I've had a mouse living in my house for a week or so now. It's starting to get very annoying.

I spent this morning going from shop to shop looking for a "humane mouse catcher", but everywhere has sold out. So I ended up buying some mousepoison... but now I have just read that it takes up to a week (maybe longer) for the poison to actually kill the thing. A week?! What's the point in that?

It's under my bed as I type this, the little bugger.

DON'T KILL IT!!!! It means no harm

Catch it by yourself, I've done it enough times, you need a shoebox and patience.

We had a mouse a week or so ago, it migrated up here from the downstairs apartment.

TLB went right out and bought 2 mousetraps, the old fashioned kind (SNAP!!) baited them with peanut butter, and had him dead within hours.

If there's one, there will eventually be more. It's the time of year when they are scouting around for a nice cushy place to spend the winter. KILL IT NOW

They really aredirty little buggers, cute tho they may be individiually, and where you've seen one, there's bound to be half a dozen who need to be scared off. Regrettfully, I say kill it.

okay, Ive decided against the posion. Not one of my smartest moves... I dont want a dead mouse rotting somewhere.

My gf is going to get one of the old fashioned style ones after work. Im sad to do it, I dont even kill flies etc... but I dont want there to be loads in the house. Ive also heard that they return if you just catch and release them.

mouse baits and poisons are ideal to use.
the best kind is the box of bait that you open and leave for the mouse/ mice to find themselves.

they cause the mouse to become dehydrated and then the mouse leaves the nest and goes searching for water.
he/she then dies and doesn't return.

you should not worry about killing mice, they are vermin who reproduce very quickly.

or buy a cat.


peace be with you....

don't use posion it's a slow death. old fashioned snap trap baited with turkish delight works every time

He got snapped today. I felt pretty bad, but oh well.

Hopefully the last, but I'm guessing not...

^Awe, poor wittle baby mouse But I guess you did what needed to be done. A stray mouse in the home is just unsanitary.

Do you know how the mouse got into your home in the first place? Because your best bet at preventing any more from settling in your house is to find out where the first one got in and fix that problem right away...and hopefully before any other Mickeys and Minnies get their teeny necks snapped.

Yep, you did what had to be done....wouldn't want something like the hantavirus in your home. Just don't use those glue traps...horrible things.

But when I was in college there was a mouse that frequented my study time at night/morning. After the kids were in bed, I would stay up until the early hours of the morning studying, then the mouse would come out of hiding. I actually became quite fond of him/her. The wife, not so much. She set out glue traps, which was unknown to me. As i'm sleeping one morning she says, "I got one....come put it in the trash." I go downstairs and there is this poor little cute mouse, struggling to no avail to escape the trap. I know he must have been terrified, and i'm surprised he didn't die right away from heart failure. I tried in vain to free him from the trap, but he died. There was no sense in him suffering.

One word, "snap". Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. So get on with it.

I believe in eating what you kill. Don't be a waster.

"Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, timorous beastie...."

See the (non-existent) Rabbie Burns thread.