A dangerous place for rodents

trailblazer295 · 04-30-17, 08:41 PM

Over the past few days I've had some unwanted guests. Seems mice have found there way into my house. Discovered this when my rice cakes had the middle chewed out. Set up a few traps, caught one that night. Another day passed with nothing. Was woken up before 6am to my cat standing in my doorway moaning, jumped on the bed and then running around like a lunatic. She was chasing a mouse around the room and calling for backup. After swatting this thing and bouncing it down the stairs it got away. I moved a trap to the kitchen and 2 days passed with nothing. Tonight she is pacing back and forth in the kitchen muttering. She had the mouse in her mouth still alive. I got her to drop it and I caught it with tongs. I felt like GOD MUAHAHAHHA...................................

I went into the backyard and tossed it in the grass. A trap was needed to prevent damage, killing a trapped mouse isn't necessary. The point is get it out of the house. Nahla earned her keep tonight the little panther.

**EL Ziggy** · 04-30-17, 08:51 PM

I love snakes but mice creep me out. I hope you get all those buggers Blaze.

trailblazer295 · 04-30-17, 09:02 PM

The one that got away was small and grey and so was the one tonight. The one in the trap was a different colour. I'm going to leave the traps out awhile and see what happens.

Funny when she was moaning in my room I was thinking no way a mouse would come up here, no food. Then she is chasing it under the bed and in the closet.

jay's reptiles · 05-01-17, 07:08 AM

We have mice that get in are chicken coup and eat the feed, so i took a pellet gun out there and shot 43 of them. i think there is about 5 left. i hate to kill them but, there comes a time when enough is enough.

jay's reptiles · 05-01-17, 07:09 AM

i gave all the mice to the cats.

Cricket1234 · 05-01-17, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by trailblazer295

Over the past few days I've had some unwanted guests. Seems mice have found there way into my house. Discovered this when my rice cakes had the middle chewed out. Set up a few traps, caught one that night. Another day passed with nothing. Was woken up before 6am to my cat standing in my doorway moaning, jumped on the bed and then running around like a lunatic. She was chasing a mouse around the room and calling for backup. After swatting this thing and bouncing it down the stairs it got away. I moved a trap to the kitchen and 2 days passed with nothing. Tonight she is pacing back and forth in the kitchen muttering. She had the mouse in her mouth still alive. I got her to drop it and I caught it with tongs. I felt like GOD MUAHAHAHHA...................................

I went into the backyard and tossed it in the grass. A trap was needed to prevent damage, killing a trapped mouse isn't necessary. The point is get it out of the house. Nahla earned her keep tonight the little panther.

Just let all of the snakes go out....then you wont have any more problems lol

**Tsubaki** · 05-02-17, 03:32 AM

Mice will just come straight back in unless you put them really far away, they know the area and will go back to their "home". Good luck with the little buggers.

trailblazer295 · 05-02-17, 06:58 AM

I still have traps setup and a panther on the prowl.

trailblazer295 · 05-14-17, 09:07 AM

Seems my mouse problem isn't quite over, saw some evidence the other day and sure enough caught another in the trap. So far the score is traps 2 Nahla 2, she ran around with one in her mouth one night and played with a baby mouse corpse another.

akane · 05-14-17, 01:17 PM

It'll be right back. You can't let them live. They'll seek a house back out from a mile away and if it's not your problem it's now your neighbor's problem. They've been fed from sources in your house beyond what the wild population can maintain so they won't stay out in the wild. They will wander until they find territory with food again. If you are the closest thing that's your house again. I battled the bastards since we moved in 4years ago with traps, various baits not toxic to other things, and all sorts of methods before I just poisoned the bastards. Getting snakes seems to have helped but I just saw one run out of a bag of dog food for mixing into my rodent feed a few nights ago. I keep a little poison out 365 days a year for the ones that slip by. I tried but 4years, no use of my pantry, and several illness/parasite outbreaks from them as well as who knows what house damage with them in the walls I said they are dying by any means necessary and I'll try to reduce the consequences.

Tiny Boidae · 05-14-17, 01:31 PM

I agree with Akane. The best way to deal with mice is a quick and humane death. Even live animal traps aren't always the most ethical way of catching mice. Either you catch one per trap which is not efficient or realistic, or you get several into a small, enclosed space and watch them literally cannibalize off each other. Relocating them isn't even efficient either. This is what's worked for me in the past:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.instr...mp_page%3Dtrue

You can technically make it a no kill trap, but still expect to find dead mice in there if you manage to catch more than one.

trailblazer295 · 05-14-17, 02:55 PM

I'm using traps labelled powerkill lol the bar snaps down hard. I let one live because I didn't have the heart to crush it. The neighbour's cat roams and kills mice. Found dead ones outside before. I'm in a town so they will always be going to houses not wild.

akane · 05-15-17, 09:43 AM

You have to buy snap traps online around here and get certain ones. The ones in stores have been tamed down for "safety" (who ever even really got an injury besides a bad ow off the old ones?) and I even had a mouse dragging 2 around at once. If they didn't just pull themselves out. It was pointless and they were always alive. The new ones did kill them but I was checking a dozen traps a day and not putting a dent. I tried making bulk traps which has worked in the horse stable fine in the past but nope. I was not catching much of anything. I dunno if I couldn't place it where they were using the most or just could not put in the more appealing food item than they were stealing despite practically stripping my house of stored food and putting all the animal food I could in plastic or metal containers but they didn't care.

We had luck with plaster bait for awhile. Rodents can't eat modeling plaster but you have to keep a very steady supply because it does not work fast. I'm not going to say it's more humane than poison even though despite it's slow action it's not really less so since the symptoms and discomfort don't seem as bad but pointless to debate because while not ideal we had to upgrade from traps and that wouldn't harm much else. The cats ate some of my peanut butter flavored ones and were fine. Eventually we gave in and even got professional controlled poison bait online (it's been removed from the site since) but I dunno why it's controlled except maybe to avoid overuse and resistance since it's safer and less toxic to predators who find the mice than what's available to individuals in the US and it's not restricted many other places. I could find no outright ban and no reason for it not being sold so oh well. Wiped them out.

The snakes now deter them some and we just leave regular feed store bought poison in bait stations in a couple spots where there are holes following pipes into the walls or a piece of ceiling that can be moved over the kitchen. My cats don't eat anything they kill. You'd never get this whole house sealed against mice and in the end it's better than the rat mites and illness that had me, a cat, and a dog on steroids for bites and the dog on antibiotics for skin infection from itching the bites while killing several gerbil breeding pairs and putting all my other rodent breeders through repeat medication. I was thinking oh no I hand raised another kitten to have a defective immune system and would spend their short life on prednisone with a period spent obsessed I had bed bugs but no it was the dang wild rodent mites. Now I've got diatomaceous earth everywhere that I seem to never find all of every time I clean and sweep the floor. My enemies don't deserve what we went through. I learned you just kill the mice. Asap and completely. There's several aquarium lights and other things damaged as well from cord chewing so like I said I hate to think about what inside the walls looks like. Now I worry about fire risks all the time until we can rewire the house.