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[Natureluvr]

My husband sets traps and uses peanut butter instead of cheese. He catches around 5-6 mice every winter.

[AuntMame]

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@AnnieBelle wrote:

Well, we were advised to use Irish Spring soap in and around our camper to keep the mice away.  It seems to work for a year or two - until we found that mice had been inside the camper and the bars of Irish Spring soap all had tiny little teeth marks in them!  Apparently, we were just giving them a treat!  Tyring the dryer sheets now - fingers crossed!

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I tried the Irish Spring too. The mice loved it. I found the bars in pieces with teeth marks. 

[Bookplate]

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@Natureluvr wrote:
My husband sets traps and uses peanut butter instead of cheese. He catches around 5-6 mice every winter.

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I can also personally recommend the siren aroma of Nutella on a cracker.

[Kalli]

Those of us who live in a rural setting must really fight to keep the critters out, especially with winter coming. 

Most successful for me is a caramel pressed onto the wooden trap or onto the plastic inside the catch and release trap. 

I've used both traps but always feel bad when I catch a very young one. If it's in the catch and release trap I know it might not find its mom when I let it go. 😢🤷🏻‍♀️

[Jo1313]

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@LTT1 wrote:

If the mice are getting in the house, an exterminator advised me to stuff steel wool into the cracks between bricks?

This worked that year and we never saw them again!

Whatva field mouse had gotten into was a bag of dog food.

The mouse did not get into the bag of cat food!! I saw it eating out of the cat's dish when the cat was finished eating..before I could pick it up!

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[Jo1313]

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@SaveTheTurtles wrote:

Rat poison works really well.  Make sure any cracks in your building are caulked up. Remove any bird seed or feed from your garage as mice are obviously attracted to the food source.

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Will not use poison..just in case my cats decide to cat the mouse.

[bonnie f]

so here's my story... 3 yrs ago i had tons,, and i mean tons of mice. i live in an apt,,and im sure it was families of them in the apt.. my landlord got an extermonator.. but if ur going to do it right, you have to put bail down on every floor, and seal up all cracks. holes etc from the outside. which i know he wasnt going to do. it cost tons of money to have that done, and for them to keep coming back.. so the guy came into my apt, and put bait down.. he came back about a week later, and the bait was gone.. so he put more down.. i knew my landlord wasnt going to keep up with this, and have him go to every apt... so i said heck with it.. i can do this myself for what the exterminator does, i can do and check the bait every few days.. so i went online and got mouse bait, just like he used and put it down.. i have no animals, so i hid it all over my apt. where no one can see it.. now finally 3 yrs later, i still have them but not nearly as bad. they are eating the bait, but its strange because all the bait i have in my apt is not touched.. which makes me think n hope they are eating it, and not coming in.. the main place is in a closet underneath the floor board where they are eating it... i do smell something every now n then... but nothing bad.. at least i know they are eating it and dying.. but i see no dead mice in my apt.. i know people say dont poison them, the mouse can get outside and a cat will eat it and die, or a bird... but the exterminator used the same poison... so to this day i check my bait every week, and it is being nibbled on... but like i said i have no animals in my house so its easier for me... i did the snap traps in the beginning, but its a pain to set them.. and they would go off at night and its loud enough to wake me up.. i was tired of it.. and just think if i have someone stay over, and they hear the loud snap.. so i firmely believe in poison.. for me anyways.. my apt is over 100 yrs old.. so they find a way in...

[jannabelle1]

I solved our mouse problem by removing all bags of cat food and critter food from the garage floor and put them in bins with lids. I also keep a snap-trap out there with a bit of peanut butter. I also stuffed some steel wool in the little holes they had used to get into the garage. My patience had run out, so no more Ms. Nice Gal. It was me or the mice, and I'm not going anywhere!! LOL! Honestly, if you have food in your garage that they can get into, you'll have mice.

[CatsyCline]

they like bird seed too. if you store bird seed they go for the spilled seed.

i just found a dead mouse in my laundry pile in a fleece blanket.  ugh i think it had just died.  i don't want to use bleach in my front loader.  we have minerals in our water which react with bleach. what else can i use to disinfect? should i just toss it?

[Citrine1]

I feel your pain @Jo1313 .  Sometimes it seems that nothing will work.  We had a mice several years ago.  They refused to go near traps of any kind no matter what we put in them.  I used to joke that at the end of the day, the mice would sit around with cigarettes and little glasses of brandy talking about how they'd "gotten over on us" one more time.