Mice - getting rid and keeping rid

[Allen]

It decayed that fast??

[Damo1176]

In the end we found the best bait......sunflower seeds. It had whipped sll the one son the work surface during the night so we put more in the trap. Set it at 6.30pm, caught a mouse within 2 hours. Disposedof in a field. If it comes back its HAmmer time!!

[magic1mike]

I bought 2 lobster pot humane traps after discovering a mouse in my loft - the first in 37 years! I caught it pretty quickly on digestive biscuits which they also love. I released it in local woods. Didn't see any more, but then my wife heard more scratching. I put a digestive biscuit as a test, because I didn't really believe there were any more, and it disappeared 2 days later. I went into the loft to find the 2 unbaited traps and to my horror there was a very smelly long dead mouse in the upturned trap! I felt so mean - not really humane eh? a killer trap would have been kinder!!

[TheAnimus]

chocolate is the best bait

chocolate coated rasins i found worked very well. (one for the trap, rest for me )

Make sure you keep the movements in good conditions, a bit of lube won't go a miss, i'm not been cruel, its just you should give mousie a quick death, letting energy be lost in rusting movements isn't cool.

[Whalefish]

Cats are not very effective at killing mice, and mice are not any more likely to run into a trap baited with cheese. These are both myth's popularised by that evil pair Tom & Jerry.

When we had a couple of cats the back garden used to look like the killing fields for mice, corpses everywhere. The cats we had were very good at keeping the numbers down.
I ran out of toffee so I bought a packet of Chewits, they work ok as bait in the mousetraps.

[arbitor]

Just use conventional traps, they are about a quid and do that job better than anything else.

Humane traps? why then they come back next day dont they. Kill them, then if more come kill them too

[Blackspeech]

Mice are easier to catch than they are to stop in the first place.

If you are seeing mice in your house in the daytime then it generally means that there is fair few of them. I say this because there is more competition for food and so they have to forage in daylight as well, and they are nervous little buggers.

I have killed a few when we had them and what I had to do was block their points of entry. If you live in a sizeable property then that is obviously more difficult, also the age of the property will affect the number of gaps around skirtings etc.

If you can block them out easily try getting wire wool and tightly packing it into the gaps. Please bear in mind that mice will jump onto joists in wall cavities and climb (we had them trying to get out by the lights ceiling mount). I used sheets of glass from a local glazier on large gaps. Mice will not chew through the wire wool or get bricks for the glass. They can however get through a gap as small as a pencil - they are flexible and the fur is coated in an oil that allows them to get through.

If this is all too painful try getting a sonic repellent. You can buy these from Amazon.co.uk - search for 'mouse deterrent' and while I don't know if the work, they supposedley send a signal that is inaudible to humans and effectively annoy the little buggers until the leave.

Don't feel sorry for mice, they breed and breed and breed and they are very destructive - chewing wire, wood, plaster, concrete, furniture, food.

Make sure all food is secured away so making it difficult for them to eat. I feel for you - but at least it is not rats - they wee everywhere!

Hope this helps. Good hunting.