eeek a MOUSE!!!!?

Question

I have a mouse in my house or it could be mice.... anyway they (or it) takes the cheese or peanut butter off the trigger mechanism and gets away unscathed. This is very disturbing to me! Anyone know any good ways to get rid of pesky rodents???

BTW Orkin is the one who brought the traps... I think the mouce (mice) are smarter then him...

Answer 1

There a rodent ridder products at the hardware store that will work. One of the best just requires you open the little box and place it in the room where you think they are. It drives them away.

Answer 2

I can't handle the sticky traps, they don't kill the mice, and they squeak and (literally) make me cry, and I own snakes that I feed mice to!! Use the poison pellets, but the mice will die inside the house, and occasionally you will smell them, YUCK! I just make sure I use very little peanut butter, and "mush" it in really well.

If you know where they are coming in, or hiding out, stuff the holes with steel wool. Only thing the little jerks can't chew through. If you have a crawl space under your house, throw some moth balls or vinegar under there.(vinegar needs frequent reapplication, but is cheap) Also empty any standing water in your house, drip pans under the fridge are big offenders! Be careful about unplugging appliances, mice love to chew cords! Check your fridge and stove cords carefully. A house fire will get rid of the mice, but I don't recommend it!!

If all else fails, you could use the method me and my husband used when we lived in a really run down trailer and had no TV. Throw some crumbs on the living room floor and wait with a pellet gun!

Answer 3

Are you sure you have the bait mushed into the trigger well? I have had great success with poison sticky traps. The mice walk on the sticky square to reach the bait and get stuck. There is a slow acting but painless poison in the sticky material that the mouse licks as it tries to free its feet. They are daed shortly thereafter.

Answer 4

I used to get the cute little guys in my house cause there was a field in back of my yard. If you know where it is...I used to get a paper bag...then when it ran in back of my dishwasher...I'd put the bag on one end and have the broom on the other end...and slowly start to move the broom towards the other end...he'd run into the bag. Then I'd scoop up the bag quick before he got out...and relocate him to a new home off in a tree, ivy area I used to live by! I don't kill the little guys....their just there just looking for a home and something to eat.........just give it to them but in a different area.

SmileyCat : )

Answer 5

Buy one of those humane traps - its pretty much just a cage with a triggering mechanism that will trap the mouse inside of it without killing it. Once you catch one, set it free outside and just reset it inside your house and you can catch more.

Answer 6

You should be using humane traps instead of trying to murder the cute little things!! Those glue traps are the most inhumane way to go...it's sick letting the poor things suffer like that!! Doesn't anyone have any feelings anymore??

Answer 7

hmm I had a mouse in my house a while ago...
I ended up buying one of those packets of mouse poison pellets and set it next to where the little bugger was hiding out.

Took about 2 weeks, but the noise stopped and I found it dead in the closet. Not sure if it was natural or if it had eaten any of the pellets.

Answer 8

Cat, exterminator. If those two options are out, try glue traps. They work, but you can't pull the mouse off it, so if it has not died of fright, be VERY CAREFUL to keep your fingers away from its mouth or it will try to bite you.

Answer 9

Put your mouse trap in a shoe box, with the lid off of course. It works for us every time.

Answer 10

If you have one, there are more. Get the glue traps, they work the best. A cat would also be a good investment as long as you don't let it get fat.