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I think I might invest in some of those sonic things, I cant go through this again. Karen

I empathise with you all I really do! When we lived in one of our old family homes we had a mouse in our 'dancing room' (large hallway type room) and my mother, brother and sister were besides themselves. So I had to chase this mouse around with a bucket in an attempt to catch it! I did eventually and then I used to a spade underneath the bucket to move the mouse into a box.

daughter phoned me yesterday, two baby mice playing in the middle of my front room floor, granddaughter (2 1\2) and daughter petrified, would not set trap when hubby and i got home from work, couldnt find them or where they had come but the traps are down, so hopefully by the time we get home tonight they will be gone. we had a large problem with this a few months ago and it took us weeks to get rid of them but then i bought those sonic thingys and they are supposed to keep them out but it sends the ones inside absolutely batty i think they scramble their brains, they are guaranteed for two years so as the mice are back i think i will contact the company and see what they have to say if not has any one got a cat (whose not frighted of two labs and a springer) i can borrow! Hevi

Hi Karen lucky you I got a phone call at 6.30 this morning - my sister has a screeching thingy in the kitchen and its head is stuck out from the sink cupboard! Got the neigbour in from up the road and it isnt a guinea pig as she thought! It was a bloo*y RAT! Environmentalt health said they may be able to send someone over tomorrow! Needless to say, after she gave them a piece of her mind, thay will try to send someone out taday! Poor lass is too petrified to go in the kitchen and her little lass wouldnt let the neigbour kill it! PMSL Vikki xx

WHOOOHOOOO Hope you haven't been scarred for life! lol Love becx

Just had a call from my Dad, hes been back home, mouse had taken choc drops again but hadnt set off the trap. So my Dad got a shovel and chased it around the room for 10 mins before catching up with it and giving it a good bashing :-) once it had stopped breathing my dad through it over the fence and a cat appeared from nowhere and ran off with it :-D Yippee I can now sleep at night :-)

Update on mouse Mouse has got downstairs now - heard alot of noise last night so think my cat must have found it and got it downstairs. This morning I came face to face with the mouse by my fridge and had a panic attack. My Dad came to the rescue and calmed me down - otherwise I would still be there now as I was completely frozen to the spot :-( My dad has sealed up the lounge which is where the mouse is and hes put traps down so fingers crossed it should be gone by the time I get home otherwise my Dad is going to bring his cat round whose apparently a good mouse catcher Karen

karen we had them in our lounge a few weeks ago aswell they had come in from under the conservatory hubby put chocolate in the mousetrap,they love it no more mice now!! we did try cheese at first but they werent even tempted lol susie

Not being a cat owner - would a well fed house cat actually catch mice? I always thought it was the hungry ones that went for them.

I've had two live ones in over the weekend.Desmond catches me a present and then when he sees me he loses interest and drops it.I don't do the trapping bit any more.I never see them alive again,nor do I see any dung so I think he catches them later.Sometimes one will die under a piece of furniture and stink so I have to shift it,they never die under light furniture. It's no good expecting them to catch the thing when you want them to or when you are watching.They are cats,it must be entirely their own idea.

Hope you catch him honey! Years ago our family house was a massive three storey Mill House and my sister and I slept in the attic rooms. I used to lie there at night and listen to the mice scratching the sloping walls above my head... not nice!

If you want a tip for bait, mice love Bonio dog biscuits (took a box out of a cupboard once to find it completely empty except for mouse droppings) and rats love dried dog food (put a few bits on the lawn next to the summer house where a rat had gone, out comes rat and met an untimely end courtesy of son's air rifle.

Hiya After refilling the mouse trap about 3 times yesterday and the blooming thing not going off, I decided enough was enough, Whodeane (I decided to give him a name just incase it made me less scared of him! :-) was going to have to die, so my Dad has been round this morning and set up a proper mouse trap so by this evening when I get home fingers crossed there will be one dead squashed mouse, the only prob is then I have to remove the mouse from the trap as apparently its a reuseable trap, ek! not looking forward to that at all! Karen

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

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.

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

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

Calm down Linda its just a commercial! Dx

Morning, Have you seen the mouse? URGGHHH Linda

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