Fieldmice problems

[no_hypocrisy]

Can you recommend an effective, humane, and maybe green product that can remove the mice or trap them?

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

1. There are electronic plug in devices

that seem to work for that sort of problem. You might google electronic rat and mice devices. I know home depot and lowe's or most any well stocked hardware will carry those.Some name brands better than others. Used in attics and crawl spaces where you would not want to use poison because the mice/rats die inside the walls in areas that are very difficult to get at or impossible. The carcass leaves a terrible order that resonates in living spaces.Check it out.The concept is, it chases the mice or rats out. There are also plug in's that work through the circuits.

In addition you can contact the city or county and find out what they use to get rid of mice in government buildings .For health reasoning they cannot have dead rats in inaccessible areas. I know at one point years ago they used a type of poison that burned inside making the mice/rats run for water outside a building,and of course die. Along the lines of clean green and all that ,yer local gov. is most likely up on that.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Thank you!!

:hi:

[Warpy]

8. There's little worse than a dead rat in the wall

I had to move out of studio space in Boston because the landlord put out poison and everything below the second floor of his buildings became uninhabitable due to the stench.

I had the electronic gizmos and Mickey and Minnie still tried to move in last year. Since they carry hantavirus in this part of the country, I set several varieties of trap. The glue traps were the most effective.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Yes

Meow! :)

[Warpy]

4. The glue traps are highly effective

much more so than the old snap traps. Unfortunately, you're presented with a very live, pissed off mouse welded to the cardboard "tent" the trap turns into. However, it is possible, with extreme care, to unfold the cardboard and scrape the mouse off far from buildings to finish out its life elsewhere.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I installed the electronic devices on Sunday.

No sight nor sound of mice since then.

Many, many thanks.

[Silver Gaia]

6. Here's a home-made no-kill mousetrap that I've used before.

I've caught several mice that invaded my kitchen using this one.

All you need is a toilet paper tube, something to use for bait (peanut butter and breakfast cereal worked for me), a TALL waste basket or trash can that will fit up close to the counter (it has to be tall so the mouse can't jump out--they can jump amazingly high!), and maybe a quarter for a weight on one end of the tube.

Crease the TP tube to create a flat bottom on one side about the width of a mouse's body (about an inch or so usually)--it should look like an arched tunnel with a flat bottom. Then, put some bait on one end of the TP tube tunnel, and position it on the counter so that the baited end is balanced over the waste basket underneath. If it seems to want to tip too easily, you can counter-weight it on the countertop side with a quarter positioned so it's just barely on the edge of the TP tube. I usually put a few crumbs outside the tube to tempt the mouse, too.

It should be set up something like this:



The idea is that the mouse will smell/see the treat at the end of the TP tube. It will just look like a dark, safe, inviting tunnel with a tasty reward at one end to the mouse. The mouse goes in toward the treat, and the TP tube with mouse inside tips and falls into the waste basket. You an then take the mouse somewhere away from your house and let it go.

Of course, same as with a conventional kill trap, you'll also need to find where the mice are getting in and seal up those entry points or you'll just get more mice.

I like the sonic thingies and have used them in my garage before to get rid of rats. They didn't seem to affect the mice that were coming into my kitchen, though (odd, but that's what happened), so I tried this trap and plugged up the holes where they were getting in. No more mousies! (And no icky bloody mouse corpses or screaming mice stuck to a sticky trap to deal with, either.)

[hedgehog]

7. I use these

with an occasional boost from

[NNN0LHI]

9. I use a tin cat in our garage and shed

https://www.pestmall.com/victor-or-catchmaster-tin-cat-mouse-trap.html



Mouse Trap - Tin Cat has the ability to hold up to 30 mice at a time. Tin Cat is made out of steel making it hard to damage. The clear window top makes it easier to manage your catch. The Tin Cat works as a maze, once the mouse has entered the entrance way it will trigger a lever that lowers them into a holding area. Using bait such as cheese, chocolate or a strong scent bait such as Provoke A Mouse gel bait will help the luring the pest into the traps.