Advice on mouse problem in apartment/landlord relationship

[Cat question]

He's the one with the infestation.

[BostonMike7]

Originally Posted by Cat question

Who pays for the cat ?

The landlord or me ?

Is this a serious question?


Assuming your landlord allows pets, you do if you want a cat. If you have a mouse problem, it's your landlords responsibility to take care of it. That would imply having a professional come out and deal with it, not buying you a cat as not all cats are mousers. My two cats would just look at mice and yawn.

[OutdoorLover]

Originally Posted by thenewtexan

If you get a cat, make sure it's energetic and actually will kill mice. My sister has one, and it's about as useful as Dodsworth. (Anyone else get that, or am I just showing my age?). Seriously, she was in he basement when a mouse was in the corner. The cat literally ran behind her for protection.

Yes, not all cats are up to the mouse-hunting thing. Same with dogs, tho I understand small terriers and dachshunds were bred for rodents and small pests like rats and mice... so you'd likely get a higher win rate with them than random dogs. I've had good luck with Victor Quick-Kill mousetraps, baited with peanut butter for occasional mouse invasions in my 1850 house. It's a little gruesome, but sure beats living with mice!

[Taffee72]

You have to seal every entry point or they'll keep coming back, even if you're able to eliminate the ones that are already inside. My Cambridge apartment had both rats and mice, I had a cat and my landlady had pest control coming over, but we could never get rid of them permanently. They would be gone and then they would be back. Somewhere there must've been a crack or some hole where they were able to access the basement and then come up through the pipes. Try to seal everything in your apartment and maybe they'll leave you alone and bother your neighbors instead.

[Cat question]

I foamed all the access points, around the heaters access points in the floors. They chewed through it. I foamed the sh** out of the access points. Every one I could, behind the stove, the pipes leading to the sink. That worked for about a month, they are persistent creatures. I give them credit for getting through the expanding foam!!

[Cat question]

They are too smart for the peanut butter traps. They avoid the glue traps also. They are Lynn mice living in the hood.