Mice infestation in house in El Dorado

[santafescribe]

> The house is located at 23 Calle Alexia. ...
> They told me it was about 10,000 square feet.


It's 6,000 sq ft. The house was last on the market in 2007 for $1.8 mice - uh, I mean, million.

[trailtramp]

Think the cold has finally brought a mouse into the house...our cats were up last night stalking but they didn't catch it. (They are both over 13 and a little slow!) Anyone have suggestions about what works best? Food with poison? Traps? Fumigation?

[nmbound]

Originally Posted by trailtramp

Think the cold has finally brought a mouse into the house...our cats were up last night stalking but they didn't catch it. (They are both over 13 and a little slow!) Anyone have suggestions about what works best? Food with poison? Traps? Fumigation?

If you poison the mouse it could die somewhere where you can't get to it to dispose of the body. The smell can be annoying. I would try a trap somewhere that the cats can't get caught.

[mortimer]

Buy a small cage. Put the trap in there.

A mouse can fit through an opening the size of a dime it is said.

If you found one, you probably have many.

[RamblinRoseRanch]

Poisoned mouse usually means poisoned cats. I'd try a trap (we usually used glue) somewhere the cats can't get. Either that or put the cats in a room by themselves at night until the critter is caught.

[GregW]

When I was a kid we lived near the local dump. It was a dump not a landfill/ people just dumped their trash and household garbage over the bank. Needless to say this was rat heaven. We generally kept a small pride of house and yard cats that kept the rats in the yard and house under control. When ever my stepfather forced my mother and I to take the cats to the shelter (cats would not worship the man and he could not stand that) within a week we would have rats in the basement and squirrels in the attic. After a few weeks another stray cat would take up residence and the rat population (my they reproduce fast) would be cut back to a dull roar.

I hunted rats at the dump with an old single shot .22. When I realized, at about 9 or 10 yrs old, rats were nocturnal, I switched to hunting them at night with a lighting rig I built. Listen for scurrying rats, push button with left thumb, light comes on, shoot, rat dies, reset zero. What I didn’t realize was the new neighbors would complain. One night I was shooting at the dump and the local cop drives up to see what was happening. I showed him what I was doing; he saw how many rats I had killed that night, he complemented me and told me the neighbors were upset by the noise. My response was to fabricate a suppressor for the rifle and keep shooting the little bastards.

I suggest a small pride of house cats will take care of any rodent problem. A silenced air rifle will do for the rest.

[Dancingearth]

Mice came into my home in Eldorado in the fall and would run through the kitchen into the living room under my bedroom door into my bathroom and back thru the kitchen. Round and round. So I put that sticky tape across one of the doors. 2 a.m. Momma and two babies squealing stuck on sticky tape. I didn't know what to do with them (it seemed a good idea at the time) so I tried to wake up my teenage son. Ha. He mumbled "take the BBgun and shoot them." I don't like mice so after figuring out how to load the gun I tried to shoot them from four feet away. Yeah right. Tried to wake up son again. No way. Finally got the nerve to walk up and shoot from close up. Got a cat after that. He did a great job except for one night (why is this always in the middle of the night?) he decided he was bored and played with the mouse in my bedroom. while I watched perched as far away as I could get in case the mouse won. When I was getting a bunch of mice I noticed my cat sitting and watching the dryer. They were coming in through the vent so I bought one of those vent covers and no more mice in the house. I also made sure food was in tins or glass jars. If you get a cat, don't let it outside. You'll be posting one of those signs you see at the exits "Lost Cat" but should just be a memorial to their cat that was eaten by a coyote or owl. You rarely see a cat wandering around Eldorado. Come to think of it, I don't see many in Santa Fe either.