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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Thelemech on December 22, 2018, 01:38:41 PM
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They are doing renovations in the building that I live at, new siding new windows new carpet and new paint. Well all the hammering and smashing around that takes place during the day is both giving an entrance to mice and also scaring them into goiing all through the building.
Yesterday I saw a quite big brown mouse run across my floor and under my fridge. Then later in the day the damn little bugger was in the garbage container in my kitchen. Well I tried to kill it and chased it around the room. It went under the stove and so far I have seen no sign of him.
I have traps out with peanut butter on them as that was what the manager in my building provided me to deal with the problem. I can say that they do not seem to be working.
I was just wondering if any of you had any advice to deal with this problem??
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Each year I do get 1 or 2 mice in my attic. Quite impressive sense I live in a 2 story house. Anyway, the traps and peanut butter have always worked. Are you still detecting their presents? They may have found greener pastures.
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I am not detecting them today - knock on wood. It is good to hear you say that the traps and peanut butter works
Thanks Ty!!!
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Ah yes...Mice.
I've got cats and those damn things still get into the house every year and do their thing.
I catch probably anywhere between 10 and 20 mice from the attic each year.
I use spring triggered traps
(like these:
(https://www.prisma.fi/tuotekuvat/iso/6417558054371_kuva1.jpg) )
with cheese as bait. Although I have heard a lot of good things about peanut butter...but it does not work well in cold though as it freezes easily.
I can without a doubt say I do hate mice from the bottom of my heart. They've pretty much wreaked havoc with the roof insulation as well as walls. Extremely annoying little buggers.
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Dammit a little tiny one just ran across my room. Little disgusting things. I must say though that they have not shown much interest in the traps.
Makes me feel uneasy that they are running around all night while I sleep. I have nightmares about waking up and having one of the damn things on my chest :lol:
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Ah yes...Mice.
I've got cats and those damn things still get into the house every year and do their thing.
I catch probably anywhere between 10 and 20 mice from the attic each year.
I use spring triggered traps
(like these:
(https://www.prisma.fi/tuotekuvat/iso/6417558054371_kuva1.jpg) )
with cheese as bait. Although I have heard a lot of good things about peanut butter...but it does not work well in cold though as it freezes easily.
I can without a doubt say I do hate mice from the bottom of my heart. They've pretty much wreaked havoc with the roof insulation as well as walls. Extremely annoying little buggers.
10 to 20 - damn!! I hate the little buggers as well
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Yeah...the pleasures of country side living... :squint: >:(
Mice also spread all kinds of disease...stupid creatures.
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Sorry to hear about your new roommates, Thel. Similar to Charger, we get a dozen or so mice every year. Field mice, as we're surrounded by acres of woods and fields.
We have two cats.
Never had to buy a trap, because those cats have never failed to catch the mice. They'll set them by one side of my desk, and line them up if there's more than one.
Good luck!
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I hate rodents too, nasty creatures, I saw a rat once bigger than a cat, it was so big and fat it wobbled when it walked.
I hope you catch them or get rid of the Thelemch.
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Sorry to hear about your new roommates, Thel. Similar to Charger, we get a dozen or so mice every year. Field mice, as we're surrounded by acres of woods and fields.
We have two cats.
Never had to buy a trap, because those cats have never failed to catch the mice. They'll set them by one side of my desk, and line them up if there's more than one.
Good luck!
Thanks Vyn - I wish my cat Garfield was still around - he would have gone after them in a flash. I actually thought about asking a neighbor if I could use her cat to come in and hopefully either catch em or kill em.
For some reason they are not going after the peanut butter traps, I do not know why, and I do not know what is keeping them around as there is no food left out and I took the garbage to the bin.
Little bastards :zomg:
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I hate rodents too, nasty creatures, I saw a rat once bigger than a cat, it was so big and fat it wobbled when it walked.
I hope you catch them or get rid of the Thelemch.
I have seen a rat almost as big as a cat, and it was alarming to witness.
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I hate rodents too, nasty creatures, I saw a rat once bigger than a cat, it was so big and fat it wobbled when it walked.
I hope you catch them or get rid of the Thelemch.
I have seen a rat almost as big as a cat, and it was alarming to witness.
Nasty things were supposedly brought over from Europe as were roaches.
