Rodent infestation

[iceman]

Glue traps/peanit butter anywhere you have seen droppings, along the base boards, under the sink.....everywhere.

Yes they are a little cruel, but you didnt ask those little fahkers to come in and shit in your cookware.

Man when you find a glue trap with the mouse still alive it's pretty pitiful. Snap traps work just as well and they are humane, I don't know why anyone would use the glue traps.

[LaBelle23]

Rontele, you crack me up saying you have an exterminator coming over for some mice poop

I have probably spent ~$50 in the last year on traps and they work well. We use the basic Victor ones. The fancy ones aren't very good in my experience and the 'live' traps are just plain gross to me. I have mouse patrols every 3 months or so where we'll get 10 or so over 5 days. Sometimes I even get 2 in one trap! In our cabin, there is no point in trying to keep them out, they just find a new way in. Under the sink is the big place we catch them, but that's probably becuase there is an interior wall missing behind the sink/cabinets.

Good luck -- this is a pretty satisfying game when you really get down to it. The other night I was awakened to a trap being set off, and it made me happy in a gross way.

[Hutch]

Where's irul with the gerbil joke? It's 9:03 pacific. Scooter caught in traffic?

[iceman]

Why the hell are they always under the sink? There's nothing to eat there.

[irul&ublo]

Where's irul with the gerbil joke? It's 9:03 pacific. Scooter caught in traffic?

Hey...gerbils are nothing to joke with. Just ask Rontele.

[bklyn]

Steel wool around all pipes, holes, spaces between baseboards. Use fiberglass insulation around electrical work. Any space 1/2" or larger they can squeeze into should be sealed. Caulk and plaster where necessary. The prior advice about classic traps, peanut butter, avoiding poison and sticky traps is all solid.

It's going to be your job to get rid of the trap when it goes "POP" in the middle of the night. Man up in preparation for the blood and gore.

[cramer]

Man when you find a glue trap with the mouse still alive it's pretty pitiful. Snap traps work just as well and they are humane, I don't know why anyone would use the glue traps.

i guess a mouse suffering wasnt in my thought process when putting them down. Getting rid of them is all i cared about.

[iceman]

It's going to be your job to get rid of the trap when it goes "POP" in the middle of the night. Man up in preparation for the blood and gore.

It's funny how it always wakes you up, but I just go back to sleep, the gore can wait until daylight.

[lionelhutz]

Do you have a dog btw?
I have found that dogs really enjoy the mouse on the glue pad. Prob. don't want to that.
Also - the cat doesn't have to be able to catch the mouse. Simply the odor of a cat and his pee (yea...cats ALWAYS pee in the litter box) is usually enough to send the mice elsewhere.
A good friend of mine owns a very old butcher shop in new york city. For the longest time they never had any problems with rats or mice. Why? Because they had two razor clawed death machine cats that lived in the shop. Then one day the health dept. told them to get rid of the cats. Next year- the health dept says - you have a rodent problem. So they went and got a cat. Only problem was that the cat was garfield. It never moved yet the rodents went away. Apparently the smell of the cat was enough.

[pechelman]

id be happy to bring you over some used kitty litter

[arewolfe]

Those sticky traps are fuckin terrible. Totally sick and unnecessary.

CATS ARE THE ANSWER. I lived in a two family house last year and we had a young cat.
One morning we woke up and the cat had dismembered a mouse overnight... So ruggedly that it was ripped in half and the skin of the body was inside-out. The cat coughed a lot the following day but other than that he was fine.

WE NEVER SAW OR HEARD A SINGLE MOUSE AGAIN IN OUR APT & the family downstairs complained for the rest of the year that their apartment was infested with mice. They even started borrowing our cat overnight.

I think once your cat fucks up a mouse indoors the other mice know they should backdafucup and won't come around (unless you're a slob and your house is food-encrusted and shitty).

Edit: Didn't notice Lionel's post. My bad. He's right.

[Rontele]

The exterminator is coming out as a precaution to a massive infestation or nesting somewhere in the house.

[Rontele]

Why the hell are they always under the sink? There's nothing to eat there.

I think cause that is where a pipe runs up from outside and provides easy access into the house.

[TeleHoar]

I think a new tankless water heater and some new skis will take care of the problem right away!

[BigDaddy]

Tear your house down and rebuild. Our ski house was INFESTED!!! The mouse shit was 2 feet deep in the walls. I tore everything down to studs, (wearing a handsome haz-mat suit and respirator) sprayed bleach many times and then had the entire building envelope spray-foamed with polyurethane insulation. In three years, we haven't had a single fucker.

My recomendation to anyone building a vacation home... spray foam w/ poly!!!! Mice don't eat it and it insulates so well, it only costs us $500/year for propane heat, stove, dryer and water.

Otherwise, our cats do the trick in the Boston burbs...

[Rontele]

ITS ALL OUT FUCKING WAR!!!! Like Vietnam, there will be no rules, dood.

[GiBo]

I'm serious dude, you have to go to war. The exterminator ain't gonna help, but he'll take your money.

I got pissed when I started getting bit at night by mites. Turns out, rodents have these tiny mites that are attracted by carbon dioxide. So when I would go to bed with my door closed, they would sense the CO2 I was exahaling and come and bite the shit out of me. Itched like hell too.

You have to set traps every night and check them every morning. It's the only way. I was so pissed at them that I got a little obsessed. But they're all dead now, buwahahahahahahahaha!!!!

[TeleHoar]

I would start a photoshop thread or make up a bunch of stickers.

[The AD]

I had a rat problem at my old house and bought an electronic trap. It's basically a tunnel that the rat must go through to get the bait at the far end. To get the bait the rat has to touch an electrified plate and that zaps him. The thing worked like a charm. I was basically zapping a new rat each night. I wouldn't mind using Victor mouse traps on tiny mice, but the idea of finding a large rat dead in a Victor rat trap just wasn't appealing. With the elctronic trap a little red light goes on when a rat is caught and you just go dump the dead rat into the trash and rebait.

[pechelman]

^ we built something like one of those too using some spare metal grating and my friends tazer
it was rad

all this war talk reminds me of fighting an ant infestation with some highly potent gel poison that you have to mail order

all these memories make me now wonder how i ever did well in school
hehe

[TeleHoar]

handcuff the little fuckers and shoot them in the back.

[Tye 1on]

i knew pech would somehow get a taser in to the discussion...

[Daywalker]

^ we built something like one of those too using some spare metal grating and my friends tazer

This sounds like fun. Might have to adapt this for people to...

Just trying touching my doorknob you bastards.

[Tippster]

I'd ather have my kids get their finger stuck in a sticky trap than a snap one. Fuck the mice - they are in my home so they must die. Glue trap with a piece of Chocolate in the middle - sometimes I catch two at a time and throw their squealing asses right into the Trashcan.

Cat's not an option, since I'm allergic to them.

Sheesh - keep it up and you'll be out crying about the poor rocks and trees.

[iceman]

Tipp hates meeces to pieces.