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catching mice

Pooky1 — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 01:02:08 GMT

yestauday morning i started to here a noise on the other side of the wall. and last night and now. and this morning my wife got out of shower and seen a mouse run across the bathroom and i hurd her scream. , we never had this problem before . i did put out a mouse trap with peanutbutter on it.anyone else deal with this problem. feel free to share any thoughts on this subject.thanks.

Re: catching mice

Tigriss — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 01:33:42 GMT

I use a trap called the mice cube. I bait it with crackers or chips sinve peanut butter is hard to clean out. They go in o eat and get trapped. I release outside. I don't like the idea of killing them. If I was a mouse, I would want to live in a house too versus outside with all those bugs and weather and predators. I just have this thing about killing without a purpose being in that death like eating. I'm from a farm and hunting family. I don't kill without purpose. I also find where they may be coming in from. I stuff those places with steel wool and spray foam to cement it in. I also have cats, so they work too! I would check under the sink and under the tub enclosure (if you have one) for holes they may be coming in from. Also get some used cat litter and sprinkle it around the foundation of the house. That will keep them from coming back since cats are natural predators.

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GCR18 — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 01:42:56 GMT

I would set a bunch of mouse traps and put them in the area where you saw the mouse. We did that a couple years ago at my mother's house and it worked.

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Pook — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 01:43:00 GMT

I've used peppermint oil successfully to chase mice away and keep them out at our vacation cottage.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 01:51:58 GMT

You're on the right track with the peanut butter. A little piece of cheese will work too. And when you catch one, put the trap out again because there could be more that you just haven't seen yet.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 01:57:06 GMT

You can be assured you have mice, not mouse.

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RedTop — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 02:29:17 GMT

One of the best baits to bring the mice out of hiding looking for food, is a tiny piece of bacon fat seared with the flame of a match, on the mousetrap.

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151949 — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 02:39:15 GMT

Mice come in & out so it is important to find the opening they are using and seal it up. Expanding foam in a can works well for that. You never have just one mouse either - always multiples. And sometimes when you have mice you will have a snake as they eat mice, so they follow the mice. Good luck.

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insomniac2 — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 03:36:33 GMT

For those who catch a mouse and then release it outdoors, you do know it's probably going to come back in at some point?

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dfyre — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 04:26:17 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
You can be assured you have mice, not mouse.

Not necessarily. Some years ago I had a mouse - from the amount of droppings I found I was quite certain it was an entire family of them. They were all over the place. I wasn't sure what to do because I had ten cats at the time - yup, ten Persians who had absolutely no interest in chasing any mice. One day, a friend stopped by. I was really busy, so she decided to make herself some coffee. Took the lid off of the coffee pot and screamed - the mouse had caught itself in the coffee pot! Well, once that one mouse was disposed of, there was never any further mouse evidence for as long as I lived there.

I recently had someone call wanting to buy a kitten BUT, she insisted that it be a good mouser. I relayed the above story and suggested that she adopt a nice kitty from a shelter if she required that it catch mice. She was pretty insistant on wanting a Persian but I explained to her that they were strictly decorative and would do nothing for her mouse problem.

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Venezia — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 05:00:14 GMT

@dfyre - Your story made me laugh. My cousin, many years ago, had a beautiful, blue Persian. She actually watched as a mouse ran around the entry hall to her apartment and her Persian just sat there watching it with her! She kept saying "catch!", "get it!" to no avail.

Eventually, the mouse ran back out of the open door to the outside!

Her Persian did, however, bring her "gifts" from time to time. And once, it was another live mouse. That one was also allowed to escape back outside. It seems her cat thought they were just fun "toys".

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hckynut — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 07:17:18 GMT

@Pooky1 wrote:
yestauday morning i started to here a noise on the other side of the wall. and last night and now. and this morning my wife got out of shower and seen a mouse run across the bathroom and i hurd her scream. , we never had this problem before . i did put out a mouse trap with peanutbutter on it.anyone else deal with this problem. feel free to share any thoughts on this subject.thanks.

@Pooky1

I have dealt with it, but in a different way than PB and traps. With our 7 furry kids in our home, mice stay outside. The ones that don't? That's it.

hckynut(john)

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Fressa — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 15:59:47 GMT

I use those pulse sensors in the house and garage. Our home is surrounded by woods I also use those all in one traps in the trouble spots on the front porch near the birdfeeders. That method has really worked for me and eliminated the outside "critters" wanting to move in fo rthe winter. The best part is that it is more "pet safe" than other methods.I've tried quite a few products with our situations and these work the best for our needs.

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Pooky1 — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:53:09 GMT

where do you get pepermint oil. never hurd of it.

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Pooky1 — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:55:54 GMT

thats what we were thinking.

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RedTop — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 18:00:06 GMT

@Pooky1,

My daughter bought Peppermint oil in a store that sold health food and supplements.

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ECBG — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 19:08:19 GMT

We have enough black snakes around that our woods don't cause a problem.

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Pooky1 — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 18:44:16 GMT

thanks for everyones responces. i went to home depot and bought a 20 dollar bag of mice and rat poison . its said it can take up to 48 hours to work and i bought plug ins that send out signals that bothers mice to get rid of them. poisin was eaten monday morning and i added more poison and we havnt hurd anything and no more poisin has been touch so we think mouse left. were thinking it was from the electronic plug ins we bought. plug in came 3 in a pack for 20 dollars.we will keep them pluged in.

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Pooky1 — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 02:51:03 GMT

when i thanked you all yestauday i hoped i wasnt speaking to soon and now we found out ii did speak to soon.2 days nothing and tonight hurd and saw it again. went to lowes tonight and bought a much bigger plug in unit, and a a big trap with poisin that can kill like 15 mice or 3 rats. we need to check all around the house tomorrow.

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Pooky1 — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 02:52:14 GMT