Bastard!!! We have mice. They have become very bold and harldy bother to tun off and hide behind the sink when we enter the kitchen at night - the just look at us as is to say -erm....yes? can we help you with something?

So, being the nice guy I am we bought some of those humane traps, where the mouse runs in for the peanut butter cracker and then cant get out. However, it soon became apprarent that these mice are a cut above your averadge rodent as they routinely turn their little noses up at peanut butter crackers. So, last night I hit upon the idea of smearing the entrance with bacon fat. Ba da bing. Went for a drink of water at midnight and there was mickey, huddled up in one of the traps. How I did larf. It takes a pretty smart rodent to pull the wool over my eyes, I told Mrs Sod. I'll free it tommorow in next doors garbage. And off I went to bed secure in the knowledge that I had the buggers beat.

I have just gotten up and lo and behold it is gone. along with the cracker!! It occurs to me now that one of its furry comrades has smelled the bacon grease and come for a sniff, freeing the other one in the process. Either that oe they are just plain taking the piss. I knew I should have put the trap out in the snow last night and let it freeze to death. I considered it but didn't have the heart. I will not be so considerate next time. Anyone else had mouse probs and have any advice or trickery that may be helpful?

Mice are like terrorists. You're either against them, or your on their side.

Ruthlessness. Hit them hard and where they live. Take the battle to the yard. Kill them in their nests, and kill their family too, and anyone who looks like their part of their family.

Sorry, was just re-reading some political speeches...

Have you tried the 'sticky boards'? These are like giant pieces of fly paper where the mouse runs on and you can (usually) peel them off later when you set the free. The snap traps don't always kill, probably about 50% of the time.

Peanut butter is good bait. They can't really run off with it--they just sort of run around licking it until the trap is activated.

If you are near water (lake, creek, etc) you really need to jump on this problem before spring. (Rodents + water source = snakes). The snakes will come from as far away as a half-mile or so to get some fresh mice. But most snakes are asleep now for the winter so you have some time.

Good luck.

Well it depends if you're willing to kill them.

Yes, I've had problems - and I live sorta in the country, so they're around.

I'm afraid I consider it natural selection - those that insist on living in my house are gonna die.

I use the Decon bait - nicer than finding dead bodies in traps. Of course, I do find the occasional dead mousie. If you have pets (dogs, cats) you do really need to make SURE they can't get to it - either get pet-proof bait boxes, or be really really really sure they're somewhere pets can't get to.

Mice tend to have "trails" around the edges of the room, under cabinets, etc. so that's where I'd put the bait.

You also need to remove all food (other than in cans) from the lower kitchen cabinets where the mice can get to it.

If you have one... you almost certainly have more.

I'm not a fan of glue traps after having to chase a mouse that was only caught by one foot around the garage. He could skid that trap along pretty well on three legs. Kill the bastards. I've had much better than 50% success with the standard spring traps baited with peanut butter. If you find that the bait is taken but the trap isn't sprung, bend in the little part of the pan that holds the spring hold down bar so that it's a "hair trigger" setting. It makes the trap a little harder to set, but it goes off at the slightest touch of the bait pan.

We had mice in the attic, so we used the spring trap that you put the bait in. We used a raisin coated in peanut butter so it would stick in the bait cup. You then put the cover over the trap so it looks like a dark hole to the mouse. When it is caught, you just lift up the lever and the mouse drops out. No need to touch dead mouse. I don't want the mice coming back in the house again and breeding so they do get killed.

My sister had mice in her rented house in the UK last year and was advised to take them at least half a mile from home before letting them loose as if you let them out next door they will come back the next night, Boy did she look an idiot every morning for 6 days drving each mouse of a little family one by one half a mile down the road,(safely tucked in its trap in a shoe box, in the boot) before letting it out in a wooded area, anyone wathing her must have wondered what she was up to. She said it was as though every day they got bigger and bigger until it was obviously the daddy mouse who gave her the right eveil eye ! Never saw anymore after that though

You should have seen me driving around with the possum in the garbage can, stealthily looking for a good spot to let him loose.

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Take the food source away and they will find somewhere else to live.

We have had mice in our homes over the years and stopping the mice getting any food stops them staying around. Within days they up and leave and don't come back. Mice like to live in close proximity to their food source. Cookies, cereal, flour, rice etc. are put in plastic containers. No petfood is left lying around inside or outside the house. It has been years since we had any trace of a mouse in the house.

They'll chew their leg off, also, to free themselves of a glue trap.

Attach razor blades to them, or explosives.

we had a few over the last couple of months, we would see them scooting across the kitchen floor to get to our dog food bowl

then my wife stepped on one that our god had kep t for laters under her blanket - guts everywhere (not really they are so small)

in the end I chucked a load of the green chunks in the basement which seems to only moderately helped since they seemed to be coming out of a small gap between the floor and our kitchen island

i balanced a green chunk of bait in the gap and waited

clonk (as it fell on the floor with a big chunk nibbled out of it)

i got some duct tape to stick it in place and no more mice

tannerite?

Who is this god that feeds on mice?

How about a cat?

How come nobody else has considered this?

I grew up on a farm and we had mousing cats that could tackle mice, rats, snakes and rabbits.

And they were cute and went 'meow' as well.