You should know for every mouse you see, there are likely at least half a dozen more you don’t. You’re welcome for that mental image, BTW. To get rid of them, Poison’s most effective, but if you have a pet (especially a cat) you may want to avoid that. Glue traps and clamshell traps are decent, but I found out that mice learn FAST and most likely you’ll only get one or two with either. You might ave to end up getting a pro exterminator.
After my cat passed, I had issues with mice for months. There were only 3 or 4. But, yeah they learn FAST. They avoided poison and traps only ever worked ONCE. *sigh*
Okay the glue trapped worked twice but only because one woke me up and I moved some boxes to herd him through the glue trap and then chased him out of the room. Gotcha! Thankfully that was the last one. That or they learned their lesson and moved out.
Plus with poison those suckers can end up dying anywhere. I once laid down on the couch for a nap and woke up to find I’d been sleeping on a dead mouse for two hours.
I really don’t suggest glue traps. They’re inhumane for the mice, and for everything else (including harmless lizards and the like) that gets stuck. Snap traps are much more humane and tend to be more effective anyway, plus they don’t get stuck to things.
The main thing that makes poison inappropriate for rodents is that is causes a tendency for them to die inside walls and other such places where you cant get to them for disposal. So then they stink up the place with their decomposing little carcasses.
I live in farm country and when there’s a storm or a cold snap you can literally watch them run from the field toward the house.
I block entries as best I can. Foam holes and spigot surrounds. Traps, poison, mint packs. Nothing works.
It’s more ‘maintenance’ of the problem than eradication because they reproduce all spring, summer and fall in the field and ‘storm the castle’ in the cold.
We had a shrew in our attic when I was a kid. I’d hear it scurrying around up there at night and it scared the shit out of me. I just knew it was gonna find its way down and bite me.
Never had a mouse in my house. Maybe a louse, but never a mouse. I think I live in a boring house. But that’s one less thing over which to grouse.
You should know for every mouse you see, there are likely at least half a dozen more you don’t. You’re welcome for that mental image, BTW. To get rid of them, Poison’s most effective, but if you have a pet (especially a cat) you may want to avoid that. Glue traps and clamshell traps are decent, but I found out that mice learn FAST and most likely you’ll only get one or two with either. You might ave to end up getting a pro exterminator.
After my cat passed, I had issues with mice for months. There were only 3 or 4. But, yeah they learn FAST. They avoided poison and traps only ever worked ONCE. *sigh*
Okay the glue trapped worked twice but only because one woke me up and I moved some boxes to herd him through the glue trap and then chased him out of the room. Gotcha! Thankfully that was the last one. That or they learned their lesson and moved out.
Plus with poison those suckers can end up dying anywhere. I once laid down on the couch for a nap and woke up to find I’d been sleeping on a dead mouse for two hours.
I really don’t suggest glue traps. They’re inhumane for the mice, and for everything else (including harmless lizards and the like) that gets stuck. Snap traps are much more humane and tend to be more effective anyway, plus they don’t get stuck to things.
My mice were too smart for snap traps. They would clean the bait without setting off the trap.
So what did you do then? Glue traps don’t exactly kill them…
The main thing that makes poison inappropriate for rodents is that is causes a tendency for them to die inside walls and other such places where you cant get to them for disposal. So then they stink up the place with their decomposing little carcasses.
I live in farm country and when there’s a storm or a cold snap you can literally watch them run from the field toward the house.
I block entries as best I can. Foam holes and spigot surrounds. Traps, poison, mint packs. Nothing works.
It’s more ‘maintenance’ of the problem than eradication because they reproduce all spring, summer and fall in the field and ‘storm the castle’ in the cold.
The farmers won’t let me poison the fields.
Glue traps are torture devices. Shame on you.
Is that mouse imitating MJ and moonwalking in the third panel?
Buy it a little motorcycle and a little helmet… at least you’ll know where it is. 😀
Perfect!
We had a shrew in our attic when I was a kid. I’d hear it scurrying around up there at night and it scared the shit out of me. I just knew it was gonna find its way down and bite me.
You know, Shakespeare wrote a famous play about Taming Shrews. You should read it sometime. It could come in handy.
I’m surprised you didn’t think about using your daughter’s diapers so that you wouldn’t have to leave the bedroom to go to the bathroom.
Adult diapers are a thing because infant diapers do not fit very well on an adult. He couldn’t just use his daughter’s diapers.