Mice in my House

My last house I had both mice and bats. Look at it this way...at least you don't have bears. The traps are a lot more expensive!

Oh my- you must have an entire mouse family!  Get 'em killer!

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Don’t feel to bad.. I got mice too. Well my wife tells me we got mice she sees them all the time. I got some traps, got one. And have not gotten any since. I know there still out there. I think their really smart mice. I even went down to check a trap the other day, the trap was set-off, food gone, no mouse. ? I’m still being optimistic that we can take care of it but I keep thinking of the Porky-Pig / Sylvester toon were they went to stay in the old house with the mice.

Cheers.

Rice

NUMBER 4 at 10:30

WTF????

Hey I clean....sometimes....in between work and swimming and running and biking and taking my kids to soccer, baseball and swimming....

I have a nice little sheltie I could lend you...she's very good at catching moles, and she's got a chipmunk or two...she's really cute too!

I heard a rule once, see one mouse multiple by 100, see two mice multiple by 1000


hope I didn't scare you!!!

Caught mouse number 5 while I slept!! Thanks I will try the peppermint oil.

So after 5 I multiply by ????????????????

If I'm doing the math right, by the time I send this you will have already been assimilated.

bts

Well, if you have lots of mice, chances are you don't have snakes...

Ok....yippee I don't have snakes or rats....rat eating dog???? Good for the neighborhood I guess.

A better mouse trap.

We use to have A LOT of mice out at our hunting camp. If we set six traps before we left to go home they were full within hours. And then for the next week/two/three week however long till we came back the mice would be free to come and go. So we built a better mouse trap..

Take a bucket.
A metal rood or something that would work the same. (String doesn’t work well)
A can of some kind.
Punch the rod through the side of the bucket. Then through one end of the can and out the other end and then again though the other end of the bucket. Now you will have a free spinning can on a rod over the middle of the bucket..
Take some peanut butter. (Mice like name brands) Run a good strip of peanut butter around the can. (All the way around)
Make a ramp were the mice can clime up to the edge of the bucket and maybe a little above the can. (Not to close and not to far, you want them to have to jump for the can but not be able to reach the can and the ramp at the same time.)
Once they jump onto the can it will spin out from under them and the mouse will fall into the bucket.
You have to fill the bottom of the bucket with a couple of inches of water so the mice have to swim or they will chew their way out. AND they say drowning is a peaceful way to die.. (if I had to chose between drowning and having a mouse trap smash my scull open….)

Good luck..

Rice

Yikes...and how many peaceful deaths happened in this manner?

Went home at lunch and no number #6!!!

I grew up in a farm house and the number one rule about mice was ALWAYS set the trap again.

I hate mice. We had some in our garage and basement a few years ago. Had to throw out some food. We have 3 cats now and they do a good job. I usually catch one in the shed every month or two.

You have my sympathies. Keep at it. Show them no mercy. Rent Caddyshack to get the right attitude toward rodents.

Sounds like they're on to you....or getting smarter......

Mice are YUCKY ..you need to get a cat to kill them for you LEXI the ultimate mouser

Edited by sue7013 2005-09-08 6:29 PM






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Looks like lexi's had her fair share of mice in her time.

She just scares them to death....shes a big girl...about 20#  SHe doesn't eat them.  I can't imagine being a tiny little field mouse with my beohemoth cat coming at it HEHEHE

Edited by sue7013 2005-09-08 8:23 PM