Can you smell mice?

[Anonymous]

Snake-b-done smells like dead snakes. Get a can of that from the hardware store, and maybe realize what you are smelling is the snakes that are coming after the mice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely. Once you have had mice and know the smell, you can recognize it instantly. A slightly musky, corn chip type smell. If you can smell them, you likely have a healthy infestation. Exclusionary tactics work best if you can find entry points; then snap traps. Avoid poison in environments shared with humans and other animals (fine for vacant homes), and glue traps which are terribly inhumane. By the way if you ever need to free an animal from a glue trap, saturate the trapped limbs in oil which will dissolve the glue.

Yep. We have this in our apartment. We have traps, take advantage of monthly extermination, but to no avail

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in an old house and as much steel wool as I stuff into little nooks and crannies, we still get the occasional mouse.

Especially, when neighbors do construction.

My cat is good at letting me know, because she will camp out near where she saw it.

I've used traps, they are so-so in terms of being effective.

The most effective is poison blocks. I put it out where the pets can't get it.

It takes about a week for the mice to eat it and die.

Poison is inhumane. There is a trick to snap traps. You need to create a corridor with the trap at the end, against a wall, so that the mouse can't escape when the trap is triggered and jumps under the tensile strength of the spring. Place the trap in a corner between two walls and create the third wall of the corridor with a weighted cereal box.

Yeah, traps didn't work.

But poison did.

Easy peasy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. You dna smell dropping and pee.

This. You likely aren't smelling the mice, but what they are leaving behind

This.

I grew up with mice and to this day, I smell them in people’s homes and certain businesses.

[Anonymous]

I thought poison is bad because the mice die inside your house and rot? Last thing I want is an infestation of maggots.

[Anonymous]

I worked in a mouse lab in college and can definitely smell them.

[Anonymous]

Yes. It’s musky.

[Anonymous]

I worked for years with lab mice and they definitely smell.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, that's what I feared. Effin' hate the smell.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Once you’ve had mice you can smell them. Even before you can consciously smell them. Idk how to explain that. I can usually tell there is a mouse around a day or two before my cat finds it.

I love a snap or spin trap, battery operated traps, poison in the attic and behind any dead spaces between lower kitchen cabinets.

Shudder

[Anonymous]

We have had a pet mouse, and their pee smells like vinegar.
I was at a location the other day and I smelled that smell. It ended up being vinegar (I actually can’t remember the details lolol).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have had a pet mouse, and their pee smells like vinegar.
I was at a location the other day and I smelled that smell. It ended up being vinegar (I actually can’t remember the details lolol).

Oh gross. Thanks for that association.

[Anonymous]

Is there a trick to operating the snap traps? I've watched a bunch of videos and even had the exterminator guys show me, but they still keep snapping either on my finger or before I have a chance to put them down.

[Anonymous]

Which poison do you use? Does it get rid of them permanently because they stop coming back, or do I have to leave poison out in the attic for the rest of my life?

[Anonymous]

Never been around mice so interesting if people can smell them.

I know you can smell weird smells in a pet store that sells mice though. Ugh!