A mouse in the house

Mother's day is in May, right?

Not here, it’s today.

Oh, wow, didn't now that!

Well then it's perfect timing
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Oh, wow, didn't now that!

Love this typo. It's really rather superb.

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Peanut butter works better than chocolate which works better than cheese.

Hope you got it cleaned up before they saw it?!? :)

Our problem is getting out of hand.
We have mice in the kitchen. They are under the units and come up from under the floor.

All of our food is in plastic boxes, tins and kilner jars, so there is zero food that they can access.
For the last 6 months I have been laying down kilo upon kilo of poison and the bastards are eating it. Reckon I have put down 12kgs in the last 6months - and they have hoovered it up.
I am also baiting traps and catching 2 or 3 a week.

They must be somewhere else, warm and dry with other food sources, then coming through to me... I'm looking at you next door

Genuinely at a loss about what more I can do. They eat poison and throw themselves on the traps, yet they keep coming.

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To be honest whenever this thread comes up on my "Following" page I get all exited and hope there's some (for me) amusing stories of mice situations escalating, involving snakes, involving people losing their shit and running around the house with axes in their hands and whatnot.
Though your post did make me sad a little (because I feel somewhat sorry for you, also it's not particularly exiting; maybe it's the way you tell the story.

Borrow a hungry cat!

I also get excited when this thread pops up on my feed because I think someone might have found a useful solution... but no.

• Plug up gaps
  
• Lay poison
  
• Bait traps
  
• Get a cat
  

Apparently local mouse populations become resistant to common poisons. Like bacteria and the bloody flu viruses.

Change poison

Rescue a cat from Battersea? They'd love you forever. Well, as best as cat's can.

I thought I had accounted for this by buying the strongest on the market with 'no known resistance'...

Get multiple cats.

• Plug up gaps
  
• Lay poison
  
• Bait traps
  
• Get a cat
  
• Poison neighbours
  

Poison neighbours

you are Putin aicmfp

It looks like you've got suspended floorboards in the kitchen? You can get this rubber tube stuff that squeezes in between the floorboards using a special roller tool to plug the gaps. It's an afternoons work, but effective (also good for draughts if you get them).

We're in a similar situation of chasing gaps around the house - I believe it's the only way to stop the mice completely. I'm sure this isn't their only point of ingress but might be a good place to start.

came downstairs to find my Tom cat hassling a mouse which was hiding behind the kitchen door - he was salivating and the mouse seemed frozen to the spot and didn't seem very lively so assume he'd given it a few chomps. I managed to hustle it into a box and carried it outside and let it out near our shed, but it didn't seem to want to move away from the box. I checked when I left for work and it was nowhere to be seen, however one of the neighbourhood cats was lurking around the shed and seemed very keen to stay around.....

Feel bad now........natures a bitch eh?

We have mice at the moment. One of our dogs is frightened by them. Just put out four traps baited with peanut butter. As the sonic repeller has done nothing.

Feel bad now

..as you stole the mouse from your cat?

Our cheeky cunt guest is a fussy fucker. Won’t eat anything that isn’t from a brand new packet.

Last night four traps were deployed with a dab of peanut butter. Critter ate from two of them but didn’t set any off.

I have now arranged the “ring of doom” the baited ends are in the middle so hopefully the rodent will have to tread on a couple of traps to get to the bait.

“Ring of doom” worked. Heard the clatter of traps going off and one dead intruder.

Nailed it.