Long Term Mice Control Solution

RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Charli (Guest Post) (06/26/2008) Plug the holes with SOS pads (the ones without the soap) it cuts the mouth and soft tissue of the mice. Even steal plate won't keep a mouse out. My husband was in pest control. He said if you use the commercial sticky traps you'll have to stomp or drown the mice to end them quickly. They scream when caught on the sticky traps horrible sound. I prefer the electronic mouse catcher (it electrocutes the mouse). This works. But the mice learn and will avoid traps. Place the traps along the walls as mice use them for navigation. Poisons work but the mice may die in the house or in the walls (again not good). You can catch certain diseases by breathing in sick mouse feces. Use Clorox spray (bit of Clorox watered down) when cleaning up the feces. I use damp paper towels and disposable gloves as well as a face mask. Don't use poisons if you have cats. They eat the dead mouse and either get sick or die. Kids also die from these poisons. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Charli (Guest Post) (06/26/2008) If you use the "sticky" trap you will have to manually kill the mice. A better solution is to use an electronic mouse trap that electrocutes the mouse. They are about $20 but they work! Quick and easy. No mice caught by their tails, no sprung traps. Just open and dump the dead mouse. This worked on a mouse that had foiled every other trap we had. He took great delight in tripping the traps and taking the food. We knew him because he's sprung a trap and got a bit of tail cut off. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By miria (Guest Post) (04/26/2008) We have had mice for several months. First signs were a partially eaten banana that my husband said he hadn't eaten, and the grandkids hadn't been over. I looked on the internet to see if mice liked banana, and sure enuf, that is one of their favorite foods. My husband set a trap near the refrigerator, and on a path to the bananas. The pb was taken, but the trap didn't go off. My husband made the trap more sensitive; then the pb was flipped off as the mouse came near it, and the trap turned upside down, and no mouse. All this was taking place while we slept. My husband reset the trap with banana, and no mouse. Then I discovered the mouse had eaten some rice out of the wastebasket. My husband set a second trap in back of the wastebasket, and the mouse never ate out of the wastebasket again. The mouse chewed on some oven mitts, (I guess to take the stuffing to make a nest.) I thought the mouse had left, but then I discovered a leather backpack chewed including the bright, sponge handle I had attached for recognising quickly at the airport, and, of course, mouse dirt in the eaves. I bought Decon (very much against both of us--don't like poison). It looked like the mouse ate some in the kitchen on the floor, but days later, one of my favorite upholstered chairs was chewed. I transferred the Decon to the den. The Decon has been eaten, but guess where the MICE died--in the second upholstered chair. We have smells in the den, in the chair, in the walls. I originally was looking on the internet to find out if we could get sick from breathing in the dead bodies. Oh yes, 1 or some is outside too--can't see it, but can smell it. Also, the refrigerator repairman found our ice cube maker wasn't working, because the mouse chewed the plastic to get water. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By jenny (Guest Post) (03/15/2008) How do you plug up a gas line? The mice come in the gas line and then in to my stove and house. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post by maddiva (2) | (01/06/2008) Profile | Contact I'm not sure what has happened over the years but the mice in my house laugh at me. They're building forts, little condos, eating through wood, one mouse managed to open a bag of garden seed so i put a trap right where it was making a mess. Didn't the little roadent just put the grass seed over the trap like it wasn't there. I swear they have dug through brick, drywall, wood and whatever else they feel like. I have traps all over the house.....not one has gone off. Can you tell me how the mice are gettig into drawers that are closed? Any suggestions for the mutant mice? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post by mom-from-missouri (134) | (01/01/2008) Profile | Contact Blue Death and cats Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Guestgirl............. (Guest Post) (01/01/2008) I'm just really disgusted by this whole mice infestation problem. And I thought roaches were bad. Right now , we're using the poison, and it we've only caught 2 so far. However it's very disturbing to see the mouse dragging around on the floor approaching it's death. We just brought some traps, and they might work but I haven't seen any results yet. I think one problem is the gas line holes. I'm going to stick with what's working now, in addition to a few other suggestions and I"m going to earnestly go to my Father in Heaven in prayer, and ask for his help. When I become enlightened to a few more successful methods, Ill let you guys know. Until then , fight the good fight! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Shepard (Guest Post) (12/11/2007) There is no one solution, but here is the combination that I found works best. 1. No food left out. Anything not in a plastic or glass container needs to be sealed in a cabinet or off the ground a foot or two. 2. There are some very cool traps you can make, that don't hurt the mice too, but getting rid of them after you catch them can be more trouble than it's worth. -One trap is to take a toilet paper or paper towel tube, and tape a couple of quarters on the outside of it near the center but off center a bit. Then you flatten out the bottom a bit so it will sit well on a flat counter. Put a good blob of peanut butter on the short end of the quarters end and just a sniff of peanut butter on the other end. Put it on a counter where you have noticed mouse activity, and slide it out so that it almost falls off with the big blob and the quarters past the edge of the counter. The idea is the mouse crawls through