and Guinea pigs kept there. I know I’ve seen mice around there, so figured would be ok?"
Would be a excellent choice back in to wildlife once they find food they'll remain close by |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"After moving out of parents home 25 years ago, we’ve just found our first mouse in the house
Not sure if it was here when we moved in recently or it decided to pop in to meet the new neighbours and stayed, but it’s here now.
So I’ve just ordered a humane mouse trap, but what do I put in there? Any help would be welcomed. Also once caught where do I take it? "
You can use anything, bird seed, bit of cheese, some crackers, mice will eat anything. But it might take a few days, it’s helpful if you where it’s hiding. Please don’t put poison down as that’s a horrible slow death, as the poison causes internal bleeding and it can take days for them to die, plus if it gets outside again, and a cat gets it, the poison will transfer to the cat if it eats it.
The mouse is probably a field mouse and they like us, like warmth in the winter, if you leave it it will move out again in the spring, but there’s also a chance it has babies as mice breed every 6 weeks all year round. If you do catch it, take it at least 2 miles away as they can find their way home within a mile. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Peanut butter.
Be aware that when you catch the little thing, you have to release them a long way away as they will make their way back.
You'll also need to keep the traps around after you catch them, as they may have family members - who breed every two weeks. "
It’s every 6 weeks lol |
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By *edheadjMan
over a year ago
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"Peanut butter.
Be aware that when you catch the little thing, you have to release them a long way away as they will make their way back.
You'll also need to keep the traps around after you catch them, as they may have family members - who breed every two weeks.
It’s every 6 weeks lol "
That's not what the pest control guy told us when he came round originally  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"You could also keep it once caught as a pet since you moved in afterwards that is also a humanitarian choice  "
Haha As much a I don’t want to hurt it, I don’t particularly want it as a pet, being it’s wild.
Im also wondering if it’s the mouse that’s set my allergies off the last two days. Haven’t stopped sneezing |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Peanut butter.
Be aware that when you catch the little thing, you have to release them a long way away as they will make their way back.
You'll also need to keep the traps around after you catch them, as they may have family members - who breed every two weeks.
It’s every 6 weeks lol
That's not what the pest control guy told us when he came round originally "
Since mice gestation period is 19 - 21 days, it’s physically impossible for them to breed every 2 weeks lol. They are capable of breeding every 6 weeks all year round but tend to breed in the wild every season except winter unless they are somewhere warm with a good food supply. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You could also keep it once caught as a pet since you moved in afterwards that is also a humanitarian choice
Haha As much a I don’t want to hurt it, I don’t particularly want it as a pet, being it’s wild.
Im also wondering if it’s the mouse that’s set my allergies off the last two days. Haven’t stopped sneezing "
Probably. After you’ve caught it and it’s brothers/sisters/aunts/uncles etc, give that part of your house a deep cleaning. I have mice in my house but half the time it’s my pesky cat bringing them in then letting it run around…. |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"You could also keep it once caught as a pet since you moved in afterwards that is also a humanitarian choice
Haha As much a I don’t want to hurt it, I don’t particularly want it as a pet, being it’s wild.
Im also wondering if it’s the mouse that’s set my allergies off the last two days. Haven’t stopped sneezing
Probably. After you’ve caught it and it’s brothers/sisters/aunts/uncles etc, give that part of your house a deep cleaning. I have mice in my house but half the time it’s my pesky cat bringing them in then letting it run around…. "
Neice and nephew and grandkids great uncle and so forth |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
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"You could also keep it once caught as a pet since you moved in afterwards that is also a humanitarian choice
Haha As much a I don’t want to hurt it, I don’t particularly want it as a pet, being it’s wild.
Im also wondering if it’s the mouse that’s set my allergies off the last two days. Haven’t stopped sneezing "
Not exactly wild when it has a roof over its head more like a lodger  |
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