How To Get Rid Of A Mouse Thats In The Wall Somehow?

[bae1994]

smoke it out

 

[simonas]

well the blasted thing is in the cavitys somehow. could hear it this morning when I was in bed and its got in via the garage under the floorboards or between walls I don;t know

 

[JoshuaA]

Call in an air strike, then some artillery fire support and covering fire from a bunch of marines.

Failing that get a nice little mouse trap and some cheese. Have a delicious cheese and salami butty and then put the trap down, I would say put cheese on the trap but that's rather predictable. You can get plastic traps now which are deemed more humane as they have a larger crushing area compared to the thin metal rod that can just paralyse the mouse until it chokes to death. The plastic ones however if they're powerful can make quite a mess, it's hard trying to lure the mouse in especially if it's where it is now.

You are intending to rent your house out aren't you? House with added mouse factor.

 

[FreedomFighter]

I'd just like to point out, Mice don't eat cheese. Cheese is actually effectively poison to mice, so they avoid it, well, like poison.

If you want to cat a mice, use a wheat cracker, or some seeds or some cereal.

I'd prefer a more humane way of removing it, as I personally love mice, but if it's being a nuisance then extremes are called for.

 

[Ben M]

I've had success with bread and apple on mouse traps. I used to like mice until they wiped out all 12 of my Guinea pigs with a disease. I now have no mercy.

 

[Littlemonkey]

When I worked in Birmingham, near the canals we got a lot of mice, I would use beaked beans or chocolate, this was the favorite. Only down side was I was the one who had to remove the mice from the traps in the mornings.

 

[Flute]

There are humane traps that don't kill mice. Stick some chocolate in one end, and as it runs in it's weight closes the trap and there you go. You can then just let it go somewhere. No need to kill him

 

[Ben M]

The problem with letting it go is that it might just go straight back into your wall. I've got an idea, catch it in a humane trap and then feed it live to your boa!

 

[JoshuaA]

I'd just like to point out, Mice don't eat cheese. Cheese is actually effectively poison to mice, so they avoid it, well, like poison.

Haha, that's why I suggested Simon should buy some and make a sandwich with it!

 

[seffieuk]

The problem is, where there is one mouse, there are probably more

Before i had the cats we thought we had 'one' mouse - put one of those humane traps down, the sort that catches them alive, caught it the first night (put a digestive biscuit in there) and took it over the fields in the morning - we were well chuffed for some reason the trap was left out over night in the kitchen, no bait! And yes, you guessed it, another mouse the next morning .....this went on for a week luckily and by coincidence I was due to pick up my first little Bengal cat, as soon as she came home, no, more mice.

Seffie x

ps as much as I dont like mice in the house, I couldn't use one of those traps that break their necks

 

[JoshuaA]

ps as much as I dont like mice in the house, I couldn't use one of those traps that break their necks

Yeh they are pretty upsetting to use, depending on what type you have you can end up with a real mess on your floor.

I think it's worse using poison though as you end up with a dead mouse somewhere rotting away. In the end that mouse will have died in the field pretty fast. They're so cute but just not what you need in a house it's a sad situation.

 

[Ben M]

you say you had more than one, but are you sure it wasn't the same one following you in from the field lol?

also i think poisons are horrible in the way that they kill the mice.

 

[GAB99]

Go to the animal shelter, adopt a terrier, find a 15-20 pounder. Between three houses & half a dozen terriers over 25 years I've had a mouse in the house exactly once. This was the day after the kids had a beer bash long ago, revolving door of people in & out. Got a frantic & slightly hung over phone call from my daughter while I was at the other end of town helping my brother move, mouse ran across the living room, into the closet.

Well, open the closet, point Ozzy in the general direction. Lifespan for a mouse in the house is under a minute when you involve a cairn, dispatching vermin is what they are made for. All this time my daughter thought Ozzy was just her fuzzy little buddy, he's a ruthless killing machine!

gotta love the terriers

ive got three miniature schnauzers and like tolak we only had 1 mouse, and it never got in the house lol.

however with the move and the cold weather we now have a family of squirrels in our attic, trying to get them out as well before something not so cute and cuddly moves in (like say, raccons or possums or a hornets nest)
when i was sleeping my family went into an attic and battles it out with the squirrels, they used my airsoft mp5 rifle and my brothers airsoft shotgun along with a broom, not lethal but not a walk in the park eitherso hopefully they know to stay away lol.

tho birds i dont mind, weve got some cardinals nesting so thats nice lol

 

[Ben M]

TBH, I don't think it's a good idea to be firing fake guns at the squirrels. How powerful are they? If they are relatively powerful, they could injure them, and I hate to see an injured animal when I'm shooting, which can happen once or twice. Which is where the dog comes in to grab it.

why don't you put your terriers into the attic to kill them?

 

[GAB99]

TBH, I don't think it's a good idea to be firing fake guns at the squirrels. How powerful are they? If they are relatively powerful, they could injure them, and I hate to see an injured animal when I'm shooting, which can happen once or twice. Which is where the dog comes in to grab it.

why don't you put your terriers into the attic to kill them?

they arent that powerful, if anything they sting badly and leave bumps lol

and if i put my dogs in the attic they would fall throught the ventilation