A Mouse In The House

So I'm sitting here enjoying my insomnia & what do I hear but a tiny little "scritching" sound up in the wall by the closet. And I have 2 cats now sitting here doing a wonderful imitation of the Golden Retriever from the movie "Poltergiest".

Somehow emptying the closet wasn't on my weekend "to do" list.

lol, get ready........well, the cats should be able to sniff out the little fella.....

good luck!

I get a mouse in the house now and then, and they usually end up under the sink where I keep the dog food! I keep the dog food in a plastic tote now, but when I need to catch one in a trap I use a chunk of dog food as bait.

We've gotten two today with chocolate chips in the trap - pains me to do such a dastardly thing to fellow chocolate lovers, but a rodent is a rodent is a rodent.

Stan had been using peanut butter on the traps and he sat there one morning as he was getting ready for the barn and watched one of them very daintily eat all of the peanut butter off the trap without setting it off. He said it must have been a female, she was much to delicate an eater to be a male!

i have been there!! just the other nite sitting with my big mainecoone kitty listening to the gnaw and scratching of that lil mouse-so i tore open the closet door tossed in the cat and started digging---------------I found NO mouse and niether did my kitty!!! Did find a few things I had been looking for! lol

Those darn mice can keep ya up all night sometimes!! I got a couple of those sticky traps(going to let the cat see how its done)


LOL Kathleen a dainty eater!!!! LOL

notmartha......
My Maine coon kitty brought her OWN mouse inside! She had it in her mouth..and somehow hubby did not see it when he let her in. Of course..she dropped it when she got in..and it ran behind the refrigerator! She walked around for a bit..sniffing and looking..then gave up. Anyway.. I set a trap..and it was 3 days later before heard the snap...while we were eating supper! YUKKKKK!!! But at least we got it. I used peanut butter too.

My cat also brought in a couple mice from the patio...then let them loose and played with them. Course they got away and I had to kill them. One was behind the fridge...needed cleaning back there anyway.

Last winter there was a mouse sound a couple time in an interior wall. Kitty [Cynthia] would sit there all so rapt.

I hear all the time, about mice showing up right after someone's field is cleared. Welllllllllll, last weekend my field was cleared. LOL We left Saturday and came back Sunday as we use that time to work on the other house. My 6 year old headed down the hall and came back screaming. Score one for "Princess". She left the corpse in the hall. The day before, Liberty our new lab puppy brought us one after I took to the field on a riding mower. I think I saw 4-5 while mowing and accidentally ran one down. :( Better out there than in here.

ewwwwwww i got a mommy n 2 babies on the sticky trap! ewwww
dh will have to toss em! eeewwwwwwwww

I never use sticky traps. Consider that an unbelievably inhumane manner of pest control. Snap traps & even poison are kinder. I personally use a quick one-bite-kill poison - "Assault" - responsibly placed. This particular product also has a low to nil poisoning rate should an animal other than a rodent get a hold of it. I've been using it for years & will never use anything else in my house or barn.

i know i dont like it at all!!!! but im really sick of mouse crap in my utensil drawer -i just cleaned and sprayed the drawer and the next day there it was-crap again! so i had to get out the glue trap and poof they are gone! I use traps too but i have company coming this weekend and need a fast catch-those lil ones get the peanut butter and off they go without ever setting off a trap!

I really dont like mice much! ;)

Dori, take a cheerio and tie it to the trap, then put PB on the cheerio. Tie it where you would usually put the PB. When they pull on the cheerio to take it, the string springs the trap, and thye get caught and you yusually don't miss them after they steal the PB

Janis

I can't remember a fall when I've seen so many mice, in the house and everywhere in the storage buildings. I keep snap traps set all the time, put a sort of hard piece of cheese on first then spread pb on top. Works pretty good. Don't have a cat myself, but there are a couple of ferral cats and several hawks.

DonnaS

Years ago I had them in my attic. I couldn't figure out how they got up there and the night noises were maddening.
As a last resort I put a screen at the bottom of the gutter downspout, it worked, no more mice.
Andy P

I have found that a small piece of bacon to be sure fire "catch 'em quick" bait. It can be tied down to insure no thieving without setting off the spring. I sat and watched a *large* rat check out the peanut butter, look at me in disgust, and walk away from the trap - twice. I reloaded the trap with bacon, and five minutes later, that sucker was *gone*!

I recommend Quintox brand "poison". The active ingredient is the same vitamin D3 that is in your milk. In rodents and hares it stores calcium in the blood trigering a heart attack in 3-4 days. Unfortunately it is only available from pest supply companies.

You do have to be careful- some poisons they have to eat enough of it to work. We tried one and they just got sick and then got SMART. However at that point- I told my cat WORK or OUT -- he chose to work. Actually he is a grateful stray - and although we got him as a baby (8 weeks or so- no way to be sure), his instincts are all intact. THANK GOODNESS. I never has a problem until the house next door was vacant for a year and a half! We live in a twin so we share a common wall and hole-y basment cealing.

ALSO --my 2 cents -- check with a vet before you put out poison. If your kitty decided to "catch a slow one"... that was one reason I went to snap traps- NASTY and DH's job to clean up - but I was fearful of sickening my puddy-tat.

Heather

Our two Toms catch them and kill them
then bring it to me with a
" have you ever tasted one of these? phooy ! " look on there face
They also help me with my mailing .LOL

This morning my DH got up early to go to work and guess what he found in the kitchen? A mouse doing the backstroke in the dog's water bowl!! It had gotten in but it couldn't get out. Poor dog was going crazy!