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margotsc
Citizen
Username: Margotsc
Post Number: 28
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 2:49 pm: |     |
Or in our basement, actually. I'd like to do something about it before he gets to the first floor. Do I need to call an exterminator or just get a mouse trap? I have two cats down in the basement (not that they are helping much) so I don't want to poison them. Thanks! |
jrbell
Citizen
Username: Jrbell
Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 3:12 pm: | |
When I lived in the city, we once had a mouse problem. Spring traps were ineffective b/c the mice would take the bait and not set off the trap.
I found that glue traps worked well, as long as you are comfortable with the fact that you might find a live mouse and then you'll have to kill it.
Never had cats and mice at the same time, so I'm not sure how they would react to the glue, but if you place your traps in areas where the cats don't go/can't reach, you should be OK. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1808
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 4:02 pm: | |
Do not underestimate the power of your cat to find your glue traps!!! You know the formula:
Negative outcomes = reach difficulty squared divided by owner's desire to keep the object from the cat times feline determination factor to the 10th power.
We found this out the hard way. Get a shoe box, put the glue trap in the shoe box & cut a small hole for the mouse. Duct tape it closed. You will then not have to reattach all the cat fur stuck in the glue trap. |
tototoo
Citizen
Username: Tototoo
Post Number: 144
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 5:39 pm: | |
LOL!!! Greentree, why wasn't that posted in "Things I Learned the Hard Way" ? |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1810
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 5:45 pm: | |
You are right, Toto. I have remedied my error. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 261
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 7, 2003 - 1:07 pm: | |
Cats get very depressed when they get stuck in glue traps. Spring traps work - just dig the bait in to the little clip so the mice have more contact with it as they nibble away. I find that going old-school and using cheese works well compared to peanut butter, which the mice seem to lick off. Set a few traps. |
jfw
Citizen
Username: Jfw
Post Number: 40
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 7, 2003 - 4:41 pm: | |
in the event you'd rather not kill the little guy, havahart traps work very well. i have two. the small one (for mice) you have to tinker with a bit so that it's sensitive enough to spring. and the big one has now enabled me to trap and relocate the four raccoons that were occupying my garage this summer. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 263
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 7, 2003 - 4:52 pm: | |
It is illegal to relocate racoons onto public property. |
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1001
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 7, 2003 - 5:07 pm: | |
Maybe we should build squirrel tubes
Tom Reingold
There is nothing
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jeffl
Citizen
Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 202
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 10:59 am: | |
What do exterminators do? Do they poison your mice and then you have to find them before they start to decay? Mouse traps have worked for me but that's only one mouse at a time. How do prevent the whole population from hanging out in your house? |
Michael Janay
Citizen
Username: Childprotect
Post Number: 64
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 11:20 am: | |
Mouse and rat poison work like this: The baits are placed, the rodents eat the baits, they are fine until they drink water (which usually occurs outside of your house in the sewer, unless you have standing puddles in your basement). As soon as they drink the water, they die. No muss, no fuss.
The stuff the extrminators use is far more effective than what you get at home depot.
Last year we had mice and a RAT in our garage. No more. |
Rick Beley
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 8
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 8:00 am: | |
After moving in, we found our house was occupied by a small family of mice. it wasn't easy to catch them at first, but once you get the hang of it, it works great. I bought the standard snap traps, the glue traps, and also a new lever trap you can get at home depot. Problem was, the food would be gone from the trap. These mice were too tiny to set off the traps. Once I would see the bait gone from a trap, i would re apply the Peanut butter, and put a glue trap at the entrance. 4 days in a row I caught one mouse each day. The worst part of this is walking down in the morning and dealing with mr. mouse in the trap...
The other thing I did, went to Home Depot, bought some spray sealant foam, and went around the outside of the house and sealed the holes i could see. I did the same in the basement. Teh traps are still out, but no mice in about a month... |
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