Marduk

Friggin mice! I'm being invaded. How do you get rid of these things? I snagged 2 in one of those sticky traps, but last night the little smartasses taunted me by somehow dragging the trap from behind the couch, across the room and left it under my comfy chair with no mouse attached. They are plotting against me! they are evolving before my eyes!
They must be too small to set off the regular type mouse traps. The buggers got the cream cheese off those without tripping the trap.
I can't use mouse poison cookies because I have a big dumb dog who is totally oblivious to the mouse invasion. (he won't tolerate a feline either)
Help!!!!!!

Ab_Normal

We ended up using D-Con poison bait, it comes in boxes small enough you can hide them under furniture so the dog can't get into them. But if the mice are moving things around, I dunno, it might not be a good idea... man, you are screwed!

tribalbeeyatch

Catch and release!

Karyn

Hey, Mr. Jinx - I feel for ya but I can't offer any viable solution - I solved the problem with a wonderful girl-cat who's very calm except when it comes to hunting - she brings us presents of mice, moles, baby bunnies & birds, full-grown bunnies & birds...

maybe you could just borrow her for a while?

Sakpo

Just to repeat, get a cat.

Chicken Girl

what about live traps? the kind where once they get in, they're trapped inside, but it won't hurt them (unless you don't let them out and they starve )

then you can just catch them and put them outside.

Writer@Large

Club Crackers smeared with a generous layer of peanut butter, then lovingly topped with D-Con rat poison pellets. The little bastards drag the crackers back to their nests, devour everything, and die out of sight.

I solved my mouse problem in about two weeks that way. Eventually, I discovered where they were entering, and I put an open poison box near it, smeared in peanut butter. Half the box of poison disappeared, and all the PB was licked clean, but I never saw another mouse in the two years I lived there.

--W@L

Writer@Large

Then they will know you are a pushover, and they will come back. And they will bring friends.

There's a reason we call them vermin.

--W@L

ju'iblex

unfortunately in some areas that would be pretty irresponsible. Take for example myself, we live near the Royal National Park and have both native bush rats and house mice, if i were to let another house mouse back into the bush to do yet more breeding and pilaging of other native creatures food, then that would probably be wrong of me.

No matter how guilty i feel about killing the cute little meeses.

wildernesse

When we had a mouse (or two), my roomie did bring her traps home from the field (she studied wild mice--how handy--she also had a tank full of them in her room!) and caught it. Apparently, wild mice are smarter than lab mice, and it escaped from the tank she had it in. She let it go outside, but it came back and so she killed it because it didn't learn.

I was glad she was here, because all I did was jump around and go "eep! eep! Mousssee!! eep!" while the mouse ran around looking for a place to hide. I felt bad about using poison or traps on the poor mousie, so I couldn't do anything about it. (Yes, I know, I'm weird.)

I haven't seen any mice in about a year, and now we have kitties so we should be good to go.

--tibac