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I was told you have to catch him (them) before you seal up the holes. If you just seal them up and he still know where he wants to go, hes just going to create another way in/out. Unfortunately, I got no good ideas on it, I've been battling flying squirrel in my attic for over a year now. They wont venture far from their path from my understanding, so if your traps arent very close to where he would be, he may not be finding them.
I grew up in an older home and years ago in that house we had very smart mice. They would somehow get the cheese from the traditional mouse traps without getting caught. This went on for what seemed like forever. My mom decided to try those sticky traps. She put them down when we first got home from the grocery store that day. The mice were caught before we finished putting the groceries away!
I HATE mice, bakerella. Like HATE more than anything else in the entire world. Ugh.
We bought these high frequency noise emitters for our house, and have yet to have a single mouse. I also bought them for my office after a mouse snuck in here and ate some candy in my boss's office. Mice have been caught all around my buidling, but we haven't seen another one in my office since! You can buy them at Home Depot or Ace Hardware (or whatever the Canadian equivalent is, lol). They look like little scent plug-ins and are usually in the pest deterrent section.
steel wool. stick it everywhere. steel tape, tape the steel wool. any holes. they can get in the TINIEST holes.
Set some traps, please don't buy the sticky traps.
Oh no, that sounds like a massive hassle! Have you tried those plug-in mouse thingys that make a high pitched sound (people can't hear them)? Apparently mice hate them.
ETA: I see Mrs. Spring has already mentioned them!
@.twist.: DH stuffed steel wool in the hole he was coming in. The little bugger climbed up INSIDE the wall, and pushed himself out the plastic (it's under sink cupboard, so it's not drywalled in this one section for whatever reason), and brought the insulation out with him!!!!! Then he pulled the steel wool out of where we had put it. He's a jerk!!!
@Mrs. Spring: I'll have to look for those noise emitting ones. So long as they wouldn't bother the cats, that sounds like a great solution. Oooh I caught DH while he was still at the store! He's going to grab one :)
I don't have much advice on getting rid of them as I haven't had much experience with mice. My dad would get them in the storage areas of his store but traditional traps always did the trick.
Apparently your cats don't chase / catch mice very well! :)
I feel bad for you though! Dealing with a tricky little mouse has got to suck, especially when he keeps damaging your dishwasher.
@Mrs.KMM: I grew up fairly rurally, and we always did the traditional traps too. I bought some for DH to set up but he never did, and I'm not going to lie, I love cute furry little creatures and I couldn't bring myself to do it :(
Awww shucks! I think mice are soo cute!
Back home , they were quite sociable , so we would pick them up on a dust pan and set them on there merry way outside. Then like pp's have mention use steel wool and continue on trying to make things airtight! Also cut some sheets of porcelain to plug up places. is great and rather mouse in destructable.
Best of luck!
I can't stand traps. I'd like to say it's because I'm so compassionate I can't stand the thought of the little guys getting caught in there, but... it's really because I'm horrifed about the thought of a dead mouse in my house before my husband can get home to empty it. Shudder.
The noise emitters haven't bugged my dogs, yet, but I do have them in kind of "hidden" outlets (e.g. in the pantry, next to the back door, behind the washer/dryer, etc...). So far, so good!
I'm assuming you have humane traps with peanut butter out (they go in and just get stuck). My parents had them in their old house and the buggers are so difficult to get rid of. Apparently if you have one you may have 10 more. That was true for us, I think we ended up finding 8 or 9 in the house.
I think the ladies are right, you have to catch them once they're inside. Just close up any holes leading into your house so you don't get more. They are tiny little buggers and will sqeeze through anything!
And YES please don't get the sticky traps!! They are so inhumane! This just happened last night and I'm still disgusted. I was driving and got lost so I stopped to figure out where we were supposed to go. As I started driving again I heard some weird noise so I pulled over again and had FI check the car. I drove over a sticky trap that someone had tossed out and it got stuck on my tire! He didn't see in the dark what it was, picked up and got his glove stuck on it. Then, he opens the car door to show me what he had and I FREAKED out. Part of the mouse were on there. So gross.
Bounce dryer sheets! I swear they work. We had a problem with one in our cabinets and I read on line that they hate them. I stuck them everywhere and no more mouse! I haven't seen a trace of one since, and I LOOK for traces, they just freak me out.
Paper towel tube mouse trap - http://journal.chrisglass.com/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html
Used it a MIL's and it worked like a charm.
@Ms. Martian: Gah!!! No I can't do the glue traps. Like I said, I like cute furry little things, so I just couldn't do a glue trap.
@tksjewelry: I'll try that!
@jimbert321: Neat! I'll have to see if we have space for that. Thankfully he's been contained inside this one cabinet and running back and forth under the others and he hasn't gotten out to the rest of the house.
@tksjewelry: ditto
I had a similar issue, not with a dishwasher hose, but the hose for the waterline connecting to the ice machine. I stuffed bounce sheets in there, and it stopped! We ended up catching it a couple weeks later in the basement.
These are great trapping tips - does anyone know if they will work with a squirrel? We have an OLD house (like over 100 years old), and we get at least one squirrel in the house EVERY winter. We don't know how they get in - the crafty little buggers have some entry point that is unknown to us or any pest control professional we have hired! It gets REALLY expensive to have pest control come out all the time. Last year FI want to cut a hole in the wall, and run a tube out the window or door. I vetoed that idea! I just heard the scratching this week (Weds night) and they will come and go all winter - any tips on how to get rid of them too??
ugh. I think they are really really cute, but really really just a bundle of diseases! I used to get them occasionally, wish I had heard of these tricks! I have a cat now. Took care of all our mouse probs:)
hahahaha, I have no tips but I do have a great (ok, horrible) mouse story. I have a friend who hates mice with a passion. She was having an issue with one in their house and while cleaning one day, found a nest. Freaked. Out. Tried to get her FI or one of the hired guys (lives on a farm) to come help, but they were all busy.
