How do you get rid of household mice????

Question

I need help! I have mice in my house. They are tearing up my food pantry and leaving a mess. I already have Orkin service, and he has left traps and bait stations with poison (some of which must be getting eaten because we're seeing and smelling dead mice here and there). Usually, we have trouble at the beginning of winter, and once Orkin puts out the bait stations, we don't see anymore. This year, we can't get on top of them. I cannot get a cat. I've plugged all the holes I can find with steel wool. They are driving me nuts!!!! Any ideas????

Answer 1

Get some simple wooden mouse traps and bait them with peanut butter. Yep, peanut butter. They REALLY love it and can smell it from a good distance. Keep those traps in the areas where you know they are running...especially along baseboards.

Before long you will have snapped them all up.

Answer 2

I've had great success with this live 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. I have to be honest and tell you that 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 (as you have discovered).

I've found that if I have mice, I have to put all of my food in glass, metal, or plastic containers, or keep it in the refrigerator. Plastic bags are particularly susceptible to chewing. Good luck!

Answer 3

We also had mice when it got cold. We put out all kinds of traps. We did not use poison, as I did not want one to die in the wall and start to smell.

I also have 5 cats that helped out also.

Answer 4

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

I found detailed information at http://www.pests.in

Answer 5

Try putting out more traps or call the exterminator.

Answer 6

get a cat and don't feed him!

Answer 7

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