Mice problem!!! What is the best remedy for mice?

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Mouse problem...caught 3 babies 2 adults and saw 2 more adults!! Please help I hate mice, what is the best thing to do for mice besides a cats?...serious answers only!

Answer 1

I had a mouse problem a little while back, we lived in front of a field. Tried the wood snap traps, they got too smart for that. Tried decon, they would just die in my walls. I would be on the floor playing with my newborn baby and would see a mouse running around in the other room. They were not scared. This may sound inhumane, but it was the only way I could get rid of them. I bought sticky traps. When they got caught, I would take them outside and shoot them with my husband's pellet gun, then just toss them in the garbage (I live in a small town in the country). I was not about to let them go into the field just so they could turn around and come back in. Sorry, all you animal lovers, I love animals too, but mice don't count. That was the only way I could get rid of them. Also, steel wool works great. Plug all holes, not matter how small. They can get into the smallest places. I still live near a field, in a different house now and I haven't seen one mouse in over 4 years. I also think my dogs help the issue, cause we have seen signs of them outside of our house. They (the mice) dig under my husband's shed. You might also think about an exterminator. They are nasty little creatures, and I didn't feel a bit bad about killing them. Whatever you choose to do, good luck!!

Answer 2

Home Remedies Mice

Answer 3

They are there for either food or shelter. Find out how they are getting in and eliminate the opening. Check all around the house for openings, cracks, gaps in the foundation, siding etc. Fill the holes with concrete or steel wool (the two thing that mice can't chew through). Then eliminate the food. Store all of your food in tight containers. Garbage too. If you think like a mouse then even crumbs from the toaster are a food supply. This may be the hardest part since potential food sources are everywhere. Also, try peanut butter in an old-fashioned mouse trap -it works pretty good. Be careful about diseases that they carry. Read up on hantavirus on a health department web site. Good luck.

Answer 4

Been there, done that... and absolutely hate it too!

The best way to get rid of mice is to make your home as uninviting to them as you can. Before you throw down some poison, make sure you understand how to keep mice out.

Best advice, bait traps with peanut butter.

Watch to see where they are coming from .. how are they travelling?
Mice do not like steel wool ... plug holes.

Look for small holes – it only has to be a quarter of an inch wide for a mouse to scurry through – around plumbing or inside cabinets.

NEVER set out poison!!! The mice will die in your walls and then you have the cost of finding the stinking, rotting dead bodies.

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Good luck Eh! :-)

Answer 5

BEST solution to your problem is to go out and by the glue traps. The mice get stuck in the glue and problem solved.

Here's the advantages:

1. Unlike other traps the mouse will not have its head crushed and bleeding.

2. Unlike poison traps...the mouse cannot go and die behind your wall.....forcing you to tear it down when you can't bear the smell anymore.

3. These traps can be baited....i've had the best luck putting alittle bit of peanut butter in the middle of them.

4. If you have a large mouse problem..this trap will usually catch 2 or 3

Only disadvantage to the glue traps are usually the mouse is still alive........I've always just put the trap with mouse in a plastic bag. It'll suffocate. If this is a problem then have someone else remove the mouse. OH and mice do scream.

Hope this helps. Good luck




****EDIT**** looks like others posted info similar to mine faster than I could type mine out. lol

Answer 6

I blast the music really loud for an hour a day, it scares them away, I also have a high pitched beeper, that humans can't hear.
Make sure your foundation is good, they could be getting in there.
Put poison in the basement, because it will kill all the mice, traps get one or two, and there are sooo many. We also got a dog.
sorry, but I also have wild cats running around outside, don't know where they came from? I live in the country, with two barns and hay and we don't have anymore mice, I hope it stays that way

Answer 7

Mice reproduce quickly. At this time I would contact an exterminator. They will remedy the infestation, find and plug access to the house, and recommend what to do in the future to prevent a recurrence. Mice eat the covering off the electrical wiring in the walls. This can lead to a wall burning fire. a serious potential problem. Call in the pros!!!

Answer 8

My husband and I had quite the problem last year and it was because we had old abandon buildings two blocks up that were ripped apart by developers (What a coincidence) and built new buildings in its place and the mice just had to find new homes and one of them was my old house! It was GROSS! But what we did was use peanut butter on our mouse traps and it worked real good. You have to be persistent also. Don't use poison because they will die behind the wall and smell your house up real bad like. It takes forever to get the odor out, trust me on this one. Anyway at one point we trapped around eight or nine. This is why you have to be persistent because they travel in families and have rather large families indeed. It will probably take you around six months or more to get them all. Its ugly to have to pick the dead mouse up but at least you can put it in the garbage can and be rid of it. Mice are a pain in the butt!!!!!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

i know how you feel the best thing to do is to get the stickey mouse traps from walmart or home remodeling center like home depot and sit them out near walls the mice will run over them and get stuck and they wont get off. or you can wait untill winter and then put out mouse poison and they will eat it then run back to where ever they came from and die the only bad thing is that if they die behind anything that you didn't know they could fit in they will smell for a few weeks until they decompose so get the stickey mouse traps and a cat to help chase them away if you don't care to much for cats you may want to have a friend or family member who has a cat have them bring it over for about 2 weeks and they will either chase them away or catch them mice can sense cats smell and wont come around found that out on my own we had the same problem when we moved into our house and i hate mice so i got a cat and we have only found mabey one or two little one's and we stickey mouse traped them also you want to get on the floor and crawl around every inch of your floor boards to see if their is any way they could be comming in from outside and fill the holes either with old rags or you can buy spray insulation in a can just be ready to wipe any excess cause when you spray it it is like shaving cream and will expand and harden to where you will need to cut it off with a knife good luck and try sticky traps first