Mice in the house

I have a question for anyone who can help!! I breed my own BP food (mice and Rats) in my attached garage. Recently I have had a problem with field mice showing up in my kitchen...I've caught 8 so far...(and two more were floating in my pool...!!)
Does anyone think that the smell of the 25 plus rodents in the garage is bringing in their wild cousins??? I only find mouse droppings in the kitchen, none in the garage (except in the tanks...LOL)

Thanks for your help..my wife is gonna kill me and my rodents soon!!:mouse2:

2 more caught overnight...I feel like putting some of my snakes as watchdogs in my kitchen...

Oy...sounds like quite a sticky mess of a situation! If I were in your shoes, I'd be calling a professional exterminator. Explain that you have live rodents you want to KEEP alive, so gassing the house is not an option. Not only should a pro have other (more effecient than one trap at a time) solutions for getting rid of the mice, they should be able to help you find the source of the infestation and close it up.

Wierd question but have you had any construciton in your area, especially ground stuff like a pool or foundations being dug? That seems to suddenly drive field mice indoors for some odd reason.

Judy's idea is great or borrow a hunting cat and that'll end it fast enough (though you'd have to watch your garage is kept shut tight). We used to have a female cat and nothing of the rodent persuasion hung around long once they got the message that a prowling predator was after them.

Thanks for the replies..I do have construction going on..The town is systematically replacing all of the curbs in my neighborhood....Maybe that's it....but anyway I am going to stuff my old snake sheds into the hole that they are coming out of...maybe that'll do the trick!!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by monk90222

....but anyway I am going to stuff my old snake sheds into the hole that they are coming out of...maybe that'll do the trick!!

---

LOL....couldn't hurt to try! Maybe some snake poo to scent the area really well?

There was a petstore around here that recently closed but they were having wild mice come in and burrow into the bags of bedding, rodent chow, and chewing holes in the plastic rodent containers. They really can be a mess. I would like they said call an exterminator. Is there any way you can get any pictures of the areas where your finding them? We had rats coming through under the garage door, through a floor drain in the basement and you'll even see wild mice trying to get under the windows sometimes.

go and buy some decon rat poision. put it under your fridge and other low to the ground appliances and right in front of the holes. you wont see any more mice poop for a while. i know for a fact that this works because i am from iowa and grew up in the middle of a corn field and every year during the harvest it would drive all the thousands of mice out of the fields and looking for shelter. and our old farm house fit the bill. we tried a cat. traps, live traps. nothing worked then we got this decon stuf. and man it kills the H out of them. carefull you cats and dogs dont get in to it.
matt
p.s. and it decomposes them so they dont stink. also a pluss.

Yeah man i hate mice running around my house eating up my food from the pantry and such. But as soon as i spot one it dont last long till i catch it with out traps:) . I cought one like 2 weeks ago in my closet with a plastic container and i shook the "H#$%" out of it till it was dead then discarded it. Wish i coulda fed it to my BP though but i dint want my BP to get sick.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SnakesvsRodents

Yeah man i hate mice running around my house eating up my food from the pantry and such. But as soon as i spot one it dont last long till i catch it with out traps:) . I cought one like 2 weeks ago in my closet with a plastic container and i shook the "H#$%" out of it till it was dead then discarded it. Wish i coulda fed it to my BP though but i dint want my BP to get sick.

---

Wow. I'm all for getting rid of wild mice that infest my home. But I don't think torturing them to death is the way to do it. :mad:

Yes, Decon will work, but dead will decay..no matter what you use..unless you dessicate them first. :bleh: My mom used to use decon all the time, until they'd die in the walls of the house where you couldn't get them out. :puke:


I wouldn't use decon, not with your own mouse/rat colonies. And if they get out and some neighbor's cat or dog or ? got it, the poisoned mouse could cause all sorts of problems. Steel wool wadded up and stuffed tight into the holes where they come into the house will stop 'em too.

When we had 'em, I just kept traps under the sink and in the pantry. It helped that I had cats inside and barn cats outside too.

Good luck!

Id say the construction is driving them to you and the fact that you have mice and rats is keeping them there.


Glue strips work great ... It also seems that mice will "call" other mice to help them when they are stuck ... so you generally get a few at a time.

D-Con poses alot of risk if you have children or pets. Not to mentions when a small colony dies in the walls ... it literally stinks for weeks.

I keep mouse traps set at all times ... kinda hard on the fingers when one of your rats get loose and you do a quick reach for it and find the mouse trap (happened yesterday). Also I tend to forget that they are set until my dog hunts down the new "smell."

I like live traps the best. It is a big metal box with 1 or 2 teeter-totters for doors. Again the mice seem to call for help so you can trap 3-4 at a time (it says it can hold up to 20). Get some dry ice going and set the whole trap into the bucket (with the sublimating dry ice), then discard the contents.

The worst thing about raising rodents is that you are creating ideal conditions for "wild" rodents to thrive.

Bryan

Thanks for the replies everybody...We found a hole in our fouondation under our deck yesterday...We patched it up and for the first time in 1 week there were no mice in the traps this morning...I hope that did it!!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by JLC

Wow. I'm all for getting rid of wild mice that infest my home. But I don't think torturing them to death is the way to do it. :mad:

---

sure it is nessasary. that way all the other mice know what they have coming. you have to make examples LOL

just kidding i think that might be a little on this side of animal cruelty.
matt

Animal cruelty? Its nature some have to die for others to live. I can't stand wild mice maybe thats why i say that.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SnakesvsRodents

Animal cruelty? Its nature some have to die for others to live. I can't stand wild mice maybe thats why i say that.

---

No one said killing wild mice in your house was cruel. What is cruel is the method in which you bragged about doing it.

:oops: I dint brag about it i just explained how i did it. Its more of a reaction when i see them its just that they creap me out thats all.:oops: