Would like to know how to get rid of a rodent quick and fast?

Question

My boyfriend and I brought two traps about 6 weeks ago but this rodent is clever and hides well. We are really tired of the droppings and we keep the house fairly clean so we do not know what to do. We want it out NOW! Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I assume you are referring to a mouse. The best traps for a mouse are the wooden ones or the sticky traps. If you use the wooden traps only place the smallest amount of peanut butter on the trap. If you place too much of anything they are able to grab it and run. DO NOT use poison. The mice eat it and die in your walls and end up stinking really bad. What ever trap you use place it next to a wall. Mice like to travel along the wall edge and not through the middle of a room. Good luck.

Answer 2

Whatever you use, do NOT use the sticky traps. They are inhumane, and the mouse may live for days stuck to the thing, or chew its feet off trying to free itself. Place several (3-4) snap traps in the areas where you find droppings most often. Bait them with a smear of cream cheese, sour cream, peanut butter, or any other strong-smelling soft food by pressing the bait into the trigger before setting the trap. Every morning, check the baits for catches, and to see if the mice have eaten the bait without setting off the traps. Rebait them and check again in 24 hrs. If you find live mice in the traps, drown them in warm water to put them out of their misery as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Answer 3

There are all kinds of traps that you can pick up at Wal-Mart that the mouse will go into and won't come out; you never have to even see the nasty thing. Until then here is a tip I'm using until my traps work; they hate mint. I have put mint tea bags in my silver ware drawer and utensil drawer. I have also put pure peppermint oil drops in the corners of each of the drawers and up in my cabinets and this really works. They stay away. The mint smells really good for a few days and then it dissipates. Spearmint also works.

Answer 4

What do you put in the trap? Peanut butter is a favorite of mice. When I lived on the lake I caught a lot of the little mice that way! Good Luck

Answer 5

If there are holes around in the wall, put in an SOS scratch pad. These are steel wool and the rat/mouse will eat it trying to get through, killing it.

Also, take the lid of a jar, mix flour with cement and place it where the mouse can eat it, this will set the cement in its stomach, killing it.

etc.

Answer 6

there is a full time thing called a cat known as cataratisamouseiss they will put in tireless amounts of time sleeping on the problem and chasing it til it is gone . the farmis cataratisamouseiss breedis is the best you can get and will even go outside to chase the problems locally

Answer 7

Bar Bait, rodents eat it and go looking for water, usually outside. They die while drinking

Answer 8

there is some kind of poison on the market that dehydrates them when they eat it so even if they hid in the wall afterwords there isn't a smell

Answer 9

got to get this stuff called decon, they eat just a bite of it and it kills them right then, they smell it a mile away and they cant resist the smell, they want it.