I have always had traps work before, but I must not be smarter than the average mouse, because I can't trap them and they now have babies. Help! Also I can't afford to call the pest people.
2007-11-21 05:41:58 · 30 answers · asked by Sunkist3599 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
get you a big cat!!!!
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2007-11-21 05:45:04 · answer #1 · answered by alessandra.castagna 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Recently had a large infestation of mice about 8 to 10. I Live near a large field and decided to store a fifty pound bag of dog food in the corner of the bathroom. I did this because my 130 pound St Bernard decided to devour the bag at one sitting, she was wrong and I had to clean up you know what for the next day or so. Things were great until the bag was almost empty did I find that there was a stock pile behind the bag and lots of evidence on the floor. Bought a family pack of the old style spring loade traps and used American Cheese as bait. Well in two days I was up to 5 mice and decided to reuse a few traps. Loaded them up with more cheese and befor I made into the living I heard a snap and returned to collect another. For a tried and true solution, Pick up American cheese and a few traps, at the Depot, don't get the ones already so called baited, you know the yellow ones, didnt work for shi%. I caught my brothers little Jack Russell several times with the glue traps. Sure was tuff getting the off her.
2007-11-21 06:50:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As stated via Christoph G there are instruments which plug into an electric powered wall socket, and supply off a noise that retains the mice away. We had a mouse difficulty at our place final twelve months, and set those up in the kitchen, the place the mice have been considered, and we've no longer considered any on account that. it is the ultimate way in case you do no longer choose to apply a capture, yet you're conscious that there are mice traps which do no longer easily injury the mice are not you?
2016-11-12 08:02:50 · answer #3 · answered by slayden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
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.
2007-11-23 13:33:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats work well, but they also will bring you prizes. Have you tried the clear traps with the one way door? I found they worked great for me. I had the same problem about three years ago, used them and never saw another mouse after that. That was when I was living in the states.
2007-11-21 05:50:26 · answer #5 · answered by Diane B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Get a cat.
2) Glue traps work really well. Just put em in front of wherever you last saw the mouse. (They're really cheap, u can get 'em at a dollar store).
3) Maybe try putting the Dcon in a different place. It really works well in the basement when you put them up in the rafters.
4) Don't leave any food or trash laying out, anywhere.
2007-11-21 05:45:34 · answer #6 · answered by Princess Leia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm... The pest control people use thoses stick traps (nothing but a sticky ground for the mouse to run over). Put a dab of peanut butter on them and line them up against the wall (they are blind so they run up against walls). You should get those evil things gone!
2007-11-21 05:45:25 · answer #7 · answered by Van is due 5/8/08! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like everybody loves cats here! But if you really want to make the mice move out of your house, go the health food store and get a bottle of "Oil of Peppermint". Rodents (mice) have no tollerance for the stuff! Saturate cotton balls with the oil and leave them in places the mice frequent. (look for mouse droppings) Mice are strongly allergic to the oil and will not stay where it is. Remember "Oil of Peppermint", if you spread peppermint candy, you will have a bunch of happy mice that will invite friends. (they love the sugar)
2007-11-21 08:53:40 · answer #8 · answered by Bart S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, close off that large gap under your door(s) and close off any opening where they can come in at. Then set traps in the kitchen, under edges, baited with peanut butter [rodents love nuts]. And take all non-plastic containers and transfer the contents to tight lidded plastic containers and keep all spills cleaned up as soon as they happen.
2007-11-21 06:06:09 · answer #9 · answered by the guru 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea, get a mouser. Or better traps, maybe the live traps that they go in and can't get back out?
2007-11-21 05:45:50 · answer #10 · answered by Harley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try P-nut-butter on the traps. If that dont work, CATS!
2007-11-21 05:46:33 · answer #11 · answered by robert l 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