Damn Mice! How do you get rid of em?

[MagnusTheBrewer]

A few of these will do the trick.

 

[0roo0roo]

the snaps are effective, esp on small mice..if only because those are less scary to set than rat traps.

leave em along the wall where they walk, peanut butter works gtood.

as said don't use sticky, you can't remove the things and then you have to crush them, bad for all involved.

 

[qliveur]

Agreed that snap traps are usually much more humane than glue traps or poison. The latter 2 should only be a last resort.

Get a cat.

There are a lot of blacksnakes where I live. They pretty much keep the small rodent population under control, so I really don't want to risk poisoning them.

 

[Craig234]

http://www.amazon.com/Mice-Cube-Pk-R...9166987&sr=8-5

http://www.amazon.com/Kness-Tip-Trap...166987&sr=8-16

 

[qliveur]

^HAHAHAHAHAHA!

We tried those "humane" mouse traps, more out of curiosity than anything. We found that, when a mouse got trapped in one, his buddy would come along and chew the plastic hinges off to bust his friend out of jail.

Apparently, mice are a hell of a lot smarter than "humane" mouse traps and the progressive PC idiots who invented (and buy) them. Says a lot, doesn't it?
YOU HAVE TO KILL THE VERMIN, IDIOT. KILL THEM ALL.


True story.

 

[gaidensensei]

Mouse my old cat caught some years back. Cute guy huh?

I let it free by setting it off a few houses down the block. :twisted:

 

[qliveur]

Read about the Black Plague, fools.

RODENTS CARRY DISEASE. THEY DO NOT DESERVE CLEMENCY. KILL THEM ALL, OR RISK DYING A HORRIBLE DEATH!

Fucking PC dipshittery will be the death of us all; ON EVERY LEVEL. DO YOU GUYS JUST NOT LIVE ON PLANET EARTH?

You, stupid, misinformed idiots. Read some history, morons.

 

[sportage]

Roach motels with a little peanut butter inside. Never put bird seed outside for the birds. Mice love the seeds the birds spill on the ground. That really attracts mice outside.

 

[qliveur]

Well, that's where the blacksnakes come in.

I love those guys. The only things they leave around are snakeskins.

 

[mcurphy]

As others have mentioned, there is a wide variety of traps you can use to catch and kill the varmints in the house.

But to truly eliminate the problem, you will need to find, diagnose, and restrict the area where they are entering your home. Inspect your foundation and search for the entry point. Seal the exterior...and no miceses will be in the interior.

1st post=best advice:

walk around the house. find every hole you can and fill with steel wool.
Use less food on the trap.
poison pellets work but then they climb in the wall and die..that stinks.

 

[highland145]

Got this. LOVE IT. Last a long time. PETA approved.

NOT. HAHAHAHA

Read somewhere it takes about 10 sec to do the job. HAHAHAHAHA.

Approximately 30 kills with one set of 4 alkaline "D" Cell batteries

http://www.google.com/products/cata...=X&ei=HnAITsrTL8ny0gGyguXmCw&ved=0CIIBEPMCMAI

 

[alkemyst]

A quick note on the poison. The poison makes them very thirsty. Put out a plastic or metal container that's 4-6" deep, fill it 3" with water. Put a lid or something for a ramp up to the edge, then the mice will fall in trying to get a drink. Mice drown quickly, and in not much water at all. Check it daily, change the water often. Pursue a more permanent fix, not an easy task.

It's not recommended anyone leave mouse/rat poison out where anything but a rat/mouse can get to it. Pets and kids can be fatally harmed with just a small amount.

It causes one to bleed out from the inside...not something really easy to treat/reverse.

In the end proper sanitation and maintenance is 90% of any non-farmers battle.

 

[ichy]

The best thing to do is be very careful about food sources. Leave nothing for mice to eat and they will mostly stay away. Put all food in the fridge or in solid containers.

 

[ch33zw1z]

It's not recommended anyone leave mouse/rat poison out where anything but a rat/mouse can get to it. Pets and kids can be fatally harmed with just a small amount.

It causes one to bleed out from the inside...not something really easy to treat/reverse.

In the end proper sanitation and maintenance is 90% of any non-farmers battle.

Indeed. It's dangerous.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Got this. LOVE IT. Last a long time. PETA approved.

NOT. HAHAHAHA

Read somewhere it takes about 10 sec to do the job. HAHAHAHAHA.


http://www.google.com/products/cata...=X&ei=HnAITsrTL8ny0gGyguXmCw&ved=0CIIBEPMCMAI

I like that, might have to get me one.

 

[highland145]

I like that, might have to get me one.

