Mouse in my apartment. Help!?

Question

I just came back from a three week vacation to find a small mouse running around in my apartment. Help!! I saw him about four times running across the room, he is very fast. I live in the basement of my apartment building.

Answer 1

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

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

I've caught over ten 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. 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. It can take three to five days for them to die. 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.

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

Answer 2

Okay, this is NOT a recommendation, but my daughter's cat caught a mouse in our basement. Besides getting traps which were never tripped, and cleaning out everywhere we found mouse signs, we got a three-pack of those thingies that plug into the wall and are supposed to emit a sound or something that mice hate. They advertise as a big cure-all; I have no faith in them, but -- oh, God, a -mouse-!-- I was desperate. We put one in the basement near the food pantry, and the other two upstairs. We haven't seen a mouse since, nor any signs at all -- and now we know what to look for. Frankly, I think it was just one mouse that wandered in from outside and found food. But that sounds almost too good to be true, doesn't it? Anyway, no mouse. The three-pack of thingies was about twenty or twenty-five bucks, and each has an outlet in it, so you can still plug things in while the outlet is occupied with the -- thingy!

Answer 3

Fresh bread rolled into a ball also works well on a mouse trap. Also if you can find where it is coming in and stuff steel wool into the hole the mouse will not chew it, just in case you "lock" him in or she has babies, I would put down some bait or a trap for about 2 weeks. Check for holes behind your stove and around drains under cupboards.

Answer 4

If no kids nor pets, use a mouse poison, purchased in any hardware, Lowe's, etc. If children around, or pets, use a mouse trap, as stated by another person. Once he is gone, if safe, keep some poison "motels" out for awhile, in case there are others thinking of subletting your apartment.

Answer 5

I was told that mouse do not like strong smelling spices. Maybe you could sprinkle some cayenne powder, chili powder, black pepper on a piece of paper and place them around your apartment.

Let the apartment manager know right away before they get out of hand.

Answer 6

I HAVE THEM TOO, BUT I CAUGHT 4 ALREADY IN ONE DAY, IM USING D'CON ULTRA SET TRAPS MICE, ITS A COVERED MOUSE TRAP , YOU HAVE NO CONTACT WITH THEM SETTING IS A LEVER YOU PULL DOWN, AND YOU CAN REUSE THEM OVER AND OVER AND THERE IS A CUP. THAT YOU CAN PUT ABOUT 1/8 TSP. VERY LITTLE PEANUT BUTTER IN IT. ITS BEEN WORKING FOR ME. THEY ARE BETTER THAN POISON THEY WILL EAT THAT AND DIE BUT WHERE WILL THEY DIE, THEY ARE BETTER THAN THE WOODEN MICE TRAPS. YOU DONT HAVE TO TOUCH THEM AND YOU CAN REUSE THESE. TRY IT.

Answer 7

put a mouse trap with peanut butter atr the end

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

buy a mouse trap and put some peanut butter on it.

Answer 10

get decon it will eat it then run off to die, its a poison so if u have kids keep it away from them