Mouse Alert

[abstibus]

Could a mouse climb up an uncovered washing machine outlet pipe? Anyway, friend has one. She saw it running across her sitting room floor, next to the kutchen.
She lives on the second floor and had plumbing for washing machine done but hasn't got around to having the machine put in.
There have never been any mice before.
I tried Amazon to get a Rentokil mouse killer for her but they can't deliver to N Ireland - seems it's not part of the UK, which is news to me.
Can anyone suggest an effective trap for her little friend? Should she just get one of the traditional ones and bait it with melted chocolate or something else?
I know she's going to have hysterics on my shoulder again today.

[abstibus]

beejay lol.
Of course, the initials have another meaning here, lol.

[mrs_overall]

annemollie - yes, with a rather daring shade of scarlet.
I had the matching lipstick but the little beggars wouldn't keep still

[RiskyBiscuit]

So glad you are going for the humane traps.
Those old fashioned mousetraps are evil!
Chocolate and peanut butter work well.
Try and find where it is entering your house. House mice and field mice can get through the tiniest of gaps so plug up any holes securely if possible.
Good luck!

[murraymints]

Kill `em....they'll just come back....

[abstibus]

They probably came back because the polish had chipped.

[mrs_overall]

I second Murray - kill the blighters

[LochNessMonster]

Maybe the mouse is a plumber to trade ?

[marval]

I had them, we use the traps that kill them, peanut butter works very well.

[Mosaic]

To a mouse an uncovered pipe is a sheltered escalator where cats can't reach them as they get from one free meal to another.
If you don't see a mouse it does not mean they aren't in the building: wall cavities, between floors, behind skirtings - the kingdom of mouse-kind.
Mice have no bladder so trickle urine wherever they are sitting, standing, dancing or eating.
They breed phenomenally.
Humane traps are not humane to people. Mice carry diseases that people can catch. A dead mouse will not trouble you again. A little nipper trap baited with peanut butter is swift and cheap.
Do not anthropomorphise or romanticise about them, they are vermin.

[abstibus]

She's just been on the phone, wailing. I have passed on all the advice I got here, but I think she wants me to deal with it. Ain't my problem.
She can do what she wants with the mouse/mice.
I might emigrate.

[RiskyBiscuit]

I like mine lightly grilled on toast with a side portion of pie!
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/72/205530023_5fc3645fa9_z.jpg?zz=1
Delicious!
Maybe we can start a recipe thread?