I just moved into a new apt 1 1/2 months ago and i have saw 2 mice already. Today was the last straw, i came home and went in my room and sat down in front of my computer and i saw a mouse whizz by me and out my door. I don't even eat in my room. I live with another male roommate who is my best friend and we try to keep the place clean as possible. Of course there are going to be some dirty dishes overnight but we try to keep the place pretty clean. I'm thinking this infestation might have stemmed from the previous tenants. The mice are either stupid or bold, the first time i spotted a mouse, my roommate was watching tv and it ran out from wherever and ran under the couch he was sitting on. I need some help, I am going to call my landlord tommorow but what are some of your tips. I've laid some traps in the kitchen with peanut butter as bait. One mouse was caught after only a day after laying the traps last week. I'm reluctant to lay rat poison in my place because I do not want mice dropping dead and funking up the apt. What can an exterminator do?
Moved into a new APT, having bad mice problems, have any advice?
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If you don't want to use poison, then the best you can do is traps. You COULD get yourself a ball python... 
my ball python
Ryan
my ball python
Ryan
<< If you don't want to use poison, then the best you can do is traps. You COULD get yourself a ball python...
my ball python
Ryan
>>HAHA i second this idea
Should i get a cat? We can have small pets in the apartment. I like cats but my roommate hates them and is a dog lover. GOD IM SO GROSSED OUT STILL... that mouse just crossed the line entering my sacred room. ITS WAR.
well i would just use traps....look for where they are getting into..drawers in the kitchen...anything where they can hide out and maybe get somethin to eat...also where you see dropings...and use peanut butter or blue cheese...actually bluecheese works really well...i think they can smell it easy
If you've only been living there for a month and a half, I'm going to say that they were somewhere in the building and just recently found you, the new people who leave the occasional food bits lying around. Ask your neighbors if they've had mice and if so, check your lease to see how much responsibility it is of the landlord's to pay for the pest removal.
And to deter the mice from raiding your place, suck it up and don't leave dirty dishes, opened food, etc. out. Keep as much stuff in sealed plastic containers or inn the fridge/freezer as possible.
And to deter the mice from raiding your place, suck it up and don't leave dirty dishes, opened food, etc. out. Keep as much stuff in sealed plastic containers or inn the fridge/freezer as possible.
A friend told me the most tragic-comic story -
A mouse had managed to sneak in his house. Just one. A field mouse. He got totally freaked, and the last straw was when he saw the mouse silouhetted against a light, 'Mickey Mouse Style'. He flushed the mouse out after moving all his furniture, and drove the mouse into the oven using a network of tubes.
He then turned on the gas...
Loud squeaks emanated while he set up a baffle that would direct the mouse into another tube with a sealed end. He cracked open the oven door, and the mouse shot out, going straight for the tube. As soon as it went inside, he popped on the lid and sealed the tube with duct tape. Scritch scritch went the tube.
Then, this guy got on his motorbike, still clutching the tube, rode a mile to the river and threw the cardboard tube - after poking a couple of holes in the lids - into the river. He stood there and waited until the tube sunk.
I asked him how he came up with such a barbaric method of disposing with a mouse. He said 'I kind of winged it'. My friend is probably gonna fry in hell...
A mouse had managed to sneak in his house. Just one. A field mouse. He got totally freaked, and the last straw was when he saw the mouse silouhetted against a light, 'Mickey Mouse Style'. He flushed the mouse out after moving all his furniture, and drove the mouse into the oven using a network of tubes.
He then turned on the gas...
Loud squeaks emanated while he set up a baffle that would direct the mouse into another tube with a sealed end. He cracked open the oven door, and the mouse shot out, going straight for the tube. As soon as it went inside, he popped on the lid and sealed the tube with duct tape. Scritch scritch went the tube.
Then, this guy got on his motorbike, still clutching the tube, rode a mile to the river and threw the cardboard tube - after poking a couple of holes in the lids - into the river. He stood there and waited until the tube sunk.
I asked him how he came up with such a barbaric method of disposing with a mouse. He said 'I kind of winged it'. My friend is probably gonna fry in hell...
<< A friend told me the most tragic-comic story -
A mouse had managed to sneak in his house. Just one. A field mouse. He got totally freaked, and the last straw was when he saw the mouse silouhetted against a light, 'Mickey Mouse Style'. He flushed the mouse out after moving all his furniture, and drove the mouse into the oven using a network of tubes.
He then turned on the gas...
Loud squeaks emanated while he set up a baffle that would direct the mouse into another tube with a sealed end. He cracked open the oven door, and the mouse shot out, going straight for the tube. As soon as it went inside, he popped on the lid and sealed the tube with duct tape. Scritch scritch went the tube.
