what is the best way to get rid of mice?? i hate them and we have them in the basement?

Answer 1

Please don't use glue traps or poison. Glue traps are so cruel that they've actually been outlawed in some countries. 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. If you find a live mouse stuck in a glue trap, you can put it in a box, pour vegetable oil around the mouse to loosen the glue, and gently push it off the trap with a pencil or spoon. Then, you can release it outside. Of course, this is messy and stressful for both you and the mouse, so it's better to not use them in the first place.

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.

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 a dozen 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 feel you must kill the mice, snap traps are the most humane alternative.

Answer 2

There is a product on the market (Menard's and Walgreen's) that omitts an electric pulse through the wiring AND a high pitched sound that only small animals can hear. They will drive the little critters out. But you cant use them if you have small animals. And you have to place them very far apart. Like upstairs on the north side of your house and in the basement on the south side of the house. If they are too close the pulse becomes a hum and they (the mice) get used to it. The devices take about six weeks to drive them all out.
Then spray the outside along the base (or basement) of your home with bleach to kill the scent trail or you WILL get them back

P,S, If you only use the device in the basement, the mice will just go upstairs from within the walls.

Answer 3

I use new spring trap every time and put the trap inside a shoe box with two holes then throw out the whole thing when I've caught one, should take about a month to catch the whole family, at the same time figure out how they got in and seal up the hole or crack, it can be as small as 1/4 of an inch. or an air conditioner pipe hole that is not puttied around the pipe.

Answer 4

Do not feed your cat and keep him in the basement.

Answer 5

Sounds simple, but I would get a cat. Besides, sometimes they like to snuggle.

Answer 6

Cats!

Answer 7

if you buy the flowers in pots called 'crocus' that hould do the trick as rodents cant stand that lovely flowery smell.

Answer 8

decon.......not exactly all granola....but they will go away
I promise. keep the kids and pets away.
I hate mice too.