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[hkrgrl]

the poison pellets are good gauge as the extent of infestation. 

put out a lot, and if its gone in the morning, big problem!

funny enough, we never found the dead ones.  hope they went out to find water. i don't like using it since i don't want collateral damage, but they do work.

our dog cannot get to the pellets.  they are inside the mechanicals closet in the basement.

i would not worry about killing the outside ones, that's where they belong.  the trick is finding where they are getting in and fix that issue. 

good luck!!!

[haddon9]

Oh no!  It is a nightmare when you have them and they start to multiply! 

We had some mice about 15 years ago and got rid of them.  DH went around the foundation to seal up any small holes or cervices.  We also made sure that no tree branches were close to the house.

The mice were gone but suddenly they came back two years ago and I saw one running across the kitchen floor!  I was freaked!!  We don't know how it came in but did everything possible to get it and last year there were no mice.....fingers crossed for this year!! 

They like to come in when the weather starts to get cool.

[on the bay]

@Carmie,

One of my daughters had 3 over the 2 years she's been at their apt.

She got these each time-

Humane Mousetraps-

They work everytime. A little peanut butter, and voila! You have caught a mouse without the horrific killing trap or cruel poison.

Then you just let them out in the woods or somewhere away from your home.

A win-win for you and the poor mice!

4 for $8.81 at Walmart.

Now if you have a house with an infestation with multiple mice there are "exterminators" who do humane capture too. And they will plug up any holes around your home or should. They should also be walking all around the outside of your home to search for openings.

[Bonkers1]

@JoyFilled Warrior 

Your post is so so true and so so funny.

[JoyFilled Warrior]

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@Bonkers1 wrote:

@JoyFilled Warrior 

Your post is so so true and so so funny.

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@Bonkers1      

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[shoekitty]

many years ago they cleared acres in back of the neighbors across the street.  Built a huge housing tract. Well, mice started pouring in , no where to go!!  the houses across the street got the brunt of it. But we had a few a day. The cutest little things. They were field mice about 2-3 inches, some looked like little hamsters.  We started out with live traps which worked great.  Then we walked them down to huge park down the street. They also have. A large population of feral cats. At least I didn't have to kill them. Them a few years later we had rats from the neighbors.. they were living in the heavily jasmines covered fence, and ivy as well. We had large pepper tree by Sid elf house.  They were crawling up tree and nibbled through a grate and were in house attic.  Which was low and small. Neighbors used deacon, which I would never use, and they died in our attic and mpwe had to deal with smell and removing dead rats.  Not many, but enough. We cut pepper tree branch down, they cut their jasmine and ivy and problem solved. My husband had to use traps for a bit .  We learned to patch up all grates. Remove foliage near house and tree limbs that reach side of home. Keep all garbage cans, seeds away from home. Also we applied these stinky crystals that we used for animals coming around home, and it worked. It stinks for an hour, but fades and most animals avoid it.  

[Venezia]

I live in the country so, of course, we're going to occasionally get mice.  I use Viktor Electonic traps.

The mouse gets zapped when it enters the trap to get to the peanut butter.  It's killed almost instantaneously.  Open the trap and dump the mouse.  Reset the trap.  They're battery operated; good for up to 100 mice.

I never use poison.  If a mouse gets back outside and another animal (cat, dog, wild animal, birds, whatever) ingests it, the poison will kill that animal.  And it's a gruesome way to die.  I'd never forgive myself.

The electronic traps are humane and they work.  I've always found that after I've caught a few the problem stops for a long time.  It's as if the remaining mice sense the danger.

[shoekitty]

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@Venezia wrote:

I live in the country so, of course, we're going to occasionally get mice.  I use Viktor Electonic traps.

The mouse gets zapped when it enters the trap to get to the peanut butter.  It's killed almost instantaneously.  Open the trap and dump the mouse.  Reset the trap.  They're battery operated; good for up to 100 mice.

I never use poison.  If a mouse gets back outside and another animal (cat, dog, wild animal, whatever) ingests it, the poison will kill that animal.  And it's a gruesome way to die.  I'd never forgive myself.

The electronic traps are humane and they work.  I've always found that after I've caught a few the problem stops for a long time.  It's as if the remaining mice sense the danger.

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@Venezia  excellent idea.  I haven't had a problem last few years, so I haven't looked. But I will tell husband. That de-con and poison should be banned, so cruel, and dangerous. 

[Venezia]

@shoekitty - I get mine on Amazon and keep them in place year-round.  I just check on them every day or so.

When the batteries start to wear out, the light flashes red, so you know it's time to replace them.  It flashes green when there's a dead mouse in there!

[monicakm]

@Carmie

We live in the country so it's going to be a problem from time to time but I have figured out how to keep them away. I use a mouse bait called Decon kills house mice. It's a tablet that I put outside in the garage behind a large Rubbermaid box so the dogs can't accidentally get it. It's covered in plastic so I poke a hole in it. I can see where it's been nibbled on from time to time, mostly in the colder months. No mice.