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Dab
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Posted 01-28-03 10:13 AM
Is there anything anyone on here has found that works better to get rid of mice (real live creatures not the Disney ones)?
I swear we have the house from the movie the money pit and I hate it here!!!!!!
We live out in the country with acreage around us. This lady bought a house behind us that had bushes and old barns, etc. She has done wonderful with the thing, burning all the massive bushes, old barns that were falling down, etc..HOWEVER, now us and our next door neighbors are getting all these mice and they are GROSS!!!!!!!!
I know there are people on here who like the "keep em alive" traps but this has gone beyond that for us and our neighbors. I'm afraid to spray under the house cause I'm fearful they will come up into the house.
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Lunarlady
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Posted 01-28-03 11:15 AM
D-con works most excellently for my parents. I've heard the horror stories about mice getting trapped and dying in the walls, but in all the years of my parents using the D-con poison (don't put it where dogs or cats can get to it), they've never had a mouse die in their walls.
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Crank
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Posted 01-28-03 12:17 PM
quote:
Dab wrote:
Is there anything anyone on here has found that works better to get rid of mice (real live creatures not the Disney ones)?
I swear we have the house from the movie the money pit and I hate it here!!!!!!
We live out in the country with acreage around us. This lady bought a house behind us that had bushes and old barns, etc. She has done wonderful with the thing, burning all the massive bushes, old barns that were falling down, etc..HOWEVER, now us and our next door neighbors are getting all these mice and they are GROSS!!!!!!!!
I know there are people on here who like the "keep em alive" traps but this has gone beyond that for us and our neighbors. I'm afraid to spray under the house cause I'm fearful they will come up into the house.
Two words: A CAT.
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Dab
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Posted 01-28-03 01:29 PM
quote:
Crank wrote:
Two words: A CAT.
I have 3 inside and 1 outside. The outside one sits by the pumphouse staring and then all of a sudden pounces. I thought it was cute until I figured out what it was pouncing on!
Two of the inside cats are very good but it's still grossing me out. I keep seeing pictures of the movie Ben in my head!
I don't do well with critters. In the summer when it's humid and all the bugs come out and in, I bomb my house twice a month. I hate them all!
We bought something in a yellow box that are little packets with green pellets.
Oh man, LL....I never thought about them dying in the walls EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
This house he bought 5 years ago is a money pit and awful. We didn't know and our wonderful inspector didn't do much inspecting. A group of men buy cheap houses and redo them. Tile started coming up and the floors look like they are going to cave in! It looks good on the outside but when you start peeling things away like the siding and carpeting, not so good. I am just more inspired to move the heck out of here sooner.
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Karma
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Posted 01-28-03 01:43 PM
Good luck but one word of warning...
one single dead mouse rotting in your walls really really REALLY gets stinky! I mean nauseating.. and yes, I speak from experience.
I'd use the snap traps...while mice are cute once in a while, it sounds like you're overrun with them which isn't healthy. They do get into everything, food, clothing, walls...
Best of luck. The little buggers multiply pretty fast so you have to stay ahead of them a bit.
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Francine
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Posted 01-28-03 02:20 PM
I also have used d-con. I used it in a house I used to clean. It was a summer home for folks from Texas, and one winter a mouse family called the house their home. You need to be sure there is no water source for the mice within the house, in other words no standing water. They need water after they eat the poison, and will leave the house to look for it.
Generally, mice have a pattern of where they go, and it is usually around the perimeter of rooms. You can easily see this by their droppings. So, this is where you put the d-con. You keep putting it down until you don't see the droppings anymore. And, of course, do not put it where any pets can get at it.
As for mice dying in the house, well, if they take up residence, sooner or later, you will have dead mice within your house. They do not have the longest life span.
Francine
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Ajax
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Posted 01-28-03 04:20 PM
Our daughter had a mouse move into the air ducts of her Chevy Lumina last summer. It found its way into the fan, where it died with a gruesome sound when Lauren turned it on.
