how to get rid of a very clever mouse?

Question

i have had a mouse in my kitchen now for over two months and it just will not be caught! i have had one of those plug in high frequancy gadgets, mouse traps, friendly mouse traps and now im running out of ideas. it seems to know the traps and avoides them prefaring to climb into my frying pan that is kept in the oven! ive even set traps in the oven but it wont go near them. bait we have used is cheese, mars bars, bacon rind, peanut butter, even fat out of the frying pan! these have all been on recomendation. this is certainly a case of cat and mouse! any ideas?

Answer 1

GET THE STICKY MOUSE TRAPS AND PLACE IN YOUR FRYING PAN IN OVEN. THAT'LL CATCH THE LITTLE SUCKER

Answer 2

Take the lead and invite him outside. Put the cheese on the back steps. The scent will inform him. The minute that little tail clears the back door, close it and lock it and go to work mouse-proofing your kitchen once again. Give some serious thought how he might have been able to get in in the first place. I had a mouse who took up residence in my kitchen stove and I spoke out loud to him and told him the jig was up, and that I would be leaving some cheese near the back door. It worked. But I had to get him to move out slowly. Another foolproof way is to borrow a neighbor's cat on the overnight and leave her in the kitchen, all doors shut. Brutal but effective. Nature's way, as it were. And there must be another million ways to be free of this. You could simply wait until you know he is in the kitchen and close all the doors and wait. If that mouse poops in your oven, it's curtains. Good-bye oven. Good-bye stove. And open all the windows because otherwise it will be good-bye you! Good luck to you, I can imagine easily how annoying this must all be to you, even though you are being nice about it! Sent with good energies from Chris in South Portland, Maine, U.S.A. (I am 63 years old.)

Answer 3

A cat /kitten.
Note: not all cats will hunt mice, some are too lazy. I was told that a female, tortoiseshell cat is best, especially one that had been trained by its mum. We saw one advertised and enquired, and within 12 hours the mouse was history, even though the kitten was only 8 or 12 weeks old.

This is efficient, and kinder than the alternative that we had tried on its predecessor- which was my ex chasing it round the house with an aerosol can. The poor thing eventually staggered to a halt some 90 minutes later and went into shock from the fumes, rolling over with its legs in the air, twitching. (The mouse wasn't in much better shape, either) Even then it wasn't actually dead and I forget how we killed it, buried it alive, I think.

Answer 4

Yes talking to them can be somewhat effective if you can use the element of surprise and a very nasty voice directed specifically to the mouse when you know he's awake. Fake meowing wont impress them.
Several local acquaintances had described a method which supposedly caught over 200 mice in 2 months.
Take a bucket of water, suspend a glob of peanutbutter using string from a stick or ruler over rim, devise a diving board that dumps the mouse in the bucket of water when he goes to reach the peanutbutter suspended in the air.
I was surprised to discover mouse populations are as mobile and cross-culturally proficient as humans, so you may have an immigrant, educated mouse on your hands. We had to move all the food in our cupboards into tins or plastic containers, and vacuum out under the oven, where they had made a nest in the oven insulation! The danger with mouse poison in the kitchen is a smart mouse will carry it and contaminate your own food such as cereal (reverse genocide). Their most favorite food is cadbury miniature easter eggs. They stole all of ours this year!

Answer 5

The mouse is recognizing traditional traps.Now try a not traditional trap to fool him.Get a five gallon bucket. Sprinkle a small amount of bird seed into the bottom. Don't put in to much, mice can jump. Get a wood yard stick and prop it against the bucket making a little mousie bridge. The mouse will climb the yard stick and jump into the bucket to get the seed, but the once inside the bucket, can't jump high enough to get out. If the bucket is smaller than 54 gallons, the mouse can jump out, and if it is larger, he won't jump in. I know it sounds dumb, but it really works. And when you go to drop off your mousie friend, don't do it in your yard, he will come right back into the house. You have to take him about a mile off. I speak from experience. Remember, you ARE smarter than the mouse. You can get him

Answer 6

We have trapped a total of 23 mice and 1 rat since we have been in our present house. First, do you have any rodent pets? The pets will attract other rodents. Bait traps work best if placed in areas where rodents will normally travel, along walls. Place the traps where the trip is against the wall. There are traps available that do not require bait. Make sure all possible entry is sealed, bottom of siding, utility entry. If the rodent entered your kitchen, it is likely to nest in your stove insulation and in not a good experience! We have had to clean and re-insulate our stove twice! Good Luck!

