"I hate those meeces to pieces!"

[Rogue]

We have a mouse or mice, I have tried snap traps (traditional mouse traps), glue traps, two different types of poison and three different kinds of live traps. I have used cheese and i have used peanut butter to bait them and the mouse/mice just crap next to the traps and move on. :angry2:

Any ideas?

 

[garauld]

I use D-con. Works for me. I tried some of the other brands and the trapping method, but D-Con works the best.

 

[Geezer]

I use snap traps. The ones made by Victor, with the big V on them, and have a metal lever to hold the bait, not the big yellow plastic fake cheese things. I use a small piece of cheese pushed securely into the bait holder, then a dab of peanut butter on the cheese.

I've tried other brands of trap and they usually end up acting as mouse feeders rather than traps.

 

[rickcorwn]

I've got pets so poison is a bad idea but I've had real good success with snap traps with PB. Placement is key to traps, mice are nearly blind so they like to run along the walls with their whiskers touching the wall and they follow the sent of other mice that have come that way. If you can find their path somewhere put the trap perpendicular to their path bait end of the trap up against the wall. Good luck.

 

[kaitsdad]

Doug, my neighbors have had great success with a Victor Electronic trap - they make them for mice and rats. You just have to make sure that you empty them on a daily basis.

Victor Trap

 

[FJRBluesman]

I use snap traps. The ones made by Victor, with the big V on them, and have a metal lever to hold the bait, not the big yellow plastic fake cheese things. I use a small piece of cheese pushed securely into the bait holder, then a dab of peanut butter on the cheese.
I've tried other brands of trap and they usually end up acting as mouse feeders rather than traps.

Gunny, Exactly. Make sure the trap part is against the wall, they run along the wall and don't like going over things, liek the back end of the trap. Have it 90º to the wall right up agianst it. The peanut butter is too much for them to resist. Make sure it's deep in the recesses of the trap or they'll just eat it out. They need to work for it, in which case it'll kill them.
Just the peanut butter worked for us, guarantee kill.

 

[Grumpy]

The first thing to make sure of is that they are mice, not rats? You have to look at the droppings, scat, to determine that. If they are rats, it's a whole different ballgame.......bigger traps, etc. If you've had traps tripped without killing the animal, it's likely a rat......D-con is a really good approach for rats.

 

[madmike2]

D-con is a really good approach for rats.

OR maybe a shotgun!?!? :dribble:

 

[NightShine]

If you're sure they're mice, one tried and true solution was perfected during commercial laboratory investigations decades ago.

Just put out massive quantities of the artificial sweetener Saccharin. It's then merely a matter of waiting for them to come down with the inevitable case of cancer and die.

I'm sure the people at PETA would approve!

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

Get a cat

 

[Old Michael]

Rogue, have you maybe considered that killing them isn't the answer?

Perhaps it's that something is missing from their lives, and their search has brought them to your house.

Maybe if you'd make an effort to learn more about their needs and how difficult a mouse's life can be,

you'd conclude that having them occasionally scurry through your house is not really such a bad thing.

Peace my friend.

 

[Rogue]

Rogue, have you maybe considered that killing them isn't the answer?
Perhaps it's that something is missing from their lives, and their search has brought them to your house.

Maybe if you'd make an effort to learn more about their needs and how difficult a mouse's life can be,

you'd conclude that having them occasionally scurry through your house is not really such a bad thing.

Peace my friend.

Sounds good to me........... now convince my wife. :butcher: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

Rogue, have you maybe considered that killing them isn't the answer?
Perhaps it's that something is missing from their lives, and their search has brought them to your house.

Maybe if you'd make an effort to learn more about their needs and how difficult a mouse's life can be,

you'd conclude that having them occasionally scurry through your house is not really such a bad thing.

Peace my friend.

Sounds good to me........... now convince my wife. :butcher: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

Your wife is right and OM evidently just scored some good weed.

Those fookers breed like rats. Gotta kill 'em

 

[Mr Bill]

Dcon works for me. I saw chipmunks under my rv this summer so I baited the rv and my garage. The bait was gone in a day and a dead chipmunk was under my FJR.

A month later I was changing the FJR airfilter and when I removed the cover it sounded like a winning slot machine with all the Dcon and seed shells pouring out. Needless to say I had a little performance gain after changing out the filter.

 

[fjrboomer]

My daughter had your problem in her house. We searched the the house to find where they were getting in and then did the following: There was a small hole (they chewed) behind her clothes washer. We poured a generous amount of DCon in the whole and then stuffed the hole with steel wool (chewing steel wool bothers their teeth). We then set traps around the walls in each room against the walls. End of problem. Good luck as they are persistant little devils.

 

[sonicspeed]

Get a cat

this is definitely the best way

 

[Bustanut joker]

Buy'a Sheep..

:jester:

 

[beemerdons]

Buy'a Sheep..
:jester:

Jesu Cristo, Dios Mio, Caramba, Que Lastima! This's Barry's answer for everything from Curing Cancer to World Peace-Hunger!

 

[madmike2]

Buy'a Sheep..
:jester:

Jesu Cristo, Dios Mio, Caramba, Que Lastima! This's Barry's answer for everything from Curing Cancer to World Peace-Hunger!

Yes, because Barry is more interested in the "conjugal" benefits rather than the overall effectiveness in any given situation. :dribble: