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My cat caught a mouse in the backyard and brought it inside and straight into my bedroom and my mum just straight up shut my door, which I get as she is deathly afraid of mice. I haven't been back into my room, I don't know if the mouse escaped in my room or is dead, or escaped half dead and is now dead in one of the 500 nooks and crannies of my bedroom full of stuff and I don't really know what to do, I'm exhausted after a day of gardening and I really don't want to go on a mouse search right now but I know I have to. I'm just here to complain and seek comfort.
Edited to add: my cat is only allowed in the backyard when I am around to supervise, we had a previous mouse problem but had dealt with it.
Sleep in the lounge room. Get somebody brave to check it out for you tomorrow.
I saw a mouse scamper into my daughter's room one time (she was toddler then) I shut the door, picked up my kid and went to my mother's house. Rang my husband and told him I wasn't coming home until it's gone. He laid about 8 mice traps. That night he heard a snap and I came home the next day.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who would shut up shop and leave normally. But I really like being in my own space for sleep.
The update is, I psyched myself up and found that there was half of a dead mouse visible on the floor, I then psyched myself up and used a dustpan and brush to scoop it up which was by far one of the worst things I've had to do. For that I'm quite glad I found the nerve to check but at the same time, deeply regretful as the nausea from retching hasn't subsided.
You are brave. Make sure you reward yourself tomorrow. Good work.