How to catch a Mouse?
By chillpill90
@chillpill90 (1936)
February 17, 2011 5:25am CST
Hey I am in a student house and I think that a mouse keeps coming in my room late at night and going under my bed. I am hoovering my room like every 2 days now to make sure there is no food for it on the floor. I cannot afford to go and buy one of those electric mice repellents. I think that its a field mouse but i do not see for long as it comes in under my door and runs straight under my bed.
I am considering putting like a homemade mouse trap near my door as thats where it normally comes in, but I have no idea how to make one. Or alternatively I could just block the bottom of the door so it can no longer come in but what could I use to do this?
I am also considering blocking the sides of the bed so that it cant get under the bed or if its there it cant get out
What is the best way you know to catch a mouse which is not too expensive?
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5 responses
@carolcadavez (46)
• Philippines
17 Feb 11
Hello there! If it is just a tiny little mouse i recommend a fly paper. Yes you read it right a fly paper. It is so cheap and it works wonderfully for me.Just open a fly paper and place it by a wall where the mouse usually scurry.You should also place a piece of food in the middle of the fly paper as to attract that little mouse to its sticky part. And by morning if the infestation is really severe you would have caught for yourself a little mouse. What you do next is you fold the mouse into the paper so that you would secure its capture and throw it out in the trash somewhere.Do not throw it in you trash because in 2 days or so it would die and start to stink on you.Replace the fly paper each night and place new food on the center as before until no mouse would be caught on them again.I hope this will work for you so you would have a good night sleep with no mouse horrors.
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
17 Feb 11
Hello carol and welcome to myLot. You have come to the right place to get the answer to catching a mouse. Go to the hardware store and get a simple spring mouse trap for about $1.60. Put a tiny bit of peanut butter on it. I find mice love peanutbutter better than cheese. Just enough So the mouse has to work to get the peanutbutter off the trap so it can spring. It will catch the mouse. Then you take a dust pan to scoop up the mouse, trap and all and toss it in the garbage. Or get someone else to scoop it up and toss it. These always work for me.
@carolcadavez (46)
• Philippines
18 Feb 11
Thank you for the warm welcome deebomb!I will try your version off that mouse trap but locally its expensive to get those little contraptions and just throw them away afterward.Its really a good idea but a bit expensive for me.Besides that mouse trap discussion, i would like to emphasize my response on your welcome note.I do love other social networks too like facebook but its only here in mylot where i could really freely express my thought and use a huge chunk of my brains to interact with good thinking individuals in every level and field of interest!The earning was the first catch for me but then i realized that what we earn here is so minute in comparison to other things i could do but each day as i would join discussions i became more satisfied to have conversed with people rather than just to have peeped in the websites and watching their photos.I find it so much challenging and rewarding at the same time to converse in myLot.Thank you for your welcome, it means so much to me!
@GreenMoo (11834)
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17 Feb 11
Could you borrow a cat for a day or two? Even if you get rid of this mouse you will probably need to block up it's access to your room otherwise you may find that it's just replaced with another before too long.
If you are in a student house could your landlord not offer a solution to the problem?
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@chillpill90 (1936)
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17 Feb 11
I contacted the landlord and they will not do anything they are saying that its the tennants responsibility to get rid of the mouse and sort the problem.
@chillpill90 (1936)
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17 Feb 11
yeah but I do not know anyone with a cat, how would you go about blocking the back of your door? would you use one of those draught blocker things?
@rosegardens (3034)
• United States
18 Feb 11
If you do not have other pets, put some Decon down and a plastic lid with water for it to drink. Mice are nasty; they carry disease and their poo is even dangerous to inhale. You probably do not have just one mouse.
I found some mice droppings in a cupboard that sits above the floor, above a radiator. To this day, I have no idea how the thing got in my cupboard. It must have come through the wall, but I cannot see how. They have a unique ability to collapse and get into tight spaces. If your building is old, it is very easy for them to get around in the walls.
Move if you can. Mice are vermin; like rats they carry disease.
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@rosegardens (3034)
• United States
22 Feb 11
You may be able to get out of the contract because of the conditions. I just watched one of those reality show judges and there was a similar situation. Tenant was over run with mice, rats, etc. and the judge ruled in favor of the tenant. The landlord did not want to deal with the situation and said there was nothing could be done about it. The judge did see it differently. Contact your city housing authority. Find out what your options are. It is dangerous where you live.
@lady1993 (27224)
• Philippines
17 Feb 11
When we had mice before, my mom just puts this really sticky thing in some places and puts a bit rice on it or rat killer. And the day after, some mice get stuck on it. You can always try rat traps- with the cheese and all. But I suggest the sticky paper. 
@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
17 Feb 11
Hello chillpill,
I had a mouse in my apartment once, I don't know where it came from. Everybody adviced me to buy some poison for it but I had a dog inside and she could have eat the poison instead of the mouse. I also didn't like the idea of killing the mouse, so I wanted to catch it alive.
So I made a mouse trap like I saw at my grandmother.
I took a glass jar, a walnut, a nail and a piece of ham.
I pinned the piece of ham at the end of the nail, then sticking the nail in the walnut. I put the jar with his bottom up, with the jar rim on the walnut. The ham was somewhere under the jar so when the mouse came and wanted to eat the ham, he moved the ham, the nail, the walnut and bang! he was trapped under the jar.
I forgot to tell you that all this trap must be positioned on a piece of wood or a big book or other hard support, so that when the mouse is trapped, you will be able to pick it up and throw him outside.
Here's a drawing I made, this is how the trap should look.
I forgot to tell you that all this trap must be positioned on a piece of wood or a big book or other hard support, so that when the mouse is trapped, you will be able to pick it up and throw him outside.
Here's a drawing I made, this is how the trap should look.1 person likes this
@rosegardens (3034)
• United States
18 Feb 11
If you throw it outside alive, it will just make it's way back inside. Also it will mate with other mice.
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@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
18 Feb 11
But nobody force you to throw it outside alive. I did this because I don't like to kill animals (well, except bugs 
...)
When I catched that mouse, I took it two streets away and let him free on a vacant land. I hope he survived.
Once you catched it and you have him captive inside the jar, you can do whatever you like with the poor mouse.