Mice are taking over my house! Help!

[silkiechicken]

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Sure they do:

Anatomy of the Lab mouse
http://www.informatics.jax.org/cookbook/

Vicera
http://www.informatics.jax.org/cookbook/figures/figure67.shtml

I've dissected mice and identified their bladder. I've had pet mice and they would hold their pee while I was holding them, and would go to the bathroom when I set them down. They do dribble to mark their territory, but it's not due to a lack of a bladder, and they didn't dribble on me once they weren't babies anymore.

As for ridding of them. I hear just the smell of a cat can be a deterant. Does the other house on the property with the cat have the same problem? Maybe even an outdoor cat would help out?

Best of luck.

 

[Crunchie]

As far as I know, my mom has no problem with mice. Her cat is a serious hunter--though he more often than not brings her half-eaten baby bunnies, and for the life of him he can't figure out why that upsets her so much??!!

Poor cat. Maybe if there were more good mousers outside that would help, but my mom's cat is actively hunting around the house so I'm not so sure that would do much good? Plus I'd be taking a chance that any cats I adoped would be good hunters...of course, not all are so inclined.

Mothballs might work, but the chemicals in them are pretty nasty--not safe for me to have around, especially with an infant.

 

[morelcabin]

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I have used that with success, moth balls places between double pained windows will also keep all kinds of bugs away. (spiders/houseflies) Just make sure the kids can't get them...they'll think thier peppermints.

 

[morelcabin]

Quote:
Sure they do:

Anatomy of the Lab mouse
http://www.informatics.jax.org/cookbook/

Vicera
http://www.informatics.jax.org/cookbook/figures/figure67.shtml

I've dissected mice and identified their bladder. I've had pet mice and they would hold their pee while I was holding them, and would go to the bathroom when I set them down. They do dribble to mark their territory, but it's not due to a lack of a bladder, and they didn't dribble on me once they weren't babies anymore.

As for ridding of them. I hear just the smell of a cat can be a deterant. Does the other house on the property with the cat have the same problem? Maybe even an outdoor cat would help out?

Best of luck.

They dribble more than just to mark thier territory, they dribble constantly to find thier way around and to lead other mice to openings and food. You're right, they do have bladders, but they don't hold thier urine like most mammals. THey leave trails everywhere. It's not the same as a dog who marks his territory in one or two places...

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

The only thing that has ever worked for us in our garage was poison...we put it up high so the animals would not eat it. The first few days the mice would eat the whole pack! Then by the end of the month they were eating less of it. By the end of the second month the poison pack was staying full. NO more mice turds, the mice were gone! We tried snap traps at first but they kept licking the pb off and grabbing the cheese without getting snapped. We were afraid they were going to start coming in the house so we wanted them gone fast. Nothing smelled in the garage at all. Someone told me the mice leave their nest when they are feeling sick and go into the wood and die. We have never seen a dead mouse at all. My sister also planted poison in the basement where the pets and kids did not go and she had TONS of mice. All gone now and no smells in the house. Good luck!! I hope you can get rid of them soon! I also have two cats in the house so mice would be committing suicide if they came in

 

[tiki244]

Plastic gallon jugs for milk,,,,,,,fill with water 7/8 full and leave the top off,,,,,,,get rid of all water in house,,,,,shut toilet valve off and flush before bed,,,,strategically placed the work good for traps,,,,,,,also use the snap traps perpendicular to the walls,,,,,use PB and other treats,,,,buy new traps,,,,I always use new traps,,,when a mouse dies in a trap it goes in the garbage,,,,,I figure the smell might deter other mice from coming to that trap,,,,,,do that every night and you should be catching mice

Yeah the moth balls are good too

I have always caught mice with the water jugs,,,,they drown

 

[Rosalind]

If a cat will upset the pit bulls, what about a terrier of some sort?

 

[buckinnuts]

Just get a black snake
they love mice
I had one in the basement crawl space all winter had no mice he moved out for the summer guess what the mice started to comeback around
just hope the wife doesn't find out about my new 6ft mouse trap

 

[chickenman44]

two things that works for me, soak a rag or paper towel in peppermint oil. they HATE HATE HATE it. for the mice that used to live in the shed where my feed was, i took a 5 gal bucket, sprayed the inside walls with Pam, then sprinkled something they like in the bottom(i used sweet sheep feed cuz they loved it). they hop in, and cant get out. don't get me wrong, this isn't a humane trap cuz you have to kill them afterward, drowning worked for me.

 

[holliewould]

I heard, just something I heard, you can take a five gallon bucket and fill it 3/4 way full of water. Then throw a bunch of sunflower seed on top of the water. Apparently they float. ANyway, the rats/mieces jump in after the sunflower seeds and drown in the water because they can't get out. Just something I heard. For my problem I just went to the local animal shelter and grabbed a few kittens. I only feed them in the mornings dry food and that's it. The rest of the time they're on their own. No rats/mieces here.

I'm in the rat capital of the world.