How to keep mouse away from bed??

So, I saw a mouse in one corner of my room the other night, across from my bed. I know that supposedly means the mouse has already been in the room, but I've been hearing sounds under my bed almost every other night since then. I'll hit the side of the wall or something to get it to stop, but after reading all this stuff on the internet, I'm afraid it'll climb into my bed. I never eat food in bed, or have any in the room, but the mouse is here anyways, so I figured that wasn't good enough reason not to worry about it. Does anybody know if any of those youtube mouse repellent videos work, or if it's just making me feel better? Cause I just played that all night. Didn't see a mouse, (heard 'em, why I played the video) but I heard that high pitched ringing all night and I'm tired as crap. Does anybody know how I can just make sure the lil' varmint stays out of my bed until the trap gets him?

Ewwwwwwwww lol


First mistake of having a mouse is trying to coexist. They will learn the traps.

Try getting him out the room first. Even if it takes all night.


Then once you do a room check right after, close the door and plug it from the inside. Make sure no gaps are under your door or holes in the walls.


Next set traps inside just in case, but outside right at the door. Even if you have to line them up ugly. Then learn how to step over the traps yourself, and how to swiftly open and close your door.


Finally get to your room to clean it up, make sure nothing to nest or hide in is on the floor.


Next rearrange furniture. They like dark underneath places. So you might wanna get rid of your bed frame and just have the mattress on the ground if you don't want it under there. If you don't want the boxspring on the floor, then clean literally everything out from under there. Next place a single booby trap somewhere so you'll hear if he's in the room so you can deal with it right away. Worst thing is to let it get used to the place. Then they WILL take over.

Meantime, keep an eye out and traps outside your room. Get snap traps and definitely large sticky ones.


Inb4 horrified weird vegans who don't seem to understand disease....

LMAO I'm picturing op having a face off with a mouse trying to shoo it out. Omds adults vs rodent pests is literally the funniest thing ever.

XD I just think of that disney movie from when I was little.. The Rescuers. This crazy red-haired lady chases them around with a gun and alligators and somethin' else.

Trust me, I have NO intention of trying to "co-exist".. I want this dude outta' here.
Thanks for the advice.

Inb4 horrified weird vegans who don't seem to understand disease....

Don't have to be a vegan to berate you for suggesting a glue trap that is practically a torture device. Either use a quick-killing trap or a trap that allows you to release the animal unharmed. A glue trap is neither of these.

Gluetraps work better, they can't fail to fire, as it were.
Besides why would you want to release a mouse or rat 'unharmed' will it grant one a wish? It's a pest, dispatching it is the only thing to be done.

The glue can fail to trap, dust and temperature can render it less effective, etc. Plenty of ways they wouldn't work better.

Because not everyone is a sociopath who wants to kill everything they come across. I can release a mouse in a woodland area if I so desire... I don't need to torture animals to be rid of them, there's a difference (and a lot of people don't dispatch them when they're on the glue trap, that's the issue).

Less effective//not work at all.
If you like people could always just electrify the floor, i'm sure that would be somewhat more fail safe.

Yeah, totally sociopatheic to not want to save vermind that spread disease and destroy the house
Er do you know what torturing is?
Then thats their problem.

Point is that there are a multitude of options rather than a glue trap. If the pest control industry openly admits they agree with a ban on public sale with glue traps, then that really does speak volumes.

I'd say it is sociopathic to kill an animal needlessly. You have an option for catch and release that will prevent that problem from happening. Unless you have a literal mouse plague, why would killing it be the first option? I've had the occasional mouse wander in... got one of those tip traps, released it by the creek. Didn't need to maim nor kill anything - certainly wasn't going to eat it either. Saying the animal has disease doesn't justify it - all animals can carry something. The foxes that wander around can carry ticks that can make me ill - that doesn't mean I should kill it.

Yes, I do know what torturing is. That's what a glue trap does. I don't need to stick a live mammal on a sheet of glue and force to rip its own face off for hours to get rid of it. It's barbaric, effective or not, that's the point.

Borrow a cat???

Can't say i've ever come across this claim, can you link it?

Yeah thats not really an option when the vermin just come back. Besides, with special relation to rats, one is encouraged by government to kill the disgusting creatures.
Comparing a rat/mouse to a fox... yeah they're not even remotely the same. Foxes not being accused of eating and defecating all over your house and spreading untold unpleasant bacteria/viruses.
Well if you want to shoot the fox thats your prerogative. Rats and mice though are recognized as destructive and unhygienic vermin


Hardly, no more than crippling it with a metal bar or locking it in a cage at any rate. Nevermind making it bleed to death as all poisons do.
Meh maybe. Given its a rat or mouse though i'll save my sympathy for something less revolting, for instance a fox.

Could backfire, bloody furball (my one at least) brings more in than it takes out