unbelievable!!!`

I have my plants in my garage/greenhouse, all down one side of the garage is windows and hubby set up some temporary florescent lights also, anyway, i've been planting seeds in seed trays and have them on this one shelf with this light over them, every morn I go out and check and there's holes in the dirt, seeds dug up but not eaten, just dug up, I have a mouse or more than one, their digging up the seeds but not eating them thank goodness, wonder what their looking for. I put out mouse poison and told all to keep the cats out of the garage/greenhouse till I rid myself of the mice, couldn't believe it, what are they after?

kathy_ann

Could I borrow one? I think I covered some seeds that were supposed to need light to germinate.

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you want a mouse? ha!come and get all you want. he he

I think their all sick now with the poison i've put around.

kathy

I'd be curious if they are digging up your seeds and planting their own...

ahh yes I know about mice! In fact on my back porch there is a crack right beside the door which leads to the crawlspace. They come up from the basement and run around on the back porch during the night. Well I thought I'd get smart and set me a small trap right close to the crack, so that when they come thru they would get caught in the trap. I baited the trap with canned dog food hoping they would get caught. Well after getting up several days in a row and finding they had eatten all the food off the trap, I got smart! I took some glue and glued about 3 pieces of dry cat food on the bait holder. Sure nuff the very first night I caught one! Then I reset it, and by the next morning I had caught another one! Sooo if you have problems with the tiny mice stealing the bait from the traps, GLUE it on there! It worked for me!!
That way you don't have to worry about the poison being out around your kitties.

Now if I ever have mice again Im gonnna have to try that, I alwyas used peanut butter smooshed into the bait holder

O honey I used peanut butter too, but being as it was outside in the cold it got hard like and they pulled it off in chunks. Now that I think about it, I bet you could take a small amount of peanut butter and mix it with glue and put it on the bait holder and let it dry. Bet that would work too!
Me and my trusty Elmer's Glue will get rid of these meeces LOL

molly aren't you the smart one, glueing the catfood LOL

I like that idea

kathy

Kathy, maybe you should give it a try. Never know what kind of little critter is diggin up your seeds. My guess would be a mouse.
Now it makes me wonder what exactly it is that is doing the digging?? Hmmmm if ya see it or figure it out....let us know.

Mollybee I swear!

You should get the tip of the year prize for that one ;>D

Great technique, little SOM's have been licking the peanut butter off. I will try glueing a morsel to the trigger. Thanks. Frank. (Sons Of Meeces)

i had a darn mouse eat a hole in the bottom of my cactus after he had dug in other house plants!!! grrrrrrr
i cant wait to get my kitten!!!!!!!

LOL at you Vi !

Caught another one not too long ago. So that makes 3 in 2 days. Funny thing is, all 3 of them were caught using the same morsels of food. I haven't even had to reglue any on yet. LOL

Thanks Frank. Let me know if it works.

Dori, are you getting a "kitten" or a cat? if you're gettin a baby kitten....your plants might all be gone by the time the kittens old enough to catch them. Better bait up that old trap :)

Molly, your mice are cheap to keep where they are all using one morsel of food. I usually just buy the glue traps here for our mice. They work great for us. Catch black widow spiders pretty well too. lol

LOL Pond!
Glue traps around here wouldn't last no time. With 3 boys and 2 puppies and a cat.....somebody would have it stuck to the bottom of their paw or shoe!

And Molly, you can reuse the same cat food over and over again. :) no rebaiting?

Just as an off the wall? I found a great use for a mouse. Really.

Middle daughter has a shoe fetish, 67 pair and counting. Naturally they are not stored in her room, but all over the house which is a pet pieve of mine. Size 9s with a 4" wooden heel is NOT my idea of a fun thing to trip over in the dark!

DH walked into the kitchen the other day and stopped dead in his tracks so as not to startle Pixie and Dixie on the floor. He called for a shoe, and one of her clodhoppers was closest. He has good aim and better reflexes, so we are now short one mouse.

But when I told my daughter that I had found a use for her shoes, and she didn't have to pick them up? Now there is not one single shoe to be seen anywhere!!!

Revenge on your kids is SOOOOO sweet!

Oh, good one!!

Terre_ I am foflmbo. Sweet revenge is yours! I hope she keeps it up till she leaves home.

Misty, yep I sure can. Thats one good thing about it. 3 little pieces of kitty food as apose to 1/2 jar of peanut butter!
Sounds pretty thrifty huh?!!


ROFLOL Terry! That is toooo funny! Hmmmm wondering how I can use that for my own kids?? Actually my boys are almost as bad, except they claim that they "need" to leave their school shoes in the living room so they don't get lost in their room.....so therefore there are at least 3 pair of shoes in the corner of the living room at all times. Hmmm you got me thinking now!!

hhmmmm maybe I need to get some mice.

