Help! Mice In My House!!
 

So I have found mice in my house. I live on a lake, so dealing with animals around the house is nothing new (bat in my house last year)...but these guys are tricky!! They are primarily in the basement, but last night I saw one run in the kitchen:Oh crap I have put out traps and caught 7 of them so far...but the remaining mice are very very hard to catch! I put peanut butter in the traps and when I check the traps the following morning.... all I have done is given them a midnight snack!! Has anyone had to deal with a mice problem? Any suggestions? TY, I appreciate your help!!

Put one of these in your basement :)

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get traps and cheese

I second that...

burn the house to the ground and start fresh.

Their luck will run out one of these nights on getting the bait without the crushing fatal blow.

If they are field mice, I think they are harmless enough.

We had them when we lived in the sticks and never worried much about them.

For some reason, I do not like the idea of mice, but if you throw the word "field" in front of it, I somehow become OK with them.

Now I live in a heavy populated area and would never tolerate such a thing.

get a cat.. It will take care of that problem. I had cats all my life and never had mice problems.

I had the same problem the first winter after I moved into my house.

Traps, and lots of them!!! Peanut butter is good, but chocolate is the treat mice cannot resist.

You just gotta find where they like to hang out, and then set the traps. Once you have got the breeding pairs, the colony will start to disappear.

I have to say these mice a kinda cute...look like Ratatouille. Same coloring as my Italian Greyhoud....wife doesn't seem to agree on the cute opinion. :)

Try the sticky traps. They get stuck to them and can't get free. Of course, then you have to get rid of it.

Just having a cat in the house will keep them out. They can smell the cat and move on to the neighbors house.

Wish I could....wife has allergic asthma and cats are one of her worst reactions. Home Depot has a couple contraptions...going to try them out..see what works!

put cats in your house

If you found 7 chances are there are 20 more. those sticky paper traps are pretty good

Decon, posion the little suckas

cats and traps

glue traps are awesome, just put a hunk of peanut butter in the middle. way better than poison. my mom got 7 mice in 2 days

They are far from harmless - you can get infested with rodent mites, incredibly bad and nasty problem - NEVER co-exist with rodents TRUST ME - Ortho mice and rat poison is the best.

Our cat takes care of any mice around here !!!! :thumbsup

They still make that stuff?

cats are more filthy animals than a mouse lol

Those poison pellets work really well but you have to be prepared to encounter dead/dying mice wherever they may be. In our first apartment, my boyfriend would pick them up with long BBQ tongs. They would die in the worst places.

Just get a cat. It will keep them out and if it's cute cat it will keep you a company.:thumbsup

ignorance is bliss, cats are one of the cleanest domesticated animal you can have, much cleaner then a mouse or a dog. A cats saliva is composed of an anti bacterial and deodorizing agent with they use to constantly bath themselves.

You dont like cats, fine, but that is no reason to make up stuff about them

Well I just bought sticky pads and 2 different types of traps....see which one works best. I wasn't crazy about the poison...what do you do if a mouse dies in a place you don't see and starts stinking up?

Those glue traps are beyond cruel, I can't imagine people using them.

If you must use a kill trap at least keep using the ones that kill the mouse relatively quickly.

There's also a breed of cat that's allergy friendly.. I forget what it's called.. it's a little pricey though..

But might be nice to get and have..

There are devices that generates a sound that mice´s don´t like and they will stay away, easy thing to just connect to the power outlet and then let it sit there, no need to pickup dead mice´s..

They are called Sphynx. They are totally hairless, which would be a perfect fit, because I have a hairless Chinese Crested at home :1orglaugh

:thumbsup!

Avoid the poison. If they die within your walls you're screwed. I would suggest those one-way trap door type traps. Works perfectly when I've used them. Put some peanut butter on bread inside... they walk in, cant walk out.

These traps also keep them alive so you can dispose of them any which way you want.. humane or not lol.

napalm your basement to shit...and film it..and post pics.

Fucking mice!!


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Glue traps with milk chocolate always worked best for me. Put it in a corner, with the bait right in the corner so it has to go across to get it. Works like a charm. When there is a mouse around, this will usually catch it with a few mins.

Hire a professional pest control. Mouse traps ain't going to cut it

They squeal as soon as they get stuck, so you know you've got one. Then you drown it in a bucket of water (trap and all). There is no more humane way possible. Just don't leave it to die, or try to pull it off the trap.

Thats the reason I would not recommend bait. Get ready to cut open walls/ceilings if one of them dies in a hard to get to place.

I had small rats called Norwegian rats, best identified by a body 1 1/2 - 2 times bigger than a mouse and tail that is at least the length of the body.

I finally got rid of mine with the RatZapper http://www.ratzapper.com/. It looks like a traditional live trap door trap but it can only be entered from one end. The food is placed inside the other end which is closed with a grille type end. In the center on the floor is a section that is electrically charged . If they cross it to get to the food they are electorocuted. Powered by 4-aa batteries.

Trick was finding what they like. From cat food pellets to bran flakes.

Cry me a river. Its obvious you have never lived with these pesky buggers. If you had you could care less how they are killed. You just want them gone. Whatever it takes.

If you don't like the glue traps I'm sure you really like my electrocution method

Get a water monitor then. :thumbsup

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