How do I get rid of a mouse who seems to have claims squatters rights under our tv unit. I dont really want?

Question

to kill it, but apart from the fact my daughter and I now refuse to go in the room, I really dont want it there from a hygiene point of view. My husband has said he will try it my way until Sunday and then he gets to put the poison and inhumane traps down. I have put a humane trap down but unfortunatley the mouse is far too clever and wont go near it. Anyone got any tried and tested ideas. Also can mice jump if so how high, and I know they can climb on material things like curtains etc but could they climb up a video box. Strange question I know but I have built a wall of video boxes around the tv stand to try and box it in, but think I may be wasting my time!!! Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Sounds hars but if you kill it then it won't come back. If you did manage to trap it humanely and let it go then it has every chance of coming back as well as breeding and then where would you be.

Answer 2

The trick of setting traps is to put some bait out that is not in the trap. Then bait the trap a bit further away from the bait that is not in the trap. Not to FAR SO THE MOUSE WONT NOTICE IT. Place the trap so it cannot be knocked and moved.

A tip.... Never place a trap in the centre of a room, always place it around the edges.
A mouse will very rarely leave the edge of a room because it feels safe in the shadows around the edges.

Also the best bait regardless of what anybody says is Cheese, The key is to use a tiny bit of grated cheese and not a big block as some people might think.

Also with inhumane traps it is not unusual to find a mouse still alive with broken legs. The best thing for you to do then would be to stand on it really hard. This would put the mouse out of its misery.

Answer 3

Aww! Don't be afraid of the little fella. He won't jump or hurt you. He is destructive though. We used to get field mice in the fall and you have to kill it. Mouse traps are far more humane than poison. We once did poison and when I opened the door under the sink, it was a horrible sight. The mouse was all puffed up and still alive, obviously suffering. An old style trap is much faster. But, you must tie someting onto it with thread. We tried pieces of cookie or peanuts. If you don't use thread, the mouse will just take it and run.

Answer 4

Use milky way as bait and place the humane trap along the skirting board in the area. Mice tend to run along walls and if the entrance to the trap is flush with the wall it will be more likely to run into it.

They have a home range of 4 miles so when you trap the mouse you need to put it in a bag or box with airholes and drive it 5 miles away before releasing it. Try to find a nice habitat for the critter, such as a hedgebank.

Answer 5

Get a run-through trap. They sell them in Homebase. It catches the mouse without hurting it.

I managed to catch one using a 6 pint plastic milk bottle, a bucket, a pile of books and a tea tray. You pile the books up next to the bucket, bait the bottle with some muesli (mice don't like cheese!) and balance it between the books and the bucket so it nearly overbalances. Then use the teatray as a ramp. The mouse will run up the teatray into the bottle which will topple into the bucket. The mouse can't jump out because the neck of the bottle is too small and the bucket stops it knocking it over. Put the lid on the bottle and you've got a bottled mouse. You can then either release it in the park or use it to threaten your daughter if she misbehaves.

Answer 6

I wouldn't use poisons. This is why...
I used it once and the mouse got into it...however, it doesn't kill the mouse right away. The mouse died in an area that I almost had to tear my cabinets apart to get to. Not to mention the fact that it was in a hidden area when it died so we didn't notice it until it started to stink. Not knowing where the stink was coming from I spent a whole day doing deep cleaning before I actually found it.

The best way I found was those sticky traps. It's not really humane because they die slowly but I care more about the cleanliness of my home and the health of my children then I do about a dirty mouse.

Answer 7

I have had total success with peppermint oil. Rodents are highly allergic to the peppermint oil, so the mouse will find a way to get back out of the house to get away from it. You can find it at any GNC store or at most health food stores. Make sure that it is pure peppermint oil, ( not imitation). I think it is only 10.00 for a little bottle. Just dab some ona cotton ball and place in every corner of the house, then launch one under the entertainment unit and the mouse will leave and never return as long as the peppermint oil is around. Non only is this a good remedy because it is non toxic, but it also smells good. Good luck!!!

Answer 8

Try leaving your tv tuned to NBC 24/7, that should drive it out of the house. If that doesn't work, place a small amount of peanut butter inside of the humane trap. They seem to be attracted to the stuff. If your husband does use poison, keep in mind that other household animals ie: dogs and cats can also be poisoned should they eat the dead mouse. Be very careful when using the poison. Good luck to you.

Answer 9

Kaykill, it is a food which it eats and the beauty is that it goes outside to die. If u wish to kill it humanely, there is a box trap u can use then u can set it free miles from u when it is caught. Yes, mice can climb. Make sure u have no food in the room where it is.

Answer 10

We caught three wild mice that were in out house when we moved in by getting a bin with holes in the sides and putting in some yummy food. Then we put a bin liner on the outside around the bottom and waited. When a mouse ran in, we could hear it rustling the bag so we crept up and pulled the sides of the outer bag up around it. Then we lifted the bin out when we could see the mouse and let it go in the park. We were lucky, one had babies in the bag on the way out to the park...we could have had 8 more mice running around.

Now the mice have gone, we've blocked up the holes with scouring pads because they can't chew through them. We've had no problems since.

Answer 11

You can buy a small plug from most hardware shops that you put in a socket and a high piched sound is omitted. Humans can't hear it, but mice hate and he (and any others hidden away) will get out the house asap. I tried this and it worked. Also, although rats are able to jump very high, i don't think mice can.
Good luck!