OMG, OMG, OMG...please help with this. I am sooo worried..?

Question

I am 8 months pregnant and I was cleaning up the baby's room. We just moved in 3 months ago and I put all of my daughters toys in the baby's room and a bunch of other stuff of hers, along with baby stuff. Anyways, we had a big bin in there filled with toys as I started to clean it I noticed a mouse t**d on the edge of it. Since then I've been searching through the house and found a few more in the baby's bedroom, about 8 (probably more) in my daughters room, and 3 (probably more) in the kitchen area. What do I do? This is absolutely disgusting, we are clean people! My Fiance just left to get mice traps but what do we do as far as my daughters health and the future newborn's health and ours? Should we pick up the mice droppings as we see them, wait until we start catching the mice, then do a thorough house cleaning? I can't believe we have mice!!! At what point should we do the full house cleaning? I don't want to do the hard cleaning just to keep finding mouse droppings. Thxs

Answer 1

You have to call an exterminator, a few traps wont get rid of the mice. If you've done any remodeling in the house, or if your neighbors have done any recently that could be the cause. The mice probably found a way to get into your child's room from beneath the floor boards. You should call a specialist and they can look around for openings that mice can use to get into your house and then seal up those holes. Even if you clean it may not help prevent future mice, they breed pretty fast. My suggestion is to find someone who wont only kill the mice but can make sure they wont be coming back by mouse-proofing it.

Answer 2

they will get in the traps sooner or later, but if u see one, they spray it with ant killer, it will die. hope i helped!

Answer 3

I just want you to know, yes it is disgusting, and you are upset, but NEVER EVER BUY AN INHUMANE TRAP!! PLEASE? mice are creatures just the same. buy a humane trap, and clean the house thoroughly. First buy some HUMANE traps. not to many because if you found that many droppings, it probably not too many mice. (cleaning the droppings up as you see them), then when you dont seem to be catching any mice, do the full house cleaning. Sorry for the caps on the humane stuff but im very protective of animals, hope this helps, and congrats, on the baby!

Answer 4

I would clean up the mouse droppings as you see them, maybe use a vacuum instead of your hands since you are pregnant. Don't worry, mice will show up in the cleanest of places, it doesn't reflect bad on you in any way. I wouldn't let your kids play with their toys until you have cleaned them.

Answer 5

DO NOT USE A MOUSE TRAP.

These are disgusting, horrible, torture devices.

You cannot get sick off a mouse! Mice are clean, healthy animals and are just as hygeinic as you. They do not live in sewers and do not carry lethal diseases that everyone claims they do. They eat grain and seeds from crops and pantries just like you. They poo in your house because they don't have their own toilet.

Think of it this way:

You go out in the bush for a relaxing life camping. There are plenty of berries and fruits that you could happily live on for the rest of your life. What a wonderful place to be, free food, no natural predators. You poo on the dirt, because you didn't bring a toilet- you're camping, after all. Then a giant pregnant bear rushes up to you, screams, "You filthy vermin you pooed on in my newly cleaned territory! My baby is going to die of infestation now!" The bear then proceeds to lay out traps around the berry and fruit bushes. You go to reach for a juicy-looking apple and -whack- you are now on the ground with a metal bar crushing your windpipe and your back is broken. In several painful, agonising minutes, you'll be dead. Your children at home will starve because Mum isn't there to feed them.

Is that really what you want to do to the mouse? They are SO many ways you can humanely capture that cute, furry little animal and let it free in the bush.

Go here for a great humane trap, http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09... but remember to take the bin out into the bush and set it free. Don't just leave it there! =(

Good luck. =)

Answer 6

this sounds really strange but if you have a friend with a snake get them to save the snake skin when the snake sheds for you.  put the old skin in closet corners and places where you have seen mouse poopies.  its odd but it really works...i save snake skin for the people that i work with and none of them have any mice anymore...needless to say with the snakes we dont have any mice at all.

Answer 7

hey for real we use bounty sheets in our trailer the mice hate the smell i know it sounds dumb but it works!!! i wouldn't waste the money on an exterminator i would try mouse traps and the sheets and try to find where they are getting in at and then block it... don't worry about them nibbling at you in your sleep they are scared of you try to keep your food out of reach like in cupboards good luck i hope everything works out for you :)

Answer 8

WHATEVER you do PLEASE dont use glue traps. Mice sometimes chew their own limbs off trying to get free. It is cruel.

Answer 9

Well, before you start freaking out, just remember that there aren't many disease you can get from mice. Usually when people get sick from mice, it's people who have a very bad infestation with lots of p**p and rotting food and stuff. And even fewer disease can cross the placenta and effect your fetus.

Getting rid of the mice is a process with several parts

This site outlines the process pretty well:

http://gardening.wsu.edu/library/comm001...

If you can't find any evidence of gnawing, they might just be using your house as a shelter. You need to figure out how they are getting in, and plug up the holes.

Actually Pawprint, there are several very serious diseases that mice can transmit to humans. Lyme disease, the Hanta virus, Rickettsial pox, Typhus, even Anthrax. They can also transmit fungal infections and other parasites, like hookworm.

And when it comes to trapping mice, the best traps to use are snap-traps. They almost always kill the mice instantly instead of letting them suffer like glue traps. Trapping and releasing sounds like a great idea at first, but mice who are released into a new area usually don't survive long.