Then, this guy got on his motorbike, still clutching the tube, rode a mile to the river and threw the cardboard tube - after poking a couple of holes in the lids - into the river. He stood there and waited until the tube sunk.
I asked him how he came up with such a barbaric method of disposing with a mouse. He said 'I kind of winged it'. My friend is probably gonna fry in hell... >>
ROTFLMAO
Ok but what is the exterminator do...spray a buncha pesticide and some other crap all over my house? You know i'm glad i dont have rats like in my fathers business. I remember once he found a rat as big as a small cat and was beating it with a metal pole.
One method exterminators use is glue traps. These are really sticky. What they do is maybe put some peanut butter in the center. Or peanut butter M&Ms and smoosh them. In any event, the mouse/rat goes on the glue trap, starts sniffing the food, gets its feet stuck, and possibly will also get its nose stuck in the glue and suffocate. Its either that or snap traps.
Get a cat.
Though you'll want one that was "trained" by it's mother to hunt.
(contrary to popular belief it doesn't come all that naturally to them to hunt)
Any farms around where you live?
Though you'll want one that was "trained" by it's mother to hunt.
(contrary to popular belief it doesn't come all that naturally to them to hunt)
Any farms around where you live?
Move out.
You shouldn't be forced to live in a situation like that.
I know in NYC there are laws on vermin in apartments.
You shouldn't be forced to live in a situation like that.
I know in NYC there are laws on vermin in apartments.
<< Get a cat.
Though you'll want one that was "trained" by it's mother to hunt.
(contrary to popular belief it doesn't come all that naturally to them to hunt)
Any farms around where you live? >>
No farms around here, I live in Baltimore City...and if anyones been to Baltimore City...its as ghetto as any ghetto can get. Luckily I found an apt community on the county and city line that is pretty quiet and decent. Unfortunately however, I am still in the City and once I step outside of my apt complex area, its pretty much the straight up ghetto.
I like the idea of glue traps. The only downside is, if you do catch a mouse, you'll probably get grossed out when trying to get rid of it. Snap traps are worse because you hear the snapping sound in addition to having to deal with disposing the trapped body.
If I needed to, I would probably use one of those enclosed tube traps that I saw at home depot. The mouse goes in but cannot get out (ala roach motel?). That in addition to complaining to the landlord on a daily basis. The squeaky wheel gets greased first.
If I needed to, I would probably use one of those enclosed tube traps that I saw at home depot. The mouse goes in but cannot get out (ala roach motel?). That in addition to complaining to the landlord on a daily basis. The squeaky wheel gets greased first.
Get rid of the trapped bodies immediately, because the remaining mice will instinctually avoid the traps if they see their little mouse friends dead in them.
With glue traps, you might still get awakened in the night by the screaming of the trapped animal.
One thing you can do is stuff aluminum foil in to any openings in the corners of the base boards and where pipes come through the walls. Mice will not try to chew through metal, so you might be able to keep them out of your unit this way.
I used to have mice in my apartments but now I have a cat and I love her. We had cats while I was growing up. Even though the house was built in the 1940?s and there were probably plenty of ways for mice to come in, they just didn?t, God bless those cats.
With glue traps, you might still get awakened in the night by the screaming of the trapped animal.
One thing you can do is stuff aluminum foil in to any openings in the corners of the base boards and where pipes come through the walls. Mice will not try to chew through metal, so you might be able to keep them out of your unit this way.
I used to have mice in my apartments but now I have a cat and I love her. We had cats while I was growing up. Even though the house was built in the 1940?s and there were probably plenty of ways for mice to come in, they just didn?t, God bless those cats.
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Here are your options if you are going to deal with it yourself.
1. Move out
2. Complain to the landlord
3. Get a cat - they don't need training. Pouncing and eating vermin is well ingrained - although farm cats have mad hunting skillz.
4. snap traps - i recommend the 2 piece plastic ones - less messy
5. glue traps - not recommended - see screaming post above
6. poison - not recommended - what if he dies and decomposes behind the wall?
7. stuff all potential mouse entrances with foil or better yet - steel wool.
8. get an electric pest deterrent - emits a tone that they don't like and also works against insects.
9. call an exterminator - expensive way of having someone else take care of it
1. Move out
2. Complain to the landlord
3. Get a cat - they don't need training. Pouncing and eating vermin is well ingrained - although farm cats have mad hunting skillz.
4. snap traps - i recommend the 2 piece plastic ones - less messy
5. glue traps - not recommended - see screaming post above
6. poison - not recommended - what if he dies and decomposes behind the wall?
7. stuff all potential mouse entrances with foil or better yet - steel wool.
8. get an electric pest deterrent - emits a tone that they don't like and also works against insects.
9. call an exterminator - expensive way of having someone else take care of it
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