Question

Really embarrassing but we have mice in our shed :( I've caught four already in traps. Do I just keep putting traps down? We've locked up the animal feed so they can't get to it. I'm not sure why they are still coming as the shed is empty apart from a lawnmower now. It's a solid concrete floor too . My husband wants to convert the shed to a workshop but we can't if mice are coming in :/

Answer 1

Put a clock outside and their natural instincts will make them climb it

Answer 2

I had rats in mine. We just used a humane trap and moved them. We also have rats under the summer house but have just left them. dont bother me

Answer 3

Why kill them if it's just a shed ?  

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@nightjar because she said they plan to make it an office.  

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Because we want to turn the shed into a workshop and attached to the shed is our bird rescue aviary

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@lesleelesley they will be going for the bird seed as long as there is a food source they will keep coming

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We have rat proof locked feed stores for the seed. couldnt see any nibble marks on so I am not sure if they are getting into them. My guess is I am not sweeping as well as I thought XD

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@lesleelesley is it a big shed? Like if you think it's from sweeping what about a cheap hoover to run over there, my dad has a yellow one from argos and he uses it on his concrete floor in shed x

Answer 4

Keep trapping them, they'll soon stop

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@sell4003 do you think there's a finite number of mice out there?  

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@andes no but I had exactly the same scenario in my shed. After tidying it up, we had another couple and as soon as they realise the food source is gone, they'll stop coming

Answer 5

Mice can get through a hole the size of a biro. Look for all those holes and fill them with wire wool, which they don't like to touch. They'll be looking for nesting sites so it'll be wild ones, so an endless supply.  

Answer 6

Find their entry point and cover it with steel wool

Answer 7

We relocated 19 mice to a more rural location, we caught a few at a time in a humane trap and set them free. I understand to some they are a pain but to me they are just trying to get by. It took several years before we got more visitors and this time we have left them  

Answer 8

We had mice in our garage, they would also occasionally walk round to our back door and let themselves in We tried traps which worked but weren't very nice so we rescued a cat and the cat keeps them away- we havent seen a mouse since except 2 dead ones in the garden

Answer 9

Have you thought about getting a cat?  

Answer 10

Gotta ask weres the embarrassing bit come from? 90 percent of the population have had a mouse in there shed garage or outbuildings at some point if someone is telling you they haven't there either tellin Porkie pies or haven't seen em it happens

Answer 11

I would suggest catching and taking to country side but I am not sure if you could call it "essential travel" or try and explain to the police why you have a box of mice in your car

Answer 12

I suggest a catx

Answer 13

I had rats once lol. Comes with living in rural Norfolk unfortunately lol. I used poison. They soon stopped.  

Answer 14

Don't be embarrassed about mice. We had bloody great big rats ❤️

Answer 15

I live near a field and had loads in the house, and what was the coal shed. I bought a plug in rodent repellent. Had it 5 years no more mice.  

Answer 16

You can get ultrasonic deterrents (plug in and battery operated) from Amazon.  

Answer 17

Cats dont always work mine catches some but also brings some home as his mates  we live on a farm and have caught 3 this week in my kitchen cupboard x

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@yeld4 they dont mine just looks at them  

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@meek234 their idiots arent they  even when he kills one hes started just leaving it outside the door for me to look at . We caught one in a box of coco pops last week all I kept thinking was what if it didnt get stuck in there and the kids had coco pops for breakfast ‍♀️

Answer 18

Cat or a terrier. I have both and get brought mice, rats and rabbits

Answer 19

Tried a cat

Answer 20

Don’t be embarrassed it’s very common . Do as suggested above . Wire wool any gaps , put traps down try and relocate if you can but that’s an impossibility at the moment . Don’t be made to feel bad because you don’t want to share your space with them .  

