How to Get Rid of Mice, Part 2

Mice don't make the best roommates. Unlike bigger roommates, though, they tend not to take hints that it's time to move along. If you need to get a mouse out of your apartment, you may have to do more than mention that it's time to move along.

If you do have a mouse problem, the time to act is now. Mice reproduce anywhere between five and ten times in a year, with five or six new mice in each litter. It doesn't take any time at all for two mice to turn into a big problem.

Borrowing a Cat
Cats are the time-honored solution to a mouse problem: you borrow one from your friend, leave him in your apartment and let nature take its course. It's not the best plan, but there are a few drawbacks you should consider beforehand. First, not all cats are mousers. If your friend can't swear that his cat has ever encountered a mouse -- and came out on top -- you might be better off with a trap. Bringing a cat into an unfamiliar area can have a few problems, especially if the cat feels a need to mark its territory (although plenty of people swear by the smell of cat urine as a way to drive mice away).

Scenting Your Apartment
Plenty of homeowners say that certain smells, like peppermint oil or ammonia, will drive away mice. At best, however, putting down any kind of scent is a temporary solution. The strength of a smell strong enough to drive away a mouse is enough to get rid of an apartment's human tenants as well. As soon as the smell clears out, mice can come back. You will have more luck putting down a scent barrier around your building to keep mice out in the first place (or after you've driven them out and want to keep them out). Put down a heavy dose of fox urine or another scent right around the foundation of the building, and refresh it fairly regularly.

Setting Traps
The mousetrap is a foolproof, though the least fun, method for pest control. There are a wide variety available, from the Havahart traps, guaranteed to leave your catches alive, to spring-loaded and glue traps that kill mice. It's up to you to make sure that your trap is truly effective, though, and the matter comes down to bait. Peanut butter works well on larger critters, but mice need so little peanut butter to survive that they can just grab and go. Bait like popcorn is a good choice -- it's small enough that the mouse needs the whole thing to survive.

I have caught 2 mice with peanut butter scented glue traps. So they do work, I just had to figure out where to put them in order to catch the mice.

Me and my brother filled each opening with steel wool. And It was a while before I saw another mice. But then one came in through the light fixture in the ceiling. Killed that one. Now I noctice I forgot under the kitchen cabinet. I will pour ammionia under there and seal off the openings. Then place moth balls in various places and see what happens

I have a mouse problem as well. The snap traps work best, and dont waste money on the glue traps.
IT's been a few days and I am seeing more poop! I have finally called the exterminator and he set up more traps. Hopefully in 2 weeks the will be gone. If not, maybe a cat!!!

The best bate for the snap traps is Tostitos salsa con, The cheese dip in the little jars,medium seems to work best for me.

well guys i totally feel your pain they are in my couch my room my closets everywhere i cant even sleep at night thinking how they could jump in my bed its disgusting ewwww but now the exterminator came n we have traps and poison all over lets see what happens catherine....

My family managed a summer rental house for a few years, open in the summer, closed up in winter. Mice would get in and eat ANYTHING. We found that mothballs in vulnerable spots and hidden corners were effective repellents. Yes, mothballs are toxic, so you want to be careful about where you use them. But they do work.
That said, get a pair of kittens and the mice won't be there for long. Also, you will have the benefit of cats.

My cat brought me a mouse from the kitchen. I am anal retentively clean so I was completely appalled by this. Instead of killing it she put it down to play with it and it ran back into the kitchen. I went and bought d-con traps and used peanut butter to try to catch it over the weekend. I ended up calling an exterminator on Monday after having nothing in the traps. The exterminator told me the secret to his success: strawberry twizzlers as bate. Sure enough he set a trap with the twizzler and caught it within an hour. So my advice is catch mice with strawberry twizzlers and make sure you bleach anything and everything the mouse could have touched once you catch it.

As has already been stated, get a cat for a few days, and your mouse problem will be a thing of the past. I tried it, it worked! You will not be defeated this time, so cheer up. Help is on the way.

I had mice in my last apartment - steel wool works
in pluggin up the holes - putting BOUNCE dryer
sheets works also - they don't like the smell and it
drives them away - put them around the perimeter
of the rooms they are in and it should keep them
away. Good Luck - they scared the you know what out of me,too !!

the only thing that's worked for me is that green block bait. It kills them quick.

My upstairs neighbor used that stuff. Unfortunately the mouse died in the ducting at my level in the apartment block. There was a soapy ammonia smell in that area for six weeks, along with a whole load of other critters from the insect world which feasted on the corpse.

If you want to remove a mouse, make sure you know where the body is going to be (alive or dead). Otherwise you or somebody else is going to have to live with the smell for a couple of months.

Nothing is working! What do I do? I'm about to have a nervous breakdown ! I see them everywhere one climbing the stairs one shooting across my feet, one in the pantry. I'm at my wit's end I've put down glue traps, poison, Live Boxes nothing seems to be working at all. Is there anything I can do? Please help I want my home back I can't sleep thinking that they will Jump on the bed ..I feel the next step is to burn the house down! We are about to do renovation on our home will that drive them out? or hide in other spots of our home?
This has gotten to the point where I want to sleep in the car. I can't take it anymore. I feel defeated.

I feel the same as you, I'm at my wits end. Did you get help? If so could you pass it on to me, I would really appreciate it. I hopw you found the help you needed. I don't know what else to do! HELP

use an electric mousetrap....works on batteries...it solved my mice problem...look at amazon.com under agrizap....good luck...

i have a similar problem. while mine are not in the cabinets they are in my couch, my daughters room and the kitchen. i have the green blocks and they are untoched. i have the snap traps with peanut butter and they are untoched. i have the electronic traps and those have been untouched. i think that the only other option is to get a cat. i heard that even if the cat doesn't kill the mouse right away the smell of a cat will.

First of all you need to find out how they're getting in. Once you see that then you should seal up all the holes in your apartment. Under the sinks bathroom cabinets and us steel wool to stop their entry way. Next thing to do is to make sure you leave nothing out for them to eat. Then start putting traps all over the place. You might want to set about 5 -7 traps and leave the house for a few days. When you return yous should have a mouse on each trap. If you have more do the same thing all over again but ake sure they have no entry way into your house. Again make sure everything is clean always. They can survive off of a small amount of food and also make sure you close the toilet seat every night and when you're not home. Use the old time traps they work better. Following what I said you will get rid of this infestation. Glue traps are a joke. Also peanut butter is their favorite so use that on the trap.

Find out what they are eating, and put it out of range. Are they eating a bag of grain. I found one mouse was eating the material (seeds) that were used to fill my juggling balls!!!

The problem is finding the source of entry.There is a hole or holes in your dweling. Locate the holes and seal them up with steel wool. The smallest hole needs to be sealed as wel. A mice can get through a hole the size of a key hole.

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