I hate mices to pieces!

We use Dcon

The trouble with dcon and other dry type compounds, is the mice carry them to spots you don't normally check. Look between sofa cushions, in shoes, boots or other items that you would not usually check or haven't been moved for awhile.

I've had my share of of finding blue-green grains of whatever type of mouse poison in spots I wouldn't normally check.

The above experience is base upon a season cabin that is used mostly on weekends from May-October. The best eliminator in my case was sealing up every possible link to the outside. Fill all holes more than 1/8th of an inch wide. This includes roof holes. These rodents want to get inside and they can climb. This may also keep out "mice with wings", bats. I've had problems with those, but thats another story.

[BigHand]

Canadian Mouse Trap



Fill the bucket half full with water.

Fi

Actually, anti-freeze works better. Found that out by accident when I left some used anti-freeze in an open bucket on the bench for a few weeks. Went to empty it and found about a dozen perfectly preserved mice on the bottom, which was a little creepy. I think they were attracted to it the same way dogs are, it's supposed to taste sweet. It also has less surface tension (I think) and is obviously more slippery. The mice go down quick.

[crokett]

I've just always used the snap traps. It gets 'em sooner or later. Glue traps are ok but I've had mice escape frome them. The problem with live traps is now you have a live mouse that needs killing. I mean are you gonna take them outside and release them? Then they become somebody else's problem.

[billwmeyer]

The best I found is at the farm stores. One bite is one brand, and there are other brands of the poisons. Unlike the decon, this stuff makes the critters very thirsty, and if there is no water for them to access in the house, they leave for water, and die while they are gone. I have had good luck with decon, but the bodies stay in the house.

I used a glue board once, and only once. My wife found the mouse still alive on the board, and I was toast.

Bill

mice

Canadian Mouse Trap


1st. Get a 2-5 gallon (heavy gage) plastic bucket.

Next, find the center, and drill a hole on both ends (across from each other).

Take a soup can and peel off the label. Make sure it is slippery!

Drill a hole in the exact center of the can, on both ends. Empty contents through hole. (note) use a fine liquid type soup or broth. (Don’t open can!)

Get some piano wire or other single strand wire. Thread the wire through the sides and through the can. Attach and tension the wire with the can in the middle of the bucket!
*Make sure it spins easy!

With your nice shiney can centered in the middle of the bucket, smear with peanut butter. Fill the bucket half full with water.

Finally, make a runway to the goods (for the mouse) using 1x or 2x or whatever scraps you have. You could have boards on all sides, the mice just want to get at he goods!

Mouse will run up (scraps, runway) to get to peanut butter, jump on can, can spins, mouse falls in water. Mouse is left floating in bucket. Mouse is done! Empty bucket when you want.

I have a neighbor who has had 15-20 mice in a bucket! Of course this is with the setup outside his cabin. Also, he had numerous buckets set up!

[Jim Boyd]

Dehydration?

We were instructed that it is hypothermia

[beerdavis]

I had rats in the basement of my 60 year old house. I would set glue traps and the traps would disapear. The rats were too big. I had to use poison. The problem with poison is that the rats usually decide to die in the walls. Love hearing the wife ***** about the smell of dead rats for a month. At least the rats never come back.

[BigHand]

Dehydration?

[Jim Boyd]

Bzzzzzzzzzzt! Wrong anwser Effective, but wrong

[Hellrazor]

Trivia question: When a mouse gets stuck on a glue trap and dies, what is the cause of death?

My foot.......

[Jim Boyd]

The cold snap had driven at least one mouse off the neighboring farm into my house. I have put out glue traps as well as "snap" traps baited with peanut butter. THe dang thing can eat the peanut butter without activating the trap! I can barely set the trap down without it going off.

What else can I try? I resist using D-Con cause I don't want to track down the carcass.

Sam, now that you assassinated Mickey you need to keep Minnie out. Look outside and plug any holes with a copper brillo pad. A mouse can go thru a hole the size of a dime. Don't forget to check utility entrances and bottoms of doors.

[Jim Boyd]

Trivia question: When a mouse gets stuck on a glue trap and dies, what is the cause of death?

[bhornberger]

The traps I use are based on a teeter totter. You can pick them up at Walmart. They are rectangular boxes that have a pivot lid and a midpoint teeter. You put a little peanut butter in the back of the trap and lift up the lid on the other side.

When the mouse goes in to get the bait, the weight of the mouse forces the trap to teeter back where the base is and closes the front lid.

Nothing better than sitting in another room and hearing the trap rattle around.

The best is that you can re-use it over and over again.

[Slik Geek]

We had a mouse in the basement some years ago. I put out a two pack of D-CON and was amazed that within the week it was cleaned out! I concluded that we must have more mice than I realized. I bought another pack and put them out and they were nearly cleaned out within days.

A year later, while packing to move, I found a major D-CON stash and signs of mouse nest. (No sign of the mouse). Turns out we must have had an industrious mouse that decided it had found the mother lode of food and was creating his store for winter.

[LYU370]

Yep, I'd put it out again for at least a couple of days. I thought I had one or two mice in an apartment I lived in once. After 13, I finally got em all.