MICE! help!

[Babyblue5290]

So, we have mice.

I was gone a lot today and when I got home Lucas gave me the "you've been gone all day, I haven't gotten dinner, I haven't gotten my second walk, what the F have you been doing!? GET GOING" look.

So I go to the laundry area to get his food (it's in a container in there) and once I open the door I see Lucas run straight at his food container trying to move it out of the way. I thought he was being bratty and called him to me, but then a mouse ran to under the dryer! :yikes: I was like "........O_O"

So yeah, we have mice IN the house! I can't imagine if we have one in the house how many might be under the house. *sigh* so my roommates are freaking out now scared to death of a little mouse. I get it though, they carry diseases, multiply super fast, chew/bite things, and all that. So we need to get rid of them. I'm going to check behind the dryer/washer when it's lighter cause my roommates won't help me and my bf is asleep. So yeah. I'm gonna get him to do most of the work lol

But any advice on what to do if we do have mice? just set traps or what?

PS. I already checked the food container for Lucas, there aren't any holes. It's hard plastic with a lid so no mice in it, but I'm sure that's what it was going for.

 

[MafiaPrincess]

We've had an off and on basement mouse problem. I like the hard plastic victor traps with peanut butter. They uh open easily without having to touch anything icky...
I babygate the basement if I set traps though, Don't need doggie tongue wanting peanut butter for herself..

 

[Babyblue5290]

We've had an off and on basement mouse problem. I like the hard plastic victor traps with peanut butter. They uh open easily without having to touch anything icky...
I babygate the basement if I set traps though, Don't need doggie tongue wanting peanut butter for herself..

Under the house is only a crawl space, there really isn't a basement. There's a door on the outside of the house you can get into it with (I'm gonna check around the house to see if there is anywhere they could get in tomorrow) but it's pretty firmly closed off. I don't know if it even come off O_O I'll check tomorrow I guess, but I'd assume it'd come off.

You know where to get mouse traps? Hardware store you think?

 

[MafiaPrincess]

I meant babygate like if you set one in your laundry room to keep wandering tongues safe Least your basement is more doggie protected than mine though.

I got my mouse traps at Canadian Tire. Should be good to go for any hardware type store, walmart maybe..

Avoid glue traps.. If a mouse does step in one then you have a mouse stuck to some glue and plastic.. No way to unstick it, and it becomes even more cruel..

I think we finally solved our issue. was a small hole in a weeping joint in the brick no one ever saw, tiny tiny hole but having put steelwool in it, we've been mouse free a month.. again. I hope it's for good this time..

 

[Babyblue5290]

I meant babygate like if you set one in your laundry room to keep wandering tongues safe Least your basement is more doggie protected than mine though.

I got my mouse traps at Canadian Tire. Should be good to go for any hardware type store, walmart maybe..

Avoid glue traps.. If a mouse does step in one then you have a mouse stuck to some glue and plastic.. No way to unstick it, and it becomes even more cruel..

I think we finally solved our issue. was a small hole in a weeping joint in the brick no one ever saw, tiny tiny hole but having put steelwool in it, we've been mouse free a month.. again. I hope it's for good this time..

OHH yeah, good idea thanks!

Doubt we have a canadian tire store lol I'll check Home Depot. or something

Thanks for the advice! I don't want the poor mice to suffer too much, but not much else I can do but kill them unfortunately. I can't have mice running around the house that's for sure! The fastest killing device would be better! So no glue, got it.

 

[MafiaPrincess]

I'm not happy to kill mice, but humane traps to relocate often end up with mice back in your house. When we get one, we instantly have 5. I'm pretty sure they communicate to others that they found a good place because we have generally all adult sized ones at once..

I figure no Canadian Tire, lol, but you never know

Sadly, we've dealt with this off and on for like 5 years. Go 8 months no mice and we have an issue again. *praying I did solve it once and for all though*

I hope you fix you issue quickly. Mice are kind of gross creatures to have wandering in your house when they aren't pets. I fear hanta and other nasty diseases. Clean up poop well, they go an awful lot. If you vacuum it, toss the bag if it has one.

 

[Babyblue5290]

I'm not happy to kill mice, but humane traps to relocate often end up with mice back in your house. When we get one, we instantly have 5. I'm pretty sure they communicate to others that they found a good place because we have generally all adult sized ones at once..

