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07/12/11, 04:37 AM
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Mice
I have mice and am not having any luck with traps.
Suggestions will be greatly appreciares.
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07/12/11, 07:53 AM
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Cats!
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07/12/11, 07:58 AM
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Inside the house or mice in the outbuildings?
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07/12/11, 08:17 AM
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Mice of different types have different habits. A house mouse can live it's life out in a 8' circle, where a deermouse needs 2 acres. A deermouse may visit the house, but rarely lives inside. Different mice have different food preferences.
My first thought is they are feeding somewhere in the house. You can end that. Eliminate their access to food, and close THEIR doors, whatever kind of mouse it is.
A blacklight makes their trails flouresce. Since mice do not have bladders, their urine leaks out slowly and makes a trail. They are miniature robots that run the same path almost a hundred times a night. Find their path and place your control thingys there. It could be traps, glue boards or poison bait. If that doesn't work, re-arrange your furniture. That messes with their mini-computer brain.
Different baits for different mice. Peanut butter works for most. A cotton ball attracts pregnant Minnie (tie it onto the trigger with a thread). A tiny bit of hamburger is of interest to voles. Poison oats are available to the public in a few states but be careful if you try them.
Provide more detail for more specific help.
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07/12/11, 08:39 AM
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Peppermint oil or extract.
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07/12/11, 09:31 AM
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Pure peppermint oil on cotton balls in every corner, and every place you have seen evidence of them.
They hate it.
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07/12/11, 09:33 AM
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Exactly!
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07/12/11, 09:42 AM
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Indoor and outdoor cats. Presto! No mice!
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07/12/11, 09:52 AM
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Peppermint oil/extract, for sure. I read it on here, probably from Windy and OLF, tried it a couple months ago, and have had no signs or sightings of them since. We have indoor and outdoor cats which do help, but they never got them all. The peppermint did!!...and it smells nice under my kitchen sink all the time now.
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07/12/11, 10:04 AM
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I hate mice! Cats will catch them for you. Peppermint oil will repel them. Seal up the tiny cracks around the kitchen sink, etc. But you gotta make sure there is no food they can get into! And mice living inside may have developed very strange eating habits.
We had one once, couldn't figure out what it was eating. Then, we discovered an old stash of Halloween candy turned into a nest! Half a mounds bar and it literally snapped the trap 10 minutes later!
Peanut butter and bird seed is a great idea, but anything sweet and sticky should work on house mice. Good luck!
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07/12/11, 10:42 AM
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Yeah right!
Our two cats are so lazy and spoiled that they rather watch the mice than chase them. Useless critters!
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07/12/11, 11:02 AM
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Black snake, no mice. 
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07/12/11, 11:09 AM
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My cats consider mousing a spectator sport.
I'm seriously considering a free-ranging snake.
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07/12/11, 11:29 AM
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Bucket Trap!
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07/12/11, 11:35 AM
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gobug , A blacklight makes their trails flouresce.
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How interesting!
If you use the sticky traps be sure to get the black colored based kinds. I've had the white based ones and the mice went all around them, never into them, even when laying in their running path. Maybe the white ones spook them?
Also, the stickies with the raised edge works better than the all flat ones do. Least they do for me here.
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07/12/11, 11:50 AM
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I could catch a few black snakes and send them to you. We are overrun with snakes this year and the mice have disappeared.
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07/12/11, 11:58 AM
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I will definitely try the bucket trick and the sticky traps trick. We have both mice AND rats, and I can't have poison around with the cats and dogs. And yes, my cats too see rodents as a spectator sport!!
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07/12/11, 12:27 PM
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07/12/11, 12:52 PM
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Then just heat the water and presto! You have mouse soup!!!
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Then just heat the water and presto! You have mouse soup!!!
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How do you trap the carrots and onions?
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