Molly I never even considered that peanut butter would freeze, duh.

Terre that is too cool, I wonder if it would work with bookbags. The coats laying around would be good. Jessie, Danny! Im using your coats as mouse traps, sorry they were just sitting so close.

ahhh yes my Jessy has a thing about coats. He has more coats than anyone in the family(I guess because he's the youngest, and gets all the hand me downs) But he has soo many coats and book bags its unreal !! I never know which one he is going to be using eaither. He changes bookbags more than some folks change their socks! Wears a different coat just about everyday too. And yep you guessed it... all that stuff gets piled up in the corner of the living room and when I say come get everything that belongs to you....they say O but I'm gonna wear or use that tomorrow! Arrrrrggg
I think I'm gonna tell them the mice made a nest in their bookbags and I had to throw it away! LOL I gotta do something to get my living room back!
That corner of the living room looks more like their bedroom!!

I don't think it will work with boys as well. Part of what worked with my dd was the graphic description of the squish and gore I gave her!

Which is hilarious, considering she works in the ER of the busiest trauma hospital in Denver! Doesnt like mouse gore maybe?

ponditis i've been looking for glue traps for a while now for the house, we have an infestation of brown recluse spiders here, it's all over arkansas, but it's ferosious here in the house and the shop. their huge , terminex came out for a while, and would set out those glue traps, I showed him one once, counted about 25 brown recluse spiders in there and most were still alive but just stuck. I want some more real bad, where did you get those? I can't find any.

fortunately we've never been bit, but when we dig out the blanket s from the hall closet I always check them over real well before using them, and we're gonna run out of luck sooner or later, terminex can't kill them unless it's on contact.

not to change the subject from meeces to spiders. LOL apparently my mice have been poisoned cause their not digging any more. I don't smell any dead things yet in my garage I hope I don't LOL

kathy

Kathy, I find them in the grocery section of Walmart where they sell the bug sprays. They have them for spiders and for mice but I find the mouse ones catch more spiders. I wonder if the spiders just want more room in their house than the spider traps give them? lol

Yea I've seen those. In fact I bought some too at Wal-Mart. I think I got mine from the dept where they have all kinds of cleaners and insect sprays.
I put one of those in the attic one time thinking that I had a tiny mouse.....needless to say I haven't seen that sticky trap since then!! So I guess my mouse turned out to be a rat! He must have been so big that he carried the trap and all back to his nest! LOL

Let us know if you don't find the traps, maybe one of us can send you some for postage.

I'll check the next time I go to wallyworld, which will be tomorrow, beings it's the only place to shop in good ol searcy arkansas, and I'm not kiddin either.

Is this the kind of thing you're needing? http://www.bugsaway.com/glueboard.htm

I f;ound some sticky traps today at walmart put them around the house, we'll see if I catch those spiders now

kathy

When my first DH and I were living in an old house with small children and their cat, we had a terrible mouse infestation. I used some of those sticky traps in the cupboard under the kitchen sink. One day I came into the kitchen to find the kid's cat frantically rolling around on the floor with his paw stuck up under the cupboard door and the door partially open. (The cat was in the way so the door couldn't open all the way.)

I grabbed hold of the cat, put my foot up against the cupboard door and told the kids to go out to the shop and get their dad. He came in and helped me get the cat, the trap and the mouse all out from underneath the cupboard door, and by the time we had freed the cat and threw the mouse and trap away, I was scratched and bloody. (We DID keep the cat).

I've never used them since, but I think they work great. I just can't make myself deal with them anymore. :)

Funny story JoanJ. I have used peanut butter on traps but I put a gob of it under the bait tray, that way they stick their noses under the tray and spring the trap. I have even caught 2 at a time that way and have a picture to prove it. Also a very clever idea to glue the dry food to the tray, if it works don't fix it.

:) Joan!
I had a something like that happen as well. We keep our 50# bag of dry dog food in the Laundry room and needless to say the mice find it every time!
I thought I'd try one of the same types of sticky traps in there so I could catch the mice before they found the dog food. We had a cat at the time and so I thought well I'll cap a laundry basket down over the trap so that the cat wont get in it or whoever goes out there to get dog food to feed the dog with...well, needless to say the basket got moved!! Yep the cat found it as well! Must have been that sweet smell of the glue. I had actually forgotton about it. Then I noticed that our cat had this bald spot on his back leg??? He is a total inside cat...so I was puzzled. Then when I went out to feed the dog I noticed that the glue trap was gone. Still not putting 2 and 2 together I went looking behind all the junk in the laundry room only to find the trap full of gray hair!
My first thought was my gosh that must have been a HUGE rat to have gotton off the trap and left most of his hair in the glue! Then it dawned on me!!! The cat had had a run in with the glue trap and the glue trap got the better of him! LOL Took awhile but he did grow all his hair back.