Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got cats.

I got a cat, and after years of mouse issues, he quickly caught them all and there's no sign of any more. How do the mice know?!!!

I think mice smell the cat urine and stay away. We had zero mice until after our cat died. I then understood why she would sit around staring at the walls. lol I suspect she'd hear them.

Eventually, we had professionals come plug up the holes and the problem was gone. Years later, we got a new cat.

We got a rat zapper after reading one of the previous threads here. It worked wonderfully, and quickly.

Anonymous wrote:We have so many traps with peanut butter set, but I swear our mice know where they are and avoid them! They even leave droppings right next to the traps to drive us especially bonkers. We are interested in trying poison, but with a 1-year-old in the house, that seems risky. Anyone with experience with that? If we get an exterminator and then go out of town for a long weekend, would it be safe to be back in the house?

If there are droppings right next to the traps, then you have put too much peanut butter on the traps, or you haven't set the traps sensitive enough.

Terminix - they were excellent and it’s part of their regular service so no extra cost if you already use them for termites

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think plugging the holes is bullsh!t. There will always be more holes you can’t see, especially in the kitchen behind the cabinets.

Put duct seal around the whole cabinet then f it.

LOL. As if.

Anonymous wrote:I hired an exterminator who uses snap traps. He plugged every hole he could find, set the traps, and then came and checked them weekly and dealt the corpse disposal and trap resetting. We went from Mouseapalooza to occasional mice.

Same here. We went away for a two week vacation in the summer and came back to horror.

Professional used snaps came twice a week for first two weeks then weekly. Now I put poison along the jousts of my basement ceiling. I find 3-4 dead mice a year right along the wall line so I know my poison barrier works.

Anonymous wrote:We have so many traps with peanut butter set, but I swear our mice know where they are and avoid them! They even leave droppings right next to the traps to drive us especially bonkers. We are interested in trying poison, but with a 1-year-old in the house, that seems risky. Anyone with experience with that? If we get an exterminator and then go out of town for a long weekend, would it be safe to be back in the house?

I put the poison behind the fridge and behind the stove.

We have so many traps with peanut butter set, but I swear our mice know where they are and avoid them! They even leave droppings right next to the traps to drive us especially bonkers. We are interested in trying poison, but with a 1-year-old in the house, that seems risky. Anyone with experience with that? If we get an exterminator and then go out of town for a long weekend, would it be safe to be back in the house?

We bought snap traps in bulk. Set a dozen or so the first evening after dinner. Key is a tiny tiny tiny amount of peanut butter as bait. We set them everywhere we had seen dropping and along the baseboards near dropping areas. We checked them all before we went to bed and disposed of three mice, and reset more traps in those areas. Lots of mice caught that first night. Disposed and reset the next couple weeks. Adding additional traps in the areas where we were catching them.

We caught 50 ish mice in the first week, and the numbers caught dropped to one a night at most. Than none with no new droppings. We keep two traps set now all the time in the two spots where we caught the most and check them periodically. Every fall as it gets cold we catch one or two again. But we then go on a major offensive of traps again and it is 1 or 2, not 50.

+1 for Adcocks Trapping, they were fast and affordable!

Put snap traps all around the baseboards in the rooms you’ve seen droppings. Bait with peanut butter and put on a large piece of cardboard so you don’t have to touch the trap to dispose of dead mouse.
Keep doing it nightly until no more droppings.

Please don’t use glue traps or poison.
Don’t waste money on an exterminator.

Adcocks Trapping

Get those sonic silent noisemakers. They won’t stop mice from coming, I’ve recently learned, but they will stop them from taking up permanent residence. You still have to plug the holes

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My cats are totally useless slackers. Tempted to try out the baby monitor idea.

You have to make sure your cat is a good mouser. We adopted a stray. She came off the streets pregnant and had definitely seen some things! She catches mice now before we even know we have them. And only 2-3 a year so I think her scent is keeping most of them at bay.

It’s 5 am I want to laugh so bad 🤣🤣🤣

Anonymous wrote:I think plugging the holes is bullsh!t. There will always be more holes you can’t see, especially in the kitchen behind the cabinets.

Put duct seal around the whole cabinet then f it.