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ugh found mice in my house the other day... got those snap traps already got one mouse but im sure there are more because i put peanut butter on the traps and some of them have the peanut butter gone the next day (i know how shitty are those traps hey that the mouse can steal the food off it!) anyway anyone have advice for getting rid of mice? perhaps what has worked well for you.. thanks!
Get a cat just the smell of the cat will keep away most mice, and the ones that are still around the cat will catch them.
i had the same prob i got a cat now everything is cool now:thumbsup:
how about a cat?
Or sticky glue traps along a wall. Mice hug walls usually when traveling about a room.
MICE IN THE HOUSE IS COMMONPLACE IN THE COUNTRY especially in colder weather during fall as they seek shelter.
now rats are a differant story!
you could get a snake! or if you don't like snakes, how about a ferret! they hunt rats by nature. one of mine is really good at it.
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oh thank god its not rats... ya maybe ill get a cat but im thinking of getting a baby pitbul later on so i dont know if they would get along too well? but ya maybe ill just borrow a friends cat or something.. how long would it take fora kitten to start killing them?
It shouldn't take to long about 2-4 months.
I doubt you would have to much trouble introducing a pitbull puppy as long as the cat has been there for a while first, and when you first show them to each other watch the pitbulls reaction if tries to bite or snap at the cat scare it a little and eventually it will learn that the cat isn't a toy and isn't there to be eaten.
I'd stick with the traps and peanut butter...I like to talk to the mice on their way out the door....:stoned:...
ps ...use more smooth peanut butter on the trap...:thumbsup:...works 8 out 10 times...the little fuckers are smart. They ate my seeds in the pots...:wtf:...while germinating.
ok smooth peanut butter sounds good cause i was using crunchy and the buggers i think would grab the nut and get away with the whole clump!! except one the trap fell right on his nose was kinda f'd up little pool of blood eww..
nature always punishes the slow
Survival of the fastest! lol
The glue traps work best dude, Plus it dosent kill them.. So you can tourcher the little fucker first before u throw it out..
I don't think the cat idea works unless you don't feed the cat anything but mice. Otherwise they are lazy bastards and will play with the mice if they are not hungry. I got a cool device that has a battery and when the mice enters he steps on a electrified plate and ZAP! instant coronary, plus no icky blood. I have also had good luck with putting a shelled sunflower seed in the regular traps. If you really wedge that rascal in the bait section, works great!
as much as they piss me off i don't know if im that into torture its bad karma.. well worse for your karma than killing them quickly. and ill probably just end up getting tangled in the glue traps anyway those sticky traps for gnats and thrips are bad enough!!
well i killed 2 and there doesnt seem to be any more eating the bate off the trap so hopefully it was limited to the two but we will see it just snowed today so any others in the house probably here to stay hopefully get chomped sooner than later!
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Originally Posted by bloodbrother
If you get them around the same time, and further if they are both young, they will grow up to be the best of friends.
Jack Rusell dogs are good for getting mice and rats. That's what they were developed for in Europe, and do it instinctivly. Certain other dogs can do it well, also, but I know my neighbor's Jack killed at least one mouse in their apartment. They'll even go after squirrels in the street, so it's important to keep them leashed.
Most cats have to be taught as kittens, by their mother, how to kill rodents. A weed dealer that I used to know had house cats that were ineffective at killing mice, and would just play with them It was funny, this guy would yell at the cat, "THIS is what YOU'RE supposed to do!", while hitting the mouse with an object.
i feel sorry for the mouse... and the cats for that matter...Quote:
this guy would yell at the cat, "THIS is what YOU'RE supposed to do!", while hitting the mouse with an object.
I have one other regular mouse trap trick....I live in the country ya'll.
Take a little, tiny piece of gauze and fill it with a few shelled sunflowers, add a dab of peanut butter. Wrap the gauze around the filling and make a tiny, tiny bag. Tie the bag closed with a piece of sewing thread.
Tie the little bag to the bait section of the regular mouse trap. Use the sewing thread that you left a little longer to make tying to the trap easier. Tie a few knots.
You now a have a tiny bait bag tied to the bait section. Set trap normally. That ole mouse will try and pull the little bag off and take it with him. Works every time, but is messy and time consuming. Don't leave tiny bag hanging, tie tightly to bait section.
This works especially well for clever mice who lick the peanut butter off trap without springing. Those smart ones are hard to catch, gotta pull out the big guns! Can usually be reused, mouse never gets it off. Good Luck killing....
Yes. It is important that the bait be SECURED to the trap. I use a small piece of bread and use a wire twist-tie to wrap it to the "pedal" or "trigger" part of the trap (whatever that is called). That seems to work pretty good. It needs to be secured so that the critter will have to tug on it a bit to get it loose.Quote:
Originally Posted by LolaGal
I used bread because that is what they had gotten into in the kitchen, so I figured that is what they wanted. It worked pretty well. I suppose you could put a little peanut butter on the bread too, maybe some jelly, and make your mouse a nice sandwich --- kind of a nice last meal.
Also, rats and mice do not cross the middles of floors or any kind of open space. They hug the walls and edges, and they try to stay under cover. After you bait the trap, slide it up against the wall or under the toe-kick of a cabinet. And put the bait end closest to the wall. That way when the little bastard comes scuttling along the edge of the wall, he'll run right into the bait and stop for a snack. SNAP!
