Help! I have a mouse in the house

Yes that happened to us when a building in front of us went down. Everyone in the street started complaining about mice. Like you I really have a problem having them around, but I really can't offer any other suggestions. I did get my first cat then, and it worked a bit. I also kept glue traps and regular traps in places where my cat wouldn't be able to get in like behind the stove and the fridge and under the microwave cart. At first we caught a lot, in time there were less and less and now we haven't seen one or even vestiges of one in a long long time :)

Oh my dear, I can feel for you. I had this problem around Christmas and January. It was driving me crazy and I could not stand the mouse droppings everywhere. I moved the fridg and stove several times, I set four snap and kill traps in the closets, four live traps and one live trap that had poison in it. I bought the ultra sound devices that emit sounds only mice can hear. All to no avail. Believe it or not I live on the 7th floor in a high rise condo and when I bought it a few years ago I had it renovated and all the baseboards replaced. So I saw no holes anywhere. I moved the furniture every day and cleaned under it. There was evidence every day, even on the bed in the guest bedroom. Finally I got some steel wool and plugged all the openings under the sinks in the kitchen and bathrooms. Then I taped duct tape over that. Still mice. I started to empty the closets. I found one of the baseboard in one of the closets loose and droppings. I fixed it. Still there were mice or a mouse. My ski jacket had a hole in the pocket one morning and then my good expensive winter jacket had a hole in the sleeve. That made me really angry and I could still hear knawing in the walls and I knew there was at least one mouse still there because I left a peanut on the kitchen floor each night and it was gone in the morning. Then I found droppings on my duvet. It freaked me out. I moved out of my bedroom and slept on the sofa in the living room. One night I was watching TV and saw this mouse run across the room and under my entertainment centre. I got up and taped all the openings under every door shut with duct tape except a hole at the end, there I placed a glue trap on the other side of the doors. Then I got a broom and chased the mouse from the living room. It ran along the hall and into the next room through the little hole I had left under the door. There it was finally caught in the glue trap. It shrieked and sadly I had to throw it and the trap into a bucket of water. It was a field mouse. I found out later that in our area they had been pushing into houses and could climb through the shafts in highrises. I hope I did not bore you with this long story. I left the peanut on the floor for about a month but it was always there. So that is how I got rid of my mice.

Seeing one run across the kitchen sends me through the roof!!! Here at my house, they come in through the plumbing under the sinks. I stuff steel wool (careful not to cut myself!) around the pipes where it leads to the outside. The mice can't eat through steel wool.

ok when i moved into the house that i live in now i looked in all the cabinets and saw this brillo stuff and asked my husband what the #@-@# is that and he told me it was to keep the mice out of the house...he should know he grew up here and it is odd but it works you check every cabinet close to the floor and if there is a hole or a pipe comming up with a space by it you stuff a bit of brillo pad ( not the s.o.s. pads but like the chore boy stuff ) into the hole (no gaps) mice hate it they dont like the feel of it and will move on to the next house. not your problem any more.