get a mouse from under the kitchen units?

[vicki]

Re- mice (see, I can stay on topic, mods ) the humane traps worked well for us, we baited ours with chocolate spread. Just release the poor creature quickly.

MW

I wasn't going to mention this because it's a bit gruesome but I agree with MW release the poor creature quickly - we used a humane trap under our stairs and forgot about it, went away for a week - came back and one of the mice had given birth in there and they were all dead - and v v stinky - not at all humane in that particular case.

Were you not excited to see if you'd caught anything?! I was checking our trap hourly!!

[Millymollymandy]

Re- mice (see, I can stay on topic, mods ) the humane traps worked well for us, we baited ours with chocolate spread. Just release the poor creature quickly.

MW

I wasn't going to mention this because it's a bit gruesome but I agree with MW release the poor creature quickly - we used a humane trap under our stairs and forgot about it, went away for a week - came back and one of the mice had given birth in there and they were all dead - and v v stinky - not at all humane in that particular case.

Ohhhhh that's really sad!

[Thomzo]

Hmmm, I have had to take too many plinths off kitchen units for the very same reason and they never go back quite right somehow. For this very reason, the last two kitchens that I designed and installed (in my own home that is) I didn't put plinth on but just had the legs on show. It means that you can run the vacuum or a mop underneath.

When you've taken out as many kitchens as I have you get quite frightened about what you can find underneath them

Back to the mice, I am surprisingly good at catching mice using an icecream tub or similar. The funiest bit is watching the cat afterwards as she wanders around the room looking for the non-existent mouse even though she has just watched me catch it and put it out. They just can't make the connection.

Good luck with the mouse problem. Hopefully one of the cats will do their job tonight.

Zoe

[windy]

Well this is turning into 'mouse wars' here the damn things still under there..the cats just havent seen it. I have the door open and a line of crisps there now, hoping to lure him out and then I can catch him (or club him to death with a tin of beans ) The 'snap your head off' trap is flamin useless....it just looks at it like an 'all you can eat' buffet Ordered humane traps online, still havent arrived and now Im worrying that the darn thing is breedin under there not to mention the build up of droppings Fat Lazy House Cat who brought em in has now reverted back to her old ways, of sleepin, eatin and washin and hasnt shown the slightest interest in the damn things again grrrrr Wish the assassin would spot it...but she's too busy huntin meeces outdoors to spend any time in the house grrr

The ex said he'd poison it.....dunno?? Do you think thats an option? Sounds scary to me...but Im gettin desperate now

[Millymollymandy]

The ex said he'd poison it.....dunno?? Do you think thats an option? Sounds scary to me...but Im gettin desperate now

Ummmm, possibly, but you'd have to be 100% sure that the cats couldn't get at the mouse when it died, and who knows where it might disappear off to to curl up and die? We've had dying poisoned rats wandering into our barn from the duck shed next door (which in turn is next to the chook shed which is where we buried the poison in their runs). Handy though cos the rat stumbling into the barn just got a spade walloped on its head then drowned to be doubly sure. I do hope the new lady in Denmark with the 3 little rats isn't reading this!

[Cloud]

We have a friends who one found a rat had got in to the domed space under the water cylinder and died. They had to get the plumber out to disconnect the pipes, lift the cylinder and extract dead rat - they only found it because it had started to smell.

Not cat related, but I once had a bird that fell down the chimney behind the gas fire. I didn't think it would get out so I stupidly tried to lift the fire away from the wall and ended up breaking the gas pipe. Not only did that cost me a fortune to get fixed, but the emergency gas man just turned off the mains supply, and I was left a week without CH or hot water.

@red, lovely mole. I've never seen one outside of a book before.

[Pixie]

If you are just looking to get the mouse out of it's hiding spot I have a trick. If you want to get it out of the house it does not work as well.

I have 3 mice that live with me in my house but one of them moved into a space just under my cupboard. I am sure that he moved every night but there he was every day and it started to get smelly with the poos. I have a little electronic device that keeps mice off the counter by emiting a high pitched sound that is to high for human ears to hear. It is plugged into a wall outlet normally so I put it on an extension cord and placed it so the soundwaves would bounce all over the little hiding spot. He ran out. I kept the device there for about a week to be safe but he never went back and hid there again.

[windy]

Ive now abandoned the crisp ploy . The weather has turned nasty so The Assassin Cat has come in for her weekly sleep day, I keep puttin her in the cupboard and Im sure she can sense something...its only a matter of time before she sees it (fingers crossed). The flamin humane traps still havent arrived grrrrrrrr Meanwhile I'm still cleaning every surface within an inch of its life and am starting to get v.paranoid about droppings. There's been no sign of it anywhere but inside one cupboard, so I suppose I should be thankful

[Millymollymandy]

So what happened then?

We have just had (or rather have) the same problem with a shrew in the bathroom, thanks to the cat - tried putting down a humane trap but the little thing just squeezed out of the 1cm wide holes in the cage!!! Tried catching it when I saw it and it was in a corner but it just disappeared behind a tiny gap in a plinth under a cupboard.

Ruddy thing left poop everywhere - anyway it has not been seen for 24 hours so we think it's gone and karked it under the cupboard (it was probably injured by the cat anyway) which can't be taken apart so we await the smell. We did cover the humane trap with nylon mesh so it couldn't get out but as it hasn't ventured out from its hidey hole anyway, we were too late! We will know 'next time'.

[Cloud]

We will know 'next time'.

You need to be more shrewd

How's the smell coming along.

[Millymollymandy]

Well luckily for us little shrewy (who I think was a bit injured anyway by my cat) very kindly decided to come out from under the cupboard and go into one of them, gnaw through a plastic bag bag and die in there. I recognised that rotting cabbagey smell straight away. So shrewy was found and disposed of, I washed out the cupboards where he'd been running around (luckily one contained loads of spuds which he hadn't had a go at) and all is well that ends well.

Lot better than the last time when a mouse decided to die in my laundry basket but not before eating a good amount of my towelling dressing gown!

Oh and ha ha at your joke!