Mice.

How do you think they get in the house?

We get the odd ones so we keep a trap permanently set. We've not had one for three months and now we've caught another one - a young one.

Makes me think there might be a nest somewhere.

Eeeekkkk...

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I guess from the garden if you have double doors leading there .........

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Often they will find a tiny opening around pipes or meters.

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Just don't buy Nolans Cheddar

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I live in the countryside and am surrounded by wildlife, mice, shrews, rats etc. etc.
They never come into the house because...
We make sure that any external pipework etc. is well sealed, and never store any possible food sources where any hungry mouse can find it.
They only enter your property looking for food and only stay if they can find it !

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You only need an opening the diameter of the end of a pencil for them to squeeze in. Houses are full of tiny openings and cracks you probably never even notice.

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You must have micro mice in your part of the world Eccles

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The smallest hole a mouse can fit through.

I always thought that this was a little bit of a myth because after almost ten years running a pest control business I had never seen a mouse fit through a hole that size.

Most of the holes I had seen them both make and fit through we're about 20 - 30mm.

That all changed when earlier this year a mouse almost the size of my fist disappeared through the metal grill of a wall vent. The hole it squeezed through was just 10mm x 10mm. I was stood with a customer at the time and we both looked at each other in amazement.

So yes, they most definitely can fit through some extraordinarily small gaps. Remember, the one I described was an adult mouse, so a juvenile mouse could easily fit through a gap the diameter of a ball point pen.

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I have always found that when speaking of 'pests' people are, shall we say, prone to exaggeration .... rats the size of a small dog, a swarm of wasps that clouded the sky, cockroaches that covered the entire floor of a room etc. etc. so mice that can fit through an opening the diameter of the end of a pencil fits very neatly into this description.

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I was given a specially designed mouse trapping box which is just a wooden box with 2 holes in it. Behind the holes are tubes made with chicken wire bent at the end. The mice can crawl into it no problem but can't crawl out again. You ctahc them and then just release them a long way away.

I just check the size of the holes on it. A British 20p coin barely fits in it them. For those not in the UK this is the size of the hole:



I've caught 2-3 decent sized mice in it within 10 mins of putting it down in a room known to have mice in it. The guy who gave it to me has caught hundreds with it.