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

[simonas]

A few weeks ago when the weather was starting to get cold I found a mouse in a box in the garage and it jumped and ran.
Could hear it after and I though oh bless. well now I can hear it from my living room wall nearer the ceiling and it would appear from looking at the adjourning garage that its in a hole in the mortar between bricks!!! I;m now worried about what damage it could do and wondering how the heck do I get rid of a mouse thats there.
Block the hole up? spray something in there bearing in mind its above my fish tank thats too big too move?

Simon

 

[seffieuk]

Borrow a cat! Or let one of those reptiles of yours lose

Seffie x

 

[simonas]

ha ha wish I could Betty the Boa would make mincemeat of a tiny mouse like that but shes too big to get in the hole!!

 

[KittyKat]

Make sure there is never any food out, anywhere in the house and it will leave quite quickly. We made sure all food was in the fridge or in containers where mice couldn't get to and they left within about a week. We used to have a hole from the house straight to the outside (under the house) because our landlord didn't put the floor down properly. In the end, we had a hedgehog live under the staircase who kept the mice away.

 

[ian]

Play Barry Manilow records really loud. Apparently this will render a mouse into a gibbering wreck and it will move next door.

 

[Tolak]

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!

 

[walkers101]

can you get access to the hole if so throw a few pellets in

 

[simonas]

I was thinking about decorators caulking it in a bit, if it is recked it means the mouse comes out maybe I can get it then with a trap or something

 

[Bazza57]

Trust me, the mouse will eat the decorators caulk

I get the little blighters in my garage (unattached) since I no longer have my 2 jack russell terriers.

Buy yourself a mouse trap, they are available from most high street stores wilkinsons etc & kill humanely - then feed it to your snake.

Apparently peanut butter is the best bait to use. keep the mouse trap for future use.
P.S. block-up that hole AFTER you have got the mouse - the place I used to work at got a rabbit trapped under floorboards which subsequently died on top of a heating pipe - it stunk the place out for weeks

 

[the biffster]

double barrel 12 bore shot gun
place cheese next to were its
been seen wait for it to show its
face then blow it off 12 bore over kill
i might hear you say but at least
you wont miss all you need to do
is find a silencer for a 12 bore
shot gun

 

[Ben M]

personally, I'd make sure there is no food available, and then put traps outside of its hole. We used to have mice in our stable store, but we got rid of them by a very effective method: first locate the mice, then place two Rottweilers outside of the door. then get a younger sister to chase the mice out of their hiding place. And finally swing at as many as possible with a metal bar from a goat tether to see how many you can kill before the dogs swallow them. It worked quite well.

BTW, mouse traps aren't very humane. When we put traps out in the stable occasionally if we get a mouse or two, they aren't killed instantly, and if you go in within a while of the mouse being trapped it is usually still alive, but pinned down, slowly dying. I once finished one off with my air rifle, and it wasn't pretty. Although, they aren't very suitable quarry, as they are usually inside. so i'll stick to rabbits.

cheers

 

[AstonN24vantage]

Get a cat! theyre much better than you think!

 

[stevereade]

Buy a rat, keep it in a cage for a month and it will be gone then sell the rat back to pets at home, unless you wanna keep it. You don't get mice where there are rats trust me the mouse will smell that rat and disappear.

Saves killing the poor little thing too.

 

[Ben M]

Buy a rat, keep it in a cage for a month and it will be gone then sell the rat back to pets at home, unless you wanna keep it. You don't get mice where there are rats trust me the mouse will smell that rat and disappear.

Saves killing the poor little thing too.

poor little thing lol... it's a mouse!

 

[the biffster]

shot gun or howitzer