MICE, MICE EVERYWHERE!!!

[ranchwife]

little buggers have taken over the home....despite the amount of decon and the old-fashioned spring traps i have laid out!! any suggestions, folks????

[Mike]

[Faster horses]

I feel for you. I'd move out.

I HATE MICE!

We had shrews once (they look like a wet mouse with a stubby tail and smell musky like a skunk.) They don't get in food, but they do get in clothing. We got an exterminator. That is what I would suggest if you have that many MICE. YUK~I can't stand 'em....

[Broke Cowboy]

We had the same prob a few years back - literally were over run with them - sit in the chair in the kitchen and they seemed to literally come out of the wood work. It seemed we had none and then they all appeared as if by magic.

Ran a trap line with spring traps.

Found some mouse chew - poison and put it every where I figured they might travel. Attics, walls and foundation access points.

Put a couple of the hunter cats we have - some are definitely better than others in this department.

Picked up a couple of Sonic mouse repellers from the hardware store and still run them.

Emptied every closet and cupboard - blocked every hole we could find.

Went around the house and removed everything that might allow a mouse to climb up and into the house.

Blocked all the outside vents with stainless steel wool.

Mouse bait in the middle of every room in a pan before bed and picked it up in the morning.

It took about two months - but we won.

Score - somewhere in the neighbourhood of 30 - 40 dead mice and heaven only knows how many the hunters got.

Fed cats are better hunters than hungry cats - go figure.

So - now we have no mice but the daughters have demanded the cats stay in the house - I hate them, but I know better than to fight with the women - because Mom sides with the girls - outnumbered!!!

Best to pick your battles in these situations - so I let it slide.

Patience and stealth - you will win.

Stay well,

B.C.

[Shelly]

I feel for you, too. Living in a trailer like we do, it seems we are always having to deal with them. Actually, it's not we, it's me! Husband won't have nothing to do with them. Wussy!

[reader (the Second)]

I had to get exterminators in. Cats work great but if you don't have any, once you get an infestation and they have a way in and out, it's hard. It took me 6 months to get rid of them. Exterminators put HUGE traps with poisoned bait at entrances around the outside of the house and in various strategic places inside the house. It was worth it but they stank up the house when they died in their hideyholes such as underneath my washing machine.

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[Jeannie]

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[Tumbleweed]

I had a problem with mice in a house that is vacant here on the ranch but seem to be making progress. Tried the electronic things that are suppossed to drive them away but I don't think they work cause there were always plenty of mice. Tried live traps but didn't like them and the old spring traps work but i don't care to be handleing the traps to take out dead mice. They don't always trip and the mice get the bait and sometimes get away. Came across some plastic traps at the hardware store that are easy to set and to get the mice out of. You just squeeze the back of it to set or release. Bait them with cheeze whiz and they never miss and you seldom need to rebait them. Was catching 2 to 8 per week for a while but seldom catch one now. They are called The Better Mousetrap by Intruder INC.

My uncle had a older fellow and a young guy working for him and the house they were living in had a lot of mice. Was asking what they were doing about it and the young fellow who is a little ruff around the edges said he was shooting them with a .22 rifle in the house. Thought he was using bird shot cause that works good on mice but it turns out he was using long rifles. Said he was getting quite a few of them too and it was kind of fun.

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