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I've been able to hear mice in the walls since I moved in, and I found a massive chunk nibbled out of a loaf of bread a couple of days ago, but today I saw a mouse running over our kitchen counters for the first time. I am incredibly freaked out! Urgh!

Go to your local DIY/hardware store and see if they have any bait trays and bait for sale. Put them near where you think the mice might be coming out of the walls or running around. Refill the trays every day or two.

We had mice a while back, and we did this. The trays went between the fridge and tumble dryer, on the kitchen windowsill, in a hard to reach corner of the sitting room (not the ideal place for reaching mice but the only place the dogs wouldn't get it), between the wall and the vegetable rack, and on the storage counter. A few weeks later, we weren't finding or hearing any sign of mice.

Even when you think they're gone, leave the trays down to prevent them coming back in.

I'm going to get some traps rather than bait, hopefully they'll do the trick. The only reason I haven't so far is because one of my housemates said he would buy some this weekend. He didn't >:(

Use peanut butter in the the traps. They fucking love peanut butter.

We tried traps first, but they didn't work. The mice just wouldn't go near them. Plus then you have to get rid of either a live mouse (which has to be at least a mile away or else it will come back) or a dead one (no, you can't just throw it in the bin), if you use a trap. Bait means they die out of sight, therefore out of mind.

nayrt - I have had great success with traps (with peanut butter), and i like them because they kill quickly. The mouse has some yummy peanut butter, snap, and they wake up in heaven. You have to set them up correctly (bait towards the wall), because mice tend to scurry around the edges of things,but it's worked well.

Just wondering why you think you can't throw them in the bin? That's what I do.

Is getting a cat an option?

No, it's a student house.

Get something that smells like cat from someone and rub it around your baseboards or something.

IKR? I can't believe there was a time, long ago, when I thought mice were cute. Too much Beatrix Potter I guess. You know they pee constantly everywhere they go, as well as shit--right? I have a cat now, and he makes short work of them (comes from a long line of barn cats; his full name is William the Bloody for the professional way he slaughtered his catnip mice when he was just a tiny thing), but I used to have them every winter. They can squeeze through a hole smaller than a dime, and every winter I'd think I had every possible way in blocked up, but still they got inside.

Get some of those old-fashioned spring traps and put them along the walls. If you have dogs (or non-mousing cats), consider putting the traps in empty cardboard milk cartons--don't rinse them, let them dry, so the inside smells of dry milk--it attracts them. We always baited ours with peanut butter.

Another thing to do for the duration is to keep your bread in the (cold) oven, and keep things like pasta, rice, dried fruit, oatmeal and the like in glass jars, preferably the bail-top kind with glass lids.

Good luck, anon, and don't forget to swab down everything in reach with bleach water after you've got rid of the nasty little fucks.

Thanks! Urgh, every time I remember the peeing thing I feel disgusted all over again. Mice are awful.

Good luck!

Oh dammit! We had a mouse in the house a little bit ago (but we have a great mouser cats!) and now after reading this all I can think about mouse pee everywhere!

I must have deep house cleaning today.

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