Answer 21

They dont like the smell of peppermint oil, soak cotton wool in it and put around and use the wire wool they dont like that either, you cant trap and take somewhere rural because of lockdown, they wont come near if you have some cat litter with urine in it, because they can smell a cat, not a nice smell but will rid them until you can clean it for workshop xx

Answer 22

Leave door to shed open, remove anything that they can eat or nest in, we were over run but doing this, are clear now after a week. Some say olbas oil or jeyes fluid deters them, didn't get a chance to try it, they will be field mice, try not to kill them

Answer 23

Once they realise their isnt a food store for them they will find somewhere else. My OH has to kerp all his fishing bait in a metal cabinet and bird seed for the same reason

Answer 24

We dont have a cat anymore (sadly lost him three weeks ago) and its not safe enough in our area to have an outdoor cat. I know not everyone agrees with the traps but it s a quicker death for the mice. before I put traps down our mini chickens liked to tear apart any mice they found :/

Answer 25

I’d put as many as you can get hold of down, around the sides

Answer 26

Very common. Just keep trapping them until they're gone. Keep the floor clean and put any food away in sealed tubs. If you've got any obvious gaps try and block them up. A mouse will get through a hole smaller than a 1p though, so it's hard to get rid completely! On the plus side mice are better than rats  

Answer 27

Totally natural and common problem. I had them in my shed even with a cat, tbh I never noticed til I moved out x

Answer 28

Cats sometimes like to bring you them as gifts. It's no run chasing a bleeding mouse round the bedroom at 4 in the morning!  

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@hyphenated7 I have the same problem me and the wife running around at 3am not good  

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@hyphenated7  no they dont

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@hyphenated7 I had the same problem at my old house. Cats kept bringing them in. Dead or alive. Now I've got a pond I get the odd frog. Didn't know they squealed so loud

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@frigate28 some do They really do. Or a bird now that's a treat!  

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@hyphenated7 ive had cats all my life, that treat is the cat wanting to chew and play with its catch in its own home/den. Normally we're fast asleep so its left on the step after the cat got bored. imo  

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@frigate28 obvs your cat feels your capable of hunting for yourself.  

Answer 29

Mice are fine anyway nothing at all to be embarrassed about

Answer 30

I was told be a very good pest professional if you have grain animal feed etc they will smell it and come in. Metal containers and no food on the floor this was on a horse yard, he also said if you have mice then no rats and rats no mice.  

Answer 31

Why are you embarrassed? Mice are in my house and I have 3 cats! They come in every year to find nests to have there litters.  

Answer 32

Call the ferret man, if you do a google search to find one. He should come regularly for you which should keep on top of it

Answer 33

Got a bloody rat under my shed at the moment, mines due to fact my neighbours are dirty twats and put food in their bins and recycling bags. did manage to block it out and have a bait box outside but it’s got back under could do without it at the moment

Answer 34

PUT POISON RAT FEED UNDER YOUR SHED THAT WILL KILL THE BUGGERS OFF

Answer 35

Google home remedies, garlic and onion are meant to be good x

Answer 36

My neighbour feed the rats

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@morale5724  

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@morale5724 report them to environmental health

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@errata i Will once this is over he also have big bonfire I suffer from COPD so I can't sit in the garden

Answer 37

Apparently if you put pepper and chilly down they will leave they don't like it

Answer 38

I don't suppose you have jeyes fluid? Putting a 50 50 solution of water and jeyes fluid in a spray bottle and spraying all over the floor and anywhere you think they may be getting in once every couple of days for a week or so will get rid. Need to get onto it quick because they breed a lot!  

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And don't leave your back door stood open, i had a mouse in the kitchen a couple of years back, it was quicker than my 2 terriers as well!  

Answer 39

Embarrassed? Why? Lol lol. Iv had field mice move into my garage every winter. Sone have had babies. How ever Iv set up a plastic bucket trap with food in it. Once Iv caught them I take them to a field a mile away where the farmer leaves rubble so I put them there. I’m not ashamed they come into my garage. I actually get exited when I see they are in there as I think they are soooooo cute. Use humane traps and let them go some where miles from no where. Preferably try let them all go together rather than separately so they can stay together

Answer 40

Hollie, we had mice/rats in our conservatory walls ( they never got in but we could hear them running & squealing) we got peppermint spray, peppermint essence and spray every day - they haven’t been back since last September ! And my house smells nice x

Answer 41

@nightjar Harrison garlic and onion rats look at comments might help sue

Answer 42

You keep up with traps and poison

Answer 43

Would it need to be peppermint? I have fresh mint growing in my herb garden so I could crush up some dried leaves of that?  

