Regular snap traps seem to do the best for us. Glue traps are cruel and don't kill them, they just suffer. Bait traps don't seem to work at all. How do you prevent them from getting in the house to begin with? I have heard steel wool and moth balls work, do they?
2006-08-19 05:30:49 · 23 answers · asked by daweeney 4 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Can't have a cat b/c my son is allergic to cats and anything with fur
2006-08-19 05:54:14 · update #1
We've had mice trouble before during the winter. Because we have children, they're very aware of the consequences for the mice if we use "cruel" traps. We've had very good success with live mouse traps. The main key is the bait. We've found that peanut butter is the best. One winter we caught 11. It was one family!! I took the traps to a public park with the kids and dumped the live mice into a garbage receptacle where they can wallow in the garbage. It worked and the kids loved it! Good luck!
Here's the website of the manufacturer of the traps we used..
http://www.victorpest.com
And the model with had success with:
http://www.victorpest.com/store/product.asp?dept%5Fid=55&pf%5Fid=M313&mscssid=A64853L8ED8Q8JL398L0NHKHQMPQ3GUC
ps.. we also have two cats, but the traps did better than our cats. Indoor cats tend to "play" with the mice for a while, and our cats are not declawed so...the poor mice that were caught by the cats suffered before they died.
2006-08-19 05:41:10 · answer #1 · answered by Dreamer363 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Moth balls don't work. I think the only way steel wool works is the mice eat it, and that isn't much more humane than the other methods you mentioned. I think the only thing you could do is use the mice traps you already know of, or call a pro. Sorry.
2006-08-19 12:35:40 · answer #2 · answered by dmc81076 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mice can get in through a hole smaller than 1/4 of an inch. It is almost impossible to keep them out.
I put out poison under the house and in the cabinets. I have on one set of drawers that they get in so I do not keep any food in there. I have traps but many times they spring them and eat the bait. So I put out poison I do not use De-con. I prefer
Just one bite or tomcat and I rotate which type I put out so none develope tolerance to the stuff.
2006-08-19 13:59:31 · answer #3 · answered by tlctreecare 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The glue traps along with a bb/pellet to the back of the dome will work dear...no matter how cruel the methods are, you must get control before they run you out of your own home.
Call the pest control people if all fails..
2006-08-19 12:36:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah mice is horrible one mice bitted my passaport and i had 2 get a new 1 but yeah the mouse traps of glue just make them suffer poor things they dont desirv too be killed but they get in our homes and we have 2 kill them i think mouse traps are better because they just get killed in 1 sec.!
2006-08-19 12:35:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get full grown tom cat. Offer him a saucer of milk a day and all the mice he can catch. I have seen mice in 60 million dollar buildings. Seal points pf entry.
2006-08-19 12:39:59 · answer #6 · answered by noelnelson76 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get a cat. Works very well. Give a cat a job, smile.
2006-08-19 12:37:04 · answer #7 · answered by kekeke 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
steel wool will work if you can stuff their access route.
cats work the best! :) cat hair works very well, too, if you don't have a cat but know someone who brushes them.
2006-08-19 12:38:19 · answer #8 · answered by susann 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
fill any holes with steel wool, and place moth balls in dark corners. its true. then get a cat.
2006-08-19 12:35:52 · answer #9 · answered by ~it's me~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Snap traps catch them.
2006-08-19 12:37:11 · answer #10 · answered by Put_ya_mitts_up 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