It is time to KILL the Mouse!

[dejr_8]

The one that has been living in our house for about 6 weeks.

We have been trying have-a-heart style traps without success. We have two styles of traps, in on style the mouse has been able to go into the trap, eat the peanut butter and leave.

Well after trying that long, we are going to start using spring loaded traps. Poor guy doesn't know what is coming.

 

[*BTMRR*]

Poor Mickey!

We had a mouse problem once. We tried for weeks to catch the mice with no-kill traps of all kinds. Finally I set a couple of old fashioned spring traps. I caught two mice within about 4 hours. I felt bad, but they were ruining things in our home!

 

[ugadog99]

I have an extra special mouse trapper: O'Malley the tom cat! That is the primary reason we allow him to call this home. He is a fabulous rodent killer.

 

[java]

We had a have a heart style one that actually ended up killing the mouse!
Best of luck to you. It's that time of year.

 

[RangerPooh]

We had a mouse problem in our classroom. The "nice" traps that don't kill the thing weren't working. They would eat the PB and leave the without triggering it. So we did a deep clean, rounded them up, and used sticky traps on others. We think one has returned so we bought an old fashioned snappy trap.

 

[happygirl]

The one that has been living in our house for about 6 weeks.

We have been trying have-a-heart style traps without success. We have two styles of traps, in on style the mouse has been able to go into the trap, eat the peanut butter and leave.

Well after trying that long, we are going to start using spring loaded traps. Poor guy doesn't know what is coming.

After 6 weeks I bought you have a family of mice. I have never just seen one.

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

We used a sticky trap once....and when I checked it there was just a little mousy foot attached with no mouse I get a shiver just thinking about it!!

Whatever you do.....don't use poison!! I know you didn't bring it up as an option BUT just in case. My friends just lost their dog because her husband put those poison cubes in their storage building. Something must have chewed a hole in the floor of the building and the cube fell under it. Their little mini dachsund got under the building and ate it

 

[kafitty]

we got a cat because he was supposed to kill the mice...

he prefers the ones that are outside already.

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

we got a cat because he was supposed to kill the mice...

he prefers the ones that are outside already.

The free range mice must taste better They're certified organic!

 

[Illuminations_Rocks]

I totally understand this. We had mice occasionally living in our garage in our apartment. Thank heavens they were just in the garage, but still... they did some damage to my car!
Anyway, the office gave us the Ortho Home Defense MAX kill and contain mousetrap.

COOLEST mousetrap ever. I didn't see a thing. Mouse goes in, mouse gets caught. The little red foot kicks back on it when it has caught the mouse. I just checked online and they're about $10 for a pack of 2 traps.

http://www.orthohomedefense.com/smg/catalog/productTemplate.jsp?proId=prod10230002&itemId=cat50086&tabs=general

 

[Mickey527]

I had a little mouse that came out every time I was on the computer. he would sit and watch me. He was really cute, but he had to go.
I tried the sticky traps, and the snap traps, that guy was just to smart.
Finally one morning I found him on the rug, the old tried and true CAT trap.
My cats have no claws but they manage to kill everything they can get a hold of, mice, birds, small animals. (We got them that way, don't judge) I get gifts on the back porch on a daily basis.

 

[almburr]

I feel your pain. Right as winter hit we had a mouse move in. It was a pregnant mama! There were babies running amuck(6)! We tried all the traps. The one we found to work well were the sticky traps. We started to catch them like crazy. Boy were they cute. A couple were about the size of mini marshmallows. If I found them I released them I left the stomping up to DH.

A one point they were rather bold they would not run. DD15 was in her room and it came walking in looked at her and walked off. She named it mortimer.

I grew up on the family farm/ranch so mice never bothered me. Im not the type who sreams and jumps on a chair. But I hate what they do; chew on everything and poop all over.

Boy I wish our cat did not die last summer, she was a good mouser

 

[zachnsamsmommy]

We found the glue traps to work the best. We'd put a couple of pieces of cat food on them, and within a few hours (we put them out at night)...we'd have a mouse.

Now we did find a way to make them humane, since it really tore up my 8 yr old DS. We would take the trap, mouse and all, several miles away to an empty field, pour vegetable oil over the trap (it breaks down the glue)...and watch little mousy run for dear life.

We have had the occassional stubborn mouse that was resistant to everything, and a combination of glue traps and snapped traps worked for him (i just couldn't tell DS that, though).

Good luck...

 

[Lanshark]

After many tries we finally got a Rat Zapper. No mess, you don't have to touch anything and instant death. I like instant.

 

[JessicaR]

After many tries we finally got a Rat Zapper. No mess, you don't have to touch anything and instant death. I like instant.

I never heard of this, will look it up.

We get mice living in the woods and my dogs dont seem to care that they move in.

I've tried all the different traps and the glue traps are the most efficient that we have used. I hate them though.

 

[Lanshark]

I never heard of this, will look it up.

We get mice living in the woods and my dogs dont seem to care that they move in.

I've tried all the different traps and the glue traps are the most efficient that we have used. I hate them though.

I hated the glue traps. The Rat Zapper works wonderfully. I believe I got it from amazon. It's blue.

 

[charming23]

We have had mice the past 2 winters and the best method for getting rid of them is my cat Caly. She is such a loving girl but when she gets her paws on a mouse watch out.

Our other cat Cleo sees these mice as her new friends and wants to play with them rather than kill them.

 

[Disneycrazy!!]

In our previous home, we had mice also. We used the spring style and OH my gosh, the darn little pests would eat the peanut butter off the traps and never got caught. The traps wouldn't go off and they LICKED it clean. But as soon as I would reach under the cabinet to pick it up, it would go off everytime!! How did they do it??????

Another story...a friend thought she had mice. So she set a trap one night, heard it go off later and when she went into the kitchen to look, it wasn't a mouse. It was a HUGE rat and it was running around with the trap on its neck. It finally shook it off and then looked at my friend and charged at her! She ran to her bedroom screaming and it followed her. She slammed the door and waited for her husband to get home from work.
I would have moved out of that house until that evil thing was dead. I couldn't sleep in a house knowing a rat was trying to get revenge!!

 

[patrickgreene27]

I've found a cat is always handy to have around when this happens

I tried to use the Ortho MAX Kill & Contain traps before...LIES LIES!! That mouse trap doesn't kill or contain. There is even a lawsuit pending about it!

 

[dejr_8]

I've found a cat is always handy to have around when this happens

I tried to use the Ortho MAX Kill & Contain traps before...LIES LIES!! That mouse trap doesn't kill or contain. There is even a lawsuit pending about it!

These are the traps that finally caught our mouse (mice). It did not kill them. Fortunately (for them) in two of three cases we checked the trap the next morning and let the mouse go in the woods. In the third case, we found a dead mouse but it didn't look like it had been a quick death - it chewed quite a bit of the plastic away from the bait holder.