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HGB
Citizen
Username: Hgb
Post Number: 27
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 8:26 am: | 
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I have a small mouse that romes around my house. I can't catch it by traditional means of small traps or mouse kill. My wife is going to banish me from the house if I can't get this mouse. Should I call an exterminator? |
wnb
Citizen
Username: Wnb
Post Number: 55
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 8:41 am: |
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Do any of your neighbors have pet cats who are adaptable enough to spend a couple of days in your house?
I'm not kidding!
Incidentally, the traditional view is that "if you see one, there are many" (someone will say this to you eventually) but this time of year it really could be "just one (or two)" looking for a warm place to hunker down for the winter and maybe start a family in the spring.
Our cats have caught one mouse (cornered the mouse actually, and I was able to come in with a gloved hand and put the terrified little creature back out into the wild).
We have mice who bed down in our detached garage most winters. Looking the other way is a small accidental kindness I provide them. But my point is, we have 3 cats, they did not catch "many" mice, they got one, it was around this time of year, and we got it out of the house before it became a bigger problem.
Before you ask, our cats are bonkers and wouldn't adapt to visiting someone else, as much as we would enjoy a break from them!
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jgberkeley
Supporter
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3175
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 8:53 am: |
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Go to Home Depot and get some of the mouse cakes. They are green blocks that you place around the area.
I for got the name, but when I get home I will look at a package and post.
You place them in out of the way places and the mice will nibble on them.
Then the mice just kinda go away.
Great results with them!! |
kevin
Citizen
Username: Kevin
Post Number: 100
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 9:34 am: |
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Just this past weekend, I had a little bugger torment me. Multiple times, he kept standing in the middle of the room that I was sitting in. When he noticed that I saw him, he bolted. I've never seen anything so fast. I'm sure that he was messing with my head.
I went to home depot and purchased a package of two 'live catch' traps (2 for $3). They are grey plastic boxes with a very sensitive door. I threw a piece of blue cheese in the trap and placed it exactly where the mouse was standing when he was tormenting me and left for a few hours. When I came back, the mouse was caught.
I put him in a tank to check him out and never realized how high they can jump!
When you use the mouse cakes and the rodent just 'goes away', I don't like that idea that I might find the remnants 6 months later behind the fridge.
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susan1014
Citizen
Username: Susan1014
Post Number: 51
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 10:00 am: |
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I couldn't get the live catch traps or cheap snap traps to work, but have great luck with the D-Con (?) enclosed snap traps. Easy to set and has worked within a day or two each time. A bit more expensive but well worth it. |
Marc
Citizen
Username: Bautisma
Post Number: 18
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 12:56 pm: |
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I've had the most luck with glue traps. I found where the mouse droppings were -> Placed the traps down there and the next morning there were 4 of them in the trap |
ats3
Citizen
Username: Ats3
Post Number: 26
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 7:08 pm: |
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We had one for a day. We brought the traditional traps and used peanut butter--they love peanut butter. In less than 24 hours he was caught. |
Colleen
Citizen
Username: Cbroderick
Post Number: 35
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 10:56 pm: |
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We usually get them around now, too, and usually in the kitchen. At night, we put out traditional traps with peanut butter and also glue traps. And by morning, he's caught and dead. It's gross, but it's less gross than seeing mouse droppings in the cabinets.
Good luck! |
Paul Gibson
Citizen
Username: Paulcg
Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 9:54 am: |
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Dear HGB, my apologies. It seems, perhaps, I ousted your name from your "Mouse in the House" posting by starting a new thread from within your posting. It was unintentional.
Good luck with the little bugger. |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 77
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 3:49 pm: |
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I'd go with the cat suggestion. I had a similar problem and I put my Maine Coon to work-problem solved. |
thevillagepub
Citizen
Username: Thevillagepub
Post Number: 100
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 11:54 pm: |
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Skippy Chunky Peanut Butter and the old fashion wooden mouse trap have a 100% success rate in my house.
It snaps their neck and can be messy, but the problem is solved.
Grab a plastic supermarket bag and pick it up, tie it up and throw it out. |
tourne
Citizen
Username: Tourne
Post Number: 201
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 10, 2003 - 2:28 am: |
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Nice to see most people are banning the poison bait! Mouse trap is the way to go and seal up all the obvious entryways to the house you can find. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 314
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 10, 2003 - 8:56 am: |
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If you put the trap in a paper bag you don't have to even see the mouse. Just pick up the bag and throw it away. |
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