Turns out I was wrong. My furry friend was not dead just inactive after gorging on my food.....
He is an ex mouse now.
Bloody hell guess who heard noises last night.
I am sure people here will understand when I say
AAAAARGH
HOWEVER I am somewhat battle hardened now. Also the OH (much better at this than me) emerged from the first loft check with 2 murine corpses so the last lot of poison up there has done *some* work and hopefully whatever we heard is about to follow suit.
Poison blocks deployed in loft and garage at 1am, following which I slept on the sofa (never hear anything downstairs) with the dog (not, sadly, a terrier, but with the magic ability to make any bad situation seem a bit less crap).
**balls**
thats his mate dead now so fingers crossed thats them all. Cant find any other holes (other than the 5 or 6 made during building work (knocked the back of the house out) so fairly certain they aint coming in anymore. Will give it till the weekend before boxing the cupboard back in fully.
might be the worst in 8 years(2 is the most ive ever trapped) right enough although a combination of easy entry points / No ultrasonic and me using traps alone rather than traps and poison....
No idea where mine got in, unless they snuck into the garage that evening the garage door got stuck half open (until we noticed it) - the attractive climbing plants were killed years ago.
Perhaps we need to get a roofer to redo the leading? (80s house) (will that help prevent ingress to the loft?)
OH (made of sterner stuff) claims to hear no further noises so I may return to my own bed tonight (no further corpses have been found in the loft but frankly the scrabbler may just have expired under some insulation or whatever. Or buggered off. Either does me fine).
Don't get a cat, ours just brings live mice in from outside and deposits them at your feet as some kind of challenge to you in a 'bet you can't catch that' kind of way.
We've got quite adept at catching live mice with a biscuit tin since getting the cat.
Every now and again the cat will bring in a dead one and leave it under our sons bed, this started when he was a few months old, we'd find the odd sacrificial mouse under his cot as some kind of offering. We think it was to try and Get him to stop pulling the cats tail. He's 9 now, and the last dead mouse was found a couple of weeks ago.