get rid of mice (dishwasher, glue, apartment, steel)
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Buy a female cat the are better hunters than the males and they don't spray your house up unless you were up to buying a ferrett they are better than the cats
I've lived in a couple of 100+ year old homes, so I've experienced the joy of washing all the cutlery, drawers, etc. . It's amazing how much **** those little critters create.
Poison and traps are great, but the problem will continue until the entry holes are all plugged.
A gap of a quarter inch is a superhighway for your enterprising field mouse.
Take one room at a time and go over it with a fine-toothed comb. Leave no area unsearched. If you can see a gap, plug it. If you feel a gap, plug it. Don't restrict your search to floor level. Mice can also come in gaps behind window trim and around pipes . Don't forget to look in the back of your kitchen cupboards. Plug them all.
Steel wool is the ultimate hole plugger, but canned foam also does a nice job.
Do you happen to have a pet door? If so, check that the flap is fully sealing.
You can get rid of your mouse problem; it's simply a matter of being more stubborn than the rodents. You have an opposable thumb......you will triumph in the end.
My experience with mice...I had electric baseboard heat, and saw them run in and out of those heaters, must be a big hole in the wall inside those heaters. Also, above the baseboard of the kitchen cabinets is a small lip that goes over and under the cabinet, saw them coming and going that way too. I usually was successful in putting out mouse poison. They wolud take it away, all of it. Once I had a box in the bottom of a closet, the floor was perfectly clean, nothing else on the floor, when I woke up the next morning, there was a mountain of little pink cotton ball looking things in the shape of a cone, about a foot high, it was the insulation from my walls! They built their nest right on top of the box of poison. Well, we just sucked up the whole thing with the wet vac. Never did looke inside the wet vac, hubbies job!
Oh, and mice traps...I could write a book about the mouse who got away....
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Set your traps again. This time tie raw bacon on with a string. Make it so the mouse will really have to work at it. The mice will lick off the peanut butter without setting off the trap.
If you want to catch many mice in a garage or basement, get a 5 gallon bucket. Stick a metal rod through a tin can like an axle. Put small holes in the top sides of the bucket. Insert the axle through the holes. The can should be suspended over the opening of the bucket. It should also spin freely. Put 2 gallons of water in the bucket. Smear the can with peanut butter. Lean a flat board against the bucket as a ramp. The mice will jump from the board to the can. It will rotate, and they will drown in the water. This is a trap that resets itself.
I get the little buggers in the garage every year. One thing I have success is hanging little sand bags that I make from the ends of the wifes old panty hose.
I go to a Sporting goods store and buy Fox Pee. Hunters use it for cover sent. It does kind of stink.
anyways take a little dry sand and mix in the Fox Pee and then (wearing gloves) fill up the little stocking bags with the Pee and hang them around access points/ travel areas the the mice use.
They mice smell the Fox Pee and is scares the bejeezzus out them and they don't come back.
We used the Hava-Hart traps. They come in different sizes. We placed peanut butter in the trap and set it for only one door to enter (not two). Then we'd release the little critters in the forest about 5 miles from our house.
When we had a cat, he always caught the mice. Now that he is gone and we are in another develpoment with new construction (that's the worst for stirring up mice!), we have caught 3 mice in our garage using good old fashion mouse traps.
We haven't had them in the house yet, so we're hoping if we keep catching them in the garage we should do OK.
We used the Hava-Hart traps. They come in different sizes. We placed peanut butter in the trap and set it for only one door to enter (not two). Then we'd release the little critters in the forest about 5 miles from our house.
Those are great unless you forget about them - then it's just nasty! I found a mouse that was just a pile of goo after being forgotten about my my husband - yuck!!
Those are great unless you forget about them - then it's just nasty! I found a mouse that was just a pile of goo after being forgotten about my my husband - yuck!!
Eeeeeewwwww!
I totally freak out when I see them. When I remodeled my kitchen, I thought I plugged all areas where they might have been getting in...around pipes, between floors and baseboards, along electrical lines, etc. I think there are plenty other places where they can come in. And yes, once the temperatures drop, they come inside. I think my doggy door is also where they might gain entrance. Each year I say I'm going to call an exterminator to evaluate my home and close up all the exterior gaps....and each year I put it off.
My Dachshund/Toy Poodle mix does a good job of telling me where the mice have been or currently might be. She's killed two so far. Gross! I cannot deal with those critters.
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