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Yep. If you have a gas stove, stuff steel wool where the line comes in as that is a favorite entry point.
Also, see if any trees have branches that touch the roof. Rats and Squirrels can get onto the roof and then that way. Not sure about mice.
On the sadistic side, put out some flour. The mice eat it and then when the drink some water, the flour expands and chokes them. I prefer the ole fashioned snap traps.
This is a new one, does it really work?
It seems like people have success with the electronic devices. I think I might try that. We get field mice that come in especially in the fall. I just figured that those devices were a hoax.
I forgot to ask, about those devices are they okay to use around dogs? Because they are high frequency I was wondering if they could hear it or bother them.
I agree with other posters. Glue traps work, but unless you have a heart of stone...it's terrible to see what happens to these guys. I don't want mice in my house either...but I certainly don't want to set up little torture devices!
As for poison...even if you don't have pets or children...mice will eat the poison...and then crawl up in the walls, etc. and die. Dead mice STINK.
Between my Mom, my two sisters, and myself...all building new construction various times over the last 6 or 7 years...all four of us have had mice. You've moved into the field that was once their home! The best way to get them is the old fashioned snap traps with some peanut butter. Also sad to clean up - but it's a fast way to go for them. Why do such pesty dirty little creatures have to be so darn cute?!?
It did gross me out but if you only use the electronic device, you are going to drive them into someone else's house. The glue traps are the safest way of killing them that I know of.
It did gross me out but if you only use the electronic device, you are going to drive them into someone else's house. The glue traps are the safest way of killing them that I know of.
I am a VERY compassionate person in most cases but I just can't deal with rodents in my house. I had no choice. I certainly wasn't going to put down poison to kill them and endanger other animals that might eat the rodent while the poison was in them.
I think the most humane way of killing them is the snap traps, it's quickest, if you are set on killing them. When we first moved into our house we had rats coming in the basement, which was horrifying to say the least. My dh bought sticky traps, and put them in the garage and basement. In the garage where we had one, a bat must have flown in while the door was open, we found a dead bat in one. A rat got caught in one up on ledge above the washing machine in the basement. He was screaming so loud, I ran downstairs and saw him gyrating madly on the sticky paper, and the whole thing flopped into the washing machine which was left open. I had to reach in and pull him out screaming, the sound was awful. I felt literally sick. My dh came down and I begged him to remove the poor creature from the tape. He thought I'd lost my mind. I put the poor rat and tape in a bucket, and poured skin-so-soft all over him hoping he'd come loose, but that stuff is like super glue. My dh finally drove the poor thing far away somewhere and threw him into some woods to die. I threw out every last glue trap, I will never put those in my house again. I can still hear the rat screaming in my head.
Fingernail polish remover works to release the glue in sticky traps. My early use of them had a dog step in one and got her two front paws stuck. Poor dog was frantically flopping around which brought me down to find out what all the ruckus was about. She was down in the basement hunting the mice. It took some tries until I thought of the polish remover but that freed her up quickly. That was my last use of them and I went back to snap traps. I think it better to have a quick death - and death is needed or they just come right back and multiply like crazy . I've been known to toss the mouse and trap both. They are cheap.
But my preferred method is to let the cats take care of the problem.
Your making the assumption that snap traps kill them immediatly but they don't always. My Dad used to use them and would often find a mouse or rat trapped but still alive. He would take the victim and give it to the cats to play with.
I prefer the glue traps because they will even catch snakes which here in Florida we can get in the attic or garage. My own sanity demands these kinds of creatures not be allowed in the house.
True enough. There is no perfect way. I have whacked an injured critter with a flat shovel to end the misery faster.
My cats seem to have this idea that if I had the mouse first, then it is mine and they wouldn't dream of taking it away from me! Sometimes they will gift me one
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