what do you do about mice in your kitchen?

Question

It's been like 3 weeks. Every 2 or 3 days, at least 3 mice get cought in the traps.

Answer 1

get a cat >^..^<...

Answer 2

Live near a wooded area? TALL grass and brush growing nearby? What is your neighborhood like? Do you have your own private property? Any firewood piles beside your Home? Try some outdoor cats on your place as one deterrent if you can.
Do the poison bait thing as others have already suggested. Keep trapping as well.
Try to determine where they are entering. I read once a long time ago to take steel wool pads and stuff in around any incoming plumbing and out going plumbing drains. I did this when I first purchased my place. They won't try to cut through steel wool pads. A dryer vent can be an easy entry point, with its associated piping and oversize holes in the floor sometimes.
Sounds like a serious problem you have. Did you move recently and have any boxed items stored in a shed where a mother mouse may have taken up residence, and you may have one of these boxes inside your home? I traced such a problem once. It was a freaky discovery. It happens. With the frequency you are describing you definitely have an open source somewhere and they are lovin' it at your place. You may need professional assistance if you can't locate the source(s) before too long. Their population may increase on you soon. Don't become a motel for them. Seek help if all else fails.

Answer 3

I had mice this past summer :-( All I can say is ewww.

I fortunately had pest control service - they put out poison (they were these green-looking blocks) and some weird, flat sticky traps. Not one problem since then. You just need to be careful with the poison - to make sure children and animals don't have access to them. Thankfully none fell victim to the sticky traps either - one got stuck but got loose.

Answer 4

Just keep youre traps set. If you have no pets, or small children in the house then you might also put out d-con, and the glue-strips. this time of the year is really bad for mice.

Answer 5

Get a cat and also check where they can come in, close the holes and keep on setting traps, they multiply like crazy and I honestly would say you should get a cat.

Answer 6

purchase double the amount of sticky traps and bait them with peanut butter. and you should check around the outside of your house for places that might need to be sealed up better.
And make sure you are not feeding them...put cereals in plastic containers, make sure your canisters are sealed good. Don't leave anything out for them to snack on...

Answer 7

You do the same anywhere--look and see how they might be coming inside>>a hole someplace ?? Keep setting the traps -- it"s getting into winter and they want to come in out of the cold. Merry Christmas.

Answer 8

bait the traps but do not set for three days then when you know where they are set all traps in this room and get them all at once repeat as necessary

Answer 9

you answered your own question. i tried the sticky traps and then felt awful thinking it was inhumane. my only other suggestion is get a cat and limit the food you feed it---make it a mouser.

Answer 10

Make sure they don't find any food. It might be an idea to try to find their dwelling place :-). Or maybe they just get from outside to warm up, then make sure you don't let them in - fix those holes, mate!

Answer 11

Use decon, it's a mouse poison, very effective. Keep it away from kids, pets usually don't pay it any attention though.