justamouse Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 and he wasn't invited. THEY weren't invited. I think they're having a party. My line was crossed. We happily co existed until I went to stir my coffee and there was a ... yuck on my spoon. I set out the traps with a wee bit of peanut butter and they lick it off! With teeny presents left behind.:glare: I've tried peanut butter and sunflower seeds and nada. Meanwhile, I slightly touch the things and I get my finger just about whapped off. So. How do I hunt these little suckers down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pqr Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Poison traps. They work fairly well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmpmelmack Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 put poison in the PB, you might catch one in a trap, but if they like the PB they will die, It should be a fast acting poison! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teachermom2834 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 We had one elusive mouse for a while. I knew about him but my line was crossed when I saw him scurry across the kitchen floor during a middle of the night feeding with my newborn. We tried all the snap type traps with no luck. Finally got the critter on a glue trap. Not alot of fun to find the live mouse stuck to the glue trap during a late night feeding with a newborn :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margo out of lurking Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 :lol: I'm sorry, I can't help smiling that JustAMouse found a mouse in her house! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarcyB Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Don't give him a cookie :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie4b Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 and he wasn't invited. THEY weren't invited. I think they're having a party. My line was crossed. We happily co existed until I went to stir my coffee and there was a ... yuck on my spoon. I set out the traps with a wee bit of peanut butter and they lick it off! With teeny presents left behind.:glare: I've tried peanut butter and sunflower seeds and nada. Meanwhile, I slightly touch the things and I get my finger just about whapped off. So. How do I hunt these little suckers down? Try a different kind of trap. We had lots of success with the Have-a-Heart traps that tip forward as they move in for the cheese at the end. We used to let them go at the end of our road where there were no houses. Now we use the killing kind. I got more callous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I hate poison in traps. If you put poison... they go out... and a cat gets them.. they die and excruciating death. :( Very sad. I say.. invite a cat to your house for a few days..... no more mouse :) I think even the smell of cats scare mice :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Glue traps seem to work the best for us. Last time we had a problem, I bought every type of mouse trap at the store, and the glue traps were by far the most successful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmpmelmack Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I hate poison in traps. If you put poison... they go out... and a cat gets them.. they die and excruciating death. :( Very sad. I say.. invite a cat to your house for a few days..... no more mouse :) I think even the smell of cats scare mice :) They make a poison that only kills mice, and kills them within minutes, so they dont go anywhere or hurt anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmulcahy Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I have always used the snap traps and had pretty good luck with them. It used to make me feel bad but they are so nasty and get into everything and leave their excrement everywhere. I have even cornered one and smacked him dead with a plastic container....sounds cruel but taking a chance of letting them poop in my food, not knowing it, and serving it sounds even more cruel. The cute little things multiply out of control and destroy the cleanliness of your home. This is the time of the year when we always have trouble. I feel your pain. I know what it is like to be invaded:eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmulcahy Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I have a cat, but she has never been useful in catching mice. I don't even think she has ever tried. She is large and lazy, good for purrs and pets only. The only time I have seen her run is when one of my dogs chases her out of the room:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarreymere Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 We were invaded early last fall. We tried traps, ect. All I can say is that dead mice stink so if you get a trap you have to check it a couple times a day. We finally got a kitten. She caught four of them her first week and it was messy, but the mice disappeared and we haven't seen one since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 :glare:I have a cat. :glare: He has *no* interest in catching mice. OK, I'm going to go look at better traps and poison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 We had an uninvited family a couple years ago. After trying every sort of "humane" trap with no success. We went for the glue traps. Hubby checked them every morning. We got most of them, but there was this one mouse that was just too darn smart. He always seemed to avoid the traps. We were forced to call in a professional. He set out the anticoagulant bait traps. The would eat the tasty poison, then go outside. They would die out there. Then he came back two weeks later and plugged up all the holes he could find where they were coming in. If they do die indoors, they decompose so quickly that the smell dissipates fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmulcahy Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 The old fashioned traps have worked best for me. The new kind have the spring board that looks like a plastic chunk of cheese (as if a mouse has any use for a plastic piece of cheese). I have not had success with the new ones. I take a tiny piece of bread and make a peanut butter ball and wedge it in the little metal piece that activates the trap. I have also had some luck with the sticky traps. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patches Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Big problem in our new (to us) house! It was awful. We used every kind of trapy.... glue, snap, poison, the kind the shock them to death... others too. Finally, we got two of these: http://www.amazon.com/Sharper-Ultrasonic-Rodent-Deterrent-SI310TNM/dp/B000A3I9QY And have never had a mouse since. They put out a sound that the mice do not like. Of course humans don't hear it! Best 100 dollars I ever spent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Just for arguments sake--last time I thought I had a mouse in the house it was actually a bat. Who knew... just something to keep in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 :glare:I have a cat. :glare: He has *no* interest in catching mice. OK, I'm going to go look at better traps and poison. Get another cat! Twice we have had moles get in the house, and each time the cat was on that thing before it barely crossed the threshold. I don't think I'd be able to sleep at night without an aggressive cat in the house. :001_smile: My dad used to swear by putting crunchy peanut butter in the traps. We lived next to a field, and we had several mice each year at harvest. Crunchy peanut butter always did it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 :lol: I'm sorry, I can't help smiling that JustAMouse found a mouse in her house! Thanks for pointing out that irony. I love irony. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynyel Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Feta cheese... thats what we use here :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd293 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 We used a humane trap and dropped the mice off in bushland. Sometimes we used cheese, sometimes (and this was most effective) simply put the trap against a wall we had seen them run against. Once we found the hole they were coming out of we simply left the trap against it. Once mice stopped coming through it we sealed it up (we were never sure if a mouse had got in and made a nest, or if the hole connected to the outside somehow, and we didn't want trapped mice dying and stinking up the laundry!). I think we tapped 11 before the problem resolved. I also found a baby one at the foot of a mattress my dh slept on one night when I had a sick little one in bed with me. And one leapt out of the dishwasher at me. I DO NOT think mice are rather nice ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I don't mean to minimize your pain, but...I'd just like to say that after all of those "snake in my house" threads this fall, this thread is a welcome change from those catastrophic ones. Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 When I lived in a little house in the country, the only solution was to get a KITTEN. Don't bother with a full grown cat, most adult cats that aren't already mousers won't suddenly become mousers because mice are in the house. But a kitten in a house with mice will pounce and kill, and there you have it -- a mouser. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy in Indy Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Someone told me recently to use bacon in the trap. She advised to put fresh bacon on the trap and "cook" it with a match, just enough for it to smell. She said that every time her dh baited the trap this way, they caught a mouse immediately. I haven't tried it yet. (knock on wood!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 We have had good luck with these traps http://tomcatbrand.com/product/29-spin-trap-for-mice. The mice like to use my garage as a condominium complex so we have to put out traps every once in awhile. I miss my cats. Although, our dog is a pretty good mouser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Hope they amscray soon! :auto: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joyfulmomSDG Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Don't know first-hand if it really works but I have heard that Peppermint Oil is a deterrent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 glue traps. We also have "glued" dog/cat food onto the mouse trap with peanut butter. Which sometimes worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
---- Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Oh goodness. The day I found a mouse, we hired a pest control company and adopted 2 kitties. I can't handle rodents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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