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Who has dealt with mice in their house?
We live in a 3rd floor apartment. We've had a mouse or mice around the kitchen off and on almost since we moved in (about 2 years ago). We managed to catch one last Christmas but lately have seen evidence of another one (or more, ::shudder::). We've tried glue traps, snap traps with peanut butter and the traps that look like big black boxes. I am positive he is coming from the wall behind the stove, since that is where we've seen droppings and "shadows". Short of pulling the stove out and patching up any holes, anything else we should try? We rent, so I am sort of ambivalent about being really aggressive (although the thought of mice in my house totally grosses me out). And I sort of want to just pay someone to come in but not sure it's worth the effort.
Thoughts?
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Re: Who has dealt with mice in their house?
We brought a mouse in from vacation and the cat caught it immediately. Go to the shelter and adopt a kitty!
But really my first thought was that if you are renting, isn't this your landlord's responsibility?
Believe me, I have been bugging DH about this for months!
So we'll see...
Yeah, I mean, we could get the landlord to deal with it. But he lives in NY, and it seems like something we could deal with on our own, relatively easily. (And we're already dealing with leak/mold problems that have taken forever to fix...)
Thanks for the good suggestions everyone! Hopefully one of them will work for us
We get them all the time in our house, even if we're diligent about not leaving food out. There are many cracks that they can come though from neighboring houses (seriously, when we moved in, I could be standing under our front porch and see into under our neighbors porch... yay 100 year old townhouses!)
We have been successful in catching them with the little black boxes that tilt backwards when they run in to the food and the little door snaps shut. We bait the boxes with peanut butter, and then after catching one walk down the street to the park and set it free.