How do I get rid of these fuckers from my apartment?My landlord is paying an exterminator but all they do is put poison traps and come back to check on them, but I've been having this issue for months. The exterminator doesn't look for holes or fill any with wool. All they do is monitor the bait stations.If I want to tackle this myself, what's the best way to do it? Should I buy a blacklight and try to find where they're coming from?I have a electric stove top and I've seen these fuckers scurry inside the burners, but I don't know how to get them out.
>>2867094cat
Put poison traps and check on them maybe? I wish there was a more immediate way but from what I've experienced the best way to deal with them is just a fuckload of poison and traps until the problem is gone. Blocking all the points of entry would be a more long term solution but that might just not be feasible.
>>2867098And by fuckload I really do mean like maybe two times more than you think would be enough.
>>2867094I had a very sudden and severe rat infestation once and I stuck my head up in the attic and threw fistfuls of rat poison everywhere. That was all it took.
>>2867094The answer is the same answer to the question "what do you see when you browse /b/?"Traps. Traps everywhere.
>>2867094I put some thing that makes a high pitch sound in my shed and it seems to work, I trap fewer than before. Probably irritates them too much to sleep in there.
>>2867169I got mice in the attic and I tried throwing poison all around, they seem to just ignore it. What kind did you use? I got pic related.
Don't use poison unless you want to smell mouse corpses that you can't find and deal with the flies that will find them and reproduce on them. Either set up one of those bucket traps (look it up) or get a shit ton of regular, old fashioned mouse traps and keep killing. Tip - glue a piece of cereal to the trigger of the mouse trap, it works better than peanut butter as they can't lick it off and have to tug at it.Since you're in an apartment you might not be able to eliminate them completely, especially if the other tenants are disgusting slobs. If you live somewhere with good tenant rights, document evident of the mice (droppings, chewed packaging, whatever) over time so you can pressure the landlord legally to actually deal with the problem rather than hiring cousin Benny to drop bait stations. You're not going to be able to seal an apartment well enough to keep them out.
>>2867094Like the other anons said, tons of accessible traps, so they don't stink ya up, but there is another consideration.You gotta seal up wherever they're coming from. I has an apartment mouse infestation once and when I looked at the kitchen cabinets there were tons of gaps n shit. You gotta use steel wool, or something else they can't chew though, you can caulk over it for looks if ya want. But jam steel wool into any gaps in cabinets/floorboards/etc. Especially on the walls where your apartment connects to the rest in your building.
>>2867477I don't remember the brand but I bought it at Home Depot and it was a bag of small individual packets that you can toss intact. Perhaps they take it back to their nest and poison everyone there. They are supposed to get thirsty and leave to seek water which is good because they bleed out and make a mess. I found a few dead ones out in the open in my garage but never smelled any corpses otherwise. I never saw another rat again after that.
>>2867476Every place I've seen these in have also had mice in. I'm inclined to believe these are a slight annoyance to the mice at best. Or just snake oil.
>>2867094They smelled food and literally ate through the wall, behind the stove, since it's an area that is never touched. I had EXACTLY this, in my house. When I pulled the storage drawer out from the stove, guess what I saw? A wood patch, that the PREVIOUS owner must have put over a mouse hole, twenty years earlier. The fuckers finally chewed around the patch and it fell down. I threw rat poison into the hole and covered the whole area with a piece of thin sheetmetal. If they get around that, fuck it - they deserve the house and I'll move out.
>>2867169And then they died in the walls and stunk up the house for 3 months.
>>2867477There's this non-toxic salt based one that's supposedly effective. Rat-X I believe. The high salt concentration allegedly destroys their stomach lining, and causes them to stop drinking water and mummify themselves to death.
