How do you get rid of mice in your room & kitchen???

Question

I had just moved in to my new house. Last week , I found chicken bones at the corner of my kitchen cabinets, it must be from rubbish bin. and now almost every day have to clean my kitchen every morning just because of the mess done by the "
little one" .

Answer 1

You have to be very careful with the poisons, besides children and pets getting into them you end up having dead rodents someplace in the house and the smell of a dead mouse can be very bad. Traps work very effectively, depending on how you feel about the subject you can either use humane traps (mouse is alive) or regular old traps that you set.
Traps that you set work very well, although you do have to be careful where you put them if you have children or pets some traps can break a small finger. I have always found that if you use peanut butter as bait it will work very well. With the cheap wooden traps you can toss them mouse and all.
Now that you are fighting a rodent problem you need to find the source where they are coming from. It could be a small gap where appliances are installed or in older homes it can even be areas that mice have chewed threw wood or drywall. You will need to patch these places up in a pinch you can put some steel wool into larger holes and patch it up with cocking. It is very important that you find where they are coming in at, or you will be fighting the rodent problem continually.

And yes mice can be very distructive, they can get into your pantry and destroy food, they can chew electrical wires, they can get out of control quickly.

So good luck in you fight against the mice, you can do it, you just have to be consistant.

Answer 2

Mouse traps can be messy and time consuming. Expensive exterminators lay traps that kill the critters inside your walls. You are then left with the rotting animal smell for months, unless you want to break down the wall, get rid of the offending corpse and re-sheetrock. If you're not allergic, the best remedy is a good mouser (a cat). An indoor/outdoor cat is best. A cat that's lived all it's life indoors doesn't have that killer instinct. We have rescued batches of kittens from barns and from under a local hardware store. These cats were born in the wild and are talented hunters. They take care of vermin both inside and out. The occasional "gift" of a dead mouse left at your doorstep is preferable to finding the little "eekers" via smell or sight inside your house.

Answer 3

Because we have 2 dogs We did not want to use any type of poison in our summer house. We did find some sticky mouse traps they are available at most hardware stores and even some dollar stores we used them and got great results. We also checked around the house to try to find out where they were coming in. ( they can squeeze into a hole the size if a pencil eraser.) we filled in as many places as we could find with steel wool. Good luck!!

Answer 4

Good news,you can go to OSH or Home Depot and buy a gadget you plug into your electrical outlet.It emits a sound that only rodents,spiders and insects hear and they hate it so much they evict themselves.I found a rat in a new place I had moved into after I installed one and it was in so much pain it couldn't move.They hate it and best of all you don't have to use chemicals which might be bad for yours and childrens health as well.They worked really well.only I think after about a year they need to be replaced with new ones and make sure you buy the best ones because the cheap ones don't work all that well.Best of luck getting rid of your unwanted guest.

Answer 5

Mouse traps work the best.....glue traps are evil! You can hear the little boogers scream. Of course there's always poison but the chance you take is that the animal will die inside the walls somewhere and stink things up really bad. Peanut butter works well on the traps...good luck!

Answer 6

Get a humane trap to catch him, then turn him loose at least 1/2 mile from the house. Or, get a cat.

Answer 7

Get a cat or a dog.....We always used to get the occasional mice in our finished basement in the late Fall and winter due to living at the edge of the woods. My son bought a Dalmatian and it must be her scent that keeps them at bay...We have not seen or heard any since she stays in the basement at night.

Answer 8

Mice don't usually move chicken bones, they would bite off the meat. I think you might have a bigger pest. It sounds like the work of a possum, to me. You might be smelling a foul Oder and you will definitely have fleas, if it is a possum.

Answer 9

Adopt a cat, get mousetraps or use warfarin.

And keep a clean kitchen. Sick.

Answer 10

a cat mice will usually stay away if there is a cat in the house