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    there are mice in my house.

    i can hear them squeaking and rustling, and i keep seeing their poop everywhere, but i cannot find them! it's kinda funny cos it's 4am and the house is dead silent, except for the occasional squeak.

    mice are cute... just not in my kitchen.

    argh!

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    Get a cat.

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    i've got one. he is asleep on the couch. i put him in the cupboard where i think the mice are, and he walked out and went to sleep on the couch again lol

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    I have the solution! My SNAKES!

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    haha bring them over pam! they can have a feast!

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    Oooh, can I bring my snake too?

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    Yuck when I lived in center city i had mice, I moved out. It was gross. They have sticky traps, but those don't kill the mice so it's kind of cruel. But I read you can take the mice in the sticky traps and pour oil over their feet far far from your house so then they are free. But then they'll probably come back. Get an exterminator or something that's probably your best bet..they will close any entrance holes or stuff them with steel wool.

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    sure. instead of squeaking all i'll be able to hear is hissing

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    I had a little field mouse get in my house a couple of months ago he would just cruise past my dogs at night LOL . I tried the humane traps that catch them so you can release them - he got fatter - so I opted for the snap your dead ones ,poor little guy but I tried .

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    While you're getting rid of them, put your valuable clothes & books in plastic bins...mice pee on & chew up anything to make nests...I know they're cute but their droppings are infectious & you'll be mad when they start wrecking things...

    PS Sometimes cats that don't eat mice they kill...will leave little mouse corpses for you to find unexpectedly...just warning you.

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    I lived in a house in Orlando and we had RATS. We also had 4 cats and a dog, and they could've cared less. we eventually had to try about 10 different things before we got rid of them. I agree with what MadMAxine said about locking up valuables. I had a bunch of my album sleeves nibbled on extensively and a few books ruined for cage fodder, too. Call an exterminator, but be wary of letting them use poisons, especially if you have a cat. When I worked at a certain big swanky club in Philly, we had a couple of rats in the DJ booth. They were nibbling wires and generally being annoying. They decided to put out poison bait, and we ended up with dead rotting rat in the wall. We had to tear the walls open to get it out. The stench was unbelievable. Best of luck!
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    Seriously they can tear the walls up.

    I bought those poison bars put peanut butter on them (but you don't have to do the peanut butter) and threw them in the attic. The mice will find them, eat them and die off.

    Or go the humane way with mice traps that are tiny and do work...just release them out in a far away field. More work, but i do like that way better myself.

    I was so over-run with the damn things in Lauderdale that i had to use those bars. They work...a bit of a smell perhaps depending on where they die, but will work.

    That or get a few rat snakes and release them in the attic!!!!

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    Poison, in addition to being a danger to your house pets, kills the little shits and then they shrivel up and die and stink up your house.

    It happened to me one winter up north---those motherfuckers were EVERYWHERE. They even ate my snot rags out of the trash when I was sick...gross!

    I must have drowned upwards of 30 mice i found in the glue traps...they love cornbread BTW. It sucks, it is cruel...but mice carry diseases you don't want to catch.

    Bubonic plague, that was fleas on rats baby. Rats die, fleas go to humans.

    Anyway, the little mice that died in the wall left a smell in the house that was impossible to get rid of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sunnie View Post
    Poison, in addition to being a danger to your house pets, kills the little shits and then they shrivel up and die and stink up your house.

    It happened to me one winter up north---those motherfuckers were EVERYWHERE. They even ate my snot rags out of the trash when I was sick...gross!

    I must have drowned upwards of 30 mice i found in the glue traps...they love cornbread BTW. It sucks, it is cruel...but mice carry diseases you don't want to catch.

    Bubonic plague, that was fleas on rats baby. Rats die, fleas go to humans.

    Anyway, the little mice that died in the wall left a smell in the house that was impossible to get rid of.
    Sounds like you had a huge infestation. I have used the bars. Toss them in the attic and no family pet gets one..
    A few dead mice do not stink up a whole house. They almost always die back at their nesting site, which would be in the walls or attic. Maggots take over quickly and eat off the mice, the smell (if you have any) last a few days if you are not killing say 20 or more.

    If you have the all over as you say, i think it takes more than poison to rid them, or suffer the smell of many many rotting bodies, and perhaps some were in your main part of the house already.

    PS rats don't normally have fleas, i have actually yet to see one with a flea yet, as at times i buy fresh killed. They are more likely to carry mites (which will love living on my snakes)...which is why i buy frozen/thawed for my animals.

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    We have mice too. It sucks cause I'm always the one who goes into the kitchen and catches sight of one scurrying across the counter. Bleh. I mean they're cute, but just freaks me out.

    We just got some humane traps. I hope they work.

    We have a cat too, but she doesn't do crap. When she does catch one she just plays with it til she gets bored then it runs off.
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    My aunt claims to have one as well. She has two cats and two dogs and they can't seem to get rid of it. She called someone to set a trap up for it today and spray.

