How to get rid of mice?

Question

3.5 weeks ago i noticed mouse droppings for the first time in the spare cupboard in kitchen & noticed the builder hadn't covered up a small hole leading to the garden,we covered the hole and assumed the mouse had gone then got picked up an hour later for our holiday abroad and didnt have time to get traps.............

3 weeks later when we got home I opened the food cupboard & my worse nightmare was there. mouse droppings over everything (tons)and pasta and noodlepackets ripped open everywhere.My boyf managed the catch the little blighter in a trap on monday and we thought everything was ok.

Last night my boyf is lying on the couch and in the corner of his eye noticed 2 mice run from under each couch and meet up in the middle of the living room, when he moved they run back under. Now we have placed traps again and poison and they just aren't having any of it. Ive even put peanut butter in the trap which was recommended. Please help as I feel so sick and cant sleep and embaressed! Thanx

Answer 1

i had the same trouble with rats. this is what your boyfriend needs. a spare saturday afternoon. 8 cans of lager an air pistol, and a plastic bag for the deceased. happy shooting

Answer 2

I use Havoc and sticky traps. We have field mice that are actually voles. The little buggers get between the bricks and the facing of our house. They dig tunnels and they eat vegetation roots all around our shrubs. Yea... I know how you feel but you have to keep some poison and traps out. The poison is great. They take it back to their nest and feed it to their family and they are no more. I actually had them in my garage so bad that a snake came in through their tunnel to get him a meal. Havoc will dry up their blood from the inside out and leave the mouse dying with no odor. I have never had one die inside the walls of my house. Never in my life have I seen that but to be sure you can get the sticky traps. They seem to work very well. Not fun to take care of when you catch one but they do work.

Answer 3

Mouse traps do work but one word

EXTERMINATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Answer 4

Little bunny foo foo! ha ha ha

get the environmental health in.

Answer 5

Unplug them from your computers.

Answer 6

mice hate the smell of peppermint. Maybe you can get some peppermint oil (health food store or flavoring for candy at a grocery store) put a drop or two on cotton balls and leave them in the cabinets. I lived in the country and had a mouse problem in the chicken house, I  super-glued a piece of dry corn on a trap because they were so clever at stealing the bait, they had to wrestle the corn to take it and it became  a challenge and they got caught. put the traps where you see them run.

Answer 7

I wouldn't recommend using poison because the little boogers are going to end up dying someplace out of reach...the smell lasts for weeks.  Keep using traps but try using a little bit of raw bacon.  They can't resist.

Answer 8

A few people mentioned some good ways on how to get rid of mice, but you've also got to take some countermeasures to prevent more from coming.

Do a careful scan of your living spaces and try to identify how the mice got in.  They are capable of squeezing through a whole the size of your pinkie finger (which is quite small).  When you find these entry points, seal them up with caulk or for a quick temporary solution use steel wool.

Make sure all food sources are tightly sealed and unreachable.  Mice are agile climbers, so just because the box is "up high" doesn't mean they can't get to it.

Once you've taken those preventative measures, you should continue with the traps.  Peanut butter and chocolate are excellent forms of bait.  If you can stomach it (they get messy), use the glue traps as they work great.  Avoid the use of poison for some of the reasons already mentioned.

Finally, don't be embarrassed.  Thousands of homes every year are overran by mice.  It's a natural process of evolution as the mice are looking for safety and comfort near readily available food sources.  If you take away those elements (by setting traps, preventing access, and removing food), the mice will have no choice but to move on.

Good Luck!

Answer 9

we had mice in our shed a couple of weeks ago so we put traps down with chocolate in them, we caught 6 and i think we have caught them all but we leave chocolate in a couple of traps just in case

Answer 10

Reading your question... it sounded so familiar.  I have been re-doing my bedroom - I heard a noise coming from a spare dresser in my huge closet.. opened the drawer, a mouse ran out of it & there was a NEST of 3 little baby mice & it was the most disgusting thing EVERRRRR!!!  So, I got some sticky traps put chocolate in one, and caught one mouse.  I thought that would be all, but last night, my sister saw a mouse  run UNDER MY BED!!!!   I could PUKE!!!!!

Absolutly disgusting... So needless to say I slept in the living room last night... i am so creeped out.  I will be putting more chocolate in the traps...

Anyhow, we get the sticky traps from "Giant Eagle" grocery store... hopefully you have them around you because that is the ONLY place we can find them.

I know you're creeped out.... I am too... I started crying so bad whenever I saw them in my bedroom... its the most disgusting thing ever!!!

Good luck getting rid of those disgusting little creatures!!