I exterminated rats for money1. Limit food waste. Mice have a fairly broad concept of "food" but if you aren't careful with your waste you're not going to fix the issue. In an urban area you might have to work with (or against) other urban vermin. 2. Set baits mice can't eat all at once. So in your home that might be wax blocks, but there are clever feeders that will dispense cheaper poisons over a longer period. Obviously you need to bait a wider area than your own flat. 3. In plague proportions you have to set up rollers and drums,a huge number of mice will run across the roller for penut butter, fall in, the drum will collect hundreds at a time and they will just eat one another. 4. Seal up entry points. Easier said than done but you do what's practical. Repoint cement, repair skirting boards, put wire mesh in utilities ducts, put paper on power poles and tree trunks.5. Consider tegrogens. In breeding season. Abortion poison for mamals. Obviously there's significant risk of environmental contamination but in buildings you don't tend to see an ecosystem.
Oh any you might want to upgrade all the bins to the closed top variety and lock your big apartment bins to stop hobos throwing trash everywhere
>>2867094>How do I get rid of these fuckers from my apartment?
>>2867094Fucking hell, mate, it'll take a while.My girlfriend's families house was riddled with mice earlier this year; her dad would leave half eaten takeout in the basement--I mean literally nothing was cleaned up. Eventually he hired a cleaner that would come once a week to put all of the rotting food in a garbage bag, and then she'd leave the bag in the garage. Mice got in immediately.I ended up getting the mice under control through a few methods.1. Get poision blocks. Make sure they're weak enough so they'll drag them back to their nest and kill the others.2. Clean out your pantry at minimum once a week. I always found mice feasting whenever I went up for a snack, try to catch them with a cup when you see them it's very fun once you get good at it.3. Find the nest and bash it with a metal pipe. It's not fun but it's an easy way to kill them while they're young.Godspeed Anon.
>>2870637Proof of my success. I battled these fucks for months, I was good enough to reliably catch 2-3 a day.
>>2867094The absolute best trap I've found is using sticky traps. Especially if you're able to observe the route they prefer using. I noticed mice in my home a few days ago, went out and got some sticky traps, and within one day I caught two of the bastards. They also sell little trays of poisoned pellets which I found worked well in drawing them out. I figure that if they somehow managed to avoid the sticky trap, the poison would get them.
>>2867095fpbp
>>2867477These do nothing, I'm pretty sure someone's baby ate one of these back in my old housing complex and he just vomited it out and was fine afterwards
Traps and cats are all you can do. Use better bait on your own traps if you have any. Other than that, hope. I've had mouse problems for months, all my traps ignored. I get an exterminator guy the landlord called in for some other issue to donate a couple traps, and two days later the little bastard gets snapped up. Stupid son of a bitch is lying there, looking at me with sadness in his eyes as I scoop up the trap, dump it in a bag, sanitize the floor, and throw him in the dumpster. Shouldn't have kept shitting all over my tables and kitchen then, motherfucker.
>>2867094Tear open & spread at least a dozen packet size piles of green pellets thru-out your premises.Monitor & replace quantities taken..Keep it up for 3 weeks & you'll notice its then taking so long for new rats & mice to migrate to your unoccupied apartment that you'll stop caring.Continue to monitor & replace quantities taken..Each new wave of virgin territory explorers will result in even more bait taken and even longer periods of time for the next wave of explorers to reach you.Then out of the blue you'll realize you've single handedly cleared the entire building.
>>2867476I had a rat problem last year and used those in addition to poison traps and various other things to make it harder for the rats. (Being more strict about leaving food out, switching to a metal container for dog food, maintaining the yard better, etc.) We successfully got rid of the rats but I'm not sure the electronic things helped much, we had one in the kitchen and I caught rats in there at night only a few feet away from it on a few occasions before they were gone.
>>2867094Cat or peppermint oil
>>2867476Why they look at me like that
>>2867094steel wool and the firestop sprayfoam in a can, also tomcat bait blocks everywhere
>>2867476Tech designed to piss off rats, the literal analog for human testing. I assume the harm these cause their consumers is less than the harm a rat will do in a year.
You've already battled them i assume
>>2867476Kind of embarrassing how comparatively piss-week humans are..The list of animals we are better than isn't exactly impressive.
