There is a poison that makes them thirsty. When they go outside to drink the water activates the poison and they die outside.
When I first moved back from college, I had a trailor on our farm (Where we built our house). The first year, we'd put a bunch of round bales of hay (1500 lb ones) along the wooden fence, behind my trailer and when the cold weather hit.......LAWD! I had a bunch of the snap traps and when I'd wake up in the morning, I'd run my traps. :hihi: When I first noticed the mice and put traps out, there were 3-5 in the traps for a few mornings till I finally rid my palace of dem lil vamits. martin, not sure where you live in NY and have never been but I've seen where the "Big cities" have a lot of mice/rats from the drainage systems so I'm surprised you don't have more incidences.
i regularly see huge rats in the subway and other filthy places. and until recently i had lived in newish freestanding skyscraper buildings that were pretty mouse free. now i live in a very old building. i think it was built by the steinway and sons piano guys over 120 years ago to house their workers. it has all kindsa old holes and passages and hiding places in it. plus it is squeezed onto a very busy street above a pizza place and a haagen dagz place. the mice love it here.
Buy a big mouse costume and wear it around the house so you can make friends with the mouse. Eventually he will start to trust you, and you can lead him out of the house without any physical violence to him. It's worth a try.
Obviously my first response is to use overwhelming force, preferably a handgun with rat shot. However, mice aren't nearly as bad as snakes, so maybe the above suggestions would work. I think either of the traps would work fine. We have rats/mice that go from yard to yard along our fence. It drives me insane, but it's because of the idiot people in our 'hood with bird feeders. I've only seen one mouse/rat actually in our yard, and he quickly met his demise thanks to my shovel. (Wife was home, so the .357 had to remain holstered.)
BORROW a cat. Starve it...leaving it to its own devices to find food...and I promise...your mouse porblem will disappear. :hihi: :yelwink2:
Peabody, this reminded me of one of the funniest threads I've read on here- the one about your spider.
If you repeat the first two lines, it makes a great blues lyric. I used the snap traps baited with cheese whiz. It killed them instantly every time. Turned out that I had six mice instead of one.
Nuff said! :thumb: well, except for the bloody carnage on the counter ... my wife would've $hIt gold bricks if she'd seen that! I put mine in cracks and crevasses. Like the crack between counter and fridge, or dish washer. They stay close to walls because of poor sight ...i think. ...good luck with it! but I can bet there is more than one.