To make a long story short, it cost us $400, all labor, to dismantle and sanitize the heating/cooling system. It smelled very bad!
I use a lightly set Victor snap trap with peanut butter on the bait-pan. They can't resist it, and they die on the spot.
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Lunarlady
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Posted 01-28-03 06:46 PM
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Ajax wrote:
Our daughter had a mouse move into the air ducts of her Chevy Lumina last summer. It found its way into the fan, where it died with a gruesome sound when Lauren turned it on.
Ick
My sister had a pet mouse that lived in the dashboard of her Plymouth Sundance for the longest time. She said she'd be driving to work and it'd either show up scurrying across the front of the dashboard or (heavens!) on the outside of the windshield where the wipers come up. She said it only came around when it was cold and she felt sorry for it.
Now I couldn't stand that. It only took driving my father's Dodge Shadow once with a resident mouse that made it's way up the outside of the windshield at a stoplight for me to swear off driving their cars ever and ever again, amen. (They live in the country and, at the time, both were parking their cars outside because they were older and the newer cars had dibs on the garage)
My sister finally moved up to a brand new Saturn and got an inside parking spot. One day when I was riding with her I saw a toy mouse (with the real fur, it was a cat toy) sitting in the instrument panel and asked about it. She regaled me with the woeful tale of what happened to her mouse and how that toy mouse represents her memory of it:
One morning when she was backing out of her space (in the old car) to go to work, her mouse was climbing up the icy windshield. He slipped and tumbled off and, before she could stop, he was crushed beneath the front tire of her car. (I am very proud of myself for keeping a straight face when she told me this. She was almost in tears knowing that she killed her mouse.)
She wanted to bury it then and there, but had to get to work. She satisfied her grief with just throwing snow over the poor, flattened critter and hoping that nothing would get to it before she was able to give it a decent burial.
When she got home, her mouse was gone (probably either my dad's cat or the wildlife surrounding the house got it) so she couldn't bury it. Ever since then, she's carried the toy mouse on her dashboard in rememberance of the mouse she killed accidentally.
I know.
My family is pathetic.
Her only defense is that she had that mouse in her car for two years and it was like a friend saying "HI!" every morning. (blech) It was only trying to stay warm; think of how cold it gets outside at night; her car was it's home; you wouldn't kill Mickey, would you?; blah blah blah blah.
So the moral of this story is this: Mice don't belong in the home, but are welcome to nest in the outside cars in the winter if they can stay away from the cat and other animals out there. They also are pretty smart because I've never had any problems with them getting into MY car when I visit, and my family's never had any problems with them getting chopped up in the engine.
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Karma
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Posted 01-28-03 06:54 PM
quote:
Lunarlady wrote:
He slipped and tumbled off and, before she could stop, he was crushed beneath the front tire of her car.
She wanted to bury it then and there, but had to get to work. She satisfied her grief with just throwing snow over the poor, flattened critter and hoping that nothing would get to it before she was able to give it a decent burial.
I'm sorry for your sister's grief but right now all I can think of is playing Frisbee with a teensy tiny fuzzy little Frisbee.
Oh that was SO cruel of me, wasn't it?
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TrpltJanie
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Posted 01-29-03 06:04 PM
Eeeep!
I see dead mice....
Really! I had to...well....(gets nervous)...ummm...okay, I had to learn how to enthusanize mice and rats for a certain drug toxicology research run by NIDA-National Insitute of Drug Abuse--and I used to tell them that I was very sorry to do this and that for them not to send their furry ghosts after me. It didn't get easier...I had to extract their brains and prepare them for runs through GC/MS instrument to quantify the drugs in their brains.
I was so excited when my boss moved me to the crime section of the toxicology lab and had to attend a workshop called "Maggots and Murder".
They used five dead pigs with chicken wire around to record the growth of the maggots and pinpoint the deaths.
After the workshop, it was lunchtime and one of my coworkers said.......
"Let's go for Chinese food!!"
