catching mice

Pooky1 · ‎12-23-2015

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.

Tigriss · ‎03-12-2010

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.

GCR18 · ‎07-03-2013

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.

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

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

JeanLouiseFinch · ‎10-03-2011

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.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

You can be assured you have mice, not mouse.

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RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

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.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

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.

insomniac2 · ‎02-20-2016

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?

dfyre · ‎03-10-2010

@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.