I always used a mousetrap baited with peanut butter with a kernel of popcorn pressed into it. Even have a picture of a trap that caught 2 mice at once. BIG time game hunter here!

Mice around here occasional will always follow the same paths usually next to a wall. Butt a trap up against that wall in their path they ignore that strange thing for a day but the second day after walking around it a few times they usually put their noggin in the right place before they press the guillotine lever.

I've always used the popular name brand peanut butters. Even the squirrels will turn up their nose at the on sale store brand.

Get yourself a Rat Zapper. I have used one now for over a year. They are very effective and easy to dispose of the dead rodent.

Take a 1 gallon ice cream pail (or any other plastic pail of similar size) and bury it next to your wall so that the top of it is level with the ground; add a couple of inches of water to the pail. The mice run along the wall of the building, fall into the pail and cannot get out; then they drown.

Works like a charm!

I still use d-con bait trays with peanut butter mixed in.
Even the squires love it. Sometimes the box is licked clean.

I had a serious mouse problem which turned into a snake problem. I finally got a good hunting cat (and then another) and I have not had a problem since. If you live near the woods and this looks like it will be an ongoing problem, a cat is a great way to go.

Get a 5 gallon plastic bucket that is all cleaned out. You can get them for free or at a small fee at a bakery or buy them at a home store.

Throw some bird seed or whole corn on the bottom and leave the bucket so the mouse can get to the edge. They will dive in for a meal but can't get out.

We have always used bacon on the mice traps.

At one point rodents got into a bag of M & M s my husband had left in the garage. It was strange because they ate the chocolate but left a pile of colored flecks, the candy coating.

Good luck!

But did they eat the red ones last? :)

Did any of this work, Iggie? I'm not sure if your mouse problem is indoor or out.
I also advise placing the traps directly against a wall and waiting a day or two.
I use the spring traps that don't have the wooden plate with the gilloutine, but the plastic ones with the 'teeth' around the edge. Those ones have a little cup in which you can place the peanut butter. The mice have to work harder to get it all out, which is more likely to spring the trap in precisely the right place - more humane than drowning them, for sure.
Also, leaving the trap baited but not set up for a few nights will lull those smart little buggers into a false sense of security :)

The cat thing doesn't always work. I had a mouse problem in my old home and two cats. The cats had easy access to the areas the mice got in.

I while tightening up the place to save on heating costs must've plugged up their doorway. Because they did disapear.

Wasn't the cats doing though.

I had to laugh at the mouse solutions. Almost as many as for moles -- yet some work for some people, some never work for others.

Don't count on a cat. I happen to have 7. 3 think mice are toys. 4. FOUR of them have had mice run up between their front legs to hide in the cats' tummy fur. The cats just looked down, confused. I have ONE cat, who if she feels like it, is the terror or the rodant world. Unfortunately, she's also fat and won't go too far out of her way. Now, if they come to her -- which they have -- it's Death by Cat.

My DH caught 32 mice in 3 hours in our garage. Needless to say, we had an investation. I second the idea of some kinds of seed. We found embreyos in our grass seed, dead ones in our bird seed, nests in packing boxes and more mouse poop than you can imagine. I cannot tell you how disgusted I was.

Oh - DH uses Peter Pan Peanut Butter. We had a house fire in December (no, the mouse still came back and wintered in the garage) and when DH moved back in to rebuild, he took the dogs. The dogs scared the mice a lot, evidently. They pretty much disappeared. Interestingly, as he closed up the house, reinsulated and caulked, etc., they all disappeared.

So. Energy saving measures (might) = no mice?

Funny.
Christine

Sealing all the holes when you seal up a house for energy savings = no way for mice to get in.

We had mice last year, which coincided with the electrician not properly repairing the sheetrock he cut open in the garage. Now that it's fixed, we'll see what happens this year.

Don't leave your situation too long.........I'm terrified of Hantavirus!! If you have to, call an exterminator and once they get rid of them the exterminators will tell you where they think they are getting in from.
We lived in a very small town and our back yard was next to a field so we were lucky to only have 1 mouse in 15yrs, others had at least 15 mice/yr. We've always had a cat, but we did get one mouse a few years ago. He/she didn't last long once the cat got the scent LOL. We did set up traps along the kitchen walls and cleaned everything VERY good.........a mouse that has crumbs or other food surely won't be drawn to a trap!! It seemed to only be in the house for a couple days til the cat got'em.
Happy hunting : )

We had a mouse once. I bought a cat and baited cheese out to where the cat sleeps. I watched the mouse come and grab each piece while the cat sat there and watched. The mouse at one point was sitting 6 inches from the cat eating. I think they became good friends. Finally one night I got pissed bought a 20 pack of bud light and baited the mouse out to were I was sitting and waiting with a hammer. I ended up drinking the whole 20 pack waiting for the mouse and when the damn thing finally did come out I had to use the empty box to catch it because I couldn't see strait enough to swing a hammer. Any way now I have a useless cat that is still pissed at me for killing its friend and I can't get rid of it because my wife loves it and she's the boss.

LMAO

Here is the latest on my mouse situation, got a cat, did not help, tried glue traps caught one. Guy told me moth balls would run them off. bought some at a dollar store put a few around, it works no more mice.

What did you do with the cat?

The mice were hanging around a wall at my daughter's home. I suggested cleaning around the area with Pine Sol. The mice went away.