i’ve been able to trap them easily using these live traps and peanuts as bait. But they keep coming back, so I need to find out how they’re getting in. I guess that they’re coming in somewhere around the sill plate. But these are deer mice, I think, so they could be climbing up higher and finding an entrance somewhere else. I’ve heard that it’s fruitless to try to seal every possible entrance. Should I just get a cat?
>>2982780cat
>>2982780An actual feral cat like from a farm will kill enough mice to live. That's it. The cat doesn't understand you want it to catch mice. A domestic cat is useless.If you want to jut not see the mice any cat will do. But they will still be in your house touching your stuff and crawling on your face while you sleep.It's absurd to me in this age of technology that you ant simply point couple of cameras to track down where they come in and out.It's not impossible. In theory it's easy, it can just be a lot of work if you have lots of holes and your building is sloppily made.
If you find the hole stray foam plus steel wool keeps them out, they can't chew though the steel.As for entry points around the house plant some peppermint if you can, they hate it.
>>2982780If you are in the country attracting owls would be a better bet. Cats would just be food for the local coyotes.
>>2982811How do you attract owls?
>>2982813mice
>>2982780kill traps. like a dozen. when I lived in the country relentless kill traps (snap never glue or poision) were the only thing that curbed them. chipmunks need to be dropped 5+ miles from your attic, i've gone 10 miles with mice idk if the same ones came back but once I switched to snap traps they mostly stopped.
>>2982810you can get peppermint bags too, those things last 5 years and can just be tossed into spaces.electronic deterrents do NOT work at all
>>2982811stupid city faggot>>2982813girl owls, duh
>>2982819I was just reading this study. I didn't realize that deer mice in particular can travel miles to get back home. I'm tempted to mark the ones I'm catching to test this out. Caught another one last night, but now I'm assuming it's the same one I caught the day before and released about a mile away.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/5/1/99-0125_article
>>2982780bro there is no unlimited number of mice in your area - I can guarantee that. You should just kill them once you trap them and eventually you will deplete the local mice population
>>2982787>A cat kills enough to liveYou don't know shit about cats. They are one of the few animals that kill small game just for the pleasure of killing. That said, rat terriers are better at actual rodent elimination.
I got another one overnight. I'm on a streak of about one a day. I released yesterday's mouse about 3 miles from home.
>>2983051Draw dicks all over it so you'll know if it's the same one coming back. Bonus points for dousing it in tuna juice or something so it has an extra fun trip avoiding predators.
this is going to probably come off as horrifically callous but, good god, you people need a reality check.Mice are disease carrying rodents. Mice are the vector that move ticks large distances. If you see one, there are probably 5 to 10. They breed insanely fast, you have got to get rid of them. They have litters of like 10 to 20 horrifically often. Once theyve made a nest, they can remember it and fucking smell it even if you've entirely gotten the last generation. They wiggle through cracks so small you wouldnt believe. They are a pestilenceyou go get the jaw traps with the claw edge, and the little circle you are supposed to put the proprietary bait goo in, you instead fill with super glue and you glue a raisin down. You then embrace your role as the harbringer of rodent death, and every morning just throw the bodies in the woods unfortunately, some things cannot be allowed to take over our conditioned spaces. Bears, rodents and bugs all need to be managed. alternatively, using a small piece of wire to tie a raisin down to the old style trap works as well. i like the jaw type ones because they are so easy to reset.im sorry. drop your balls and kill the damn things
>>2983058>using a small piece of wire to tie a raisin down to the old style trap works as well.Truth. When I was a kid I figured out that gluing a piece of cereal to the trigger got even the sneaky fuckers that would lick off peanut butter without springing the trap.
>>2982971>rat terriersbut then you have another rodent to take care of...
Anon you missed the part where the trap is supposed to kill the rat. Wether its glue trap or metal thing that thing is not supposed to live afterwards.
>>2982813By being a bit of a hoot
>>2983058I normally don't like killing things but if they're getting into the cars or the house I have buckshotted them out of trees and stomped them to death after them being a nuisance to me for so long.the wires on my car are worth so much more to me than any living thing.
Glue the spring trap to a board, tie the food to the lever for trap. Keep killing until they are no more.
>>2982810>>2982820Do peppermint candles work? Wife loves eucalyptus candles, so might be an easy way to delegate that task.
I have a mouse living around my house, it's been there for years and I've seen it out in the open. I didn't think it was anything to worry about because my foundation is solid concrete without any gaps and goes up a few feet off the ground, but the thing you guys said about crawling through cracks has me concerned. My garage doors don't go down all the way to seal and something small enough could crawl in. Recently something has also started digging holes in my lawn over winter and once the snow melts you can see snake like tracks that they were running through under the snow.Is it time to declare jihad on the local fauna?I have wondered why it hasn't been worse because I live in a subdivision right next to the woods, but there are always coyotes and hawks wandering around.
op back again. I haven’t caught or heard a mouse for the last few days. the last three I caught I released several miles from home. one of the reasons they had gotten so comfortable here is that I have a parrot who eats seed. the idiot takes whatever seed he doesn’t feel like eating and throws it to the ground. obviously I vacuum it every day, but it’s impossible to keep up with. I first knew there were mice from seeing the droppings and then hearing them climbing within a wall. the walls are old plaster ones, so you could hear them clambering up the lathe and plaster keys. I’m not sure if it’s always so easy to catch them but one thing that I think helped was using the peanuts that they were used to from eating the bird’s food as bait. previously I had tried peanut butter, which is more commonly recommended, without success. also, while I don’t like killing the mice, if I lived west of the Mississippi and caught so many deer mice, I would just kill them. the chances of them carrying Hanta virus are pretty big there, and it’s worth just killing them.
>>2983423you can hear mice in your walls, they are destroying and infesting your living space, it is absolutely worth your time to kill them where you are you little bitch
>>2983324>I have a mousethere is no such thing as a singular mousespring traps are finea cat obviously works well toobut a true final solution to the mouse question is and always will be fastrac contract blox or any bromethalin based feed baitbuy a few little plastic bait holders and fix them around your property and spend the 60 bucks on a few pounds of this stuffthis also has the advantage of poisoning the mice so they leave to find water and die away from your shit shop you don't have to deal with clean upget any pest control company to give you a quote and they will all recommend and try to sell you on having them put down bait on some recurring schedule so they can constantly bill you, but you can just buy the exact same shit on amazon
>>2983058this anon has it.also, related: last year I set a trap on top of an old wood stove and a lil' motherfucker came running for the trap the second i put it down, must've been hiding behind a jar or something. faggot looked at me briefly, then sprung the trap. picrel was the bait i used.
