When is the last time you trapped/caught/killed a mouse? I got one today under my kitchen sink.

 

  It was 1986.  It got inside of the toaster and made itself a comfy cubbyhole.
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It's been a long time because I  have a 6 year old cat that is a lean mean mouse killing machine. Cheers and happy weekend!

About a month ago in a glue trap on the kitchen counter.

I have never caught a mouse.  

Last year. My cat had the day off or he just didn't care. Anywho, I caught the little bugger and tossed him out the window from the second floor. The mouse. Not the cat. This post was edited by Zack at January 16, 2021 8:04 AM MST

Over a period of about 3 months last summer I caught 54 mice. Last one I caught was in October. I also found all the mouse holes where they were coming in and plugged them up.

My last kill in the ongoing rodent war was during the great  battle of Back Fence, on July 27, 2020.  The battle raged for five straight days.  When it was over, the rodents lost one infantryman, while the tomatoes suffered heavy casualties.  Much poop was laid down by the enemy, and one trap was lost during the battle.

Never.  My husband killed a couple when we first moved into an old house right after college.  I was horrified and grossed.  He set traps and we went upstairs.  WE weren't up there 10 minutes when we heard a loud CLICK.  I wanted to move.  I'm glad we didn't.

I have cats.  So no mice.

A couple of weeks ago, I have them in the loft, put a bait trap up there. I did have one that was getting in the kitchen cupboard below the sink,  thought I'd filled in all the holes, turns out there was a gapping hole under the outside tap. This post was edited by kjames at January 16, 2021 2:24 PM MST

Last week, I noticed that a big rodent size shape flurried across my sight against a shadow wall and I thought it was a rat. I told the landlords and they set a huge trap in my room with peanut butter on it. Lo and behold, 2 days later, I woke up and see a medium size mouse crushed by the neck dead. No rats yet..phoooooo..and..so that's why I was asleep on my mattress on the floor and woke up to something scurrying across my back not long back. This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at January 29, 2021 5:36 PM MST

i havent had those but ive had bedbugs before

I have seen a wee mouse now and again near my workshop at the end of the garden. It was attracted to dropped seed from the bird-feeder there. I let it be - it wasn't doing me any harm.

My bathroom is downstairs, beyond the kitchen in a small extension to the back of the house. I came down one morning to spot in the toilet bowl, a drowned, young rat! I was not impressed. 

Gloves on, I removed it to a bucket thence to a reasonably deep grave in the garden; then looked to see where it had been. Luckily it had not found some food on the work-top, but had climbed into a drawer holding cloths and tea-towels, damaging some and leaving droppings. I had to discard some, relegate others to workshop rags, and disinfect the drawer. I don't want Weil's Disease, any more than I want Covid.

I do not believe for one moment the old story that rats come up through the drains and lavatory bowl traps; any more than the similar myth about spiders in the bath. Even if one managed that feat it would not be able to climb out -  nor can the spider in the bath, usually. As this one found to its cost, perhaps trying to reach the water to drink. No, this rodent had evidently climbed the wall cavity to a hole that had once taken a tumble-dryer flue; and I soon covered that over.

I've not been troubled with rats or mice otherwise.