mice Help

Can any one help me with mice I am over run with them indoors and outdoors any tips PLEASE

Get a cat!

Hi pulsara, there are several remedies to try indoors, there are humane traps that you lay out at night, add some chocolate small bits in the trap and in the morning, there are normally at least one mouse inside to take for a walk away from the house and let it go, there are the traps that are spring loaded that kill them instantly, messy and I hate them, but as desperate as you sound, might be a good idea, then there are poisons that you put down where you think they run, this kills them as they go back to their nest to die, but then what, I would hate to think a smell was caused by dead mice in my house, you can also call some companies who specialise in vermin clearing,the hard thing to accept is that we all get the odd one in winter as they come indoors for heat, but then they bread like lightening too. you could possibly phone your council etc for guidance too, it will be really hard to find their nest indoors as it could be a hundred places, but they can do extreme damage to clothes, food, bedding, anything they feel would make good bedding material. wish I could help you further, I am close to farmland and always have the odd field mouse indoors, but I also have a cat, a lazy cat by the way, but I wonder if just the smell of the cat helps send them packing. Good luck. Weenel.

Peanut butter on the spring loaded traps works well. ( I used to have pet mice and they LOVED peanut butter!) Another bad thing about the poison is if another animal finds the dead mouse and eats it, it eats the poison too, so that scares me! Some of the poison will work faster if they drink water, so if you go that route put water beside it and they should die on the spot..(or so my Mom tells me!) But my Fiance's mother used poison and killed a rat that rotted in their walls and it smelled Horrrrrrrible!!!!!!! One method that hasn't been mentioned is the bucket method...You fill a bucket 2/3 or so full of water ( just so they can't get out) and let a layer of sunflower seeds float on the top, you have a ramp that goes to the top of the bucket and they jump in thinking they found a mountain of food and drown. I personally couldn't do that!! but I also haven't been over ridden with mice so I haven't been that desperate....We even find dead mice in our horses water buckets sometimes..poor things! I don't tend to have a problem with mice since I have 5 cats. 4 are mousers, and 1 will just sit there and stare at it like "well isn't anyone going to get this thing??" lol, but they keep them out of the house! Here's a site that has lots of info...

http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/pest-control/how-to-get-rid-of-mice/

and another bucket type trap..

http://asktrapperjohn.com/topics/bucketmouse.htm

Good Luck. =)

I lived in Cali and was over run by fruit rats. We had orange trees in the yard, as did the neighbors, and they ate holes in then dropped half eaten fruit everywhere. When we had an addition put on our house, they got in and my nightmare really started. I couldn't do poison as my dogs caught the rats occasionally and poisoned rat would poison my dogs. I hated the snappy traps after a bad experience with one that only half worked. We found a rat zapper (they also have mice zappers) at the local HD or Lowes, can't remember which. It's a little box that you put peanut butter or some bait in the back end of it and turn it on. Little green light tells you it's on. Rat goes in and as soon as he touches the peanut butter, which is on the metal backing, as he's standing on the metal floor, he's electrocuted instantly and green light starts flashing so you know you have one. I never had one half die, chew off a paw to get out, or any other nasty things that happen with a snappy trap. Nor did it suffer. They died instantly as I watched quite a few get zapped. We had opossum's also and one tried in vain to get the peanut butter out of that trap and couldn't get to it and never got zapped so I didn't worry about any other animal getting hurt/killed by it. I'd get a bag, tip box over into bag, out would slide dead rat, turn unit back on and it was reset. Easy cleanup and reset. We put one on the fence by the orange tree and caught 12 in an hour one night. We put 3 or 4 in the house and my rat problems went away.