getting rid of mice

[evident]

Damn, I came here to say this. Also, turn your air conditioner around. :thumbsup:

i have a central air unit. don't think thats the issue as it's on the other side of the house.

 

[evident]

I have two words for you: Maine my excellent compatriot.

i have two ragdolls. they actively stalk the area, but i don't think the mice ever come out further than where the fridge and oven are. i could bewrong though. the cats will meow when they see something, but i really don't think they can seal the deal.

half of the time they're doing this. maybe its more like 80% of the time lol

 

[Tsaico]

You guys jinxed me, all this mouse and rat talk seemed to have attracted them to my place too. I put out the normal assortment, glue traps, snap traps, so we will see what works out. Based on the droppings though, I have rats, not mouse...

 

[Scouzer]

I'm sure glad there's no rats in Alberta. It's kind of neat actually how we kept them out all these years.

 

[PingSpike]

i have two ragdolls. they actively stalk the area, but i don't think the mice ever come out further than where the fridge and oven are. i could bewrong though. the cats will meow when they see something, but i really don't think they can seal the deal.

half the time they're doing this.

Half the time? They must be a pretty active cat breed.

 

[Brainonska511]

When my parents had mice in the attic, I just stuck a few snap traps (for mice) up there with some peanut butter bait. Caught them all in short order. They won't set off rat traps, but the Victor snap mouse traps worked perfectly.

 

[lord_emperor]

 

[DrPizza]

Dried cherries work better than peanut butter for bait. They can't just lick it off, they have to actually tug, and their neck is all but guaranteed to be at ground zero for the metal snap.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

i have two ragdolls. they actively stalk the area, but i don't think the mice ever come out further than where the fridge and oven are. i could bewrong though. the cats will meow when they see something, but i really don't think they can seal the deal.

half of the time they're doing this. maybe its more like 80% of the time lol

i think just having a cat works. my house is in a woodsy area with a cat and even though ive never seen the cat with a mouse, ive never had mice there. so maybe mice can smell the cat and stay away

 

[BladeVenom]

Agree. Tomcat traps suck. Glue traps and a BB gun, FTW.

A paintball gun will also kill them.

 

[olds]

Put glue traps down in the kitchen so the cats can't come upstairs at night and neglect their duties.

 

[lxskllr]

i think just having a cat works. my house is in a woodsy area with a cat and even though ive never seen the cat with a mouse, ive never had mice there. so maybe mice can smell the cat and stay away

My kittiots are useless. They don't scare the mice, and when they find one they think "TOY!", and not "food" :^D

I get tired of hearing the mouse scream, and take it for a long walk. Me and the girl make a good mouse catching team, but she lacks the killer instinct. I think the tom's mostly interested because his sister is.

 

[highland145]

A paintball gun will also kill them.

Oh, hell no. Then the boy (10) will want to practice on his other play mate, me.

I get tired of hearing the mouse scream, and take it for a long walk. Me and the girl make a good mouse catching team, but she lacks the killer instinct. I think the tom's mostly interested because his sister is.

Incest is best.......oh.......n/m

 

[rival]

Siderail...

I used the D-Con poison to take care of some in my attic, had heard that it dries them up and they don't leave a smell. Never had a problem until about a month ago, when i heard a few more in the attic so i put out some fresh packs of the poison. A week or so after that i have this terrible stench coming from my closet. I wasn't able to smell anything in the attic so i thought they had fallen and died in the walls. After trying to sniff them out, i decided to rip open the wall about 16" high and 8' long in one side of the closet.

In one stud bay i found some insulation packed down and about 4-5 dead mice at various stages of decomposition. After removing them, the smell just wont go away, it seems as strong as it was when i removed them 2 days ago.

Any ideas for getting rid of the smell? I put a box of baking soda in the closet and removed the carpet.

 

[Brainonska511]

Siderail...

I used the D-Con poison to take care of some in my attic, had heard that it dries them up and they don't leave a smell. Never had a problem until about a month ago, when i heard a few more in the attic so i put out some fresh packs of the poison. A week or so after that i have this terrible stench coming from my closet. I wasn't able to smell anything in the attic so i thought they had fallen and died in the walls. After trying to sniff them out, i decided to rip open the wall about 16" high and 8' long in one side of the closet.

In one stud bay i found some insulation packed down and about 4-5 dead mice at various stages of decomposition. After removing them, the smell just wont go away, it seems as strong as it was when i removed them 2 days ago.

Any ideas for getting rid of the smell? I put a box of baking soda in the closet and removed the carpet.

A few years ago, I had a rat die in my wall after I stupidly put rat poison down in my apartment. Stunk for a good week before the smell went away. I just kept the windows open with a fan to remove the smell. Of course, since I couldn't find where it died, my kitchen was filled with blue flies 2 weeks later. I've never seen so many flies in my life. That lasted for about a week as well, and then it was all good.

I learned my lesson: don't use rat poison inside. Stick to snap traps.

 

[Stifko]

The following winter I caught at least 11 mice. I then bought about 10 of those electronic repellers, put them throughout my house and haven't seen a mouse or seen evidence of a mouse in my house since that winter ended. I think it helps with roaches also for I haven't had any since....

I did not think those things worked either, but I will try some when it gets cold. That is when the mice come inside. I'd get a cat and like cats but they are too much responsibility and use the sofa and chairs as a scratching post. Cleaning the litter box is a pita too.

 

[alkemyst]

Proper home hygene/maintenance first and a perimeter of rodent repellant will do wonders.

 

[SMOGZINN]

They walked on the glue traps and just left foot prints.

Then something was wrong with your glue traps, those things are sticky enough to catch a fly that lands on it, and the glue is strong enough that you have problems pulling it off your fingers if you touch it. They will pretty much catch anything that touches them.

 

[Brainonska511]

Then something was wrong with your glue traps, those things are sticky enough to catch a fly that lands on it, and the glue is strong enough that you have problems pulling it off your fingers if you touch it. They will pretty much catch anything that touches them.

For the record: flies != mice. What will catch a bug may not necessarily catch a mouse. I've seen those glue traps and they are crap. Always a little fuzz left from when the mouse touched it, but never a mouse in sight.

 

[NetGuySC]

I did not think those things worked either, but I will try some when it gets cold. That is when the mice come inside. I'd get a cat and like cats but they are too much responsibility and use the sofa and chairs as a scratching post. Cleaning the litter box is a pita too.

You should really try and get them before it gets cold. If you wait until you have mice it's too late.

 

[evident]

I did not think those things worked either, but I will try some when it gets cold. That is when the mice come inside. I'd get a cat and like cats but they are too much responsibility and use the sofa and chairs as a scratching post. Cleaning the litter box is a pita too.

i have a $60 scratching post from amazon.com that is the only thing they scratch, along with some other scratching toys. I also leave cardboard boxes around the house for them to go in and chew the edges so they won't chew anything else either
http://www.amazon.com/SmartCat-3832-...1686317&sr=8-1

I have very expensive leather chairs and while they like to sit on them they will never scratch them.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

About 3-4 days ago I was sitting on my computer playing L4D2, when I heard something fall from above my second monitor. Sure enough, was a damn mouse. Set up simple snap traps with PB on it and went upstairs for most of the night with the lights off. Came down a little later and the PB was gone, bastard. Reset the trap with more PB that I stuck to the metal before going to bed. Woke up to a dead mouse before work.

I'll be cleaning up everything with cleaning stuff when I get home (new droppings from overnight that I couldn't clean before work), and hopefully that will be the last of it.

 

[Sephire]

 

[evident]

mouse ate peanut butter off of 4 different traps before getting his leg caught in the 5th one. My fiance just called me and hysterically told me how it was still twitching and when she tried to beat it with a shovel, it ran up the wall with the mouse trap stuck to its leg, and had to chase it down and finally kill it. apprently it was still very alive. after this traumatizing experience she now has decided to put poison behind the oven. i really dont want this because i dont feel like having to smell dead mice behind the oven. but i'll be gone for the next two weeks so hopefully the smell will be subdued by then. we caught three in a week. the first one was a bigger one, followed by two smaller gray mice. I still suspect we have a few more but i have no idea

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

mouse ate peanut butter off of 4 different traps before getting his leg caught in the 5th one. My fiance just called me and hysterically told me how it was still twitching and when she tried to beat it with a shovel, it ran up the wall with the mouse trap stuck to its leg, and had to chase it down and finally kill it. apprently it was still very alive. after this traumatizing experience she now has decided to put poison behind the oven. i really dont want this because i dont feel like having to smell dead mice behind the oven. but i'll be gone for the next two weeks so hopefully the smell will be subdued by then. we caught three in a week. the first one was a bigger one, followed by two smaller gray mice. I still suspect we have a few more but i have no idea

I managed to get a second one last night myself.

Going to set traps again tonight and see if there are any more (but I think there were only 2... we will see).