MICE in my kitchen! Help!
Anyone know a good way to get rid of them, without a poison that would hurt the snoopy dogs? Mark |
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| Mouse traps in the cupboards, drawers, under the fridge and stove... |
| Don't use the glue strip traps they have on the market, unless you can stomach the cries of a terrified mouse that can't move, and evertime it tries, something else gets stuck.
I like them as far as not having to set the traps, BUT when I had to finish smothering the critter myself that was enough. I couldn't let it lay there terrified and crying. I had to end its suffering. A trap is the humane way to go. |
| My father in law used the glue strip kind at our old house. Thankfully we were never in the house to see them get caught. We went on a short trip, and came back to a rodent free home. I agree that it would be hard for me to hear OR EVEN SEE a mouse get hurt/trapped. |
GET A CAT  |
| Has this problem a year ago.
First step is trying to figure our how they got in. They can flatten themselves and squeeze through impossibly small areas. Find that entrance point and eliminate. (I still don't know how they get into my house......so I can sympathize with you.) 2. Snap traps or live traps if you don't mind playing keep away all winter. 3. DeCon away from where doggies can get to it. DeCon has been our main battle plan.............BUT you must be on the look out for dead mice if your guys are likely to eat poisoned dead animals. Mine won't ( I hope) A friend with Pyrs who would eat the dead body and who couldn't stand snap traps went with coyote urine pellets in the pantry.........YUCK! Smell is suppose to keep the mice away........keep me away, that's for sure. Finally slowed the number inside and put a cat in garage to keep the overall population down and then plugged as many of the points of entry she could find. |
| Please be VERY CAREFUL if you use Decon. I almost lost Tasker when he was young because I had put Decon down, in a place I thought he couldn't get too but he got too it!!!!!! It was weeks of vitamin K shots and pills and worrying that he was going to bleed to death. I have never used it since. |
| well, I think I will use traps for sure. When I moved in here, three years ago there was a mouse problem and I got an exterminator, who put something in the walls and that along with traps worked, but I won't risk that with stella around. Zak never puts anything in his mouth, but Stellie, will, so I guess it will be traps.
I think you have to kill the whole family which is like 25 mice or something. sheesh.... this is going to be fun  |
| We used the sticky traps and a cat.
Our min pin Dino almost died from a Decon'd mouse. He bled, had a small stroke and ended up with a clot wrapped around his esophagus. He eventually made a full recovery, but it was very scary at the time. The poison works better and more efficiently, but the risk of my dogs (and now the cat) getting one is too high. |
| Traps. I won't use the glue ones, either.
Another danger, although perhaps less, with Decon is if your dog or other pet comes across a dead body and eats it. Perhaps not as toxic, but the reason I won't use poison. |
| I agree, DeCon is very dangerous. We put ours high, far out of dog climbing range, and often within something else........think box with a hole in side for mouse to enter.
I second concern of dead mouse being eaten by dog.......ours don't feast on dead birds so I was confident mice would also be untouched. Only found one dead mouse and quickly disposed. The most humane are the traps that will live trap up to 30 mice but you have to run quickly back home after releasing them, least they beat you home. |
| Shooting them with an air pistol is the simplest, most humane, quickest way. One shows up, you kill it the same evening, whereas with poisons, traps and the like, it can take days before you get lucky. |
steeplejack wrote: Shooting them with an air pistol is the simplest, most humane, quickest way. One shows up, you kill it the same evening, whereas with poisons, traps and the like, it can take days before you get lucky. I can picture Mark sitting around with his pistol  We used the humane traps but, the little buggers would ge out as easy as going in  Good Luck....they are such a pain!!!!!!! Kathy |
| We have the same problem every fall, use mostly the old fashioned traps but then I don't have to empty them. I couldn't stand the sticky traps either, even if it's a mouse. it's got feelings. |
| 8 cats = NO mice. Ever. Period. Vance |
 Two cats: no mice!  Percy and Edwina are happy to take all the credit! I lost a beloved cat to what I believe was a poisoned mouse trap!  |
| I have nothing to suggest. We have mice in our walls from time to time. My bunny lets me know, she thumps loudly when she hears them mostly... at night. Good luck in getting rid of them. peg & howie |
| Cats are not a guarantee. I had a cat who caught a mouse in our last house and brought it into the kitchen...alive. I was sitting there reading the paper with no clue. Dh was down in the basement and saw the cat catch the mouse. The cat let go of the live mouse, which ran under the fridge and out the other side and then under the stove. The cat sat where he let the mouse go and had no idea where it ended up. I was on a chair screaming and dh was ROFLHAO...until I told him you can see a bit of the tail of the mouse, grab it and dispose of it. Not laughing anymore he did and flushed it down the toilet. |
| Traps with peanut butter . |
Vance wrote: 8 cats = NO mice. Ever. Period. Vance And even one good mouser will suffice.  Kristine |
| One mighty hunter cat here too! I found a counted cross stitch piece all framed at a garage sale...and had to buy it, even Todd likes it.  "It's better to feed one cat than many mice".  |
got sheep wrote: One mighty hunter cat here too! I found a counted cross stitch piece all framed at a garage sale...and had to buy it, even Todd likes it. "It's better to feed one cat than many mice". like that one! |
Simon's Mom wrote: Cats are not a guarantee. I had a cat who caught a mouse in our last house and brought it into the kitchen...alive. I was sitting there reading the paper with no clue. Dh was down in the basement and saw the cat catch the mouse. The cat let go of the live mouse, which ran under the fridge and out the other side and then under the stove. The cat sat where he let the mouse go and had no idea where it ended up. I was on a chair screaming and dh was ROFLHAO...until I told him you can see a bit of the tail of the mouse, grab it and dispose of it. Not laughing anymore he did and flushed it down the toilet. This is a case of the cat bringing you a gift of thanks. We used to get this a lot with one of our other cats, Pschytso. He used to bring us everything from moles to bunnies, all alive and unscathed. It was fun chasing the bunnies through the house! Now that he's gone that has ended. Vance |
| I catch mice with my hands great fun. But the problem is that the cat brings them in. So I want to shoot the cat & not the mice. you can buy traps where dogs cannot eat the poison. |
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