Answer 7

much sympathy, we had one a few months ago, i have constantly got one of those plug things on [4 years] an never had one. then in the summer we had patio doors open and saw it run in an under washing machine, riped kitchen apart no sign or sound, week later heard chomping and saw it! freaked then my neighbour had one but it tunneled between our kitchens, right up through her flooring! had poison no joy. both buzzered to the hilt still hearing it we decided it was just trying t get out of the noise. in the end i caught it by trap with choc on after lifting a board that we had heard it. first time got the bugger. took a photo and won a bottle of vodka from next door as the champ mouse hunter. we even were given t shirts with a mouse eating cheese on! sad i know but it took over our lives. a mouse can fit thru a hole the width of a pencil, an apparently they hate the smell of white toothpaste, so u can guard area to confine them. and this is true but sounds rrdiculous scientists discovered that for some reasons in birmingham mice prefer tuna above anything else used as bait. good luck be brave u can win th war x ps not had another nor neighbour

Answer 8

We had one and we used a trap that catches them alive and we baited it with chocolate. A Mars Bar might not be a strong enough type of smell. Try plain Chocolate ~ we also put a trail of it outside the trap so as to tempt the little devil. When you finally do catch it make sure you release it more than a couple of miles away as they have been known to find their way back. Good Luck

Answer 9

Ultrasonic contraptions and different gimmicks do no longer artwork. Snap traps are superb. i'm assuming you have pets? a million. purchase snap traps, ideally Victor yet any extremely will do. 2. do away with any puppy bowls from the floor. that's the place mice feed. place them up extreme and feed your pets at short everyday feeding durations. The mice would be hungry. 3. Get a great cardboard field, one your pets can't get into. Paper packing packing containers (copier and printer) from an place of work are appropriate. decrease holes interior the corners sufficiently enormous to allow mice to flow into. 4. Slice some very skinny products of Sir Francis Bacon that could greater healthful on the catch set off. Wrap thread around it so that's secured (that's significant, the mice can't scouse borrow the bait). placed a tiny little bit of peanut butter on the Sir Francis Bacon (the heady scent will attraction to the mice, then they are going to flavor the Sir Francis Bacon). 5. leave the field with the set traps the place your puppy bowls have been (3 traps in a field ought to be plenty). 6. Use gloves whilst removing the mice. 7. in case you have the $, purchase the "Rat Zapper" extremely of snap traps, it works on mice too and mice can't outsmart it. yet submit the puppy nutrition bowls, in any different case the mice isn't hungry and you will no longer catch them.

Answer 10

If you see just one mouse you can be certain that there is another five close by, i still reckon that a good old fashioned trap is the best way to go, chocolate, bacon, fish are pretty good baits failing that a tom & jerry style trap might be the way to go using bowling balls , shotguns and a little toy boat in a tin bath

Answer 11

do you know where his mouse whole is? if so fell it with moth balls and SOS pads and buy some deacon but keep it up out of the way of kids and animals.. the mouse will eat it and die..put it in the oven at night..i would say that there are more then one mouse..i live in a house once that was taken over by mice and my dogs would catch then and bring them to me the dogs and cat would fight over them..gross i know..needless to say i dont live there no more..

roflmao if you lived around me i would let you barrow my cat..

oh yeah i would fill the kitchen sink up some with water and the mice would get thirsty and fall in and die..i was always catching them this way..if you know someone that has a cat give them a blanket or something for the cat to lay on and then bring it home that will also scare mice off..the smell of a cat..