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    I wish I could loan you my cat. He brings instant death to any bug that gets into our house, and I'm sure he'd love some mice to play with. Actually he doesn't play with his prey; I guess he's too old for playing. When he finds a bug he just kills it and eats it without fanfare. I wouldn't want to be a mouse in this apartment with him around.

    Cats who were raised indoors by an indoor mother don't know how to hunt. Contrary to popular opinion, cats don't instinctively know how to stalk, pounce, or hunt; they have to learn from their mothers. If a kitten is never taught, then she'll never learn. And if mama never learned how to hunt, she'll never teach her kittens how. So if you know someone who has barn cats, that would be your best bet. A barn cat would make short work of your mice, without poisons or traps.

    When my grandparents had squirrels in the attic, they waited for a chilly day and then put my uncle's barn cat in there with a bowl of water. By the end of the day, all the squirrels were gone and the cat was purring happily.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy Foxx View Post
    i've got one. he is asleep on the couch. i put him in the cupboard where i think the mice are, and he walked out and went to sleep on the couch again lol

    i'll send my flatmate's cat to your house via express post.

    the last time we put a mouse in our unit (yes we caught one outside the unit and tried an experiment)... it's last words was *squeak* and then he proceeded to devour all of it except for its tale.

    I know as I visited the cat eating his "treat" (well he certainly thought so) every so often ... lol

    oh btw... am i the only one who had a thought for a second that darcy (or is it ashlee now? lol) had bought some pet mice ??


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    http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77977

    I finally got rid of mine, whatever they were--I suspect wild tree rats (they have those down here, I'm told). I tried the humane trap where you can release them in a field, but it was for mice--these were bigger. I would have gladly bought a larger trap, but they didn't sell them, and the critters were shitting all over the place more and more. I'd had enough, so I bought some poison bars.

    No more crtitters, no smell, I'm happy--though I' d be much happier with a kitty, mouser or not, lol...

    Cats are funny about that--I remember living in Texas where they had gigantic roaches that would get inside, and the cat would sit there, bored to death. "Look, Guenevere--helpless vermin to torture and kill slowly!" Yawn, goes the cat.

    Thanks a lot--no Tender Kibbles for you tonight, you get the dried up cereal with meat by-products shit from Walmart.

    But I have to wonder about how much of their hunting skill is learned--I think some of it might be instinctive as well. I'm sure barn cats are way better at it, but the last cat I had went apeshit when a cute little bat got in the house in Michigan one night a couple years ago. The bat really was a cute little thing, believe it or not, you could see that when it sat still for a moment. But it was scared to death, and kept squeaking and flying around in a panic. This drove the cat into a complete frenzy.

    The fucking cat was leaping 3-4 feet straight up in the air, doing back-flips, etc., trying to get the bat. And she was strictly indoors, we got her when she was 6 weeks old. Maybe playing with her kitty sisters and brothers? But they weren't doing backflips, not at 6 weeks, lol...
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    Ugh I hate that feeling of knowing there are critters you cant see makin rustlin' noises all in your stuff. I used to have this problem at my parents house...I had to wash my pajamas like 10 times before I even wore them cause I'd find "things" on them. I don't know how we got rid of them. Honestly...I think it was the cat.

    Good luck. Don't feel bad about killing them. Rodents spread disease or something else to justify it.

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    If you rent the property, call the landlord.

    Otherwise, mice breed FAST.
    I once had that problem and we tried giving them the poison to kill them. All they did was get fat and reproduce more. The only ways I've found to rid of the problem is trapping them. Yeah, it sucks waking up in the am to 8 dead mice in traps, but it works. The sticky paper traps are effective as well; however, the mice someitmes live on the trap for a little while and they scream. Yup. If you do decide to trap, I've found that stcicking a peanut in a chewed piece of gum (stuck to the trap) works well because they are less likely to snatch the food and get away with it. The gum makes them work harder and gives more liikelihood that they will be trapped.

    Good luck, living with mice is no fun, especially when you're trying to sleep at night.

    Also, they can get into cupboards and will eat through bags (chips) and boxes to get food.
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    Quote Originally Posted by short skirts View Post
    however, the mice someitmes live on the trap for a little while and they scream.
    Christ, I could not handle that...

    I took the sticky traps my landlord put down right up as soon as she left, and I'm glad now, lol.

    I did decide killing them might be necessary, though, when I couldn't get any humane traps big enough, and the little dropping pellets started multiplying rapidly (especially after I read about how they had a high bacterial content). Plus they climbed up a broomstick to the top of the refrigerator and ate a big scoop out of a banana I had up there, it kind of grossed me out.
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    I used snap traps to kill them when I had a mouse problem. Beef jerky topped with oily peanut butter tied to the trigger. The salt and the oil seemed to work great. By tieing the jerky to the trigger the mouse couldn't steal the bait and tugging on it set off the trap.


    I found out mice follow walls using their whiskers to guide them. Knowing this I set the trap up with the narrow trigger end butted against the wall. Worked great sometimes I would trap them by their body as they crossed the trap going somewhere else.

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