I figure no Canadian Tire, lol, but you never know

Sadly, we've dealt with this off and on for like 5 years. Go 8 months no mice and we have an issue again. *praying I did solve it once and for all though*

I hope you fix you issue quickly. Mice are kind of gross creatures to have wandering in your house when they aren't pets. I fear hanta and other nasty diseases. Clean up poop well, they go an awful lot. If you vacuum it, toss the bag if it has one.

Eww mice poop! I hope there's not a lot! If there isn't then hopefully it just got in and we caught it early! I really hope it's not too bad. I agree about relocating, that just ends up with more mice for you in a little while after relocating.

I hope you fixed your problem!! *crosses fingers* good luck and hope your mice free now

 

[GlassOnion]

Well one of the feral cats that hangs around our house just had kittens so if you want one, you're welcome to it.

Nature built the better mouse trap.

 

[Maxy24]

I have a soft spot for mice and little broken spines and squished body parts makes me sad My neighbor had mice so she got humane mouse traps and drove all the mice to the woods down the street and they never came back.
So i thought you should at least look at this http://images.google.com/imgres?img...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N

If you relocate the mice far enough they don't come back unlike squirrels who find there way home from like across the country. Just a thought.

 

[Snark]

My mom's neighbor had mice, caught them in a humane trap, took them out in the woods and they migrated to another neighbor's house. Lol!
They say mice can squeeze through pencil-sized openings and jump nearly 12 inches. Yeek! We did find a mouse in the house once but one of the cats had already gotten it. The dogs are pretty good mousers, too, but they tend to tear up more stuff trying to get to the mouse.

 

[Julie]

I'm not happy to kill mice, but humane traps to relocate often end up with mice back in your house. When we get one, we instantly have 5. I'm pretty sure they communicate to others that they found a good place because we have generally all adult sized ones at once..

I figure no Canadian Tire, lol, but you never know

Sadly, we've dealt with this off and on for like 5 years. Go 8 months no mice and we have an issue again. *praying I did solve it once and for all though*

I hope you fix you issue quickly. Mice are kind of gross creatures to have wandering in your house when they aren't pets. I fear hanta and other nasty diseases. Clean up poop well, they go an awful lot. If you vacuum it, toss the bag if it has one.

The same thing happens here. They move in all at once. Then it takes a good week to catch them. I use regular mousetraps that kill quickly.

Mice and Ticks ..... EEEHHHHHHHHHHHWWWWWWWWWWW

And GO is right when I had cats... I never had a mouse.

 

[noludoru]

We have housecats.. and since we've had them, only two mice. Once when we checked our attic, we saw it was COATED in mouse dung--no exaggeration. Happily, all of it was very old and didn't smell, so I think the problem is gone. But we did have something in our fireplace last night... I think it was a mouse, as all three kittehs want nuts and started alternately attacking the fireplace and staring intently. Emma and Chili even 'asked' me to open it up for them.

The only truly foolproof method is to mouseproof your house... which can be HARD, especially in basements. fill EVERYTHING up with steel wool or something equally indestructible. Humane traps are great... but often ineffective. I'd be ready to drive the 10 or so miles away if you choose that route. My mom and our exterminator both agree that the killing ones are the best.

 

[skyeboxer]

I second the emotion not to use the glue. We had a moose loose aboot the hoose (Scottish accent coming out there) and I left it to SO to get a trap. He got glue. It was horrible.

Then we got Lili, great hunter that she is I'm sure we have no more mice. What we do have is dismembered lizards brought home as trophies instead. Lovely.

 

[Gustav]

I have set humane traps before.. They work really well.

But now having the killer cat, I find she brings in more than she takes out!

 

[thewhitewitchone]

I had a mouse invasion at the beginning of winter. Those suckers were everywhere, judging by their poopies but only actually saw one. Got those traps (the kind where you don't have to touch anything icky) and used those in the house and used mouse poison in our shed (where they'd also taken up residence). That solved the problem. You could use the poison under your house. They just go somewhere to die.
I hate killing them but having them in my house just creeps me out.
We had one (yes..ONE) the year before and managed to catch him alive and relocate him but oh what an adventure it was to catch him. :yikes:

Pam

 

[MafiaPrincess]

How's your issue coming hun?

 

[Babyblue5290]

Too bad I can't get a cat

I haven't found that darn mouse or how it got in the laundry room! I looked behind the washer/dryer and at the houses and all but there are no holes so I don't know how it got in. I haven't seen it since though! I'm gonna get traps, I just need to wait a few days. I'm gonna set them under the house just in case.