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No not the computer sort. Had one in the house last week. Managed to take it outside, alive. I was recounting the saga to my friend whilst I was at the gym on the machine. One of the ladies, who I didn't know,was listening in and suggested that I got a humane trap where the mice can be taken outside - also there were now special plug-in which emitted a noise we humans couldn't hear but mice could.

Last night at gym she came and asked if I had sorted out any protection against invading mice. I told her that I had bought three plug-ins so I think I should be all right......

..... She then went on to say that she never kills her mice but that she takes them to a lovely spot the other side of town by the river in ******** ****** and let them free. ....yes you've guessed it? 50 yards from my house-jle

We had an invasion of mice a few years ago.I used the humane traps and released the mice across the road next to the field.
In the end we had to get the Pest Control man in.He laughed when I told him what I was doing and reckoned as soon as my back was turned they followed me back lolol
Sadly he resorted to poison and then the nasty traps.But it worked and we have been mouse free since.
We get them in the garage at times ,but they haven't got through into the house from there thank goodness.

Janet,
Sorry, but I had to laugh, perhaps you should humanly catch the mice and put them back near her home (only joking)! We have some traps in the loft which have some sort of chemical on them that attracts mice, the old type never worked as the mice got wise to them, and somehow managed to get the cheese off the trap without setting them off, but the best advise I can give is get a cat, our 10 year old cat from the local cat rescue is absolutely amazing at catching mice (tho not in the loft)!
Best Wishes, and I hope you are soon mouse free.

ShelleyRose x

I have a cat who loves me very much.He likes to keep me well by bringing me fresh food,in the form of rats and mice,sometimes live. I think he may be trying to farm them as well as, on the occasions we have mice,he will catch one downstairs and take it upstairs where he lets it go.

Those mouse deterents don't seem to work but maybe they would if the mice had a choice and were not brought in by the cat.

The pest control chap who sorted our Mice problem put Milky Bar in the traps.He said they like white chocolate.It worked lol

Mine get chocolate raisins.Couldn't be why they hang around could it?

Peanut butter seems to work well too.

Thank you all for your suggestions. When I saw the mouse at first I thought it was my imagination. When I realised it was really a mouse I went into panic mode. I rang two neighbours to see if they had a trap but neither had.I rang my friend, who has a cat and she said I could come and collect the cat anytime, but went on to say that the mouse was just a little creature and nothing to be bothered about. I suppose she was right so I decided to call it Pepi. As Pepi ran around the skirting board between the bookcase and the piano, giving it a name didn't make it any better. I decided to shut the room door and go to bed. I got very little sleep. In the morning I rang the council who were quite happy to come out for £85 payable over the phone. I decided I would buy a trap.

I then went back into my room and I couldn't believe it but the mouse was motionless on the carpet. I stood for ages deciding it was dead. I went to get my phone to take its photo but when the camera flashed the mouse took flight, so obviously it wasnt dead. Annoyed that I had missed the chance to put the wastepaper bin over it, I shut the door again. However after another half an hour I went back in the room and it was motionless again. This time I got the wastepaper bin and a plastic place mat and it seem to give up and go into the bin. I then felt so sorry for it I got a piece of cheese and took it across the road. It didn't seem as if it wanted to run away so I gave it the cheese and it started eating it. I then covered it with withered sycamore leaves so nothing would see it.I videod it eating the cheese as I thought no-one would believe me. So far it hasn't come back.-jle

Get a cat, a rescued one , it will love you and get rid of any Mouse that invades your space, **M**

I have thought about it, but I will wait and see what happens.Thank you-j

My sister had mice and tried the humane traps. The mice took the food but did not get trapped!
With humane traps you do have to let them out mies from your own home or they will return.

In the end she sadly had to resort to real traps.
This resulted in dead mice and the problem was solved.

Teresa

I'm sorry, I haven't got past the first post, that's a classic lol

We evicted a plague of mice that the cat had been nurturing last summer.They went next door.Neighbour set traps and caught nine in one day as I recall.

My cat lay quietly under his bush all day as the neighbour appeared from time to time with another dead mouse which he lobbed over the fence for the cat to enjoy.

It was like a tiny safari park.

Omg !

All this talk of rodents gives me the creeps.

We had evidence of rats in my father's very large garden . Dad had died and the house was empty, I called the local council and the pest controller came out and sorted it .

Similarly ( I live in a different council area from dad's house ) my neighbour saw 2 rats, different size at different times climbing up his bird table then hubby told me he saw one running across the bottom of the garden, glad I didn't see it !!!
I immediately phoned the council and the pest controller came up, checked ours and neighbouring gardens , no evidence of 'nests' but there is woodland 2 street below us. He advised us not to put out bread for the birds . I still do.... on a tray on the wall only if there is snow down:)

My neighbour has 6 cats who regularly treck thro my garden to the woodland area below us.. they never caught any of the rats !!
Unless they did on situ and didn't bring them home .lol

When my children were young, we had cats and various hamsters, gerbils and guinea pigs, which the cats never touched (presumably because they had our smell on them).
However, they were very good rodent killers.
One day I 'smelt' a mouse in the kitchen, and found one very comfortabley esconced in an old boiler suit shoved in the gap between the fridge and the wall.
I managed to catch it, and threw it into the garden, closely followed by Basil the cat - an extraordinary rodent killer.

This was in summer, and quite often Basil would stay out overnight.
Despite having a cat flap, Basil would prefer to use it as a knocker, and would bang it until I opened the door for him.
The morning after I'd ejected Basil and the mouse into the garden, Basil was knocking on the cat flap.
I opened the door to see both cat and mouse sat on the doorstep waiting to come in!!!
I presume that, as it had been in the house, it smelt of us and Basil thought it was a pet!
I managed to catch the mouse - it ran into an upturned wellington boot - and took it to open farmland the other side of the motorway.

Do you think that there is a new breed of mouse, who think that they can just stroll into someone home? lol

We had mice and caught them humanely, then let them go. If they survived they did not come back.
About 20 years later we saw a mouse on about three occasions, presumably there was more than one. They disappeared of their own accord, maybe they saw the humane traps and hopped it!
Now we have a kitten.
Have not seen any nasty 8 legs this winter, which is odd, and wonder if kitten had them?
Can cope with mice, not spiders!

We had one in the bed room while we went on holiday, when we came back it had eaten a big hole in the wifes easter egg but had left mine alone, guess it did not like Mars chocolate but prefered After eight