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Well some of you may recall the sensation of me finding traps and toy mouse when I replaced my appliances. Also my relief of not finding anything that indicated there were any current squatters.
WRONG! Today I heard something by my backdoor where I have been storing folded boxes and some dog biscuits. Then I saw the droppings....on one of my plastic containers so I know that wasn't from before I moved in. They/it must be a new resident as I haven't detected any of the usual tell tale smell (the one other time I had this problem I could smell it long before finding any droppings).
Boy can my old car go when I need it to. Straight to HD which was still open and I came home with a couple of those sonic things. One for the house and one for the garage and I may go and get another for the basement. I hope to hear something dragging it's bags out the door. Those things better work. So far the dog isn't bothered so that's good, but I don't want to be finding any more of that dropping stuff around or it'll mean going for the poison.
HD guy told me a lot of people have come in the last week for mouse stuff. Must be a sign of fall coming.
Guess I have to clean that area right out and be more careful with the dog treats and any other crumbs I normally don't worry too much about.
FYI, I noticed HD is selling a garden spike that is that sonic thing too, solar powered, and rated to keep squirrels away.
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There is no mice free area. I've learned mice are everywhere, new and old houses, inner city or country, it doesn't matter. When I lived in a brand new subdivision the guy next door left a box out on his lot all winter and in the spring he lifted it....hundreds (it seemed like) of mice came running out from under there. I used to hate mowing as I'd see them scampering and every once in a while you could see their little eyes at night in the grass. I can tell you I blocked up any hole I found really fast there and never did find any evidence they got in.
Oh hey... I'm just watching the midday news and they are talking about storing your RV over the winter and he just held up a box of Bounce and said to leave the sheets out to keep mice out.
yea funny thing is out here in the country...i have none in the house...that was in the burbs in a subdivision...LOL
jenjen...
You are freaking me out with the "mice" issue and country living....oh crap....I hope I don't have that bad of a problem...the people living in the house now said they only saw a few mice in the almost 3 years they lived there....the inspector saw some mouse or bat droppings in the attic but said that there wasn't enough to call it an "infestation"......I am buying a BIG BOX OF BOUNCE and those sonic radars for every room in the house....................
P.S My girlfriend had moved into a brand new house and she had mice coming in under her sink within the first 2 months of living there...she said she trapped almost a dozen before she called for backup help......it took a year to truly rid herself of them............
i called a pest control company too...and that's why i decided to take matters into my own hands...it was something like $400...they come in...look around...tell you where they ''might'' be coming in...set up traps and glue paper...and then they leave...they only guarantee it all for 6 months...which after the 6 months...you guessed it...another $400...so i did the traps...and the glue paper...i also did the poison...they poison that looks like sawdust...doesn't work...the lil buggers become immune to it...you need Warafin..or something like that...the lil green pellets...those dehydrate them and then when they're in the walls or whatever looking for water they die...and are supposed to disenigrate...i once left a whole box unopened in my garage and they ate it all...my experience with glue paper was a treat...i had one in my pantry floor...everything in my pantry had to be in a plastic container...and the containers had to be cleaned once a week cuz of thier droppings...so i layed out the glue paper and a trap with cheese for good measure..keep in mind catching these mice turned out to be a full time job...that's how bad i had it there...but i layed the trap with cheese and glue paper...well he triggered the trap but didn't get caught...but when i looked at the glue paper...the cheese was there...but you know what else was there?....one of his legs!!...yep the lil bugger got stuck to the glue paper but somehow freed himself sans a leg...LOL...then a couple of days later i caught the 3 legged POS in a trap...i also had a cat that would watch them run past her...yea alot of help she was.....LOL
I will definately buy a big box of bounce.....my new "old" house in the country will probably have many visitors including mice................yikes.... sorry all my post this morning are about my new "old" house......okay I will zip it now................................... :D
I'll go look at the list.
