OT - UGH! It's Mouse Season!

Fred19Flintstone

Please no helpful cooking tips!  I hate mice!  If you live in an older home like me, chances are you know all about mouse season.  This year we're using two different traps and keeping track of their productivity.  We're using two of Wilma's past favorite which is an "old school" peanut butter baited trap that's enclosed in a plastic housing to keep the yuck factor down.  We're also using a battery operated trap baited with dog kibble that zaps them.  The season opened last week when we noticed we had company.  So far the score is old school two, new school two.

nolaegghead

They probably hate you equally and are trying to kill you in kind by spreading feces and disease on your toothbrushes.  Good luck.  Much they do you don't notice.

Skiddymarker

Do not envy you at all - damn I hated those little buggers when we lived in the east. Dad used to say they love the warmth in the house and suggested we hang the food outside and turn the thermostat to off - probably would have worked but never tried it. I did try those noose (elastic bands that strangle them) traps, worked very well for the average mouse - but the dark side in me likes those spring loaded kill bar Victors. Good luck! 

RRP

I hear you...I keep 4 snappers baited year around in the garage and 4 in the basement plus two bait feeders since we have no cats and our Westie can't go down there. I typically only get one kill a year now and no sign of any activity.

blasting

Fred19Flintstone said:

Please no helpful cooking tips!  I hate mice!  If you live in an older home like me, chances are you know all about mouse season.  This year we're using two different traps and keeping track of their productivity.  We're using two of Wilma's past favorite which is an "old school" peanut butter baited trap that's enclosed in a plastic housing to keep the yuck factor down.  We're also using a battery operated trap baited with dog kibble that zaps them.  The season opened last week when we noticed we had company.  So far the score is old school two, new school two.

Fred, you took all the fun out of it with your first sentence.  Best of luck with your mouse hunt though.

Toxarch

I've used the wood spring ones a lot. They work but can be annoying to empty and reuse. The electronic zapper one is nice but expensive. I now use the black jaws ones from Tomcat. Easy to bait, easy to set, easy to empty. I use peanut butter and don't have to rebait it for several years and it keeps on catching mice every year. Hard to find a picture of them, they probably are changing the design because Lowes doesn't show it anymore on their website and Home Depot has a mix of old and new white pics on their website. Can't add a link or pic of it. Just google "tomcat snap mouse trap". You can buy 12 of them for like $30.

Spaightlabs

Rat zapper is the bomb!

Begger

Uh?   Would a CAT help?   

I had a black cat years ago named Renfield.   Mean damn animal, but a GOOD vermin catcher.  

I came home from work one nite LATE.   I put some chicken in the toaster oven to reheat and HE wanted some.  When I said NO, he wanted OUT, which I was only to happy to do.   Cat came back in 5 minutes and released a LIVE BIRD in the house.   At 0200.   
Like a said, MEAN CAT.   But a good sense of humor!

Fred19Flintstone

These are the ones we're using:

Davec433

Good luck Fred. We had an infestation a couple years ago when the dog sitter left the garage and garage door open for several days. The got behind the dishwasher and ate a hole behind the couch into the stairs. We ended up calling Orkin and they used a version of these.



I I have a bunch of different types in the garage, outside, and in the basement.

Botch

I suppose I should be happy I get invaded by spiders instead of mice.
But I'm not.  

fishlessman

been getting two a week at camp, usually get a few dozen at home but the racoons next door in the abandoned house must have kept the population down.   the lower fan on the fridge turns on and off, have nailed two with the fridge fan whats the chances

DaveRichardson

Not mice, but squirrels here.  Those damn furry roof rats beg the hell outta us in the winter. 

I've used pepper bombs recently to drive them out with scent pollution. 

then have trimmed back all the trees and branches that are in jumping distance to the roof line!

YEMTrey

My wife and daughter brought home a kitten about five years ago.  Was newborn from a barn cat.  That cat has killed every mouse, chipmunk, etc within 150yds of my house.  When we first moved in, had a mouse or two the first two years.  Now, not a sign of one.  She's earned her keep.

GATraveller

My old neighborhood had a rat problem.  They would get in my crawl space and garage.  Disgusting little creatures......can't stand them.  Always had poison and traps out.  I know your pain!!

JRWhitee

Had mice once, we got a cat problem solved....

Steve753

I have two cats. No problems with mice.

Fred19Flintstone

When I married Wilma, she brought her two cats into the house.  I am by no means a cat person, but I was looking forward to the end of mouse season.  One cat was old and the other was lazy. I still had mouse season.