Help!! We have smart mice...?
Question:We live in the country and seem to have an over abundance of mice. This usually happens in the winter,NOT summer. We do have an indoor cat and he's a good mouser, but the mice have gotten smarter and are now finding their way to the cabinets. We have 2 small kids and would prefer no traps, ( that can be difficult to explain). Anyone know any home remedies like mothballs or something?
Answers:
Hi, Since you live in the country you need to get more Cats. The more mice you have the more Cats you need. We had some problems with mice but it is getting better because our dogs kill them like a Cat but don't eat them. There is one more thing you can do, buy a pellet gun and shoot the HELL out of those nasty creatures. Good Luck.
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We had a mouse problem when we lived in Denver, we also did not want to use a mouse trap. My husband build one where it was a box with a sliding door, when the mouse went to ate the bait it closed the door and we let it out somewhere else away from the house. Good Luck with your mouse problem.
just use sticky paper or go on vacation with the traps and poison and come back see if there deador those little houses with the sliding door
good luck !!!!!!!!!
well...when we had a mosue probalem we used the sticky traps that you can get at walmart i think...and if it wasn't walmart it was lowe's...i can't remember which. but i think those wouldn't hurt your kids.
This is really weird, but it worked.
I got some sticky traps, but they only left little mouse foot prints in them.
Then I put some duct tape (rolled around my hand backwards) on the shelves.
One of the mice got caught in the duct tape. I was too upset to try to grab a live mouse, so left it there. I could actually hear it 'screaming'... but in little mouse chatter.
After it finally died, I had no more mice. I think it was telling the other mice to get the heck out of here. It was obvious that there were more mice in the house, but they haven't been back since.
We also live in the country and have had a bad problem with mice.
Killing them is only one part of the solution. You need to find out where they are getting in and stop them from getting in. Mice can squeeze through a hole 1/4" small.
We had a tiny hole around the dryer vent they were coming in through. Fill holes with a mixture of caulking and steel wool. They cannot chew through the steel wool.
As far as killing them traps are a pain. My 3 year old got snapped and once. Now she leaves them alone, it was a painful lesson. I have switched to glue boards. I put a little peanut butter in the center and they get stuck trying to get it.
If I find a mouse alive on the glue board I just take em out to the field and smash them. It is a slow death being stuck there slowly starving.
The other thing that will help is poison. I get the blocks at the farm store. I built some small metal boxes and put the blocks inside. The mice have a small hole to enter and feed on the poison.
My dog and kids cannot get to the poison that way. You will want to place traps and poison where the concentration of droppings are. If mice have a good food source they will not move far.
Since you have a big population in the summer they probably have a nest in your house.
I moved from the USA to the Philippines and could not find a mouse trap to buy ANYWHERE so I decided to make one and it WORKS just take a plastic container that is about 10" tall and make a 1" wide platform like a teeter toter and support the part that hangs outside the container from tipping down now feel the container with 2" of water put some bread and butter hanging just above and at the end of the platform thats is over the water and place the other end of the platform next to something where the little creatures play and leave the room, when the mice run out to get the food they fall into the water and they can't jump out as they can't touch the bottom to spring up, when you catch them you can let them drawn or take some place and dump them free, when I did this I was catching 3 to 4 mice ever 30 to 60 minutes LOL
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