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[buddysgirl]

Have you tried the plug ins that emit a sound wave that the mice do not like.  I haven't had any trouble with mice but gave one to my son's girlfriend that was having trouble with mice in her horse feed barn.  She said it worked great.  I believe they are by Bell and Howell and HSN stocks them.

[We rescue cats]

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@gardenman wrote:

Most mouse/rat poison is warfarin which simply causes them to bleed to death and is metabolized by the mouse, so there's little risk to anything that eats the dead mouse. I wouldn't recommend eating one, but anything eating the mouse is likely a lot bigger than the mouse and whatever warfarin is unmetabolized is likely insignificant to the animal eating the mouse. You're not going to kill half the wildlife around you by poisoning mice.

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If only this were true. . .

[Kachina624]

@gardenman.  Predator birds like hawks, owls and eagles find and eat poisoned mice which go outside to die.   Birds eating the poisioned mice can easily also die.

When he was a youngster, my dog came in from outside one day with a mouse hanging out of his mouth.  I had a battle royal getting the darn thing away from him.   I was in fear of my little dog geting poisioned.

[Carmie]

Last year for the first time we had mice.  In all, we killed 14 of them.

I think a pregnant mouse came in when she burrowed into the dirt of a plant on my deck.  I brought the plant in when there was danger of frost and put it on my kitchen table.  The next morning, there was dirt all over my table and floor and a big hole in the dirt in my planter.

The old fashioned wooden mouse traps didn't work.  The newer plastic ones worked very well and we caught quite a few with them.  Peppermint oil didn't work.  My whole pantry smelled like strong peppermint, but mice didn't seem to care.

The sonic noise makers that my husband and I couldn't hear, drove our kids and grandkids crazy when they came to visit, but the mice didn't avoid them.  I had two in every room.

I think there was no exit for them to leave, so they were stuck in our house.  They caused a lot of damage to food in my pantry and to upholstered furniture.

The majority of them were caught in the plastic snap traps with peanut butter, but the last one who took months for us to catch, I hate to admit, was caught on a sticky paper trap.  I don't like to use them because they seem cruel, but we were desperate.

Good luck.  You need to get them out quickly, or they will breed and multiply.

[chlema]

We use the traps run by battery that lures them in with a small bit of peanut butter.  Once they are inside they are zapped, a fast death.  They cost about $20 each.  We keep one in the kitchen behind the trash can, one in the garage and one in the laundry/furnace room.  These traps last forever.   When a mouse is inside you take the trap, flip open the lid and dispose of the critter, then reset the trap.

With poisoning they have a painful death, with the glue traps they suffer, often trying to bite off their legs to flee.  Just seems to me the ones I am using provide a fast death, no suffering.        

[Zhills]

A Janitor told me to clean with Pine-Sol. 

A mouse leaves a trail of scents that welcomes others!

Once he did that ... mine stopped.  (at my office)

I would never use poison!  A dead mouse scent is awful!

[Nightowlz]

We just got rid of 2 than found out we had 2 more? Haven't seen anymore since.

The first 1 one died from rat poison in the attic. 

We heard the next one in the wall. It couldn't figure out how to get out so it died.

 I saw the next one in the middle of the kitchen floor. I always thought they stayed around the baseboards?

DH said he thought he saw one in his man cave. I told him to put a piece of cheese on the trap & set it by the baseboard so when the mouse runs in there it will jump right in the trap. The next night I saw the mouse again. It took off where DH was & jumped right in the trap. 

I told DH I saw another mouse. He didn't believe me. Next day when I was cleaning the bathrooms going back & forth it flew into the bathroom. I told DH to set a trap with a piece of cheese. I was still cleaning the bathrooms when I went back to our bedroom & the mouse was dead in the trap in the bathroom. That was fast. 

Try cheddar cheese on your traps. Seems to work. DH used peanut butter first but the mice lick it off some how?

I'm sure they got in when we remodeled the bathrooms. The guys were in/out of the garage leaving the door open.

I don't do that since I know there are mice all over the place. Our neighbors don't mow like they should. When they do mow the mice scatter. I don't think mice want to live in our house. There's no water for them or food. I'm a clean freak. Only food they will find is maybe a dead spider in the attic? 

I have never seen any chewed on food products in the pantry? When I lived at home the mice got into dad's ding dongs.

The new vanities don't have a regular ac vent. It has some cut underneath from about one side to the other that vents out the heat & air. I think the mouse went through it when I saw it run in the bathroom because it hit the vanity toekick hard. 

[Pooky1]

My brother in law has 4 cats and a dog and they still get mice. When we had the big blue bug exterminater they told me having a cat doesn't keep mice away. He also said he has a cat and he still has mice. They didn't do anything to take care of not getting any new mice from coming in. The poison they put out in locked boxes never got touched.

[Zhills]

We live in a community where there is a colony of feral cats and several have still had mice!  Sneaky little things!

[AuntG]

Being that we live by a wooded park, combined with my irrational fear of mice, I pay a pest control service far more than I'd like to maintain outside bait stations. It's $50 a month, along with an annual fee. The good thing is they come out in spring and fall to check that everything is tightly sealed on the outside of our house.

My husband doesn't get why it's such a big deal. He says we should just set a trap if there's a mouse. Granted, we both grew up on farms where mice are prevalent, but somehow I developed a fear of rodents.