big mice problem in rental - whos responsibility?
Just after a bit of advice about a huge mice problem we have in our rental. They are everywhere. They live in the oven (seriously there is mouse poo all over the bottom of my oven and in the grill!!) and in the walls behind the cupboards (there is a spot I see them run too at the pantry, but there is never any mouse poo in the actual pantry). There are so many we can sit here in the lounge quietly and they start to run across the kitchen floor. They also live in the heaters in the lounge room, so often run under our feet to the kitchen. There is mouse poo always along the walls of EVERY room in the house. All over the kitchen benches. We can clean it everyday but its all back again by next morning.
We have tried traps and poisons in the 3.5 years we have lived here. Warmer months arent so bad, but come the cold part of autumn through to spring its ridiculous. They have stopped going for traps atm which is a pain. We use peanut butter in them as when they do go for the traps we usually get 12+ mice in 2 days every few months, but never get rid of them completely.
As we're renting, for such a big problem who's responsibility does this then fall on? Us, or the landlord? Meet in the middle? I can call a pest guy, he could come set some poisons or whatever. It will do nothing as we have tried it all before (with professional poisons traps df can get from the pest guys at work). They are literally EVERYWHERE! And its really concerning me about the health impacts it could be having on my little family, especially ds 2.5 and soon to be bub #2.
Any help is appreciated, I really dont know where to go from here :/ Our real estate is very difficult unfortunately so if we need to contact them I dread it as they make things so difficult to get done (for example our fence is falling down but they say the landlord doesnt need to fix it as we have a dog so its our responsibility. Consumer affairs have said different haha)