Get the rat tail, too, if it's going under the house or some other poorly accessible spot.

I'll teach those bastards to invade my space.

http://www.amazon.com/Rat-Zapper-RAT...9184772&sr=8-3

 

[PingSpike]

Roach motels with a little peanut butter inside. Never put bird seed outside for the birds. Mice love the seeds the birds spill on the ground. That really attracts mice outside.

I know...tell it to my wife! I need to find a bird feeder location that is at least further from the house.

One cool thing about it though was we had an owl during the winter that would swoop down and catch the mice as they came up through the snow under the bird feeder. It was pretty awesome watching it hunt from up close like that.

Anyone else have the 'disappearing mouse trap' problem? The mouse gets the fucking thing stuck on its head and then I have to search around the garage looking for the bastard so I can smash him with a shovel? What a pain the ass. I started tying tethers to the traps.

Seriously though, fuck mice.

 

[Tsaico]

the snaps are effective, esp on small mice..if only because those are less scary to set than rat traps.

leave em along the wall where they walk, peanut butter works gtood.

as said don't use sticky, you can't remove the things and then you have to crush them, bad for all involved.

The two I had caught when I used the sticky trap I had put into a bucket of water and held it down with a broom stick. I was like the guy in the Saving Sarah Marshal movie while stabbing the pig...

 

[Tsaico]

I know...tell it to my wife! I need to find a bird feeder location that is at least further from the house.

One cool thing about it though was we had an owl during the winter that would swoop down and catch the mice as they came up through the snow under the bird feeder. It was pretty awesome watching it hunt from up close like that.

Anyone else have the 'disappearing mouse trap' problem? The mouse gets the fucking thing stuck on its head and then I have to search around the garage looking for the bastard so I can smash him with a shovel? What a pain the ass. I started tying tethers to the traps.

Seriously though, fuck mice.

You may have rats instead. If you have seen it, the tail is longer than your pinky, their poo about the size of a cooked grain of rice, then you have rats. I don't think a mouse could carry off the trap very far if it didn't kill it outright or bust off the appendage it did catch.

 

[boomhower]

Get a cat. A couple falls ago we got hit with them for some reason still unknown. Picked up a cat at the animal shelter and they dissapeared with the quickness. The cat never killed one but just it's presence got them to hit the road.

 

[lord_emperor]

 

[fustercluck]

Might try that zapper thing...though it looks like it's made for rats and not mice.

Also taking in a cat is kind of a large burden to solve an annoying little problem. It's trading mice shit for cat shit, for starters. Plus I actually have to pay to take care of the cat.

Thanks for all the advice.

Are you sure that is because of mice? We usually wake up to rodent shit on our front porch every morning, and what I eventually discovered was that bats were roosting up in my entryway and crapping all over the patio below.

This is actually pretty plausible. Though it does look like mice shit...but I'm no expert. Could be guano!

There is an area right above the shit where bats could get up in the crevasse (sp?). Then the question would become how to get rid of bats. Another tricky job.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

This is actually pretty plausible. Though it does look like mice shit...but I'm no expert. Could be guano!

There is an area right above the shit where bats could get up in the crevasse (sp?). Then the question would become how to get rid of bats. Another tricky job.

It looks pretty similar to mouse crap. I tried to figure out what it was for about a year -- bats were something I didn't even think about. We had some chipmunks in our back yard and I originally thought it was them, so I set a trap and never caught one on the front porch. I eventually caught one in the back yard and around that same time, the poop stopped. A month later, it was back again! One night I went down at 2 AM or so and saw something fluttering around but it seemed really small and I couldn't make out what it was.

So one day last summer I got home after work and there was this huge pile on my porch. I looked up and there was something dark in the corner but I couldn't tell what it was. I got a hose and sprayed up there and two bats fell and scared the crap out of me! I killed them (a mistake that I do regret) and thought that was the end of it. Then, it happened again starting this summer! I confirmed it was another bat because during one of the really bad thunderstorms at night, I turned on the porch light and a single bat was perched there.

I'm not going to harm this one. I'm just going to sweep off my porch and be cautious. I am a little worried of potential liability if someone comes up on the porch, but they'd have to hit the bat for it to come down so it is pretty remote.

 

[highland145]

Might try that zapper thing...though it looks like it's made for rats and not mice.

Works on mice, too.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Get a cat,

Doesn't necessarily work. I have mice because of my cat. She brings one in every day, and only kills maybe 1 in 4.
She even has a special meow for, "Look what I brought you," which she'll let out in series right before dropping the darned thing so it can shoot off under the baseboard radiators.