Mouse in the house!

ours like bacon, and even soft mints!! Is it a old fashioned trap (guilliotine) or a humane one. I'd lend you my cats if you were near

Chocolate or pate have worked for us in the traps ( humane)
I would lend you our cat but he appears to think mice are ok indoors and only catches them outside.

I could lend you either of our adult cats. They are really caring and catch mice outside to bring them into the warm!!

Mine too Kitty, and then lose all interest and get bored, as the little critter runs under the fridge.

Lynker, have you actually seen the mouse? If so, can`t you manage to get hold of it and put it outside, without the use of traps? That`s what I did. Since we got a cat though, the only mouse we`ve had is one that the cat brought in and let go!

Chocolate or bacon rind, smoked a bit by burning with match are good baits.

We got cats when we moved here and had mice visiting from the fields behind us. We soon found out that the cats brought far more in than had ever got in under their own steam. Now we're down to one grumpy old indoors cat, they seem to keep their distance. Perhaps they saw what she did to the milkman when he got too near her catflap.

We had plagues of them when we lived in the country and they did a lot of damage. Chewing electric wires, piano felts inside parts of the car and van etc.
So we had to resort to poison, which did work. Sachets placed where other animals couldn't reach.

Chocolate in a humane trap has worked for me.

On another occasion, I managed to corner the mouse and grab hold of it. Perhaps I was lucky. Anyway, I ran with it to the bottom of the garden and let it go. It never came back.

Good luck! When you've got rid of the mouse, look for how it got into the cupboard in the first place and block up the entrance if you can.

Old-fashioned mouse traps (and there are modern improved versions) are humane: clean kill with no pre-stress. Get some and prime them with peanut butter. Your mouse problem will soon be over.

I recommend Rentokil ones. You don't have to touch the dead mouse to empty them.

I will send my cat over to deal with your mouse.

I would use chocolate, peanut butter or Nutella in a trap. As the weather cools down you may have another unwelcome mouse or two unfortunately.

My worst nightmare. Last summer we had a mouse in our downstairs bathroom. I am very phobic about mice. We thought we had blocked the pipe where it came up. However a few days later I went into the kitchen and saw the mouse. It began jumping against the dishwasher. I was sick with horror. I phoned my husband and made him come home. We went straight out and bought a trap. It took a few days but we caught it with peanut butter. I wish I wasn't so scared of mice.

I've very recently read that a humane way to get them scuttling off elsewhere is to soak cotton wool pads in peppermint oil, and lay the pads around the house. Evidently they hate the stuff.

I discovered one of my cats 'presents' in a kitchen cupboard. It had chewed through pasta, rice and cereal packets - plus a full packet of indigestion tablets! I've baited traps with peanut butter which has worked. Thankfully it's been a while since the last offering, she's too lazy to be bothered these days!

You can borrow my cat! He catches loads of 'em, dead or alive.

Get a humane trap and put chocolate in it. Mice love chocolate. Don't ask me why. Put the trap near a skirting board as they tend to run round the edge of a room. When you've caught it, put it far far away as they can come back.

Good luck.

If you put a mouse "far far away" you will be putting it into the territory of other mice, who will kill it inhumanely. So you will not have achieved anything humane.

Old-fashioned mouse traps are humane. So called humane mouse traps are only humane for a short time. Not having to kill a mouse yourself (with a trap) does not mean you are being humane towards it.

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My cats are useless. They might tun after a mouse but ive never seen one catch it. My previous cat was too good she killef our escaped getbil and vomited the the bits later. I would use poison as i get rats too.

Don't bother with trap..... Just like spiders, moths, and stuff of any kind it's a gazillion times smaller than you.... Just pick it up and put it outside the house. Then get my hubby of the furniture where he will have been perched ... fussing like a Victorian dame ,having fit of vapours!! Fuss or what!!

Our cat brings toy mice up when we are in bed, and miaows until we dozily call out " clever girl! Well done!"
We have managed to keep her outside with real mice....so far....

When we lived in a very rural area we had lots of field mice visiting, they even used to run across in front when I was on the downstairs loo!
I used to use Chocolate in an empty jam jar (they didn't seem to be able to get out) and I could hear it rolling around. As I am a bit of a softie they just got released back into the fields.
However do be aware that they urinate constantly over all surfaces so I became very fussy about cleaning in the kitchen

Two failsafe methods. Firstly put Nutella or some other chocolate spread on the trap, as they have to make an effort to remove it, it triggers the trap.. Secondly, if you have more than one mouse, and in my experience they are rarely on their own, put some poison into the toe end of a nylon stocking and mix with bird seed, tie into a bag and put down where you know they are. As they devour the seed they also ingest the poison. We lived in the countryside and as soon as the weather cooled we would get these visitors. However, we didn’t make them welcome and got rid of them within a couple of days!

Thank you for your comments ladies. Despite adding chocolate to the traps yesterday, it is still on the run! I am with Saggi's husband....but on the worktop! My husband saw it when he opened the cupboard door a few days ago, but he just closed the door quickly so it didn't get out and into the house! The washer is in a built in cupboard and obviously has plumbing through the back. We need to catch it soon as there is laundry to be done and I need to get off the worktop!

We've always found that just having a cat about the place somehow deters mice. Our old boy doesn't go out and is very slow moving anyway so unlikely ever to catch anything really.
A friend sprayed peppermint scent along skirting and in cupboards to prevent mice. Don't know if it worked but visiting her always reminded me to check when my next dental appointment was.