My house is under siege...need suggestions.

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Or this, thinking this will be a better option. My only reason we had a cat in the family was for them to hunt the rodents.

LMAO holy hell that is some funny shit

 

Oh man, do I have experience with this. I am a very clean person. Not just picked up but scrubbed clean. So is my wife.

Every couple of years we would get a week or so where I would see or hear one in the basement. We even had one get up under our bed and made a nest under my bedstand. You totally feel violated.

When I remodeled that basement I put a false ceiling in my son's room below the kitchen so I could get the the pipes and wiring if needed. We would have a couple of weeks where the little bastards got up on top of the tiles and run around at night. I put about 6 snap traps and then checked the next morning. I would thump 1-2 a night for weeks on end. I couldn't for the life of me figure out were they were getting in.

Last year I was cleaning the garage and noticed that the sheetrock had separated from wall at the bottom in the garage. The other side was at ceiling height in the basement. I made a baseboard of 1x3 firing strips, injected "Great-stuff" next to the cement and screwed the boards tight. This sucked in the Sheetrock.

I haven't had a mouse in maybe 3 years since I've done that. You have to find where they get in. If you have holes that wires go through, take steel wool and pack them around the wires. The little devils hate gnawing that stuff and they will leave it alone. Another bad place is the panels under bay windows. They aren't very well sealed.

Great-stuff sealant and steel wool are your weapons.

 

Apparently, I'm not the only dude in Mississippi having this issue.

Home Depot was zero stock and I thought I was going to be tased by a women at Lowes (she looked like that predator character from the movie) as I reached for one of the last available traps I didn't already own (the one in post #2). I pretty much went into dick mode and bought the last two just to be an ass after her attitude. Is that wrong?



These little beauties have been installed and I'm hoping to see mouse carnage before I leave for work. This will make 8 total traps and is adding a third style of trap to my arsenal.

To answer an earlier question, yes the little prick is removing food from the trap without triggering it & I've even been creative in how I affix the bait.

 

This works well for chipmunks too. Them little bastards get into everything. a 5gallon bucket with sunflower seeds floating. We called it chippy dipping.

 

X2 this really is the only fix for the issue.

 

LOL I had a friend whos dad did this with a .22. mouse went behind the fridge so when he shot he hit the cord and shorted out the fridge. My friend also shot his older brother in between the eyes with a bb gun just to show the mentality of the family...

 

good luck Let us know

 

Bingo

Everything else is just a bandaid till the next year

 

there is an electronic trap called the "ratzapper", i'd highly recommend... i have one i keep up in the attic, i get a few rodents who venture into my attic every year i've had it... it only uses a few AA batteries, and kills the rodents by electrocuting them... the batteries last a long time in standby, and even after many "uses"...

 

Based on the above, I've looked for an opening and think I may have found it around my dryer vent.

I built the place I'm living within the past few years as temporary housing while I paid off my ground and other debt before I build what I hope to be my last house. I took a good amount if time sealing the place to ensure I didn't have any openings. I guess the sealant shrank. That is now on my "to do" list.

 

Thanks Mike (Delmarva) the trap you recommended provided some success! I'll be working on sealing the place up on my next days off.

 

Glad to help... I hate those little bastards

 

Let me tell you about relying on a cat. I had a mouse in a feed bin in the barn he got in but could not get out so I figured no problem I'll throw in a barn cat he totally ignored the mouse and jumped out. We were invaded by flying squeals’ two cats two Great Diane’s, dogs and cats zero me with bare hands 4 damn those little things can bite hard.

 

BB gun would be fun inside the house LOL

 

I've never really had a mouse problem, despite the chaos of my house. I figure it's because we own a bajillion cats, because it's definitely not because we are clean or something strange like that.