mice

[wwubben]

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Mice are invading our house.They have so far avoided the poison and they clean the peanut butter off of our traps without springing them.What are some other tactics to get the critters?

[4sam]

I would also like to know this too. I hate those things!

[Jennifer L.]

I'd go with the "just one bite" poisons. The ones in wax blocks are not something kids or pets would like. You do have to find the dead mice or live with the smell for a few days if you can't, but at least they are out of there! I had an infestation one year that was let go and they trashed a closet before I found out about them. Was an awful mess having to throw out things they'd dirtied and wash everything else. Good luck.

Jennifer

[claytonpiano]

We use a triple bait. Peanut butter, sunflower seeds crammed in the little holes in the trap and cheese. The mice want the seeds too and get caught every time. We've been killing them constantly.

One other idea that works great in the barn.....a female cat. She is getting fat!

[Windy in Kansas]

Scatter droplets of peppermint extract around the inside and outside of your home and crawl space if you have one. Also out buildings and in vehicles where mice might seek shelter or food.

It is a mice deterrent in that they don't like the smell.

As far as I'm concerned it is bullet proof.

[WayneR]

Tie a piece of thread to the bait point. Make a couple of loose loops and tie the loose end by the first tie.Bait in and around the threads.

Teeth and tounge get caught in the thread-SNAP-

Varnish new traps. Wash off after use. Removes blood & odour if present.

[terri46355]

If you don't poison them, you won't get rid of them. There will always be a few lurking around. Poison is the only way to be sure you never have mice in your house.

Don't buy the loose pellet type poison, because they might not eat it. I know someone who used it. The mice took it to their den and stored it while his house was still full of mice.

[firefly81]

i have found those really sticky cardboards to work really well, they even get spiders and anyonther little bugs that might be walking around.

but my best mose trap is our cats, they know when one gets in the house and will sit and stack it till it comes out and get it. they have never failed me.

[Momish]

we take a freezer bag and put powdered sugar and plaster of paris, or you could use concrete too. Fill it bout' equal with each. dont inhale the dust!!
then we zip the bag, put some p.b. on the outside, just a smidgen, like paste and toss it within reach under the house (crawl space) and check daily, to insure they are nibbling thru, which they will.

after the dine, they will look for water and this will stonify their innards.
bye bye mice

[jer]

We have glue traps and they work great. My husband hates them because he has to pick them up and throw them out. You can drop them in a 5 gallon bucket with water to drown them or throw them in the dumpster. He has been known to throw them in the wood stove in the winter. We can't use poison because of grandchildren and our dog. We had a puppy die once from mouse poison. Never again. I hate mice, even pictures of them give me chills!

[wy_white_wolf]

Peppermint extract like Windy suggested applied every couple of months to keep them out of areas that you don't want them.

Good old homemade bucket traps to catch then:
http://homesteadingtoday.com/showthr...ht=mice+bucket
http://homesteadingtoday.com/showthr...ht=mice+bucket

[Ezrandi]

I have always heard not to use poison in the house, they'll crawl away into the walls to die, and then you have a rotting smell you can't get rid of .

The standard traps you can buy at walmart don't work very well.. Go to the Feed stores and pick up a few of the reusable ones, They cost more, but they work 100 % better.

Just my two cents added.

[ruby_jane]

Originally Posted by rose2005

I agree..get 100% peppermint extract oil, put it on some cotton wool and place around the house.

Problem solved.

Rose

And why do you think my house smells so "pepperminty fresh"? LOL

[Runestone]

I didn't know about using peppermint as a deterrent. As for mice in the house, between my 2 cats, and 3 of 4 mouse catching dogs...no poison required

[neolady]

I've never heard the peppermint extract cure - thanks for that tip!! I'll be trying it.

[Windy in Kansas]

Originally Posted by neolady

I've never heard the peppermint extract cure - thanks for that tip!! I'll be trying it.

Please report back the results of your use after awhile. I'm betting that you will be absolutely pleased.

[ksfarmer]

The peppermint works. Something else is "Bounce" fabric softener sheets. Put them in places where mice might get in or hide. Farmers I know use them in combines and trucks that are parked for the winter. Works in RV campers too. Don't ask me why, but it does work, has to be "Bounce " tho. The mice just don't like them,,,,maybe works like the peppermint thing.

[RedTartan]

I have two indoor/outdoor cats. The only mice I see are dead...

RedTartan

[Shirley]

My two cats take care of any mice that come in.

[comfortablynumb]

melt hershy chocholate in the nukeowave

smear it on the trigger

let it cool

then they have to gnaw it off the trigger and youll catch mice one after the other.

works like a charm