ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 10, 2012 10:47pm
We've lived in the house for 10 months, just trapped a mouse. (Go ahead, insert Richard Gere joke). What is the likelihood that there are more, based on any of your own personal experiences? I noticed droppings in the fall, but did nothing. Just bought traps tonight, and had one within two hours.
Suggestions?
Suggestions?
GoChiefs
Posts: 16,754
Jan 10, 2012 10:49pm
Probably more than the one. We are good for around 4 or 5 in our house when it starts getting cold. Just keep setting traps.
gerb131
Posts: 9,932
Jan 10, 2012 10:51pm
Def more than 1, the run in packs.
said_aouita
Posts: 8,532
Jan 11, 2012 3:58am
Get a cat.
hoops23
Posts: 15,696
Jan 11, 2012 4:23am
Cut out the personal attacks and over-the-top name calling
rmolin73
Posts: 4,278
Jan 11, 2012 4:23am
Hire this guy
Midstate01
Posts: 14,766
Jan 11, 2012 4:33am
Dang. I thought this was a cavs thread..
Belly35
Posts: 9,716
Jan 11, 2012 6:29am
I live in a wooded area and every year we get mice. Their are stray cats the wondering around in the woods, we even have a Garden snake or two in the flower beds but it happens, when the weather get colder. We set the trap catch a few an move on.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 11, 2012 6:38am
Spring traps is what I'm using, and have a spin trap in the bathroom, since the toddler gets in there.
Belly35
Posts: 9,716
Jan 11, 2012 6:48am
I set the spring traps at night a check the kills the next morning No reason the set trap during the day to much movement they hide.
oberhaus
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Jan 11, 2012 7:09am
ernest_t_bass;1047904 wrote:Spring traps is what I'm using, and have a spin trap in the bathroom, since the toddler gets in there.
We've had a few mice too. Put some peanut butter as bait and we always get it.
4cards
Posts: 2,551
Jan 11, 2012 7:26am
...traps are ok, but a cat will get rid of them for sure.
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Oldman82
Posts: 68
Jan 11, 2012 7:51am
Unless you store food in the bathroom stick to placing the traps in the kitchen or the food storage area's of you home. Have you check for openings from the outside?ernest_t_bass;1047904 wrote:Spring traps is what I'm using, and have a spin trap in the bathroom, since the toddler gets in there.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 11, 2012 7:54am
Haven't checked outside yet. It's in the bathroom b/c I have found droppings there on more than one occasion.Oldman82;1047932 wrote:Unless you store food in the bathroom stick to placing the traps in the kitchen or the food storage area's of you home. Have you check for openings from the outside?
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 11, 2012 7:55am
I'd love a cat, but I don't think the wife would go for it. Cats are great for spiders too.4cards;1047920 wrote:...traps are ok, but a cat will get rid of them for sure.
SnotBubbles
Posts: 4,492
Jan 11, 2012 7:55am
Is it eating holes through you and your wife's panties?
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 11, 2012 7:56am
No. Stop being stupid.SnotBubbles;1047939 wrote:Is it eating holes through you and your wife's panties?
SnotBubbles
Posts: 4,492
Jan 11, 2012 8:04am
It's a serious question...ernest_t_bass;1047940 wrote:No. Stop being stupid.
...and I reported you for the personal attack.
But I forgive you, brother.
THE4RINGZ
Posts: 16,816
Jan 11, 2012 8:06am
Acouple of years ago in the fall we had a mouse or two in our house. Mostly, from what we could tell, only in the kitchen area. I set a couple of snap traps, using peanut butter as bait. I caught two of them and the problem ended. I am sure the others in the area got the message and left to find a safer place.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 11, 2012 8:19am
You are now on my blocked list.SnotBubbles;1047946 wrote:It's a serious question...
...and I reported you for the personal attack.
But I forgive you, brother.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 11, 2012 8:20am
I got rid of the mouse within 5 minutes of it setting the trap. Not sure if the others saw him.THE4RINGZ;1047951 wrote:Acouple of years ago in the fall we had a mouse or two in our house. Mostly, from what we could tell, only in the kitchen area. I set a couple of snap traps, using peanut butter as bait. I caught two of them and the problem ended. I am sure the others in the area got the message and left to find a safer place.
Is it OK to pick the mouse from the trap with your teeth?
THE4RINGZ
Posts: 16,816
Jan 11, 2012 8:22am
That is the only way for a real man to do it.ernest_t_bass;1047970 wrote:
Is it OK to pick the mouse from the trap with your teeth?
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 11, 2012 8:24am
Correction. Belly would have staked out the mouse, then killed it with a tomahawk.THE4RINGZ;1047973 wrote:That is the only way for a real man to do it.
Scarlet_Buckeye
Posts: 5,264
Jan 11, 2012 8:31am
For sure if there is 1 mouse there are more -- take that from experience.
Put peanut butter on your traps and just trap them. They are not a problem per se, more of an irritant.
Put peanut butter on your traps and just trap them. They are not a problem per se, more of an irritant.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 11, 2012 8:37am
Aren't their feces a delicacy, if you let them sit next to your food for a few months?