Help - I just saw a mouse

[chas_m]

A mouse is small.

A rat is larger and has a looong tail.

If you live in the city, you probably saw a rat.

[MacArtist]

I have no experience with rats in the house. OMG, I hope I never do. I hate rats. I worked in a packinghouse when I was 15 years old (1979). I saw more rats than I care to remember. Something straight out of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.

If it was a rat, I would call an exterminator.

Take a look around and check where you think the visitor came from. If it was a large opening, it could be a rat.

[Baby Tats]

[quote decocritter]How do I get rid of it? What kinds of things does a mouse feed on??
Well, with a mousetrap or rat-trap of course. They cost about $1 each so just throw them away if you don't want to touch the dead critter. I have always had luck baiting with peanut butter. Place the traps along walls, under the stove, behind the fridge or anywhere you see droppings.


Info here: http://www.victorpest.com/

BT

[mikebw]

Give 'em a beer

[Janit]

Invite a kitty cat in for dinner.

[spearmint]

For gosh sakes give the soldier the Heinkens!

[volcs0]

When we lived in Cinci, we rented an old house that was on the edge of a wooded area. Every year or so, we would start to see mice - usually just gray flashes out of the corner of our eyes when we entered a room.

One night, I set out 4 traps in the kitchen - baited with peanut butter. We got ready for bed and the light had been out for about 2 minutes when we heard, "Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!" So I would have to get up and reset the traps. This went on for three or four nights. After awhile, we didn't see any mice. I guess the "smart" ones didn't get caught.

One time we used D-Con. Besides the cruelty of having mice die slow painful deaths from internal bleeding, there was another problem. They would die in the walls where we could not get to them, and it would stink for a week or two. So, we stuck with the traps. Thankfully, we haven't had that problem in our house here in Boston...

When I worked at Dominick's Food Store in Chicago many years ago, they used to put those sticky trays in the stock room. The poor mice would get caught on those - sometimes chewing their feet off to get away. Yuck.

Sorry - I'm no help, but I just wanted to tell that story.

[RAMd®d]

Peanut butter works well, better than cheese.

Place the trap near a wall; that's were they like to run rather than wide open spaces.

Oh, and an auto-loading .22 handgun should scare them. Fire in bursts of twos.

[rgG]

[quote RAMd®d]
Oh, and an auto-loading .22 handgun should scare them. Fire in bursts of twos.
The thought of decocritter with a loaded .22 would scare me, too.

[ArtP]

Another vote for Peanut Butter on a trap.

We have a pest control company come into my Day job and they had a new style spring trap based the Victor design above. Instead of a little metal clip, it has like a scoop that makes it easier to set.

I never had a misfire/snapped finger with this new one. I was amazed, A BETTER mouse trap.