How to successfully get rid of mice

[gerbear]

So our apartment building seems to have developed a mice problem over the winter. We're really good about not leaving food out and everything like that, but we still see the little fuckers running around every couple nights or so.

We've tried everything so far. Glue traps, classic snap traps, poison, etc...These things are fucking SMART. Just FYI, we resorted to the less humane traps after trying humane methods for weeks and weeks. Anyways, these things just won't go away.People told me about how smart the city mice are around here, I literally cannot believe it. They've avoided EVERYTHING.

Does anyone have any special tricks they could share? It's getting ridiculous, I'm not gonna move out cause these little fucks win, and it's pretty gross.

 

[corona]

bait, bb gun, and night vision

 

[JAHpow]

Moth balls/crystals but then everything will smell like that.

 

[Dobber]

Buy a few cats.

 

[no_steeze]

We had an issue last year and we got a few in traps but then the little fuckers caught on to us. We would just sit and watch tv with a bb gun and as soon as we heard rustling in the kitchen we'd corner one and shoot it. After doing that a few times we didn't see them anymore

 

[.Hugo.]

Get a shotgun

 

[realbigga]

burn it

 

[987321654hgfd]

Buy a few cats.

Yeah like a tiger or a panther.

 

[Ghoster]

Form a strong loving bond with the mother mouse. Once you have done that you can convince her that her kids are burdons and should get a house of their own. She will listen and kick them out. Marry her and make sure she doesn't sign a pre-nup. Now that all the kids are gone and the money is secure, you can kill her and burn her body in the fire so the mouse police can't find her. You will have to be careful about where and when you spread the bones so no one can pin it on you. Now you have the house to yourself and all the money that she got from her rich fathers inheritance. That's how my step-dad got rid of the pests in his life...

 

[soulskier]

Drill holes near the top of a five gallon bucket on opposite sides of each other

Fill the bottom of the bucket with anti freeze

Skewer a Gatorade bottle with metal clothes hanger

Coat the outside of the Gatorade bottle with peanut butter

Set it up so that the gatorade bottle rests on the inside of the bucket with the hanger sticking through the holes

The Gatorade bottle should spin freely at this point

Set a board up for mice to walk up to the rim of the bucket with

Cry yourself to sleep because you're a cruel human being but relish in the fact that you beat those fuckers

 

[Barefootin_Fiend]

i have two cats and two fairly large constrictor snakes. i've never seen a mouse in the house except for those i bring in as food.

 

[Macblizzle]

They just came out with these this year I think.

 

[cool_name]

Whatever you do, don't offer the mouse a cookie in exchange for leaving

 

[kevmac]

Buy a few cats.

this sounds stupid but it actually works

 

[Dobber]

this sounds stupid but it actually works

Unless they are retarded cats.

 

[onLINE]

Try peanut butter on a classic snap trap, smudge it on real good, always works for our dt city micerats. One of my traps just disappeared this winter no idea where it is....

Mice that go after food are mostly males. To catch females people have told me to put dryer lint on a trap. At this point though you are already fucked they probably have a 5 star all inclusive nest build already.

 

[Steezy_IN_KC]

Drill holes near the top of a five gallon bucket on opposite sides of each other

Fill the bottom of the bucket with anti freeze

Skewer a Gatorade bottle with metal clothes hanger

Coat the outside of the Gatorade bottle with peanut butter

Set it up so that the gatorade bottle rests on the inside of the bucket with the hanger sticking through the holes

The Gatorade bottle should spin freely at this point

Set a board up for mice to walk up to the rim of the bucket with

Cry yourself to sleep because you're a cruel human being but relish in the fact that you beat those fuckers

 

[-benedetto]

2 springs ago, I had traces of mouse poop in my house. Then I adopted a cat for 35 dollars. Within the first few weeks, she killed 4 or 5 mice. No mouse droppings anywhere, anymore.

 

[remove]

Unless they are retarded cats.

this, we had a retarded cat that would just tear up the furniture and pee on fucking everything.

 

[kevmac]

this, we had a retarded cat that would just tear up the furniture and pee on fucking everything.

my cat(General Lee) brings home a new dead rodent everyday

 

[Caucasian_Asian]

Block all entrances to your apartment with steel wool. Where pipes come through the walls, etc. That should keep them out.

If you have to kill them, use poison baits, not kill traps. The bacteria that mice spread is in their urine, and they are incontinent, which is why you see turds everywhere. You just don't see the urine because it's dried up already. The baits kill the mouse by desication, so when the mouse finally dies, it basically mummifies them.

If you do have to use a kill trap, DO NOT BAIT them. A kill trap works once, if you're lucky. Then the rest of the mice get a free meal. You can catch mice in un-baited traps by placing them against walls where they travel. Mice run with their whiskers touching walls, and they will run straight over them.

 

[first_rodeo]

look at any ventilation ducts, holes behind cabinets, move your fridge to inspect behind there.

ask your landlord to have pest control come.

 

[gerbear]

Drill holes near the top of a five gallon bucket on opposite sides of each other

Fill the bottom of the bucket with anti freeze

Skewer a Gatorade bottle with metal clothes hanger

Coat the outside of the Gatorade bottle with peanut butter

Set it up so that the gatorade bottle rests on the inside of the bucket with the hanger sticking through the holes

The Gatorade bottle should spin freely at this point

Set a board up for mice to walk up to the rim of the bucket with

Cry yourself to sleep because you're a cruel human being but relish in the fact that you beat those fuckers

This sounds like it will definitely work...Might have to try this...Any diagrams or images of this I can go off of out on the interwebs anywhere...I'm sort of an idiot, but I'll give the above a shot.

 

[Caucasian_Asian]

This sounds like it will definitely work...Might have to try this...Any diagrams or images of this I can go off of out on the interwebs anywhere...I'm sort of an idiot, but I'll give the above a shot.

 

[SFB]

12 gauge

 

[Jesse.White]

Easier then both those, take a standard 5 gallon bucket fill it to the top with water. Add a layer of cracked sunflower seeds so the water cannot be seen. Then add a piece of wood up to the top of the bucket so they have something to walk on. They will start eating the seeds go to step out further (thinking its stable) fall and drown. Another thing that works better then this method is taking the bait traps, the poison ones and putting them in a milk jug with the bottom cut out. (they feel protected and will tend to stay longer and eat more of the poison.) Hope this helps.