Anyone had any success getting rid of mice?

DonnyDave

I first heard a mouse scratching away at the end of March. Yesterday I set a Victor Electronic Mouse Trap (M2524) alongside a joist in the loft. I went up today and the LED was flashing green - opened it up and it had caught one! I baited it with peanut butter.

This model is available in various parts of the world, and in the UK is Rentokil branded with the model number FE35 and is also available as a Proctor Pest-Stop device.

There is no mess; just open the lid and tip the dead mouse into the bin. They can also be left out in areas where you would otherwise not wish to leave traditional mechanical traps.


The best price I found was Robert Dyas online shop at £9.99 plus £4.99 delivery and it took two days to arrive.


Victor do "multi-kill" ones, so they may be more suited for cases where there are greater infestations.

In the loft there is little to eat, so mice are likely to go further. Contrast this with a kitchen where there is plenty to eat, whether still packaged or scraps on the floor. It is probably more important to place the trap in along places where mice run where food is more readily available, so that they come to it without going out of their way.

contrarian52

Nicki wrote: »

We have some intruders hiding out in our kitchen at the moment and are completely failing to catch any of the little blighters.

I know this is going to sound like overkill but since last Tuesday, when we discovered we had a problem, we've had the following down:

1 12 old fashioned snap traps baited with a selection of peanut butter, chocolate spread, biscuits and cheese. These are all close to the wall behind furniture as we have small kids. Some are under the baseboards of cupboards where we think the mice are nesting

2 4 glue board traps 2 baited with chocolate 1 with peanut butter and the last one unbaited all in cupboards where we have seen droppings

3 4 trays of poisoned pellets, all under furniture where children can't reach.

Despite all of this we haven't caught a single mouse, but they are openly running across the floor in the evenings so we know they are still there. . I absolutely hate the things and am finding it hard to go in the kitchen at all.

The council pest control person is coming out tomorrow but I know he will just put down more poison, and clearly this isn't working too well as they haven't touched any of the existing bait. I am reaching the end of my tolerance levels and am worried about them breeding as I know we definitely have more than one (two have been seen simultaneously).

If it makes a difference, we live in a city environment so these are urban mice not country field mice.

Any ideas for things we haven't tried would be greatly appreciated. We can't really have a cat, as there are urban foxes where we live and our last cat came to a sticky end as a result, but I am prepared to consider anything else, even down to moving out for a few days and putting something super toxic down, if that will do the trick.

Reduce the number of traps to 2.

I spent 3 months trapping "small mammals" in Africa for an expedition.
Try oily baits, such as canned mackeral, bananas, peanut butter and mixes thereof.
Wash the traps, and use rubber gloves to avoid human scent on the trap.
Get ferret muck, or buy a ferret.
Put ground glass down the holes. (Avoid skin contact. It really itches.)
Poisons give dead mice in inaccessible places and smells. AVOID POISIONING DOGS. Hide the bait.
Buy a Mancoon cat that is big and thumps foxes

MarilynMonroe_2

The house 2 doors away from me is over run with mince for the second time this year. I have cats and they don't come here!
The old woman though keeps leaving bits of food out though which is why they keep coming back they think.

MarilynMonroe_2

*mice not mince haha

Shak1rak

I had the same problem a while back. The poisons bought on the high street are not as strong as the poisons that environmental health put down. Theirs is 90% stronger. The guy told me that the poison I put down was the little cardboard colour pellets, apparently they are not poison at all. The mice eat that which has no nutritional value so eventually they die of malnutrition. the green blocks work but aren't very strong. I used peanut butter and twix on traps with no joy.
A few days After environmental health came round I haven't seen the little f****r since ))

Stick with the professionals )

Shak1rak

P.s... The sonic things never worked for me as I saw a mouse run right past it with no discomfort at all!! Think they are more of a preventative??

Gloomendoom

Those of you worried about meeces should have a look at what Mrs G brought down from our attic this morning...



15 inches, nose to tail.

Caroline_a

Oh god that's horrible!! I had mice a few years ago, put down one of the electrocution traps and as I'm good at overkill I bought the rat ones. Damn me, I caught 2 rats in them! and yes it did kill them. Still gives me the shudders, but then i got the cat, and not had so much as a hint of a rodent!

alex21

I had one of those sonic things going in the kitchen long before our mice turned up, in fact they sauntered past it to get to the pantry so I felt all I was doing was wasting electricity. We got a few mice at the end of June and like you they were in the kitchen. I couldn't go in there by myself and we were spending a fortune in takeaway as I would not stay long enough to cook!! At the start of July we had many traps baited with peanut butter and they just weren't setting them off but scoffing the peanut butter. We were just feeding the blighters. We tried the buckets with water, various spring traps all to no avail. I left a ribena bottle on its side and one went in but I was too freaking scared to turn it on its end. I tried with a broom, the bottle bounced and mouse shot out like a cork!!! Finally, I got rid of every trap except one glue trap with peanut butter in the middle. My thinking was that if this was the only source of food they would have to go on it. We caught 4 (I replaced the trap with every success) and my brave son popped the trap in a plastic bag before dispensing mickey outside with a spade. Touch wood, this seems to be the end of our problem. I still am keeping everything in pantry in plastic boxes or tins to be on the safe side. Good luck, I really feel your pain.:)

viscachaz

They're not stupid.. Humane traps worked in a few days for me, caught 3 in total, and put them all outside where they belonged!! Also found where they were coming in and blocked it up.