Damn Mice! How do you get rid of em?

[fustercluck]

I got a mickey mouse club outside my front door, they meet every night and shit everywhere. If that wasn't annoying enough, usually one finds it way into the house somehow every once in a while.

I've tried traps multiple times, they never catch anything or the food gets eaten off of them. I found online a lot of people recommend peppermint oil since rodents seem to be driven away by the smell....well peppermint oil is really expensive...and it didn't work at all. I don't have any pets so I figure I can dish out some poison pellets or something. They must be stopped! But all advice i've heard/read so far has been ineffective.

 

[waggy]

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.


i hate mice. we get them after the fields get taken down every year. just have to keep it clean and use traps

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I got a mickey mouse club outside my front door, they meet every night and shit everywhere. If that wasn't annoying enough, usually one finds it way into the house somehow every once in a while.

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.

 

[gaidensensei]

Get a cat, or use ham in your traps. Use a small slice that they will have to put effort to tug it out.
Meat has never failed meh.

 

[BoomerD]

Peanut butter. Nearly failproof for mice. I've had the best luck with a small piece of fabric coated in the stuff. The mice have to tug at the fabric...<SNAP!>
D-Con works, but as waggy mentioned, they may crawl inside a wall and die...then they stink like hell.

Cats are also good for mouse control.

 

[Jeff7]

Get a cat, or use ham in your traps. Use a small slice that they will have to put effort to tug it out.
Meat has never failed meh.

I've had good luck with dried fruit, particularly cherries. Combine that with the good Victor traps that have the toothed metal trigger. Bend it up with a needlenose pliers, put the cherry in the end of it, then bend it back down so that the teeth on the end dig into the cherry. That keeps it firmly anchored to the trigger, and the tough skin forces the mice to try to tear it away.
Back my parents' house, I was able to catch several mice with the same cherry, over the course of a few months.. Most of them died with their teeth still latched into the skin.

The tough part of this seems to be finding mouse traps that have that style of trigger. A lot of the Victor ones are moving toward the cheese(y)-shaped trigger which seems to be more cosmetic than anything - unless you can get it situated against a dark wall so that the mice basically trip over it.



Recently, however, I've had luck with this style of mousetrap. Peanut butter on the trigger, and awhile later, a dead mouse.

 

[ch33zw1z]

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.

 

[waggy]

I've had good luck with dried fruit, particularly cherries. Combine that with the good Victor traps that have the toothed metal trigger. Bend it up with a needlenose pliers, put the cherry in the end of it, then bend it back down so that the teeth on the end dig into the cherry. That keeps it firmly anchored to the trigger, and the tough skin forces the mice to try to tear it away.
Back my parents' house, I was able to catch several mice with the same cherry, over the course of a few months.. Most of them died with their teeth still latched into the skin.

The tough part of this seems to be finding mouse traps that have that style of trigger. A lot of the Victor ones are moving toward the cheese(y)-shaped trigger which seems to be more cosmetic than anything - unless you can get it situated against a dark wall so that the mice basically trip over it.



Recently, however, I've had luck with this style of mousetrap. Peanut butter on the trigger, and awhile later, a dead mouse.

ugh i hate the covered ones.

I do agree with the victor ones. the ones with the cheese plastic are crap. but i have about 12 of the older ones. the Farm and fleet near me still has them

 

[Twista]

The poison works, but the mouse died in my wall. It smelled up the house for 1.5 weeks. After that the smell was gone, but the mouse was never found. :/ So ya.. im sure maggots was in the wall area for abit.

 

[thebomb]

The glue boards always worked for me.

 

[Numenorean]

C4

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[SparkyJJO]

 

[Tsaico]

The glue boards always worked for me.

I don't like the glueboards, two reasons: 1 I gotta kill the rat myself when I get to it, not to mention, the thing start to scream like no tomorrow (since there usually isn't). I don't mind the death of a rat, but I don't want to do it myself. Tossing it in the trash just to let it start to death isn't that appealing either.

2. the times I don't get to the trap fast enough, all I find is torn off furn, chewed off leg or tail. Then the thought of a stumpy rat running around, while funny, doesn't solve my issue.

I like the vector traps. I use the small bit of cheese cloth or such with PB and the whole pile under the tripping arm. This works to for the rat traps on mice. Sometimes with the rat traps, I have both mice and rats in my area, and the mice aren't heavy enough to trip the rat trap, and mouse traps cannot kill the rats. Unfortunately, a rat trap does quite a number on a mouse, so once killed, I usually just toss the whole trap instead of reuse it.

Good luck. Those damn things get into everything.

 

[schneiderguy]

Put mouse traps in your air conditioner.

 

[shortylickens]

Put mouse traps in your air conditioner.

Ahhhh you beat me to it!

 

[John P]

Wrap the arm with cheese cloth and then use peanut butter. Same concept as Tsaico and the cloth BoomerD suggested. Don't throw away the traps, reuse them. They'll be attracted to the mouse scent. Both those worked for rats, I would assume the same goes for mice.

Maybe you should find a friendly neighborhood cat to feed now and them so it'll start hanging around your front yard?

 

[rpanic]

Sticky glue traps and snickers for bait.

 

[Anubis]

just install a laser printer and the problem will take care of itself

 

[Jaepheth]

Wear gloves while handling the traps to avoid getting your scent on them.
Also place the traps unset a few days, but baited so they grow accustomed to getting food from them.

 

[thedarkwolf]

I had mice running around like crazy this spring in my house. I just finally killed off the last one a couple weeks ago I hope. Must have killed 15 of the bastards.

The old snap style traps still seem to work the best for me but you have to buy the right ones. Some of them just take way to much pressure on the trigger to set off. Whatever brand Walmart sells worked best for me.
http://www.google.com/products/cata...a=X&ei=9AgITrLKGMbFgAerhNHjDQ&ved=0CFIQ8wIwAQ
Also used two different brands like those. The black Tomcat ones worked and the tanish white victor ones didn't. Only managed to catch one with a glue trap which I hate to use but I was getting desperate.

 

[nublikescake]

awww...

 

[paperfist]

There's strength in numbers, set up lots and lots of traps so you can take down more mice at once. The longer they stick around the more accustom to your traps they become.

 

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[novasatori]

I'm not PETA member or anything, but don't be a pussy and use a glue trap.

Just use a real mouse trap because fuck those glue traps, I saw one used in a dorm by some girls and the mouse had chewed off two of its feet and was still trying to get out.

Fuck that.

My friend has some type of electric one that works well for him. Mouse runs in after peanut butter, zap, dead mouse.