please help.. how 2 get rid of mice?

Answer 1

If you have any holes around plumbing, air ducts, or crevices, stuff them with steel wool. Make sure to look behind kitchen drawers and bathroom drawers too.(especially in older homes) Completely empty any cabinets and store the food or dishes away in sealed plastic totes. Put mouse traps (NOT glue traps) in ALL the cabinets and drawers. This will eliminate the mice's food source and they will come out looking for food. Leave your home for a day or even two(the mice will be more likely to come out of hiding this way). This is what I did when we had an invasion. We were mouse free in a week.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

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

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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):

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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! Remember, too, that you need to keep all food either in the refrigerator or in chew-proof (plastic, glass, or metal) containers for the time being. Look for holes outside your house and seal them up. Mice can come in through a space of 1/4". Good luck!

Answer 3

Well you can use mouse traps, or I believe the best way is to get a cat or two. They are the best mousers going. If you do decide to go with like bait traps I would stay away from anything as in poisoning. Reason being on this is mice will live in your walls where you don't have access to them. They eat the poison go back into the hole in the wall and die. Guess what? You must now live with this smell until they have completely rotted away. Use the cat/s or mouse traps. Good Luck.

Answer 4

The best way to get rid of mice is to get a cat.
A few years ago my whole county was being overrun with rats, not mice but big disgusting rats - it was some weird biblical population boom. I live in the counrty and there are always wood rats around but I don't usually know about it. That year I'd actually see them outside during the day, and I could hear them rummaging around at night. I was trapping and catching several every day (totally disgusting) my neighbors were poisoning and I'd find dead ones in my yard and on the street. My ancient and beloved cat had died about 9 months before so they were just everywhere.
When one got into my art studio and pooped on all the counters I lost it and called my vet about adopting whatever sad old stray she came across. I brought home a cat from her, the same day another stray showed up on my property and I started feeding him. I haven't seen a rat since.
A side benefit of all this was that I got to help two animals that really needed a home, they are now beloved pets who adore me and follow me around like dogs.

Answer 5

1) Mice are allergic to "Oil of peppermint". Place a few drops on a piece of cotton and place where the mice have visited. They will not enter that area again. Use "oil of peppermint", not the extract kind.

2) Use a NO-KILL mouse trap. It is the responsible and humane way to catch and release critters. The NO-KILL traps are inexpensive, and some hardware stores will rent them. To purchase on-line, try havahart.com or victorpest.com.

Answer 6

I prefer to deal with them humanely. You can get traps in hardware shops that trap them but dont kill them. Use Milky way as bait and leave the trap along a skirting board, not in the middle of the room. When the door of the trap is closed, you know you've caught one. Dont just release it outside the door as it may come back inside again. If you can, release it somewhere in the countryside away from houses (the next person it decides to visit may not be so kind as you!). Try to seal all possible points of entry. They dont like teabags or mothballs so place these close to where you think they may be getting in - it should deter them. Good luck !

Answer 7

All the answers you have had so far are loads of hassle and wont get rid of the problem permantly.I say go to your local diy store and buy a plug in.It stops rodents entering youre property by emitting a high frequency sound that we cant hear. Problem solved in a humane way.I had a mouse problem and since I bought the plug ins I havent any problems.

Answer 8

There are poisonless repellants. They plug into a normal electrical outlet. My Mother-in-law had mice getting into her camp trailer at her camp site during the winter so I stuffed steel wool into all the holes I could find and last year not one mouse got in.

Answer 9

Borrow a cat for a few days. They really put mice off, big time. And as mice are relatively intelligent, they will remember not to come back. (If they survive).

Answer 10

Cats are truly the best deterrent and immediate problem solver...
if you don't have a cat of your own and don't want to have one, do as was suggested earlier, borrow one. You will be doing everyone a favour,,,, I'd stay clear of poisons, not only other animals can be affected but kiddies too, if they come into contact with it, either directly or indirectly.
I know it isn't always nice but nature has it's own way of dealing with the way of things.
Oh and I totally agree with the peppermint oil solution, oil of cloves is just as good,,
hope you are relived of this problem soonest...