PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP!!! Why do I still have mice?

Question

This problem is driving me crazy. I have got mouse traps down (which varies from peanut butter, choc, and jam in them), poison, bay leaves, bicarb, and peppermint on the floor to try to deter them, but I've still got droppings most mornings. I empty my rubbish daily and sweep the floor. I am immaculate, and can't understand why we keep getting them. Can someone please help, before I've got to be put on antidepressants.

Answer 1

Spread some golden syrup on brown paper and lay that on the floor near to where you suspect their hole is. With luck (and assuming they've got a sweet tooth!) you should catch them when they get stuck to the treacle - then you can "kill them humanely" (said to avoid the wrath of the animal lovers who don't mind having rodents in their premises) or alternatively you can do what everybody else would do - smash their heads in with a hammer whilst saying "The rest of your family will get this too when I catch them" ! ! !

Answer 2

Make sure that you do not vary what you put down. Never put food down for mice, as you will always give them a reason to come back. Put poison down and nothing else and keep on emptying your bin each night. Give that a week or two. Mice return when they receive rewards. If there is no food bar poison they will not return.

Edit - the idea of putting food down is false. If there are two mice, one gets killed in the trap, the other has a nice meal. The second comes back with its mates the following evening. Also, the have a keen sense of smell. They will be attracted to the nice smelling food, but mice are good learners and will learn to avoid the trap, and end up looking else where in the kitchen. POISON ONLY - NO FOOD.

Answer 3

If you are in the UK contact your Civic Centre and ask for pest control. I get this nuisance every single winter because I have a field at the back of my house and they come in for the warmth. The "rat catcher" will come and put down poison which is stronger than you can buy yourself once a week until all signs disappear. I must have had about 20 or more mice in my loft at one time and it took ages to clear them out. It was almost as if there was a ball up there and I couldnt sleep.I too keep my house very clean so its not a matter of cleanliness. Make sure that you keep things like pasta, rice and lentils in plastic containers...dont leave any food out at all at night. I wholly sympathise with you as I have either a mouse or a rat under my sink at the moment. Its damned annoying because you have to be so careful that they dont get into your food.

Answer 4

Try and track their entry point with the talc or flour method (tracing footprints) if you can find where they get in you can block this. Leave a selection of foods out for them to see what their preferences are then load snap traps with them, one of my favourites was grass seed also sunflower seeds,shelled, seemed to do the trick. I spent a lot of time with humane traps and never caught one, switched to snap traps and rounded up the family. Another favourite I just remembered is Jelly Babies broken in half. Once I got rid of them I bought some sonic emitters which seemed to deter them from re-entering although I have seen a new device on the market which protects the whole house but can't remember what it is called something like Homeshield. Good luck in evicting the little devils. Lo xxx

Answer 5

I used Pine to start off when I first started into the rodent craze. It worked well, but it isn't the best when it comes to how often to change it and smell (although it doesn't smell as bad as Aspen, which is better than both Pine and Cedar, by the way!) Carefresh is great, but pretty pricey. You can find other paper beddings that are quite similar to Carefresh, but Carefresh is, perhaps, the best way to go. If you are getting mice, soft Aspen shavings, or paper bedding, are both good. Good luck! P.S. 100,000 mice?! Now that's a scary thought...

Answer 6

With all this things you have been doing, is any one of this effective? maybe you have tried everything and nothing is effective for the reason you only knew (traps not properly placed and baits are not sufficient, there are precedures in giving poisons - not to be touched by a person so that the mice will not smell it and if it is placed where they could eat it). Have you tried using fly papers? put something for them to eat in the middle of the paper but be sure to put some weight on the paper so that it will not be dragged by them. And why not try to have some cat in your house it surely deters the mice out of your house.

Answer 7

Depending on where you live my guess is they are coming in your house because fall is here,and they are looking for a nice warm place until spring. Here's what you do with your trap take some peanut butter and put it on some bread,and then mash it all up real good so it gets like a dough then stick that dough on the traps stick after it dries it will be like cement,and the mice will have to pull on it to try to get it off,and then WHAMO! dead mouse. If that does'nt work try using a shotgun.

Answer 8

It seems like you have a rather large "nest" situated in or around your house.

This is war! Don't give up! Make sure that there is NO food source available to them other than what is in the traps. Use only cheese in the traps - this is NOT a gourmet eating contest for rodents. Use plenty of traps, and don't put them out until you go to bed;switching off all the lights in the house.

Good luck! P.S We will fight them on the floors, on the bench tops, in the cupboards - we will NEVER give up!

Answer 9

Do you live in the country or the city. In the country around trees nearly impossible to rid your self of them completely. I put down mouse traps under the stove, they like the heat with small cookies or wafers surprisingly they love cookies. Good Luck!!!
As for the poison please don't use it for two reasons
1. It is a very painful death
2. The mouse/mice can get into your walls before they die and when the die in the walls it stinks really really bad. Been there done that.

Answer 10

If you live in a terrace (town) house, you will find that there will be interconnecting channels for mice to go from one house to another. To eliminate them complete from such premises, you will need all the residents in the block to attack the problem. If this is your problem, you need to speak to your neighbours because no matter how clean and careful you are, they will be reproducing in another house and coming back or using your house as a 'mice-run' to get to another house. Check for any holes that interconnect with the outside or next door, not fogetting the place where your utilities enter the house - water, gas, electricity. Plug them with closed mesh chicken wire scrunched up and them plaster over.
You could also try one of those electronic mice deterrents but buy one that is truly powerful and will blast humungous decibels of ultra sound in the room where they are frequenting.

Answer 11

Your going to have to find out where they're coming in at. Just remember, that mice can get inside using the smallest of holes. You can either block the holes with metal, with something like metal flashing (flat metal tin), or if it's a small hole that you find you can even use a SOS or Brillo pad. Also, if you can have some cats outside, that would help alot. You'll never rid your house of mice until you can find out where they're coming in at. Sometimes it gets so bad, you have to call professional exterminators out. Also remember, if you put poison out (D-Con rat and mice killer is really good...and can be purchased at Wal-mart), they can die under the house or between the walls, causing a pretty bad smell for several days. Best of luck to you.