Comments on: DaniGirl versus the Mouse, round 1

By: DaniGirl versus the Mouse, Round 2

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By: Batman

Batman — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:33:44 +0000

I hate meeses to pieces.

Good job on getting the mouse. I’m a little worried about the lost trap though. If you’re missing a trap, it generally means something set it off. Hopefully there’s nothing still stuck in it. You wouldn’t believe how bad something so small can smell when it’s dead.

I have a lot of experience with mousing from my time living along the river (in a house not a van!). The riverbanks were a summer hotspot for mice and the little buggers liked to vacation indoors during the winter. I used to have three traps set up around the third floor of the house to thin the herd. I had better results after I tied a string to the trigger on the snap traps and cut the ends short. Then I’d smear it with peanut butter. Bingo! Best bang for the buck…

Oh…from my experience…there is no such thing as just one mouse. Amy is right…they are legion.

By: Amy @ Muddy Boots

Amy @ Muddy Boots — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:13:59 +0000

“he is Legion.”

“tiny demon claws scrabbing against the gates of insanity here”

“six hundred and sixty six good reasons NOT to open the door”

Dani! YOU ARE ON FIRE! Great post.

By: Rev Dr Mom

Rev Dr Mom — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:35:36 +0000

Shudder….It was just about this time last year that I had a mouse invasion, including the mouse that TRIED TO CLIMB IN MY BED WHILE I WAS IN IT. Shudder.

I confess that I went straight for the mouse poison. I have neither little kids nor pets to worry about, and in the end, the only place it was consumed was in the garage, so I knew right where they were coming from.

Ugh.

By: DeuxHirondelles

DeuxHirondelles — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:09:12 +0000

Yup, peanut butter and spring traps. We prefer the ones with the yellow ‘cheese slice’ bait platform.
A house we bought in ‘07 for our future retirement had had a mouse problem for years. How could we tell? There was a package of baking chocolate, partly gnawed, left in a lower kitchen cupboard. The package design was no longer current and dated back to the 80’s if I remember correctly. Once we had blocked all access routes, it took us 6 months to be certain we had caught all the mice. One mouse tried to reach onto the bait plate to retrieve the PB with his paw. He was caught by his shoulder only and dragged the trap 11′ across the room before succumbing to his injuries. I suggest you expand your search radius.
We also had a rodent problem in our suburban Ottawa house. We slowly whittled down possible access points to one corner of the house. The sill plate bolted to the top of the concrete foundation wall was improperly joined and had left a small hole. Once we blocked it, it took about 6 weeks to get rid of all the mice.
One uninvited guest was a vole. He could run across the trap and not trip it. I ended up using a stick to trip the trap while he was nibbling, then broke into tears. I recognize the necessity of ridding our living space of the critters, but I still feel bad about it.

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:01:26 +0000

I feel for you. We had mice in Connecticut, and we used the white “clamp/clip” style trap that sounds similar to what you’re describing. It always worked, and we always caught our mice in threes, and once, when we opened the door to the attic, a little group of dead baby mice fell down on us, presumably because we had killed their mama earlier. My karma shriveled a little that day, but: MICE. NOT HYGENIC.

We had a guy here in the new house to clean our ducts and he found a couple of old glue traps under the rafters, both featuring … well, what’s left of mice in traps that were set at least five years ago. (Shudder)

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:07:43 +0000

You have my sympathies. Those mice are WILY, and they are hard to get rid of. I wish you the best of luck, and a lovely mouse-free home.

By: UberGeek

UberGeek — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:29:39 +0000

Go with the Peanut Butter option.

I will also offer up a large white cat, Known mouser, likes to deliver his catches as proof of his prowess. errr loves children and dogs, yeah… and doesn’t shed. I can drop him off tonight, well actually how about right now.

oh yeah, Fill the garage with traps as well. and check under the bathroom sinks.

By: alison

alison — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:11:12 +0000

I have *so* been there. I think mice can smell or otherwise sense the presence of a cat in the house. We lost Elvis in Feb 2007, and that fall and winter, mice moved in. Then we got Max, who killed 3 or 4, one spectacularly during Easter dinner with friends over. I blogged it of course. My suggestion, same as the first poster. Time for another kitty.

Oh, and screen captcha: Stephen inspired. Your fears were Stephen inspired, lol.