Like Ernie Smuntz and his brother Lars, I have been on a mouse hunt. For the first two years in our new home, we never had a problem with mice. I have not seen one in the house, but occasionally I have seen them in our backyard. I have always had the dog food in a Rubbermaid container in the garage where mice tend to gather. The only food source seems to be a bag of grass seed. Well I guess if you count the fact that we tend to switch car seats in the garage and 2 pounds of Goldfish, eleventy hundred French Fries, half eaten cookies, and any other number of food sources tends to fall on the garage floor, we may have a problem.
We live next to a dairy, and they are moving, (thank God) and recently we began having a pest problem. My theory is that the mice were having plenty of food to eat when they were feeding the dairy cattle, now their food supply has left. The mice now need somewhere to migrate. I am starting to have this Willard thought enter my mind.
We have all seen the standard wooden, spring loaded, mousetrap. I use peanut butter, but some people use other forms of food to try to capture mice. These mice of mine are like the Mission Impossible mice. I can't seem to capture them. I have used several different techniques and I have not been able to capture a single mouse.
This is how I have pictured them recently.
MIGHTY MOUSE!
I have tried all of the traps at Home Depot at this point, and I finally found something that works.
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Considering mice are able to reproduce at a very young age and they have 13 litters per year, with an average of 5 mice per litter, I could be in definite trouble. Even I can do that math.
Can a person rent a cat? I wonder if Acme has one of those robot cats?
I had the mother of all mice problems this winter. It was HORRIBLE. I tried three different kinds of traps and finally said a prayer to the rodent gods ("please please please don't let these critters die in my walls and stink up my house") and went wild with poison. It took care of the problem, and although I did find two dead ones in my basement, as far as I know, none died in the walls.
I just happen to have a few cats you can have if you don't mind your houseplants also being eaten. Oh, by the way, these cats come complete with 2 boys ages 18 and 21.... such a deal!
Watch out for snakes. When we had a mice plague it brought in a dangerous snake to the house (fortunately only outside). During our mice plague we were getting at least 50 a month, including babies umong photographs.
I would loan you one of my kitties free of charge, (considering they eat probably as much as Dodger does, (including begging for table scraps dog style, I might add) I think that is fair excecpt....
They are lazy buggers. All of em. You know how Garfield deals with mice? Thats my cats! (But dayum, they're gorgeous!)
Rent? Just go to the pound and rescue one, dude. You'll love it.
Great, now the Mission Impossible theme song is stuck in my head.
I'd loan you my two cats, but they are afraid of mice. They are also afraid of hedgehogs, but for that i don't blame them. Zo' was vicious. *roll eyes*
We had rats at a house we used to live at.
These things were bigger than my cats.
Poison finally did the trick. Lots of poison. We paid somebody to come handle the poison.
I don't ever want to have rats again.
"Do you see a mouse?? No, no, no. I do not see a mouse."
Mice invade the Park Snoot Hotel. You must get that book. Genuine Kids would love it!
We used to get 2-3 mice in our garage a week. Poison and (glue)traps worked but were just WAY too messy. And, with small kids they were not really an option that made up happy. Plus I hated the clean up.
We went to our local Harward store and bought the sonic mouse repelent... and that worked. We have not had a mouse in our garage in almost 2 years now.
I'm with Philip...we used to have MOLE infestations and I told my husband that if I saw one more rodent, I was getting my cat. Since then I've seen a few rodents....all inbetween the paws of my kitty Duchess. If you DO get a cat, get a female...they're MUCH better mousers!
We used to get gophers in the yard (same house that loved rats, sigh) and you could tell when the dog had been chasing them because you would find a twelve foot long trench in the yard. Or several of them.
I never did see them actually CATCH one, I think they just liked to chase them. And dig up my yard.
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