So she girds her loins to conquer this herself.
Goes back in with a garbage bag and chucks the nest into the garbage bag and then somehow captured the mother in it.
Then, the mother starts jumping back OUT of the bag with a BABY in her mouth. She did it TWICE. Both times, my friend got everyone back in the bag.
Then she went outside and put the bag in the trash fire. Yep, we told her she's going to hell for killing that hero momma mouse! Lol!
After that, (her DH has told us this part later, without my friend present) she got a little motion detector to put in their hallway to catch any mice. They were going to bed one night and friend says ' you know, ever since we got that detector, I haven't seen any mice, it must be working!'. DH says, 'yup, must be, honey.' Later that night, he went to the bathroom and he sees a mouse run down the hall right under the detector.
I wish you could all hear the DH tell this story. He had us in tears!
There's either a bat or a mouse in my walls right now...I originally thought mouse, but since they caught a bat in the apartment next to us, it very well could be a bat, too. They're apparently sending an exterminator, but I'm not sure when. I get the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it.
@peaches13: Gah! A bat?! No thanks!!!
DH came home with a new supply line and an armory of mouse traps, lol! He couldn't find the sonic ones though, so I'll have to try to find them tomorrow.
Omg you guys, there is a HUGE dead mouse in my bathroom!!!! I guess the poison worked?! All I know I found the cat staring at it, I pushed her out of the room and slammed the door shut. It is 100% dead. Ewww it was so gross!!! I'm fine with tiny little ones, but it was HUGE!!!!!!! I'm totally leaving it there for DH to deal with when he gets home! LOL!
@bakerella: Oh gross! I would totally do the same :(. If you have another one, you should try the live traps. We had one outsmart the traditional one, but he ran right in the live trap after a few hours. We just covered it with a towel and stuck it in one of his favorite places.
This is the one we got: http://menards.com/main/more/lawn-garden/repellents/animal-traps-repellents/multiple-live-catch-mouse-trap/p-1484913-c-10120.htm
@jo.lee: I also closed the bedroom door for a double layer of protection, lol. I have no idea how the damn thing is in our en suite since the issue was in the kitchen?! DH thinks maybe he was running along the pipes and popped out under our bathtub (it's raised and the access panel to the jets isn't cemented on). Blagh!!!!!!
@CanadianMermaid: I sent one to DH already. I don't want to look at it again! He's gross!!!
Oh lovely! That's exactly what you want to walk in on. Good call on keeping you cat away from it though. Wouldn't want to kitties to get into any of the poison the mouse injested.
@bakerella: Oooh, creepy! I know ours was completely unafraid of people, and he would just dart around the apartment.
Oh wow! I don't have much advice, but I had mice in the first apartment I rented after college. I was totally naive back then and had no idea that it was actually my landlord's responsiblity to get rid of them, I thought he was setting traps just to be nice. But it was bad, I would be watching TV and see them scurrying across the floor in my bedroom..
And of course in my second apartment I had a cockroach problem, which I might argue is actually worse than a mouse problem. It's a close tie at least. Cockroaches are just so disgusting and freak me out way worse than mice. I had to report my landlord to the city several times because they failed to provide an exterminator or do anything about the problem..
@Mrs.KMM: She was just sitting there staring at it like "Well... Now that I have one, I'm not sure what to do with it. Come on! Do something! Let me chase you or SOMETHING!!!" LOL!!! She's adorable. We've been really careful with keeping stuff away from the cats, especially since we had to go to using poison. I would never forgive myself if something happened!
@moderndaisy: Blah! I'll take a giant mouse over cockroaches any day!!!
@bakerella: give DH something to look forward to when he gets home lol. You should have titled the text "meet me in the shower when you get home ;)"
@CanadianMermaid: There's no dinner on the stove and a giant dead mouse for him to get rid of. Perfect :)
@Gemstone: It would be a tease if she left a trail of her bra and panties to the bathroom door ... Hmmm I think I am on to something @bakerella:..haha
@CanadianMermaid: ROFL!!!! Let me tell you, DH is not impressed with my wimping out on mouse duty AND lack of dinner. I'll make him his favourite shrimp and the world will be right again ;)
@CanadianMermaid: Haha! She definitely has to report back to us now that you've put all of these ideas in her head!
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We live in an older home, it was probably originally built in the 40s and it's been added onto as the years have gone by. Needless to say, it's not exactly airtight, lol. Lately we've had a mouse (or maybe mice?!) running around under our cupboards. We tried to seal everything up and stop him from getting in anymore. I thought we did a good job until Christmas day when he chewed a hole in the line of our dishwasher and it flooded our kitchen shortly before lunchtime and 10 people coming for dinner. Oh ya, and it was Christmas so all the stores were closed and we couldn't get a new supply line to fix it so we had to do all the dishes by hand. Amazing.
DH fixed it (thank god that man is handy) on Boxing Day, declared war on the mouse, and we haven't seen/heard a peep from him since. Enter today. DH comes home early, has a bite to eat, puts his dishes in the washer, and turns it on. Kitchen flood 2.0. I guess that where the supply house is located is where there's a hole cut between the bases of the cabinets, so he needed to chew through it to get to the next spot. Grrrr!!!!!
Any suggestions? Apparently this is one smart little sucker. We put out traps and poison but he outwitted us :(