Short of getting a house cat (I am severely allergic), what's the best way to get rid of mice?

Answer 1

D-Con works very well. So do traps with peanut butter.

Answer 2

Old fashioned spring traps. I had a mouse visiting my pantry and noticed he liked the bread. So, I baited the trap with a little peanut butter and a chunk of sourdough. Also, I put this trap inside a shoe box with a hole in it's side (oh, the size of a quarter will do) and put the box on the shelf where the bread usually goes. It worked like a charm. Placing the trap on an open shelf did not work. Ok, so now you have to find out how they got in the house and plug that hole up. My guys were coming in where the sink waste water pipe went through the wall - the contractor made a sloppy oversized hole. I pushed steel wool in the spaces around the pipe and then sprayed the area with aerosol insulating foam. No more mice and I eliminated a draft, too!

Answer 3

D-Con works very well, if you think that you can stand the smell of a dead mouse. Also, I put peanut butter on an old fashioned mouse trap, and before I go to bed, I put a small piece of bacon in the microwave and warm it up and then stick it inside the peanut butter and they can not resist the smell. They come running as quick as you put it out. Also, put moth balls under the house. They can't stand the smell. To fill in the holes from which they are coming in, there is a foam that you can spray, and they can't chew through it. You can get it at Wal-Mart or a True Value Hardware store.

Answer 4

Animal rights nuts, turn your heads...

Individual mice can build up tolerance to poisons and pass them on to their offspring. Snap traps can be foiled. So can glue traps.

A good way to get rid of em is to put out some crumbled cereal, like corn flakes, and mix in finely ground glass. Though the above methods can be foiled physically or biologically, there's no way to build up a tolerance to or outsmart having your innards shredded.

Cruel, I know. But I tolerate no uninvited guests.

Answer 5

Had a similar problem, tried sticky traps those were a nuisance and and hardly worked.

Industrial strength poison pellets work the best.

The mice sometimes go into the walls when they die though, so don't be surprised if the neighbours complain of the smell and you have blowflies everywhere.

lol

Answer 6

Animal rights activists smile for this one! Get mothballs, either crushed or whole - smell isn't great, but you can put them in places where you wont' smell it so much. Mice too hate the smell and will not nest where they are. Sprinke crushed in the attic, put whole ones under the house.

Answer 7

the glue traps work best, but only if you aren't squeemish. no fuss--no mess. just put them where mice run through and check them the next day. if no luck move the trap. the mice run into the glue and get stuck. just throw them out, trap and all. mo difficult traps to set, no bait to be stolen and no poisons.

Answer 8

Old fashioned mousetraps are the best. Poisons will cause them to die inside the walls and it will smell terrible. At least with the mousetraps you can dispose of the bodies yourself. A dab of peanut butter is irresistible to them as bait.

Answer 9

Dcon and it's safe as long as you don't have pets around. Traps bated with peanut butter. Find their port of entry and block it. If you see tiny holes where you think they might be coming in, stuff them with steel wool. Mice won't chew through because it cuts their mouth.

Answer 10

throw some snakes under your house.