how can i get rid of mice at home?

Answer 1

I've had great success with this trap in my house:

http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266

I've caught over a dozen mice with it so far and it can be used over and over indefinitely. Or, you can try making the free homemade humane trap described here:

http://www.helpinganimals.com/wildlife_livingWithMice.asp

If you do live trap mice, please be sure to check the traps several times a day and release the mice promptly, approximately a mile away from your home. It is much more cruel to allow a mouse in a live trap to slowly starve to death than to kill it quickly with a snap trap. Also, if you use the live traps outside, put some bedding (torn-up paper towels or cotton balls) inside the trap so the mice won't freeze to death during the night. When you release the mice, do it in an area with some sheltering bushes or plants. If you are a kind person, you might also leave a little bird seed or oatmeal for them.

The absolute cruelest traps are glue traps. Mice have been known to gnaw off their own limbs and tear off their skin in an effort to escape, as they starve or dehydrate to death or suffocate in the glue. Poison isn't any better, as the mice die slowly and painfully from internal bleeding. It can take up to a week for them to die.

It doesn't take much extra effort to be kind. You will feel better and so will the mice! Good luck!

Answer 2

I don't know where you live, but they are probably coming in to get warm, nest and find food for winter.

The sticky traps work well. (I got a small snake in one once.)

Search around the outside of your house and find any hole no matter how small, caulk them closed to stop entry. You can toss
mouse pellets into the attic and any place children and pets cannot get to.

I just remembered, remove your electrical switch plates and drop the rat pellets into the wall, then no one can come in contact except the mice.

There is also an electronic plug in pest controller that puts off a current through the wiring that disturbs and runs off critters. Expensive but worth it.

I removed a medicine cabinet last year to wall paper only to discover mouse poo. Yuck. But I must admit I thought occasionally I could hear something in the walls.

Buy a large can of black pepper and put a good dose around the outside walls of the house. They can't breath the pepper so it works for gardens and squirrels and cats and dogs coming on your property also.

Good Luck getting rid of your nuisances. I love the cat answer, we have always had at least one cat and mostly mine just love to play with them.

Answer 3

eliminate any food source. try and find out where they are coming in so u can block the hole. check under your sink for holes. they have hav- a-hart traps which catch them so u can take them down the street to the woods somewhere instead of killing them. u set one when u go to bed & check immediately the next morning. make sure theyre closed when not in use. if u just kill them which is mean, others will still keep coming back. u have to find their entrance and block it. if its an odd shape steel wool will work.

usually strong scents such as cayenne pepper, moth balls, or peppermint extract will work because they hate the smell. a new product called fresh cab works too and it's all-natural. see links below.

if u look where a past person asked the same question & i answered-- the scents are working for him.

Answer 4

Get a cat the smell of a cat will drive them out of the house/

Answer 5

Glue traps are the best method to trap rats and mice.
I found detailed information at http://www.pests.in

Answer 6

Mouse trap(s) plus hungry cat.

Answer 7

1. get a cat
2. put moth balls down all around your house, they don't like the smell
3. put traps down to catch the ones you have if you don't get the cat. -Glue traps work pretty well, and don't hurt them as bad as the ones that snap them...

Answer 8

I would love to know the answer to this question.I have the same problem and i have 4 cats.

Answer 9

Hi!

Answer 10

Cat?