How do I get rid of MICE??

tinda · #21 05/20/06, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by PLPP

We have a 5 ft boa we can send you

Good luck with the critters

How soon can you get it here??
Does it like cats (to eat)?

Cabin Fever -- your idea works like a charm. Thanks
Also trying the moth balls.

seanmn · #22 05/20/06, 09:31 PM

I had a similar problem awhile back...best advice is to use a little of everything, traps, sticky glue traps, mothballs...one of the most effective for me is a bait station which is a black box with an opening lid that has two holes on either side and a room in it which has about 4 wire rods that you put in the square poision chunks with the hole in them....Ive found the mice seem more apt to eat the more expensive brands of poison...I haven't had much luck with the poison pellets

travis91 · #23 05/20/06, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by tinda

Three weeks ago I moved into a double-wide trailer that is sitting on a full basement. The place is over run with mice

I have a cat so poison is out of the question. She has led a sheltered life and thinks these are her new friends!

I am so scared of the haunta virus ( from mouse droppings) Two women died recently from it -- sweeping droppings out of a garage. I know to spray everything with a bleach solution, sweep up, don't vacuum, and wear a dust mask when doing it.

But -- any ideas of getting rid of the mice would be appreciated.

i have had great luck with these-just put a small chunk of cheese in the back http://www.victorpest.com/live_mouse_traps.htm

comfortablynumb · #24 05/21/06, 12:14 AM

melt chocholate and put it on the trap triggers.

they have to chew it off and it nails them as they are enjoying a hershy bar treat.

the melted chocolate hardens on the trigger and it doesnt lick or fall off.

this works on rat traps too.

canfossi · #25 05/21/06, 06:37 AM

I would say use poison, you should see a reduction in a couple of days if this is the thing you use. Chris

Mel- · #26 05/21/06, 08:08 PM

bait mousetraps with cheese, others with pb and still others with reeses cup. mice seem to be finicky buggers but one or the other will tempt them.

my solution was to get more cats, outside cats. I used to catch a half dozen a day in the fall. I only caught two all winter this year. mine are all outside cats.

elliemaeg · #27 05/21/06, 08:33 PM

glue traps is the best I have found.

MomOf4 · #28 05/21/06, 10:20 PM

We have a farmhouse that we only visit occassionally. We used the mothball idea, and it worked, except we heard that mothballs let of chemicals in the air that are VERY BAD to breathe in, so we took them all out. I'm gonna try the bucket idea from Cabin Fever at our farm - THANKS!

Peppermint extract works well. We just soak cotton balls and place them at the location where they come in.

Good poisons are designed to dehydrate the critter, and therefore no smell once dead.

Cat works best (until she gets caught in the glue trap!)

free-2-b-me · #29 05/22/06, 06:43 AM

I have used peppermint in the past with success . I also found that the really do not like Gold Bond Medicated powder . I bought the store brand of this - it is much cheaper - and sprinkled it where I suspected they were getting in and out of and it worked .