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Early hours of Sunday I woke up to my cat going mad and trying to get under my dressing table, the same thing happened a few years ago and it was because she had brought a mouse in. Anyway I searched around my bedroom yesterday and couldnt find anything so thought she was just having a silly turn, but early hours of this morning I woke up and could hear clattering on my dressing table. The mouse had only climbed up my golf umbrella which is next to the dressing table and was running up and down my dressing table!!!! when I went to put the light on it jumped off my dressing table and disappeared! Ive spent all this morning trying to catch it but it has completely disappeared :-( I am scared stiff of the things and my cat isnt interesting in finding it. I've got a humane mouse trap where it doesnt kill the mouse it just catches it, the mouse went into it ate the cheese and the blooming trap didnt do what it should have done so the mouse got away! does anyone have a cat thats good at catching mice as I dont think I will get any sleep tonight for worrying about it :-(

Hi Karen in Kent, Where in Kent are you? Not too near me I hope or your mouse might run into my house. ARGHHH. Scared stiff of them. Hope you get rid of it Linda x

Hmmmm.... Call Pest Control? (Some may be open on a Bank Holiday but expect ridiculous prices!) If not... go to the pub and get rip roaring drunk so then when you get in you'll be so drunk you'll pass out and forget about it? Becx

put peanut butter or chocolate on the trap and get yourself a decent trap, whilst he is in your house he is weeing and sh**ing all over the place. Ros

Linda I'm in Tunbridge Wells. Bec, I called my Dad - he got rid of the last one for me after I threatened to move back home if he didnt come round and get rid of it but hes busy today :-( I think the mouse somehow escaped from my bedroom under a gap at the bottom of the door but I havent got a clue where its gone, think its probably in my junk room - which is where I am now, but I've got so much junk in here I dont stand a chance in finding it :-(

Ros I havent got any peanut butter, I struggled to find some cheese in my fridge, I found some - abit mouldy but I'm sure the mouse wont mind too much. I've hooved my house from top to bottom today cos I was petrifed of finding mouse poo everywhere, ek! My cat is definately in my bad books :-(

Go for the chocolate, mice aren't that keen on cheese and they will stink even more if they do eat it. It could be anywhere, if you can get a pencil in a hole, then a mouse can get through. Forget human mousetraps if you can't catch him you'll have to bait him. You can by mouse bait from hardware stores. Hope you catch it soon. Ros

Try putting your trap in your junk roomand bait with a bit of chocolate. If it is a field mouse it will take the chocolate. If ordinary house mouse it is unlikely to. Last year we had a family of 7 field mice born under the floor and living on the dogs chocolate buttons. Pity but they had to have the chop a thing I did not like doing ,but 7 was too many Field mice are more intelligent than house mice and they breed like ---well mice. Good luck Rupert Bear

Should I put some chocolate outside the trap to try and tempt the mouse in? i think its a field mouse it brown, but not as tiny as the mouse I had a few years ago and my Dad told me that that was a field mouse.

Oh dear Karen, I used to have live pressie's brought in for me by my cats, but after a couple of times and of telling them 'they are not allowed in the house - No' they seemed to have got the idea and they don't do it anymore. I remember once, Gizmo (god rest his soul) he was one for bringing in 'pressie's', brought a wonderful gift for me, he left it in the bathroom, I used to have a little table in there with a cloth over it, what I thought was a trainer lace turned out to be a rat's tail. Thankfully it was dead. Note, even if you catch the mouse in your trap, they still come back - sorry but you're going to have to get your cat to try and catch it.

My cat isnt interested :-( I shut her in the room with the mouse and she just curled up in the corner of the room and had a sleep!, last time she did this I told her that i loved her but she didnt need to bring me pressies. Shes brought me in dead ones before but I'm just as bad with them, it takes me about 10 mins to pluck up the corruage to pick them up even with my hand in about 20 carrier bags and gloves on :-) I've just put some chocolate in the trap so fingers crossed that will work, thats if the mouse is even in here, I've searched everywhere else upstairs and this is the room only it could possibly be in :-( If it wasnt for the fact that my pc is in this room I would shut the door and not come in here for a few days :-( I've got woods behind me so it must have found its way from them. Does anyone know if those sonic pest repellants work? i've read up on them and they seem to stop pests coming in, but I just wondered about the pests that are already in the house. Karen

Morning Karen, errm, any sign there :)

Ive got one on my desk eeek its in my hand now! Dave lol!

Morning, Have you seen the mouse? URGGHHH Linda

Calm down Linda its just a commercial! Dx

Hi Karen just got rid of heaps of mice out of my house you have to kill where there is one there is a family and they breed like crazy so get rid of over here we used bait you put it where it might be hiding and it chews through the pkt and it kills them but they leave your house looking for water to die they are disgusting things and I did get one on peanut butter in the trap and the other one I put near my pantry door the little beggar licked the p/nut butter off and trap didn't work, I hate them they stink and as soon as one comes in the house I know I can smell them we live in the country and they come out of paddocks across the road when farmer ploughs the ground we also throw the bait pkts in to the ceiling as they will hide up there too, some peeps use the traps over and over cant do that like you three plastic bags on the hand and turn it inside out and they go in then spend all day washing my hands yuk any way they have gone thank goodness Lara

lucky mouse, gets fed as well eh!,i live in a 15th century farmhouse if only it was only the mice that kept me awake at nights, maybe your cat will catch it, happy hunting, keri

Many years ago we heard scuttling and set a humane trap. We tried cheese, biscuits, hamster food, peanuts, chocolate to name a few. Nothing worked but one day I managed to corner the mouse with a large cardboard box as it ran along the landing. It was so tiny, -a field mouse. I took it many roads away and released it from the box and have never had trouble since.

Karen ,it sounds like a field mouse lose in you Hoose. I am afraid that you will have no alternative in my opinion but to use a sring back trap. Even if you were able to catch it alive Im afraid (unless you took it miles away0 that it would return to your property. If you have no male in the house try and ask a male to set traps (I had 4) because as old as I am field mice are beautiful creatures with blue eyes and it can be upsetting when caught, You must remember they are vermin and need to be cleared from your house.This sounds dramatic but it is not. The field mice in our house were a family and so cunning they got their food by upsetting a plastic basin with chocolate buttons in it ,the dogs treats and eating over 1/4 lb before we realised what was happening. Although in a cupboard we were blaming the dog! but could not see how he could open the door. Rupert Bear