I am infested !!! Hate them !!! They usually stick to my garage but no , this year they want inside . I use poison in the garage as I can put it in areas that Ollie can't reach and as they die spray the stench . Well I bought some sticky traps for the kitchen and caught 2 the first day . Yesterday I checked the poison and they ate the bait in one day !!! Today Ollie was running around and sure enough he was mauling one on the futon !!! I managed to kill it with my shoe and thank God he didn't eat it ! ( He never eats his prey ) . Lord help me !! This is the first time I thanked him ! With baby squirrels , bunnys and birds I always say " Awww " How this must confuse him !
Mice !!!!
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WHen we moved into the farm the cat i had swallowed so many mice he had to have his stomach pumped. He had such a gut full that he couldn't digest them and the vet thought it was crazy. Eddie was one heck of a mouser, just left the tails.
What i can't figure out is i keep every bit of food dry goods and all in the fridge. THere is nothing for them to eat and still they stay. Chew up my books, my blankets in storage. I like mice, i really do but this just can't be. I feel your pain Grammy. Be glad there are no rats.
What i can't figure out is i keep every bit of food dry goods and all in the fridge. THere is nothing for them to eat and still they stay. Chew up my books, my blankets in storage. I like mice, i really do but this just can't be. I feel your pain Grammy. Be glad there are no rats.
But don't lay down poison if you get one, of course. 
Yep Grammy, if you don't want a kitty get some snap traps and load them with peanut butter.
They've never failed me each fall..........but so far I haven't seen any evidence OR anything in the two traps I have set! *knock on wood* Maybe they are delaying coming indoors up here.......trying to throw me off or something, LOL
They've never failed me each fall..........but so far I haven't seen any evidence OR anything in the two traps I have set! *knock on wood* Maybe they are delaying coming indoors up here.......trying to throw me off or something, LOL
I did snap traps. Checked them every few minutes. Caught one after another until Albert decided instead of sticking his head in he would reach in with his piddy paw. Guess he must have hollared so loud that every mouse for a mile heard not to get near these things. I had to end poor old Albert's life. I tried everything....including handling them with gloves to not get my scent on it..no dice. THey got dust covered and finally i pitched them. The whole time the mice kept on making me crazy.
When our mice got wise to peanut butter, my mom started baiting them with gumdrops. We were using live traps, and noticed a LOT of the mice we were catching had a little white dot on the forehead. So she added a little blue dot of paint, and it was the same mouse. :rofl1:
We were walking 1/4 mile away to release them in a field, and this one dang mouse kept coming back. She switched back to peanut butter and we never caught that mouse again.
We were walking 1/4 mile away to release them in a field, and this one dang mouse kept coming back. She switched back to peanut butter and we never caught that mouse again.
Oh grammy.... those sticky traps are so awful. The mice suffer on those things. I hate to kill anything, but when we had some field mice find there way in, we used the snap traps and it got them all in a very short amount of time and it was quick and over with for the mice.
We put peanut butter in our traps because the cheese got too crusty too quick and they just seemed to like the peanut butter better. Our cat is a good mouser, so we don't have to deal with traps anymore. And cocoa usually just plays with them until they die and then will leave them there for us to see and dispose of.
We put peanut butter in our traps because the cheese got too crusty too quick and they just seemed to like the peanut butter better. Our cat is a good mouser, so we don't have to deal with traps anymore. And cocoa usually just plays with them until they die and then will leave them there for us to see and dispose of.
