I have been embarrassed to mention that we discovered that my mum had mice in the house.She was unaware and we kept it from her, but it was a bit odd sleeping in her living room those two nights knowing it!
When changing her bedding we had seen droppings under the mattress.
Before mum went into the home and on one of the few days we managed to get her out of bed and into the living room, OH tackled the bedroom.
Mum had a habit of waking in the night and taking snacks to bed. We knew this as she often told us. What we didn't know as I never had cause to go into the bedroom, was that crumbs etc littered the sides and beneath the bed, and she didn't take the crisps and biscuit wrappers away, or clean in there. So weeks of debris had accumulated . Under the other single bed which had been my dads, OH found the nest, with many many wrappers etc. No mice, but in the living room I had found a packet of biscuits chewed open and nibbled and a Mars Bar. Lots of dropping too so we thought there must be a mouse or mice about still.
Once mum was in the care home OH borrowed a mousetrap, and set it, and I hoped no mouse would be caught. Sadly, although I did not see it, one was.
I couldn't bear to think of any more dying, so we looked into ordering a humane one online.
OH being OH, decided she could probably make one. With instructions from Your Tube, a plastic lemonade bottle, pen, bottle tops and a couple of other things, she did.
She put it down at mums, with peanut butter as bait which is apparently irresistible.
Today we went to mums and success, a sweet little mouse was in there!
He/she looked a bit greasy from peanut butter oil but nor worse apart from that. We drove away (as we have heard they come back in if you release them in the same garden) and let it go in the countryside.
OH has washed the bottle out and we will have to do it again.
My family are impressed especially DD3. They had a mouse in the apartment in Canada and bought several humane traps, and didn't catch a single mouse.
When changing her bedding we had seen droppings under the mattress.
Before mum went into the home and on one of the few days we managed to get her out of bed and into the living room, OH tackled the bedroom.
Mum had a habit of waking in the night and taking snacks to bed. We knew this as she often told us. What we didn't know as I never had cause to go into the bedroom, was that crumbs etc littered the sides and beneath the bed, and she didn't take the crisps and biscuit wrappers away, or clean in there. So weeks of debris had accumulated . Under the other single bed which had been my dads, OH found the nest, with many many wrappers etc. No mice, but in the living room I had found a packet of biscuits chewed open and nibbled and a Mars Bar. Lots of dropping too so we thought there must be a mouse or mice about still.
Once mum was in the care home OH borrowed a mousetrap, and set it, and I hoped no mouse would be caught. Sadly, although I did not see it, one was.
I couldn't bear to think of any more dying, so we looked into ordering a humane one online.
OH being OH, decided she could probably make one. With instructions from Your Tube, a plastic lemonade bottle, pen, bottle tops and a couple of other things, she did.
She put it down at mums, with peanut butter as bait which is apparently irresistible.
Today we went to mums and success, a sweet little mouse was in there!
He/she looked a bit greasy from peanut butter oil but nor worse apart from that. We drove away (as we have heard they come back in if you release them in the same garden) and let it go in the countryside.
OH has washed the bottle out and we will have to do it again.
My family are impressed especially DD3. They had a mouse in the apartment in Canada and bought several humane traps, and didn't catch a single mouse.
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