Answer 44

Do you know someone with ferrets? Ask them for the old bedding when they change it over and sprinkle it around the boundary of the shed, they'll soon scarper. Works for rats as well.  

Answer 45

I have a mouse indoors, its driving me to distraction. Been trying to catch it for over a month.  

Answer 46

I love my mouse  

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@archiplasm my god that’s cute as hell. All these people on here saying “kill them” and there’s us to concentrating on just how cute they are lol

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@anitaanitra I understand how they can become a pest inside but. just humanely capture them and release them a few miles from the house. My little fella lives in my pond wall. No trouble at all! He's welcome to scoff his gob like this whenever he likes  

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@archiplasm haha exactly lol. Mine munches the way through our snails and slugs. So I don’t mind them in the garden. The garage is a problem as they sometimes nibble at stuff but Iv set up a huge plastic box to catch them in. ( id say it’s a large Hampstead fair ground) lol

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@anitaanitra This was him having a good ol nibble  

Answer 47

Clean well with jeyes fluid, they pee on their feet to scent mark territories but mainly trails, it's why it's unhealthy to have them about. i used traps that electrocuted them, bit more expensive than normal traps but work brilliantly. I previously used baits, poisons, traps & every type of repellent I could find and only this continued to work. Hope that helps & good luck!  

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Elaine wills I'd LOVE to know why you posted that face. Didn't see any reaction from her to any of the other posts, do I wonder what made her single me out?  

Answer 48

Always get mice in my flat X and we on the top floor , my bugger of a cat brings them in and let's it go

Answer 49

Keep traps

Answer 50

If you can get your self a little dog like a patterdale or maybe a cat, i recently moved into a house with a big garden and we were noticing noises and that like scratching and the neighbors said they have a rat problem, av got 2 lurchers and a patterdale, hunting dogs, and the neighbors were saying how the rats have gone, my dog was sniffing them out and we could put traps down, we built a better fence and tidyed the garden aswell, my patterdale caught one and weve never hurd anything since x

Answer 51

You could soak some cotton wool balls in peppermint oil or clove oil as they dont like that

Answer 52

Dont be embarrassed i had rat at the top of my garden its no bad reflection on you. Xx

Answer 53

If you want to set a trap, bait it with something oily like peanut butter the whole cheese thing is a total myth. Place traps along the edge of a wall and maybe cover it with something - if anything they'll enter out of curiosity especially if it's covered. If you use a humane trap, take and release it a LONG distance away - I used to take mine at least a mile away. If you have/catch one chances are you'll have another adult and maybe even several young.  

Answer 54

Everyone suggesting a cat that doesn't always work. I have 6 cats and 3 of them dont hunt and the other 3 bring them in alive. So if you want rid of them having them brought in alive wont help

Answer 55

Don’t be embarrassed. I had them in the ground floor flat I was living in once a few years ago. Went away in December for a couple of weeks came back and there was  everywhere. They’d got in my babies cot, the sofa, my bed everywhere. Was absolutely horrific. I’m a bit of a clean freak as well so for me was even worse. Made me feel dirty. Prior to this happening i always though I would use humane methods, but when mother instinct kicks in and they’ve been in your babies bed all that went out the window. It wasn’t nice and I didn’t feel good about it but I had to. Just keep doing what you are doing x

Answer 56

I had mice in my garage. Concrete floor and walls. I caught 7 before I worked out how they were getting in. I swear the had little mouse size JCB's and kango hammers. They had tunnelled under the wall and up through the concrete floor in behind my work bench. Might Mouse and his whole family  

Answer 57

My friend bought me a couple of sonar repellant mouse traps. I have one in the shed outside and one in the kitchen. Never had one since. About 25. 00 for 2. Good luck

Answer 58

It's not nice I have at moment , its a squirrel got in shed chewed lawnmower, , garden tools , boots , we cornered hole but was chewing at door to get in , , its a nightmare

Answer 59

I use lavender. block up any hole with wire wool can't chew that . They can get through a hole has small has a straw.  

Answer 60

I used crushed up glass n sheaded snake skin, worked brilliantly, havent had a mouse since. U need to find there entry point and follow the above steps

Answer 61

Leave she’s open for a week let local cats get them

Answer 62

Put a bar or two of Irish Spring soap, mice don't like it.  

Answer 63

Get a cat x