DBD - I'm not to hopeful this will work but I have an old email that said to spread Bounce dryer sheets around. I'm going to post the whole list of ideas in another thread. It's idea #3 and it couldn't hurt and it might help if you put the dryer sheets on your furniture in the garagel If nothing else you'll have a whole lot of drier sheets ready to use with the next laundry.
and moles and chipmunks. :eek: We have a dirt crawl space, and I think there are some gaps in the floor boards beneath the kitchen cabinets. Last week I was sitting on the PC when I heard the most aweful squeal, my cat was torturing a little mole in my kitchen :hurl: :hurl: I just can't stomach dead things :cry:
We have one of those sonic things and it works great (when I actually plug it in :p ) I plug it in close to where we get the most activity, by the dogs dish in the kitchen. Last year we had a family of mice, before we got the cats, and the beggers can fit through the slots in the heat registers! I'll get more of the sonic things if they find another way in :D
How about poison? I know that works. Last time I used poison and I found a dead one right in my bedroom which totally freaked me out (the pest control type told me they would go into the wall or outside and die...wrong). At the time, the poison I used was safe for pets which I noticed the ones in HD are not.
I finally read the website for the ultrasonic things I bought and they say the sound won't go through walls or furniture so that isn't very useful (too bad that wasn't on the package) although they do suggest placing them so they drive the critters towards traps.
What is really worrying me at the moment is my leather furniture out in the garage. I want to sell that stuff so the idea of mice taking up in there is not a good thing but if the sonic part doesn't go through furniture that won't be much of a deterent out there. With new car coming and mice seeking refuge I guess I had better get on that.
I guess tomorrow I'll call a pest place and see what they suggest. I don't like the idea of traps that mame and catch/release isn't a happy place for me either. Jenjen you are much braver than I am. I guess I've just had too many run ins with mice screaming and squeeling in traps or while caught by a cat. I don't have a problem with something that causes instant death but if it's going to suffer at all, I'd rather not be reminded of it or have to listen to it. Either way the idea of me killing an animal of any sort does not appeal at all no matter how creepy or filthy they are. The releasing part bothers me too as they just become someone else's problem eventually.
I guess this will just push the clearing of garage and boxes and other stuff I have put on the back burner right up there. My to-do list ajusts yet again.
Meanwhile I think I found the entrance point for the house. The electrician left a hole when he redid my meter.
This is one of those topics that makes me clench my teeth. How about one of those old-fashioned mouse traps that goes Meow? Maybe you can borrow someone's mouser for a few days.
yea those sonic thingys don't work...your best bet is traps....if you don't think you'll be able to ''release'' the trap after they've caught there are kinds that you just push the ends together and the 'plop' out...peanut butter works better than cheese...they prefer it more for some reason...at my last house when they were digging for the house behind me i caught 18 in one weekend...yea mostly under the sink...i would set up the trap..within 5 mins i caught one...set up again and a couple of times before i could sit down i caught another...ice don't scare me...i just think they're vile and distugting...one time i could here one in one of my cabinets...above the stove and microvawe...so i climbed up on to my counter and set up the trap...well i also had my esspresso machine up there...and i could see the lil guy between the machine and the cabinet wall...so i bent down and grabbed a wooden spoon and started poking at him to get him to run across the trap...well he did 3 frickin' times...well the final time i poked him he ran out of the cabinet...across the top of the microvawe...and fell onto the counter right beside my foot...so standing there with a wooden spoon in my hand...what do i do you ask?...I KICKED IT!...yep that's right i kicked the mouse off the cabinet and he landed onto the floor with a thud!...so i flicked him into a plastic bag...took the bag outside...whacked it against the brick wall...and tossed him in the trash...along with the wooden spoon...then i disenfected my counter for like 3 days...LOL...just remember you're bigger then them..... :D
of year when they come in -- getting ready to set up house and raise LOTS and LOTS of babies :hairpull:
A trap is really better than putting out poison. If you are really squeamish, you can always get one of the humane ones and just drive the mouse blocks and blocks away and let him or her go...I have heard that the sonic thingies don't work :(
Good luck...
Mouse = MICE :eek: