how do you get rid of mice in your house?

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i dont have loads (or at least it seems i dont, i hope i dont) but came across one the other night and have found another last night
bought some plug in things that apparently emit frequencies to warn them off - hopefully this will work
also got rentokil but this hasnt worked so far - maybe im not putting it in the right places, but does anyone know a better way of getting rid of these horrible rodents?
im having trouble sleeping thinking they might be rummaging around my floor while im asleep
i hate mice, i really do
perhaps im making too big a deal of them though, i dunno
but help me exterminate these things please

― hmmmhmmmmmmmmm, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Do you rent? Call your landlord and have them call an exterminator. None of the sticky traps work (although the freq thing seemed to keep out of the one room it was in, they just went to other rooms AFAICT.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

The fucking traps you see on fucking Tom and Jerry.
Fill entry holes in walls/floors (cables, pipes, etc.) with plaster, copper wool or spray foam insulation.
The end.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Get a cat. The old methods are the best.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

You don't need an exterminator for a small mice problem. Just a willingness to clean this up:
http://mikuna.image.pbase.com/u/spider/small/85450.DSCN1119.jpg

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Snap their cute widdle necks, duh. (xposts)

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Depends on how humane you want to be, I think. I think sticky traps are cruel. Poison seems to be a good option, although I'm having second thoughts about it b/c if the mice run outside & another animal eats them for dinner . . . .

Anyway, humane mouse traps can work if baited well, if you have patience & if you don't have baby mice. The baby mice can slip in & out of the trap quite easily.

All that said, this honestly seems like a good option:

http://www.canadiancontent.net/en/jd/go?Url=http://members.ispwest.com/patrussell/mousetrap/Mousetrap.htm

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I have a mice problem as well. They're too cute to kill.

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm not paying for traps. I PAY RENT.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Humane traps are for pussies.

xpost. fucking bill your landlord.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

they aren't.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I've named mine (I'm assuming it's just the one) Penne. He's my pet now.

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

fucking bill your landlord.

Wait, you fuck your landlord, Bill, to get rid of mice? He should do that for free.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

i havent seem them close enough to see if theyre cute but the thought of mice fills me with dread
i have nightmares of them imagining there is some food up my leg and desperately going in search of it
i need to get rid of them
xxxpost - i rent, yeah, landlady is away right now though so will have to wait a few weeks til i get an exterminator
my flatmate said she would try calling the council though to see what they can do (they will prob be shit though)
i hate the idea of my flat having mice though
i hope not too many more are going to come out of the woodwork (literally)

― hmmmhmmhmhmm, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

"xpost. fucking bill your landlord."

Why should I do that when I can just get him to buy and SET the traps?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

ive been using the good old 50 cent traps. so far I killed one and had the bait stolen from two. now im using peanut butter though, which is harder to up and run away with.

Dude, there's NO WAY i'm getting Heineken for a mouse when I'm drinking Red Dog.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

those little spring traps are cheap enough

and it's so satisfying to hear them snap!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

ok i might have to get the traps
thought the rentokil palletes with toxic granules inside might lure them in but doesnt look like it
argh must stop looking at the floor in search of mice in paranoid fashion

― hmmmhmhmhmhm, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

You can get old school snap traps really cheaply at a hardware store or something. Behold their efficacy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/laurae55/mousey.jpg

Notice Jon's spray foam as mentioned above. Seal everything up so the mice are in or out. Then kill all the ones that are in. I recommend peanut butter.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Why should I do that when I can just get him to buy and SET the traps?

because you can set them up NOW

xpost

That reminds me, I need to cut down the spray foam.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

the thing with traps though is that they dont kill the nest do they? what if theres more mice in hiding?!

― hmmmhmhmhmhm, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

OK. I don't really mind it though. It looks like the Staypuff Marshmallow Man is expanding wildly in the apartment below and seeping through the gaps.
xpost

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

the thing with traps though is that they dont kill the nest do they? what if theres more mice in hiding?!

Umm, you kill them too? That's why the sealing is important, so that you're dealing with a relatively finite enemy. It's not like they're cockroaches.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

"because you can set them up NOW"

What kind of lazy ass landlords do you guys have?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

every extra night spent with mice in the house is another night of shitty sleep. sleep is important.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah, sealing holes is important.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

what the hell!!! They're not rats! Poor mice.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

totally

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Anything that comes into my house uninvited is fair game. This includes bugs, mice, rats, and cops.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

i recommend a basketful of kittens.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Why are rats ok and not mice? I know quite a few people who have had and loved pet rats. Nobody likes to kill cute things, but one's perspective becomes a little more pragmatic when one's home is overrun with vermin.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Because mice are so tiny.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm not saying it's rational. Though OTOH I wouldn't personally do some kind of violent mouse trap on a rat either, it's too gross.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

am i paranoid not being able to sleep with mice around? my flatmate seems to have no problem sleeping knowing there are or might be mice in the flat

― hmhmhmhmhm, Friday, 11 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Laura: because rats have ringed, hairless tails where mouse tails are tiny and soft and un-gross. Also, I know from "Lady and the Tramp" that rats are vile, malicious creatures with glowing red eyes who sneak into nurseries and bite babies out of sheer spite.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

do you eat in bed?

xpost

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

no, hmhmhmhmhmhm, you're not.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Mice are more scared of you than you are of them.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

still, if you're still in your sleep they WILL crawl on you.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

They are sexy like that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

mice be frisky

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

The mouse upthread weighed as much as a pear.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I think sticky traps are cruel.

To both mouse and man. We used a couple of these earlier this year in the kitchen. And they worked -- but "working" in this case means they caught the mouse in the glue and the mouse couldn't move but was still very much alive and completely panicked. I guess if you use these in the attic or somewhere out of sight, you can pretend the critters aren't either starving to death or tearing themselves to pieces trying to get away, but it's not something you want to watch in the kitchen. So in both cases I had to club the little things over the head, which is not a completely pleasant experience (plus it's hard to club something on a sticky trap without getting the clubbing implement itself glued to the trap).

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

"still, if you're still in your sleep they WILL crawl on you."

it was very cruel to type this

i dont eat in bed, not any more anyway
i dont even leave food out anymore either
although the side effect of this is that i have to be extra careful and on my toes all the time about leaving food or crumbs or whatever which is annoying

― hmmmmmmhmhmhm, Friday, 11 November 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Mice.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

i saw a mouse...........and other hallucinations
My roommate and I just spent an hour and a half trying to catch a mouse
what can you do a mouse is in your house?
A mouse in the house
MICE!
I saw a mouse
Killing mice

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

ILXors have a lot of mice.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Kill them. Kill them all.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

ILXors have a lot of mice.
It certainly seems so. There's no better example of the futility of giving advice on this board. HOW many people upthread have suggested poison? I use poison and I HAVE NO MICE. Until the next wave, then I get a different kind of poison. Just to keep from breeding SUPERMICE. Sticky traps are gross, and they and the snap-traps just kill isolated stupid greedy mice. Poison wipes out their entire civilization!
NOW GO FORTH AND KILL, MY CHILDREN!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

seriously, what sort of poison, where do you get it from, where do you put it? etc etc etc
many many thanks in advance

― hmmmhmhmhmhm, Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

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Use peanut butter! Just a tiny dab.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 26 August 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

i used ORGANIC peanutbutter and it didnt go for it. need to get the sugary stuff methinks.

― grady (grady), Saturday, 26 August 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

last night 4 baby mice came out to play by the fireplace after we'd cleaned up - they'd been eating into a hackysack filled with whatever those are filled with. hoovered all that up, leaving them wondering where the food stash was. could be as many as 10 in total. mass 'eviction' to follow.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 26 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I did. I got the smallest jar of creamy Skippy I could find.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 26 August 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

You need to make some special D-Con hackysacks.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

I got the smallest jar of creamy Skippy I could find.

Choosy vermin choose Jif.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I just ridded my apartment of the little bastard that has been raising hell for the last two months. this rat/mouse would gilde over glue traps, and eat the bait off snap traps with the greatest of ease. In the end, however, he met his fate:

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1850/objects/largejpgs/skillet.jpg

It took about three swings as he was crawling accross the counter. all cartoon-like. I couldn't stop shaking after doing the deed.

We are now vermin free.

― researching ur life (grady), Sunday, 8 October 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

the electonic plug-in i installed has worked perfectly in driving away the mice 'humanely' (by emitting a noise so high-pitched it bothers them but not us or nearby dogs).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

ive had limited success with the electronic one i got, how long did it take to work?

― -- (688), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

only a few days. we did combine it with some trays of poison elsewhere, but they didn't seem to be working on their own so i attribute the success to the gadget. i've seen one mouse since in our kitchen which is fairly distant from the electronic device (in our bedroom) and it's been fitted for about 4-6 weeks now.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

have you tried chasing them out with a broom?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

We had a sudden mouse problem in our flat about 2 weeks ago. We bought 4 (real) traps, used crunchy-nut cornflakes as bait. Between 3:30am on Saturday last week, and the Monday night when I got back from work we caught 5 mice. Haven't seen another one since, the bait remains on the traps. I'd say they operate with pretty decent success based on our results.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

good shot, grady!!!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

there have been some mice in our building (a neighbor told me they got into her apartment, and i think i've heard some squeaking down in the parking garage at night). supposedly they came up from under the street when the city was doing sewer maintenance on the next block. i have traps out, but i don't have much faith in them.

― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

It was EXACTLY like that scene in Pulp Fiction where Bruce Willis gets free in the pawn shop and he looks at each weapon for a split second until his eyes finally fall on the Samurai sword on the top shelf. The little bastard was clibing down from a shelf on to the counter and my eyes went to a few other cookware items until looked up at the heavy iron skillet that we never use sitting on the top shelf. It would not the first time I chased him around the apartment with something meant for preparing food, but as I got up on my tippy-toes and wrapped my finger around its handle, I knew it would be the last.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds horribly messy, but good effort!

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Monday, 9 October 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

The next half hour was spent sanatizing the area, needless to say.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 9 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Watch out, they're getting smarter!

http://www.webpark.ru/uploads34/09_podborka_87.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 9 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

AND CUETER.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 9 October 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

So what's the verdict on the supersonic/electromagnetic thingies you use to drive them out? I'm getting this but I'm concerned it might cock up my homeplug network thing.
The electric shock one looks pretty cool, that's next on my list if this one doesn't work.

I don't give a stuff about killing them humanely or not, I just don't want rotting mouse corpses fragrancing my home; and also if this thing works (I'm dubious, it looks like witchcraft) it should stop other mice nesting.

I live in a very old flat and blocking up all holes etc is out of the question. I've only seen the little bastard once and he scared the living shit out of me. Since then I've notice droppings (GROSS) and using a clever trick I learned from comedian Russell Howard, scattered flour on the floor near where I saw it that time. Next morning there were tiny pawprints around the edge of the flour. However I can see myself getting obsessive over this and ending up living in a house permanently carpetted with flour...

― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 13 May 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

colette's method sounds brilliant and it appears to be very effective, judging by comments:

http://chrisglass.com/journal/images/2005/0920-mouse.jpg
http://chrisglass.com/journal/images/2005/0920-mouse2.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

probably been addressed but local councils have a guy, i think, who comes round to do the killing.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

I moved to a house that doesn't contain mices! Win!

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:29 (eighteen years ago)

How to rid flat of flies? They went away over the weekend but I think that was just that generation dying off. There were 2 smaller ones in the kitchen this morning so I expect there are maggots somewhere that will result in another Amityville Horror situation in a couple of days :(

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

So what's the verdict on the supersonic/electromagnetic thingies you use to drive them out?

I've had a mouse for at least six months. First time I noticed was just before Christmas when I left a bag of rubbish near the door overnight, and woke up to hear something inside it. I screamed a bit and in a panic opened the door and just booted the bag outside.

Then I didn't see anything for a few weeks and got blase until I left a rubbish bag on the floor once more and the mouse got into it again. This time I just started throwing coins at the bag and I saw it run out of the bag and somewhere into my flat.

I don't see droppings anywhere and it doesn't get into food in cupboards or on the kitchen tops. But sometimes I wake up at 5 am to hear it moving across my floor (or it might just be in the walls or something). So I sleep with the light on and take my keys to bed & when I hear it I jangle them furiously and it shuts up for a while. It is crazy.

So about two weeks ago I bought one of those supersonic gadgets, despite intensive internet research indicating that they absolutely do not work. I haven't heard the mouse since then, although to be honest this may be because I've been drunk most of the time and I don't wake too easily then. (A few days ago I came home drunk and put a pizza in the oven, fell asleep, and next thing I know I'm outside surrounded by neighbours and firemen who had actually had to knock down my front door when the smoke alarm went off... and if none of this woke me then nor, I think, would a tiny little mouse.)

But I was away over the weekend just now, so I left the supersonic repeller on and also put a peanut on the floor nearby. I came home half an hour ago and the nut is gone. That's science for you. Dunno what I'll do now.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

OMG that supersonic thing repels peanuts!

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Your search - "peanut repeller" - did not match any documents.

:-(

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

A friend of mine used to have one of those things and I COULD HEAR IT when I stood near it - it drove me absolutely insane, like I was in Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan or something.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Well I can't hear the supersonic noise. I tried recording it & then pitch-shifting it down to get an idea of what it sounded like, but it seemed to be out of my mic's range too. Then I got paranoid, cos how would you know if you'd bought a faulty one that made no sound?

