Re: Mice!

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

I recently had a mouse that wanted to visit with me right next to my chair where I watch TV. I put some Decon poision in a plastic cup out of the reach of my dogs and the problem was gone. It has been exceptionally hot and dry here. I wondered if they might come in looking for water.

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Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

I would borrow a friend's cat or cats for a few days.

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

september · ‎03-09-2010

@Drythe wrote:

I would borrow a friend's cat or cats for a few days.

As long as it isn't my cat! We had a mouse in our house a few months ago, and my cat was interested in it at first, then quickly got bored. Still don't know where that mouse went.

Toppers · ‎01-01-2015

If you just want to catch it without killing it, and then release it outdoors again away from your home, you can buy little enclosed humane traps where you can put some peanut butter in the bottom of the trap, and the mouse will go in it.

I can't remember, but I think that D-Con also makes this kind of trap.

The trap has a little section that changes to a different color on it when the mouse is finally caught in it, and the door slides closed on it.

You can then take the mouse outside and release it back outside, without even touching it.

Pearlee · ‎06-11-2011

@Toppers wrote:
If you just want to catch it without killing it, and then release it outdoors again away from your home, you can buy little enclosed humane traps where you can put some peanut butter in the bottom of the trap, and the mouse will go in it.

I can't remember, but I think that D-Con also makes this kind of trap.

The trap has a little section that changes to a different color on it when the mouse is finally caught in it, and the door slides closed on it.

You can then take the mouse outside and release it back outside, without even touching it.

And then it comes back in looking for food again. Uh, uh, I want 'em dead, not alive. If they want to stay alive, then stay out of my house!

Toppers · ‎01-01-2015

@Pearlee wrote:
@Toppers wrote:
If you just want to catch it without killing it, and then release it outdoors again away from your home, you can buy little enclosed humane traps where you can put some peanut butter in the bottom of the trap, and the mouse will go in it.

I can't remember, but I think that D-Con also makes this kind of trap.

The trap has a little section that changes to a different color on it when the mouse is finally caught in it, and the door slides closed on it.

You can then take the mouse outside and release it back outside, without even touching it.
And then it comes back in looking for food again. Uh, uh, I want 'em dead, not alive. If they want to stay alive, then stay out of my house!

Hi @Pearlee,

You don't have to release it out in your backyard, anywhere near your home.

I am sorry that I didn't clarify that.

You can take it out to a wooded area, for example, somewhere away from your home where it will be safe, and where it won't have the chance to come back to your home again.

lulu2 · ‎03-09-2010

Coincidentally, my husband trapped a mouse this AM (and set it free a few blocks down where there are no houses. I cannot remember ever having mice in the summer. We usually get them when the weather gets cold.

chlema · ‎05-22-2010

Thanks everyone for your replies. Guess I'll get a couple of traps or little houses - can't get a cat because my 105 Lab Cody has a problem with felines lol. I did have a cat a few years back before Cody, a big lazy orange boy. In all his 18 years he caught one mouse, late at night, which he proudly presented to me, placing it - alive - on my pillow. Good thing I could move better back then because I flew out of that bed

Shorty2U · ‎03-09-2010

I don't know the answer to your question but 2 mice threads in 2 weeks is grossing me out! lol. I have a mice phobia and we had field mice here 2 years ago and hired and exterminator and still have him come every other month because I worry they will come back! (We live behind a farmers field and we have cats who did nothing to the mice but watch! Now we have a kitten and maybe if any come in he will get them but I don't trust it so I keep the exterminator! lol). My husband thinks we should cancel but no! Lastly I thought too that they come around in Fall not in the heat so these posts are surprising to me! Good Luck! (Brr I'm actually nauseated just typing about mice, so yeah why did I read this? lol).

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Toppers · ‎01-01-2015

@Shorty2U wrote:
I don't know the answer to your question but 2 mice threads in 2 weeks is grossing me out! lol. I have a mice phobia and we had field mice here 2 years ago and hired and exterminator and still have him come every other month because I worry they will come back! (We live behind a farmers field and we have cats who did nothing to the mice but watch! Now we have a kitten and maybe if any come in he will get them but I don't trust it so I keep the exterminator! lol). My husband thinks we should cancel but no! Lastly I thought too that they come around in Fall not in the heat so these posts are surprising to me! Good Luck! (Brr I'm actually nauseated just typing about mice, so yeah why did I read this? lol).

Hi @Shorty2U,

I'm not crazy about them either, especially because they carry diseases.

We get them only rarely.

I live in a more rural area. They have plenty of area outside to live, so I am actually rather surprised that they would want to come inside here.

They come in through the common walls in our building, where the plumbing pipes are. They only need a very tiny space to squeeze through, like one eighth of an inch.

The last one that we had came in through the dishwasher piping and then into our kitchen cabinet where our trash can was kept.

I found it one morning as I was up getting my breakfast. My husband had left for work, and I heard all of this ruckus underneath the cabinet.

It was making so much noise under there, that I actually thought that there was some other kind of critter underneath there, like a squirrel. I was actually afraid to open up the cabinet, it was so loud and noisy.

Imagine my surprise to find this tiny field mouse in there, rummaging through the cabinet!

It took off when it saw me, and that is when we were trying to decide what kind of trap to set for it.

It came back a few times before we were able to catch it, and our kitty was a really good mouser.

She would hear it come in through the dishwasher, and would sit and stare and would keep watch over by the dishwasher when she would hear it come over to the cabinet.

It didn't actually come in through the dishwasher itself, but there was space underneath the dishwasher where this paneling is, that covers up the outside space of it, if that description makes sense, that contains the housing of the dishwasher itself. That's where it was traveling, but it would use the opening in between the walls, to come in through, like the pipes.

That is what I am trying to say. Ick, no matter how you look at it.

I knew when it was here, thanks to our kitty being able to hear it with her really acute hearing.