Mice

[Thelemech]

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??

[Typhon]

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.

[Thelemech]

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!!!

[Charger]

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:
)

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.

[Thelemech]

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 
 

[Thelemech]

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:
)

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

[Charger]

Yeah...the pleasures of country side living...

Mice also spread all kinds of disease...stupid creatures.

[Vyn]

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!

[AnnoMundi]

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.

[Thelemech]

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 

[Thelemech]

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.

[AnnoMundi]

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.

[Typhon]

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. 

[Charger]

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.

[AnnoMundi]

Bats are good to have around the house, outside the house of course, they eat a lot of insects that are pests.