Any tips on how to deal with mice phobia

I suppose they have to be kept away from other animals, the bait boxes?
I'd have some outside if I could, I think.

I live in the countryside and years ago we had mice inside one of the walls and could hear them scuttling around at night. Pest control ended up blocking all possible entrances and basically waited for them to die. Took around 6 mths and smell was dreadful. Now have bait boxes all around outside perimeter which i regularly fill with rat poison.

It depends if you want to remove them, alive, or need to annihilated them.

I absolutely cannot stand spiders - I'm petrified of them.

I don't have a problem with mice, but I do hate spiders. I put an old dressing gown alongside my bed (we sleep in separate beds) against the wall to try and stop them coming up from the floor. Went to settle down last night, and there was one on top of the dressing gown. I disposed of it, but then couldn't sleep for imagining more of them on the bed. Anybody have any ideas for spider phobia?

To be fair to mice I always keep sticks in watering cans, buckets etc outside so that if they fill up with water due to rain so a mouse could drown in them they can climb out. I’ve found some that have drowned and felt awful about it. But they aren’t allowed in my house, I’m too germ phobic.

I keep humane traps around loaded with peanut butter on bread. Fortunately I don't have a phobia of them as the cat regularly brings them in but I've become quite a dab hand at catching those myself.

I meant to say, if you use a trap, you can put it inside a box, so that you don't have to look at anything upsetting.

Just throw the box away and anything contained within.

Thank you everybody for taking the time to reply , I really appreciate this.

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MrB and I had a conversation during our last mouse visitation. There were two of them in the loft but it sounded like there were dozens having a ceilidh! Noisy buggers! The thing is, mice really want to live with we humans and if they weren't such destructive little beasts (and noisy!) we felt sure we could have come to an amicable arrangement with them.

As it is, I've overcome my jitters about them over the years with good traps (made by a well-known pest control company) and chucking them into the field alongside our garden for crows to scavenge.

Now if signs show they're inading again, I just think "Blighters!" and set the traps which, as well as being efficient, are also humane as the mouse doesn't know a thing about it and dies happy with a sniff of peanut butter in its nostrils.

BlueBelle

They do make you jump as they are so fast but they are really rather sweet little things and I have a soft spot for them but of course I don’t really want to share my home with them.
I find the plug ins really don’t detract anything I bought one that was suppose to stop cats in their tracks and I wanted to stop cats from pooing in my garden I watched a cat actually doing just that close by this electronic thing, and so I sent the item back with a photo I got my money back

I wish I had a "like" button.🤣🤣🤣🤣

They're cute, but have no sphincter muscles.
I researched for ages, made myself watch videos of different traps, and decided the snap trap was the most humane killing method. (That's backed up by pest controllers, too)

Now I have an electric trap thing.

I quite like mice, they`re cute, but obviously don`t want them in the house. We haven`t had any for a few years, but we also have a cat, which could explain it. I sometimes see the cat quietly trailing a mouse round the edge of the yard, so I try to catch it before it`s harmed and transport it to the canal bank round the front of the house.

When I said to my boy I thought we had a mouse, he said "Oh yeah, it lives under the toaster - I videoed it and put it on tiktok"

We once had a pest control company come round and they said the mice were probably coming under the floorboards from next door. No surprises there. We know our neighbours, a 95 year old woman and her 70 year old son are extremely tardy when it comes to keeping the house clean. When we visited once food was piled up everywhere, I think they hoard it. Asked the pest control company to call on them to explain the problem but they were less than cooperative. Thankfully we should be moving soon.
Anyway this means that we have a recurring problem with mice, but we watched what the pest control people did, and just repeat it everytime. We are successful in getting rid of them but when winter rolls around I will hear them chewing behind the skirting boards.

They do make you jump as they are so fast but they are really rather sweet little things and I have a soft spot for them but of course I don’t really want to share my home with them.
I find the plug ins really don’t detract anything I bought one that was suppose to stop cats in their tracks and I wanted to stop cats from pooing in my garden I watched a cat actually doing just that close by this electronic thing, and so I sent the item back with a photo I got my money back

She doesn’t sleep in the crate. It’s in the kitchen and she uses it on the rare occasion that I leave her in the house alone ( she’s a lockdown dog and, unlike my previous dogs isn’t used to being home alone). The poor mouse was leading a wonderful life raiding my larder every night and sleeping in the dogs bed. But I’ve had mice before that moved into the living room and saw what damage they can do. I have a plug in mouse deterrent but it does nothing.

I quite like mice but you really do have to get rid of them in the house.Good luck Coronation🐭🍀

MayBee70

I had a mouse in my kitchen recently. Can’t believe the mess it created. It was sleeping in a corner of my dog’s crate. No idea how it got in. It must have just sneaked in when I let the dog out one night. I tried a humane trap but it didn’t work so I’m afraid I resorted to a trap. I’m away from home quite a lot and dread to think of how much damage it would have done over four weeks if I hadn’t noticed it. I didn’t find that peppermint repelled it: in fact it was eating the rice in a peppermint pot pourri I’d made using peppermint oil.

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Wasn’t the dog bothered about it sleeping in its crate?
We have an old house that does get a mouse or two now and again but DP baits a few traps which give a quick death.In the past, having a cat just meant more mice as they brought them in alive and lost them.We put mature cheddar in the traps, a strong scent. On the odd occasion a mouse manages to steal the cheese and escape with it.

I had a mouse in my kitchen recently. Can’t believe the mess it created. It was sleeping in a corner of my dog’s crate. No idea how it got in. It must have just sneaked in when I let the dog out one night. I tried a humane trap but it didn’t work so I’m afraid I resorted to a trap. I’m away from home quite a lot and dread to think of how much damage it would have done over four weeks if I hadn’t noticed it. I didn’t find that peppermint repelled it: in fact it was eating the rice in a peppermint pot pourri I’d made using peppermint oil.

I get them quite frequently here; it's an old building, poorly maintained,with pipes and gaps and probably a sign outside, welcoming them.
I like animals, but I don't want mice around!! urgh!

As for said mou se, get rid ASAP.

Someone I know has a subscription or whatever it is called, for the pest control people.
As, as it seems from what you post, like you, theirs is not a one off occurence.

It is almost certainly a death sentence to relocate nice elsewhere.

I don't think mot liking nice and being afraid of them is a phobia.

I am petrified of spiders, really, really afraid of them, but I'm not sure it's a phobia.

I read recently that if you catch a mouse in a humane trap it might ease your conscious but if you take them out of their environment it is likely they will either return or slowly starve to death
Don’t know how true it is.

I am ridiculously phobic of mice and rats!