the toilet paper tube to get to the peanut butter and its weight tips the balance of the tube whcih will then fall off the counter. the peanut butter on the other end is used to get him sniffing to go into the tube. You put a tall trash can under it to catch the tube and mouse when it falls. Beware those little suckers can jump very high! Just leave the critters in the trash can for a bit because their mouselike commotion of them trying to jump out of the trashcan can draw other mice to the scene to meet the same fate after you reset the tube trap. Another one is to take a glass, put a blob of peanut butter in the bottom of it, and prop the glass upside down on the edge of a nickel. The mouse will go after the peanut butter, and the glass will tip off the edge of the nickel, catching the mouse. I caught three mice in one day using the two methods. The tube trap did it's job within 10 minutes after we left the kitchen and let it quiet down. Disposal can either be done humanely at a good distance from your home, or you can flush em down the toilet if you are less worried about their health. Or you can come up with creative ways to torture them if you are all the way on the other end of the scale. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By mr noah, mhdtahir313 (at) gmail(dot)com. (Guest Post) (12/08/2007) I have found one that can deter the mice from coming even if you spray directly to the mice, it can kill. The good news it is environmentally friendly, biodegradable and non toxic and the solution is pH 7.3. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By (Guest Post) (11/28/2007) Is there anything you can put in your car to repel mice? The week before last they built a nest on my engine. This week they chewed some wires in the harness. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Rising son (Guest Post) (09/24/2007) We had mice bad in one of our vehicles and we tried the peppermint oil on cotton balls and the took the cotton balls and made nest with them! It didn't work. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Unknown (Guest Post) (01/17/2007) Peppermint oil doesn't work, those electirical sound things dont work, i put mouse poison - that didnt work - i have put traps around the house - this doesnt work - They are supermice - nothing can stop them - and my mother is scared out her brains - please, can anyone tell me the best and most easiest way to get rid of these little buggers Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By tj (Guest Post) (12/20/2006) Hedge balls, don't work, dryer sheets, don't work, pb and spring traps, only on the stupid ones, plaster of paris, doesn't work, moth balls, don't work, sticky traps, agian only the stupid ones. The cat, she works (learned on her own), but now this mouse is a smart one, only out when she is, we all are, asleep! I hear decon can kill a dog who has eaten a mouse that has eaten the decon? I fear from my 80 dog. not a good mouser inside, but a great one in a three foot deep snow. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Dawn (Guest Post) (02/21/2006) I have mice after 13 yrs of not having them, developers came in and cleared 1600 acres in front of me and 400 behind me. The peppermint oil is working well for me when I had a large population of 40+/-. I had found an formula for a water to oil formula but lost it and I don't want to waste my oil. Doe's anyone know if its 2tspn per cup of water or 2 tbsp per cup of water? In a spray bottle. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Lauryn (Guest Post) (10/15/2005) We've recently developed a mouse problem, and over the past 2 days have caught 5 with the Snap Traps and Peanut Butter-which is working. We also bought an electronic thingie as someone else mentioned, and also bought glue traps. Does anyone know how small of a hole they can get through?? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post by the Oracle (421) | (09/20/2005) Profile | Contact Our most recent cat was hand raised by people and learned to catch fruit rats just fine. We have lemons and avocado in the back yards, so we have fruit rats, which are like big mice with a rat's tail. We live in an area of large homes. My neighbor has the neatest, cleanest home in the world. Even her storage boxes are tied with ribbons and bows. Egad. She has mice. What do you expect, when you live in a garden? So I tell her what the exterminator told us: seal off the house. Simple as that. You spend a fortune building it and decorating it. It should be sealed. If you don't know how, ask a handyman to show you or do it for you. If your house is new, call the contractor to fix the holes. Now the only mouse in the kitchen is the great, big fuzzy one sneaking some cake and milk at night. If one should be slow at his game outside, our cat, who never knew his mom, delivers the kidneys or the feet to our bedside. Gosh, thanks. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By utah girl (Guest Post) (07/27/2005) Honestly my mice didn't think the sticky traps were worth bothering with. The elctronic devices don't really help all that much. The poison unfortunately is the only thing I Have found that works to get rid of them. My cats don't catch the mice inside the house , only the ones that come into to the garage for some reason. I keep the cats out of the house when I have mice so I can poison the mice. It usually only takes a few days to get rid of them. Sounds awful I know, but it keeps the cats safer than if they ingest the poison. I also use Coyote or Bobcat urine, spray it outside on the foundation and anywhere outside they might be around. IT smells AWFUL for a few minutes but then goes away to our noses. These predators are a mouses mortal enemy so they will stay away a bit. I am going to try the peppermint oil this year for indoors, sounds like it will smell better than the urine. You can buy the Coyote urine at a hunting store, hunters use it to take away thier own smell when hunting predators. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Jude (Guest Post) (07/20/2005) First of all, please consider a humane approach to getting rid of the mice. As much as we are conditioned to poison pests, it is a horrible death even to critters that are unwanted, so please consider a more gentle way of ridding your home of them. I have used peppermint oil (it did work, but it has to be done every six months). I had a cat (didn't work, saw a mouse before he did), so it is true that unless the cat is taught to go after the mouse, they can share the same space! Lastly, tried many of those electrical devices (don't work, save your money). I would NEVER consider a glue stick, it is such an awful invention. Try the peppermint cotton balls, they do work and plug up the access holes with steel wool. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By (Guest Post) (03/15/2005) I read that a person who didn't have a cat took some used cat litter and placed it around her place. The smell made the mice think there was a cat and they vacated her premises. Report Spam or Abuse mice problems Post By john (Guest Post) (12/30/2004) Alright here is my situation we just recently had a mouse problem and we set up some of those sticky pads but it only caught some of them and we bought an electrical thing that when you connect it that it sends some noise that only mice can hear and it didn't work cause they are still here so can anyone help me and tell me what to get rid of them. We posted this as a Reader's Request: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf388072.tip.html Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Tish (Guest Post) (12/09/2004) I have the same problem, Brandi. Me and the Terminix guy are becoming good friends now! :) I haven't tried it, yet; but, I've heard, along with the peppermint oil and steel wool, that moth balls, and fabric softener sheets work, too. I'm desperate so I'm going to try everything! I'm afraid to park in the garage for fear of a mouse greeting me! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By kATHY (Guest Post) (11/22/2004) Peppermint essential oil placed on cotton balls and spread around your house including attic & basement will definitely keep them away. Had a bad problem one year when a neighbor moved and the mice moved in with us. Had a professional exterminator putting pellets around but that was just a snack for them and then read about the peppermint and haven't had a problem since. I read that mice are allergic to peppermint and will stay away Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By SICL (Guest Post) (11/17/2004) Being married to a longtime mouse/ratter I know all the tricks. Before we moved into our "definately not new' 1976 single wide the first thing done was to place it on a slab. Second was a secure solid wood skirting. I was often put on guard to make sure no critters entered whenever it was opened. Third every fall we NEVER leave the door propped open. One fall I did and we immediately got "mouse sign" inside. A regular mouse trap with peanut butter caught the critter and he went to garbage can heaven. No matter where you are there are always mice and rats outside. Diligance and sealing up holes keeps them there. Did you move into a NEW house? if it were me, I would be in touch with the contractor, because they didn't finish the job. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post by Anonymous (15) | (11/17/2004) Contact the main area a mouse gets into the house is throught the dryer vent holes, gas line holes, and any other piping/vent holes. Placing screens around the vents and plugging the other holes will help reduce the mice problems. I know 100% that mice are attracted to peanut butter, if you have an elusive mouse set a spring trap with pb and it will be caught within a couple of hours! The smell is strong enough for them to "smell the food" and if you only put a little on the trap it will srping right away! We just had 3 mice in our house all at different time. and each and every time, it was gone within a couple of hours. Good luck! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Guest (Guest Post) (11/17/2004) Even if you have to take other measures (like making sure every hole is plugged up, etc.), the one thing that will definitely help tremendously, is to NOT have any food of any kind available to them, which means NOTHING in bags, baggies, paper sacks, etc. Everything has to be in jars with tight lids, or store it in the frig or freezer. They eat thru nearly every container they find to get to the food inside so you have to make it impossible for them to get to the food by using glass jars w/ lids. I learned this years ago w/ a mouse problem I had. It definitely helps the situation. This also means no bread or cake, cookies, etc. out anywhere. If food, flour, snacks, etc. is not in glass, then it goes in the frig or freezer. Good luck!! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post by sjackie2000 (73) | (11/17/2004) Profile | Contact The best thing I've found to be rid of mice & rats is to go to a farm supply store and buy some Ramek bars. It's a poison that dehydrates the rodents so you don't smell them when they die, unlike Decon. Our house was infested with mice when we bought it, and I just spread little pieces of these Ramek bars inside the cabinets where I found the mouse pellets, and within 2 weeks, I had no more problems. When the weather starts getting cold, I put some more around the basement and crawl space so I don't have them coming in for the winter. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post By Biddy (Guest Post) (11/16/2004) Purchase those electric thingys. Can't think of what they are called. Think you can get them at Wal-mart &/or Home Depot. We live in a campground and many of the folks that are only here part of the year say they have helped a lot, not only for the mice and rats but for squirrels and spiders too. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Long Term Mice Control Solution Post by weseye (3) | (11/16/2004) Contact Sorry but there is no long term control solution to keeping mice out of your home. Mice are looking for food and shelter. Especially when the weather changes. Do check around the house foundation and plug any small openings you find. There are traps that catch mice where you don't see the mouse. You dispose the whole mess in the trash. Cats only catch mice if they were taught to by their mother. Weseye Report Spam or Abuse