How do you control the mice??

[nissan_crawler]

Don't even have to pick them up.

 

[NWOhioChevyGuy]

Well, we own a house built in the 1880's and see a couple each winter. But the majority of them are caught by our four outside cats. I see around 2 a week on average caught by the cats.

We do see a couple in the house each winter, and for those I put out poison and spring traps.

 

[ZRX61]

My garage used to be infested, then I took to spreading a box of mothballs around the place every 4 months or so. They left & haven't come back.

 

[madman]

Cottage style water bucket ramp and tilting trap door. amazing thing, simple and one spring i found 2 dozen dead mice in it, Really works well and cheap easy kindah mean drowning mices though/

 

[Question]

Junk, I've used the sonic generators that plug into the wall sockets. Since I've been using them I haven't see a mouse in the house or garage. I put them in the basement and the attic and a couple in the garage. You can pick up 6-8 at HD for less than $20...
They have worked great for me...
Says they are pet safe...
No dead critters to deal with...

 

[Bevis]

When they start burning and harvesting the sugar cane near my house, the mice come out. Most of the time the neighsbors cats get them, but I also leave a antifreeze bucket out for them in the garage.

 

[lawfarm]

Just a note for those who use poison in areas where your pets cannot reach (e.g. attics)...watch out for mice that eat the poison, and then die in open areas your pets can reach (e.g. eat poison and fall down into the shop). If your pets eat the poisoned mice, voila...dead pet.

 

[UnionWelder]

The reason you find them dead in the dogs water dish is once they eat the poison they need water. I have feed rats poison and had them eat thru a pvc pipe looking for water. I have a freind who swears by putting a few boxes of dryer sheets out to keep them away... same deal as the mothballs i guess... Mice pick warmth over food when nesting. I have a tight garage and its small so no mice but at my shop I have The T-REX snap traps placed 90 degrees against the wall and I bait it with Peanut butter or flour or both and I get them 100 percent of the time.

 

[29bowtie]

When all else fails! Try this. Seriously, I've tried leaving shavings of "Irish Spring" soap,as recommended over on the HAMB by many others. Seems to repel them very well.

 

[Bob Paulin]

Just a note for those who use poison in areas where your pets cannot reach (e.g. attics)...watch out for mice that eat the poison, and then die in open areas your pets can reach (e.g. eat poison and fall down into the shop). If your pets eat the poisoned mice, voila...dead pet.

If you are talking about D-Con, it really isn't a poison.....it's warfarin, a blood thinner.

I posed the question to my dog's vet, and he told me the dog chewing on a mouse killed with D-Con is in no danger whatsoever.....the percentage of blood thinner he might ingest is insignificant.

Generic prescription drug warfarin is also sold as the prescription drug "Coumadin" which is used in people to prevent further blood clots following a coronary episode.

My wife takes it, and I joke about her cardiologist prescribing "rat poison".

 

[Junkman]

When all else fails! Try this. Seriously, I've tried leaving shavings of "Irish Spring" soap,as recommended over on the HAMB by many others. Seems to repel them very well.

When Irish Spring soap was introduced in the late 1960's / early 1970's, they sent out samples. I left a bar at the hose bib to wash hands. It lasted outside for more than 2 years as more like a rock, than a bar of soap. Never could stand the smell of that soap..