There’s a !@#$%^&* mouse in my house...

...And I am no longer amused. Is this something the landlord has to deal with (we are renting) or is it our responsibility?

We can see where he's getting in -- there's a hole in the baseboards in the kitchen where the dishwasher connection should be, but as we don't have a dishwasher, the hole is exposed. I've just got down on my hands and knees and shone a torch into the hole, and I can see that he's chewed a great big hole in the particle board in between the outer wall and inner wall of the house, so he must have been working on it for quite a while. There's also heaps and heaps of mouse poop in the space under the cupboards. YUCK!

We've tried to poison him, but it obviously isn't working, and we can't leave mousetraps or poison around as we have a curious dog. And yesterday I was tidying Emma Rose's toys and found mouse poop in her toybox. NOT GOOD! (Yes, I disinfected the whole lot, including the toy box!)

The last house we lived in was an old bungalow, and we had mice in the walls. Once a mouse died in the living room wall, and we couldn't do anything about it -- we just had to close off the room and wait for him to decay (the stench was vomit-inducing). But this mouse... Something must be done! So who do I call?

We have one or two at the moment, and although I dont find them creepy at all (I had pet rats for a few years) They do make alot of mess.

So I crushed up some cheap Nurofen tablets finely and mixed it well with some peanut butter and put the mixture on to wee bits of card that we placed around the kitchen. Havent seen any since, but I must check if there is any poop lying around to suggest they still live here.

Best of luck with the landlord, we will be contacting ours as well if this plan doesnt work.

Just remember too that the reason poisons work so well is that they dont posess the ability to vomit, so what goes in, basically has to stay in.