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2 or 3 times over the years, I have had a bat flying around in the house on a summer evening. They never do any damage, though. I just open an exterior door and wait until it finds its way out.
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Bats are really cool! I've got few flying around the yard every summer.
Had one in the house once too. It was injured and I brought it in..stayed a while and then got flying around so I set it free...gotta be careful handeling them though as they can carry rabies. So always with gloves.
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Bats are good to have around the house, outside the house of course, they eat a lot of insects that are pests.
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Sorry to hear about your new roommates, Thel. Similar to Charger, we get a dozen or so mice every year. Field mice, as we're surrounded by acres of woods and fields.
We have two cats.
Never had to buy a trap, because those cats have never failed to catch the mice. They'll set them by one side of my desk, and line them up if there's more than one.
Good luck!
Thanks Vyn - I wish my cat Garfield was still around - he would have gone after them in a flash. I actually thought about asking a neighbor if I could use her cat to come in and hopefully either catch em or kill em.
For some reason they are not going after the peanut butter traps, I do not know why, and I do not know what is keeping them around as there is no food left out and I took the garbage to the bin.
Little bastards :zomg:
I've got 3 cats, that keeps the other mammals outside.
It's perhaps time to bring another cat into your life. Let Jethro Tull do the advertising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgzAmZhTN-Q
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The thing is....as I've noticed anyways is that in time the cat "smell" stops deterring rodents and they'll come anyways. But cats are so much fun otherwise so yeah Thel...go for it! Get a cat! :D
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Back in about '04 shortly after I bought my co-op, I started noticing this wretched smell. I searched around and when I opened the cabinet under the kitchen sink I nearly passed out from the smell. There was nothing visible so I was forced to pull out the bottom shelf of the cabinet. When I did there was this huge dead rat laying in a nest he had built. Freaked me out. So after I cleaned it all up (a lot of bleach was used) I noticed a good size hole in the floor. It's just a crawl space underneath so I took a large flat patio block and covered the hole until maintenance could crawl under there and fix the hole. Definitely the grossest thing I've ever encountered. Insert vomit emoji here.
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DAMMIT I have not seen the mice since Christmas eve but I just saw a big sucker run across the kitchen floor and under the stove. FUCK ----I am so sick of this bullshit!! :wall:
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DAMMIT I have not seen the mice since Christmas eve but I just saw a big sucker run across the kitchen floor and under the stove. FUCK ----I am so sick of this bullshit!! :wall:
Did it have a little cone cap on? Perhaps he was a New Year's mouse!
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x_wTOTU3QA4/VoUyGhwHY5I/AAAAAAAAwco/yGFqPnRV78c/s1600/newyearmouse.gif)
Sorry Thel, I couldn't resist.
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Thelemech, have you gotten rid of your mouse problem?
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I am not sure - I have not seen any for a few days. The traps though are not holding any mice, so I have not killed any yet.
I am hoping that they have moved on but that might just be wishful thinking.
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I am not sure - I have not seen any for a few days. The traps though are not holding any mice, so I have not killed any yet.
I am hoping that they have moved on but that might just be wishful thinking.
That sucks, hopefully they’ll move on, I hate rodents and roaches even more.
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<The following commentary is best read whilst Blue Oyster Cult's I Love the Night, followed by their performance of Nosferatu plays in the background.>
The people with knowledge have since passed on (under questionable circumstances I might add). I was once acquainted with two of them. It was too long ago to count the years, but they shared a tiny amount of their knowledge with me:
First, it's the mice. This phase is...gentle. Annoying, of course. Unsanitary? Absolutely. Yet gentle all the same.
Second, it's the rats. You'll question whether the mice are just getting stouter, but you will just be deluding yourself. They're rats, and this phase is decidedly not gentle. Loud chittering, clothing, furniture, walls...perhaps a toe or two. All gnawed, chewed, and defiled. Diseases of unknown properties being spread randomly and regularly. Unsanitary would be considered clean at this point.
Finally, Dracula shows up and EATS YOUR FUCKING SOUL.
You've got to stop the process Thel. The disposition of your eternal soul is at stake, man.
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Vyn, I live in a complex so I can’t control the vermin, my place is immaculately clean, how do I rid myself of roaches?
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Elves, sounds like you're doing all you can do. Roach traps may help but won't stop the issue.