Another thing you should do is try to figure out how they get into the house. Even a tiny hole is enough. We found small gaps around the places where the pipes came out through the drywall. We also found gaps and holes in hidden parts of our cabinetry where there were openings to the space under the cabinet or behind it. As much as possible, try to find those holes and fill them with expanding foam. You can also stuff the gaps with steel wool, but do not use it against other metal pipes. Rodents can chew through expanding foam if it is blocking one of their favorite routes, but they don't like chewing on steel wool. However, I think it is a bad idea to leave steel wool in long-term contact with pipes because dissimilar metals can corrode each other.
Good luck killing your mice! When you pick up the trap and carry your dead mouse out to the garbage, before you toss it in, it's fun to yell, "Tell your friends!"
Get a no kill trap so you can release Mr.Mouse back outside.
Glue traps are cruel and it's a slow agonizing death. And rodents have even been known to chew off their own limbs to attempt to get free.
Yeah, the glue traps are awful and creepy. I found a chewed off tail stuck to one and threw all of them out. Don't use those. I don't like the poison much either, because that seems kind of cruel too, and also the mouse can find a nice hide-away spot to die and really stink up the place --- he gets the last laugh on that one. The snap traps are best.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebgirl420
Or another thing to do is to get some night vision goggles and sit in your kitchen in the dark with a 12-guage and blast anything that moves. But there can be some legal issues with that one, and you could possibly end up damaging something down range, like your cabinets, oven, refrigerator, flooring, paint, or plumbing. But if you REALLY want to get rid of that mouse....
I heard napalm works pretty well too :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by dragonrider
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Originally Posted by rebgirl420
besides its not like mice are going extinct.
Yes, napalm is very effective against mice, and it gives you a good excuse to do a kitchen makeover afterward. An EXTREME makeover.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebgirl420
The nice thing about the live traps you mentioned before is that you can do a prisoner swap later, and maybe get some of your bagels back.
Obviously, but they are living, breathing, feeling things. Respecting life, especially an innocent little mouse who is only doing what you would be doing if you were him, is what seperates us from the more basic primates.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrinKyle
Put yourself in his shoes (yes, I know mice don't wear shoes), would you want to be needlessly tortured before you died?
Go to home depot and get a 5 gallon bucket and a piece of 1/2 pvc pipe. Drill holes on both sides of the bucket then slip the pipe in the holes. Screw or glue a 2 or 3" platform to the center of the pipe horizontal to the pipe. Put a dab of PB on the end of the platform. Now put 4 inches of water in the bucket. The disease ridden mouse will fall in the bucket and never be able to get out. The varmint will drown.
Yeah, I'd say a fellow critter deserves either a live trap-and-release or a quick, clean kill. I don't believe in cruelty.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebgirl420
But I do consider my home to be my "lair," and woe be it to any univited creature who ventures into my lair! Bwaaaaah-hahahaha! I won't torture it, but I do reserve the ultimate power of life and death within my tiny realm. I put spiders outside when I can catch them, and I squicsh them when I can't. And if I could trap and release a mouse without much trouble I would do that too. I just heard that the live traps are less effective, and you really can't have mice running around. There are some serious health concerns about that.
Bucket full of drowned mice. Nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheChameleon
How is that better than a snap trap?
Dragonrider, I have not laughed that much in a month.....hilarious.....I especially liked the prisoner swap!
RebGirl420- If you take the mice outside, they just come back in the next day. Mice have lots of diseases, and who wants the little bastards crawling on your silverware. See one mouse, must be 10 in house. But if you're really worried about their little mousy feelings, I guess we could give em the lethal injection, call a priest etc. where do I get the tiny little needles? (I do agree about the glue traps, had one escape one once and it climbed into my stove and got stuck in the stove insulation and died)
Human beings have plenty of diseases too but we don't stick the unfortunate ones to a glue trap and hope they die.
I'm glad it's so funny and tounge in cheek. If it was your life I'm sure you wouldn't be so nonchalant.
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Originally Posted by LolaGal
Your sarcasm is poisonous, maybe you can use that to kill the mice.
It's a matter of respecting your self, in order to respect ALL life.
Realize that you would be and act no different in the place of another, and you realize that we are all the same. killing a mouse is no different than killing yourself.
You have obviously never lived with vermin.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
your prejudice is poisonous.
you obviously do not know me very well. in fact, your statement proves you know nothing of me.
for the last 3 years i have been working on learning to respect life. to the point i have stopped myself from killing a lot of insects and spiders.
a dead mouse irks me on a far deeper level than a live one, struggling to survive.
furthermore, you appear to assume that all mice, rats, or "rodents" as you like to say, are inherently diseased, as though they are born with it.
your stereotypical way of thinking bothers me on a deep level, and speaks volumes of your mindset on respect. :thumbsup:
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thanks for the neg. rep.
sharks eat fish. therefore they must be competing with man for [sea]food.
crows eat corn. therefore the must be competing with man for food.
Cows produce milk for their young, therefore their young must be competing with us for that milk???
come on man! WE ARE ALL ALIVE. there is enough space and resource on this planet to sustain each and every single life on it. it's not a competition of survival, it's a competition of control, and only humans are competing, everyone else is just trying to survive.
we also keep mice as pets, are they competing for food too? how is it a competition if we are GIVING it to them?
there is no right to life if we can sit back and say a diseased mouse is not worthy of life, but a cancerous human is.
May your mode of death be extermination fit for a mouse.
Posting a negative rep message is a low blow. I think a yellow flag is in order.
Can I get an Amen?