Mouse in the House

• ernest_t_bass

  

  We've lived in the house for 10 months, just trapped a mouse. (Go ahead, insert Richard Gere joke). What is the likelihood that there are more, based on any of your own personal experiences? I noticed droppings in the fall, but did nothing. Just bought traps tonight, and had one within two hours.
  
  Suggestions?
• GoChiefs

  

  Probably more than the one. We are good for around 4 or 5 in our house when it starts getting cold. Just keep setting traps.
• gerb131

  

  Def more than 1, the run in packs.
• said_aouita

  

  Get a cat.
• hoops23

  

  Cut out the personal attacks and over-the-top name calling
• rmolin73

  

  Hire this guy
  
• Midstate01

  

  Dang. I thought this was a cavs thread..
• Belly35

  

  I live in a wooded area and every year we get mice. Their are stray cats the wondering around in the woods, we even have a Garden snake or two in the flower beds but it happens, when the weather get colder. We set the trap catch a few an move on.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Spring traps is what I'm using, and have a spin trap in the bathroom, since the toddler gets in there.
• Belly35

  

  I set the spring traps at night a check the kills the next morning No reason the set trap during the day to much movement they hide.
• oberhaus

  

  ernest_t_bass;1047904 wrote:Spring traps is what I'm using, and have a spin trap in the bathroom, since the toddler gets in there.

  
  We've had a few mice too. Put some peanut butter as bait and we always get it.
• 4cards

  

  ...traps are ok, but a cat will get rid of them for sure.
• Oldman82

  ernest_t_bass;1047904 wrote:Spring traps is what I'm using, and have a spin trap in the bathroom, since the toddler gets in there.

  Unless you store food in the bathroom stick to placing the traps in the kitchen or the food storage area's of you home. Have you check for openings from the outside?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Oldman82;1047932 wrote:Unless you store food in the bathroom stick to placing the traps in the kitchen or the food storage area's of you home. Have you check for openings from the outside?

  Haven't checked outside yet. It's in the bathroom b/c I have found droppings there on more than one occasion.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  4cards;1047920 wrote:...traps are ok, but a cat will get rid of them for sure.

  I'd love a cat, but I don't think the wife would go for it. Cats are great for spiders too.
• SnotBubbles

  

  Is it eating holes through you and your wife's panties?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  SnotBubbles;1047939 wrote:Is it eating holes through you and your wife's panties?

  No. Stop being stupid.
• SnotBubbles

  

  ernest_t_bass;1047940 wrote:No. Stop being stupid.

  It's a serious question...
  
  ...and I reported you for the personal attack.
  
  But I forgive you, brother.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Acouple of years ago in the fall we had a mouse or two in our house. Mostly, from what we could tell, only in the kitchen area. I set a couple of snap traps, using peanut butter as bait. I caught two of them and the problem ended. I am sure the others in the area got the message and left to find a safer place.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  SnotBubbles;1047946 wrote:It's a serious question...
  
  ...and I reported you for the personal attack.
  
  But I forgive you, brother.

  You are now on my blocked list.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  THE4RINGZ;1047951 wrote:Acouple of years ago in the fall we had a mouse or two in our house. Mostly, from what we could tell, only in the kitchen area. I set a couple of snap traps, using peanut butter as bait. I caught two of them and the problem ended. I am sure the others in the area got the message and left to find a safer place.

  I got rid of the mouse within 5 minutes of it setting the trap. Not sure if the others saw him.
  
  Is it OK to pick the mouse from the trap with your teeth?
• THE4RINGZ

  

  ernest_t_bass;1047970 wrote:
  Is it OK to pick the mouse from the trap with your teeth?

  That is the only way for a real man to do it.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  THE4RINGZ;1047973 wrote:That is the only way for a real man to do it.

  Correction. Belly would have staked out the mouse, then killed it with a tomahawk.
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  For sure if there is 1 mouse there are more -- take that from experience.
  
  Put peanut butter on your traps and just trap them. They are not a problem per se, more of an irritant.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Aren't their feces a delicacy, if you let them sit next to your food for a few months?