Janie
The Curb Kicker
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Dab
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Posted 01-29-03 06:58 PM
After reading all of these things I'm now ready to pack and get the heck out of here! EEEEEEWWWWWWW
My across the street neighbor called last night and he is having mice problems too. I'm glad the woman who bought the farm house behind us burnt the bushes and old barnes but dang, sure wish the mice hadn't had warning.
My cats got one today behind the book case however, in their quest to play, it ran into my bedroom!!!!
Living in the country we usually might find 1 a week during the winter but it's been 1-2 a day since she burnt those barns and bushes and same for my neighbors. I make the cats come sleep on the bed with me at night LOL
Edited to add: I don't want you all to think this is normal for us, we aren't dirty people. All of the surrounding neighbors are having this problem cause of burning of old buildings around, bushes etc from an old farm house on 20 acres behind us. The lady died and someone bought it and started bulldozing and burning. Joys of living out by the cows!
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Tink *~*~*
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Posted 01-30-03 10:20 PM
Dab, get the covered sticky traps (they are in the shape of a rectangular box with no ends on them, and a sticky floor). Place a small dab of peanut butter dead in the center of the sticky part and put near the droppings. Visit again tomorrow and remove the box if there is a mouse stuck in it (first putting on a biomed suit and surgical gloves, tee hee hee!). Put the next trap in a different place, but also near droppings - the ones that didn't get caught become socialized to the traps if they've seen their friends in them dead or dying, and they won't go in, but in another corner of the room, you may have a different mouse. They don't stray terribly far from their nests, maybe 10-15 feet max, so it is entirely possible to have two distinct populations in the same room. Repeat until there are no more dead mice.
Tink *~*~*
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Dab
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Posted 01-30-03 10:41 PM
quote:
Tink *~*~* wrote:
Dab, get the covered sticky traps (they are in the shape of a rectangular box with no ends on them, and a sticky floor). Place a small dab of peanut butter dead in the center of the sticky part and put near the droppings. Visit again tomorrow and remove the box if there is a mouse stuck in it (first putting on a biomed suit and surgical gloves, tee hee hee
Will the mouse be alive and trying to kick around????
I don't go anywhere near live or dead mice. My daughter takes them out of the house for me. The cats did not get one mouse today so hopefully that is a good sign (either that or they are just tuckered out after chasing them for a few days).
The other night while I was laying in bed I saw my cat just staring at the heating duct on the floor. A stinking mouse stuck it's head out of there!!! OMG!!!! I closed the duct, put 2 fully packed Rubbermaid containers on top of it LOL and have slept with the light on ever since WITH 2 cats on my bed. Those poor cats, they try to get away and I grab them and make them sleep with me.
I noticed the girl behind me had a bunch of stuff out towards the road that they were loading up. I think she is cleaning out the final barn and getting ready to burn that one too. This really sucks! Good news is, it's making me start my spring cleaning a lot sooner. Stuff I've had for years that I thought I couldn't live without is at the dump now. The junk drawer in the kitchen, I took out the batteries, opened the trash bag and just dumped the stuff. I figured I hadn't gotten into that drawer for a year other than to get a battery so.....off it went. Both of my son's toy boxes full of stuff he's had for years, trash. I am moving in June so this is a good head start anyway.
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mickeybar
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Posted 02-06-03 10:01 PM
I sympathize with you, Dab. Back in 93, I moved out to Iowa with my ex. We lived in a town of 99 people, (they had to change the population sign when I left,)  and our home was at the southeast corner of town, and our yard was bordered by cornfields on two sides.
We are talking the sticks for this Southern Californian, born and bred!!
One day, they came and harvested all of that there corn...left corncobs all over our yard, and we got absolutely infested with field mice! Danged things even chewed through a few pieces of Tupperware!! Needless to say, I got a couple of outdoor cats and lots of mouse poison. Thank heavens for the suburbs!
Priscilla
Ship's Navigator and Keeper of the Broken Compass
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