There's this mouse in my house, I can hear it walking at night when i'm on my bed.
It got into every single drawer it chewed throught the bottom of the china cabinet. Got into the couch cusions and literally ate its way through all 3 of the cushions. Chewed through boxes in the cupboard, loaves of bread.
I noticed it made a tunnel in the wall in the kitchen so I put a mouse trap there but it never walks on it so the trap is empty and I almost caught my toe in the mouse trap the other night. Is there a way to get rid of this mouse?
It won’t let me sleep. It ate a tunnel in the middle of my bread. Pooped in my bread!!!!
2007-01-15 20:18:31 · 9 answers · asked by Johnny S 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Wow, you might want to try getting rat poison or mouse traps. If you know where the mouse is attacking, then plant it there and see if anything turns up. If not then call an exterminator to come in an professionally kill it.
if you have a cat, let it loose
2007-01-15 20:22:12 · answer #1 · answered by trainwreckBud 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have more than one mouse, so use multiple traps and the best ones are the spring loaded. I set my traps and then pet them on the surface at an angle so that if something just steps on it, the trap goes off, caught one mouse by its rear this way. I have caught 4 mice in two days and I still hear them rustling around. As for baiting the trap, with a tilt there is no need but peanut butter or wet bread works. Oh and do not use rat poison, the mice will die in your walls and stink up your house.
2007-01-15 20:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by Marcus R. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best way to kill them is to use the green pellets that the exterminators use. D-con sells them. They look like a wedge.You just open it as directed and put it in a safe place. Don't worry,the mouse or mice will find it no matter where you place it. They not only eat it but also bring it back to their nest so that their family and friends can have some too. It makes them thirsty and run for water which burns out their guts therefore preventing them from stinking the house up.
2007-01-17 03:36:41 · answer #3 · answered by charlie_the_carpenter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Glue traps ... I had an identical situation. They have been stealing the nutrition from my canine' bowl; peek into the asked aspects for my solutions. My very final suggestions: a million. discover the holes & fill them with spray foam. 2. Blue blocks of poison interior the partitions & back at the back of the counters, 'refrigerator or everywhere else the youngsters, pets and such won't be in a position to attain them. 3. Glue traps with peanut butter interior the middle. make optimistic the peanut butter is interior the middle so as that they run in & stay interior the middle and get stopped by potential of the glue on the traps. and be certain you utilize a stick and a plastic bag to assemble the mice corpses as quickly as they die or they'll stink up the abode. 4. be optimistic to get a deodorizer for the smell - in the event that they die at the back of the partitions the abode will stink for some weeks. maximum suitable constantly, Jaime
2016-12-13 08:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by inkeles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had great success with this trap in my house:
http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266
It’s also available for $2 cheaper here (although I prefer to buy it from the other place since I’m not a big fan of PETA):
https://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=HP200
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.
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!
2007-01-16 06:21:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
when you use a mouse trap, bait it with dog food (dry type) or peanut butter.
This is what I did and in 7 days I caught 23 mice that was 2 yrs ago have not seen any since
2007-01-15 20:32:04 · answer #6 · answered by l_du_pont@verizon.net 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the best ways is to bait several traps with peanut butter and raisins, then place them in out of the way spots (be careful to keep them where you will not end up trapping your toes). In the mean time, keep all your cereal, breads, etc. in sealed plastic container, because what they won't eat, they will poop and pee in.
2007-01-15 21:15:12 · answer #7 · answered by RedSoxFan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Glue traps are the best method to trap rats and mice.
I found detailed information at http://www.pests.in
2007-01-17 03:03:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the sticky mouse traps work great!!!!!!!!!
i know cuz same thing happened to me last year........
2007-01-15 20:24:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