Until the entire complex is rid of roaches everyone there is subject to being visited by roaches. There are probably folks who aren't as mindful of their housework as you, and that's helpful. To the roaches.
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Elves, sounds like you're doing all you can do. Roach traps may help but won't stop the issue.
Until the entire complex is rid of roaches everyone there is subject to being visited by roaches. There are probably folks who aren't as mindful of their housework as you, and that's helpful. To the roaches.
I’ve tried everything even boric acid, I can’t control the little buggers, mind you it’s not infested, but I hate the sight of them, they make the hairs on my neck stand.
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Roaches are the one thing we here in the cold north don't have to bother with. I don't think I've ever even seen one.
We do have our own little pest bugs though.
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Fun fact: Pablo Escobar had so much cash in storage, he would write off about 10% per year due to rat damage and other wear.
But it was mostly rats eating his money.
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Fun fact: Pablo Escobar had so much cash in storage, he would write off about 10% per year due to rat damage and other wear.
But it was mostly rats eating his money.
He must’ve been living in a filthy place to have enough rats eating his money.
Sickening.
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<The following commentary is best read whilst Blue Oyster Cult's I Love the Night, followed by their performance of Nosferatu plays in the background.>
The people with knowledge have since passed on (under questionable circumstances I might add). I was once acquainted with two of them. It was too long ago to count the years, but they shared a tiny amount of their knowledge with me:
First, it's the mice. This phase is...gentle. Annoying, of course. Unsanitary? Absolutely. Yet gentle all the same.
Second, it's the rats. You'll question whether the mice are just getting stouter, but you will just be deluding yourself. They're rats, and this phase is decidedly not gentle. Loud chittering, clothing, furniture, walls...perhaps a toe or two. All gnawed, chewed, and defiled. Diseases of unknown properties being spread randomly and regularly. Unsanitary would be considered clean at this point.
Finally, Dracula shows up and EATS YOUR FUCKING SOUL.
You've got to stop the process Thel. The disposition of your eternal soul is at stake, man.
:rofl:
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Hey Thel, how's the mouse problem?
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I have a bunch of traps still out but so far I have not seen any in a long time. The renovations on my building are mostly over now so I think that has helped.
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I've got a friend who had a mouse infestation just recently. All the furniture eaten out from inside, carpet ruined. Those rodents are serious business.
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They are doing renovations in the building that I live at, new siding new windows new carpet and new paint. Well all the hammering and smashing around that takes place during the day is both giving an entrance to mice and also scaring them into goiing all through the building.
Yesterday I saw a quite big brown mouse run across my floor and under my fridge. Then later in the day the damn little bugger was in the garbage container in my kitchen. Well I tried to kill it and chased it around the room. It went under the stove and so far I have seen no sign of him.
I have traps out with peanut butter on them as that was what the manager in my building provided me to deal with the problem. I can say that they do not seem to be working.
I was just wondering if any of you had any advice to deal with this problem??
My solution is to take a big catchful she-cat to your house.
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I looked up this old thread because of what took place at my house this past week. It is not uncommon for me to detect that a mouse has been spending time in my garage. I have some bags of bird seed in there and a few days ago I noticed that a mouse had stopped by, gnawed open the bottom of 1 of the bags, and had a midnight snack. I have never figured out how they even get to the bags, because they are on the floor of my flat-bed trailer.
So anyhow, I performed the usual routine: get the mouse trap, bait it with peanut butter, and place it on the trailer near the bags. Then in a day or 2 I see the trap has sprung and I toss the corpse into the woods. In all the years I have used this same trap, it has never missed. So this morning, I go out to the garage to check the trap, and to my astonishment, the trap is gone! :o Now I'm like, "Who the hell took my trap?"
So I start looking around a crowded 3 car garage to try and find my trap. Finally I spot the trap and it turns out that a mouse got only his front foot caught by the trap and was still alive. I then said to myself, "This guy has made it this far, so he deserves another chance at life." I got a large tupperware container, carefully dropped him into the container, releasing him from the trap, got in my Geo Tracker and drove a couple of miles down the road and let him loose. His front leg appeared to be damaged, but he did go hopping away. I really hope he survives, but let him eat someone else's bird seed.
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Respect for a worthy opponent!