mouse problem?

Question

We havw a mouse in a apt. Just found it like an hr ago, I sprayed the kitchen down with ant/roach spray. Left the outside door open. I saw it run into the closet, it's full of blankets, I sprayed the closet with ant/roach spray then poured bleach on top of it , then shut the door. How can I get rid of the mouse for good?

Everything in the closet is gonna go in the trash anyway, we don't have mouse traps. Thats why i used roach killer and bleach..the fumes? And we have a hound dog. I don't want her to undo the traps and hurt herself.

Answer 1

Roach spray won't kill a mouse. Bleach will ruin your blanket, and won't kill him, either.

Use a spring trap, a glue trap or some sort of Warfarin formula poison, D-Con or Echols rodent pellets.

Answer 2

Ant/roach spray will just hurt you (and ants or roaches), not the mouse! What were you thinking?

Buy a humane mouse trap, trap the mouse, take it a long way away. BTW, if you saw one mouse, you probably have a dozen or more! Clean your apartment and don't leave so much food/crumbs laying around! Mice come indoors because they don't want to be cold, but they only stay if there's stuff to eat!


UPDATE: just saw that you have a dog...the roach spray will destroy your dog's liver, so don't use any more!

Answer 3

I hate rodents. I bought Mouse Mover Ultrasonic Rodent Deterrent from Sharper Image and it really did work. If you don't want to spend 50 bucks on this, then use a trap, not poison because poison means the mouse might die in some inaccessible place and believe me, the deteriorating body will smell really, really bad for a long, long time. The only problem with traps is that sometimes, depending on how the mouse approaches the trap, the trap just knocks the mouse silly or just catches his tail -- doesn't really kill him, in other words.

Of course, as a preventative measure, you'll want to start keeping your place pretty clean (if you don't already) since it's the accessible food that is a big part of what attracts them in the first place.

Answer 4

You are not going to kill the mouse with ant/roach spray or bleach, but you may cause her extreme pain and distress. Why not try making the free homemade humane trap described here:

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

Please be sure to check the trap several times a day and release any mice you catch 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. When you release the mice, do it in an area with some sheltering bushes or plants.

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. It can take three to five days for them to die. Other animals can be caught in them, too. 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, and then they smell as they rot behind your walls. Also, using poison would be dangerous for your dog.

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

Answer 5

Personally, I have caught mice and relocated them. There are humane traps. If this isn't a concern a one dollar mouse trap with cheese or peanut butter works well. Why use a roach spray and bleach? I guess the mouse will be cleaner. have a great day.

Answer 6

Just,
I know the whole mouse issue is creepy, but bleach and bug spray won't help. If you don't care about being humane, just get a $1 mousetrap. I've had the best luck by tying a piece of cotton cord to the lever, and covering the cord with peanut butter. Even the small ones get caught. If you use the humane ones, do the same thing. By tying a cord and coating it in the peanut butter, they stay in there until they're caught.

Personally I love mice . . . . in a field, in the woods, but NOT in my house. That's war, and all's fair!

Good luck!

Answer 7

Don't let the mouse get comfy in the closet full of blankets! He will be busy chewing and tearing up your blankets, nesting. Open the closet now, and make noise, and shake some blankets out. Let him know this isn't the place for a long-term camp-out.

If you saw one mouse, there's a 100% chance he has friends. Mice are not loners who vacation in one single apartment. Call the landlord now. The building could be infested (or will be soon, with favorable conditions.) This will ruin the landlord's property investment, and he/she should take care of it on your behalf, and in his best interests.

Answer 8

bug spray isn't so toxic to mice. that's why you can use it in your kitchen, it's not extremely toxic to mammals (like people are), but is far more specific to insects. pouring bleach in your closets will only mess up the carpet and make your stuff stinky, but won't kill any mice either.

make sure you don't have anything tasty laying around the place. keep the sinks cleared out of dirty dishes, keep cereal in the pantry in tupperware type containers. don't provide them with a food source to be attracted to.

first thing is to go notify your apt complex. lots of places will take care of pest control for you. best approach is to act clearly upset ("this is NOT acceptable.") but not yelling & hostile (or they won't want to do anything for you).

the biggest problem with trying to take care of it yourself is that in an apartment complex, it's extremely likely that there's plenty of mouse nests in the walls. setting out a trap in just your kitchen won't take care of the whole problem, and they'll be back later. hire a pro for this one: he'll know how to plug up gaps in your walls to keep em out, and he might be willing to write up something that says that it's not your fault, the whole complex needs to have an extermination service done. good luck!

Answer 9

I have had chipmunks invade my home up north and citrus tree rats and squirrels in Florida. Really the only way to stop the invasion of rodents is to seal up their points of entry. Then eliminate, to the best of your ability, all of the things that they love, i.e., food, blankets, clothing that they can shred to make into bedding for themselves. You will definitely want to lay out traps to begin the process.

Answer 10

Glue traps are the best method to trap rats and mice.
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