Getting rid of mice - all tips welcome!

[TheBlonde]

We have mice

So far I have 2 traps and we are making progress with the body count

Any tips for getting rid of them for good?

Can I use poison or is that a bad idea with toddlers?

P O I S O N

I caught 14 in a humane trap then gave up and poisoned them, they go away and die, and I never found any in the house or under the cupboards.

You haven't seen any droppings and you keep finding corpses?

ulp!

That's my plan shot to crap, then.

Yes no droppings

But I see live mice and then bodies in the traps

bait trap (pref humane) with mars bar or garibaldi biscuit

Wwe used poison and it worked and we never found the bodies - or smelled them.

WEe have a cat but he doesn't seem to like house mice, oly ones he catches.

My next door but one neighbour bought those sonic things. Got rid of her mice, and my neighbours - was a bout then that we got them!

Peanut butter or choc spread on the traps.

we use humane traps but you have to release them MILES from home

dh caught one and dropped it off at the park 2 miles away
next day another, then another and another
he was convinced it was the same mouse - it was no longer scared in the box and seemed to quite enjoy the ride in the car! i told him not to be stupid etc but then after 4 days of catching (the same?) mouse he took it with him to work (50 miles away) and haven't had one since!

those humane traps are very good with a bit of chocolate in.

btw that glue idea is AWFUL and cruel. how could you?

but but but it was climbing our bedroom curtains and WATCHING us from the curtain pole

And it was going in to my DS's room all the time. The protective mama came out in me I'm afraid!

We live in a farmhouse that is named, in old scots "Field of Mice"

We use the snappy traps, ours haven't got used to the shape of them, we've rid ourselves of generations of mice, wholesale, but you have to get the strong ones or the mice suffocate - however the wooden ones purportedly cause occasional beheading .

We got a cat from the local cat rescue team - we particularly asked for one that had been "self-catering" prior to capture.

Bailey (our puss) was living rough at a local factory off mice and scraps from workers sandwiches, and is an utter champion mouser. Watch out though - the state of a mouse after a cat's been at it is far from pretty.

Don't think I could bear the glue thing either - I'm quite happy for them to die, but I want it to be quick.

They are very disease ridden, carry 35 diseases, and if you have a little crawler it's a real worry. So I am now extra worried, I thought we'd won.

We spent a fortune on those sonic things and they did not make a blind bit of difference!

Thanks, Theresad, at least you've saved me a fortune. I already had one in my 'shopping basket' on some web site.

We Live in a tiny victorian terrace now, the only thing I miss about my flat is the mice couldnt climb all those stairs
Sometimes it feels like we are overrun with the things and sometimes we win for a while.
How I cope now is those glue traps where I know the things have a run about, lots of lemon scented cleaners and no food left about, no crumbs, no kids walking about with biscuits, NO FOOD UPSTAIRS.
If I hear one about I put down extra traps and wait.
I know they are cruel but they work!!
BTW I absolutly pooped myself the first time I caught one and had to phone my Dad to ask him what to do next

Theresad daren't ask whereabouts you live sounds a bit mousy...

No more bodies here
Still one trap to check though

Funny enough I caught one mouse last night and then when I got up this morning their was another on sat in the glue trap waiting for me
Yes its very mousy here. And DH just runs away squeeking more than they do
We live just outside Birmingham city centre the row of terraced houses is about 110/115 years old with a chipshop on one end of the row and very dirty neighbours

Oooohhh I like the sound of that. But if you drilled holes in my walls you would dump the poison over the neighbours.

On the other hand ,

Theresad, what do you do with them once they are on the sticky pad. DH found three mice last winter stuck to one and told me never ever again to use it. He said they had started to bite their legs off to get free.
Having said that it was the only thing successful thing that got we ever caught them with.

I am a terrible person Dizzydo. The darn mice should not be in my house in the first place.
I have been told by various people to take the trap in the garden and hit it with a shovel! now even I could not do that.
Or to drop the lot in a bucket of water and let them drown, this is supposed to be the most humane way. You are told to check the traps every hour to save unecessary torment, but I just want the buggers dead.

It does get you a bit like that in the end. especially when you come down on Christmas morning and the little buggers have shredded the foil covered choclate santas and gnawed at the chocolate from your dd's stockings laid out on the fireplace.

I think I could possible do the drowning. (dont shout anyone) but not the shovel ewwwwwwww.

Get pest control in. They leave the poison in locked boxes in inaccesible places. They also used coloured bait so if your child has been nibbling on it it's blimmin obvious and all the info for A&E is on the form they leave with you.

Our house was infested and the bait killed the little b*ggers (with absolutely no smell of rotting mouse. Apparently about 95% of them mummify).

i found a drowned one in a pot in the garden, that got rid of it