What I can hear though is the little click it makes every five seconds (supposedly when it changes frequency). This is hardly noticeable in the daytime, but for the first couple of nights I'd wake up in a panic thinking it was the mouse itself.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Words cannot do justice to the sheer insane-making abilities that thing had on me. It was like a knife inside my head, trying to get out. I'm surprised that torturers have not simply thrown away all their expensive and cumbersome equipment and just replaced it with a battery-powered Mouse-B-Gone or whatever.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

i bet eyeball jinks's meeses would enjoy some reese's pieces.

― estela, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

They just had the Tracer-B-Gone model. (xpost)

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

It's barbaric, but in my experience the only thing that worked was glue traps. When we tried more humane methods, the mice just seemed to laugh and say 'ha ha you're not fooling us with that old one'.

Glue traps give the mouse a slow, gruesome, terrified death, but from the human's point of view they're easy enough to get rid of, and so much less gory than Tom and Jerry style traditional ones. And, as I say, they actually work.

― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Don't they, like, peep loudly ( ... --- ... ) while they're stuck on there?

― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

Listen to some loud music... Getting rid of vermin is a nasty business

― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

so is it true the lil dudes hate cloves?

― blueski, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

do mice die outside? i caught one today and chucked it out. just wondering if it will die.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 14 November 2008 14:26 (seventeen years ago)

We've got them in the office! Well, one at least! He/she comes out every evening, after 6pm when hardly anyone's left in the office.

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 14 November 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

lol, at my old apartment my lol-goth-phase-roommate was freaking out about mice and laying all kinds of traps, and this guy that just moved in was secretly (AND VERY CAUTIOUSLY) removing the cheese and peanut butter from them to get him all worked up, it was great. Even though it's not actually true I kinda wish I still lived there.

― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Friday, 14 November 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

at least they don't have wings. i once walked into our bedroom and found a bat fluttering about. the fun part was that my daughter -only a few months old at the time- was napping in the room. the bat's flight itinerary brought him within inches of her nose several times. good thing about that sonar.

― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 14 November 2008 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

Man I love bats. Every summer, growing up, we'd watch 4th of July fireworks from our roof while being divebombed by the countless bats intercepting mosquitoes all around us, it was great.

No, but mice, they're easy, just set traps. If the one you let go lived, it'll come back, and there will be a trap. Every time you catch one, set another, and eventually you'll have one final inactive trap sitting for over a month and you can just toss it. It's not a tough problem.

― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Friday, 14 November 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

We got one of those supersonic noise thingies and it worked fine. I could hear it when I first turned it on but it soon went out of my hearing range, and it doesn't seem to bother our cats. But we haven't seen a single mouse since then.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 14 November 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

Can dogs hear 'em?

― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Friday, 14 November 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

Probably not if cats can't although I am not an authority on dogs' hearing ranges.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 14 November 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Trying to work out what to do about this problem. myself. Tried bunging peppermint oiled cotton balls around the place last night. But found a mouse in a cupboard I'd put one in this morning.
Had really hoped that would work, had one squeaking loudly over last few days so I'm worried how many there are.
Had laid poison some months ago and found 2 dead and hoped that might be it at the time.
But also getting really musky smell from back of the shelving unit a couple of feet to the left of my computer set up. Behind printer etc. and been sneeezing heavily/coughing to a point where I'm near choking so worried taht they're having drastic effect on my health.

― Stevolende, Saturday, 29 September 2012 11:51 (thirteen years ago)

Best advice I had was to make sure there's nothing for them to eat and they'll bugger off. You have to really strict not to leave anything out: put the trash out everyday, no food accessible, plates washed up etc

― Bob Six, Saturday, 29 September 2012 13:32 (thirteen years ago)

if you have to kill them, I've had a lot of success with the battery-powered traps that shock them. it's an instant death.

― gyac, Saturday, 29 September 2012 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

Having zero food for them to eat is the best way.

Live capture traps can work. I've caught plenty in the past with tip-up traps baited with peanuts or peanut butter.

One silly, but reasonably effective, way to catch them is by putting a piece of wood next to a steep-sided bucket with bait at the bottom. They run up the ramp, jump into the bucket and can't get out again. They're easy to release as well.

― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 29 September 2012 18:55 (thirteen years ago)

I'm terrified of mouse traps. Siberian Husky is ruthless at killing them, better than the cat, who can't be bothered half the time.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Saturday, 29 September 2012 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

I achieved a mouse-free household by using glue traps baited with chocolate, followed up with a swift hammering once they were stuck. Not very pleasant, foe me or them.

― Eno's got a new generative music app out for the iPad (Matt #2), Saturday, 29 September 2012 22:44 (thirteen years ago)

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