How To Get Rid Of That Mouse

At one point or another we all get that stubborn little mouse in our house who just refuses to leave. It wanders around your home for days, leaving its dropping and diseases. So what do we do to get rid of it. See me personally I am not a big fan of poisonous mice. Who wants to have to pick a dead mouse laying in your house? I don’t. There are ways to make it go away.

Mice love dirty rooms and surfaces. They are attracted to clutter and papers. So what you have to do is make your house as uninviting as possible. Make sure your home is nice and clean everyday. Which means no clothes lying around in the middle of the floor, that give mice places to hide which encourages even more. Important papers should be filed away in a container or a file cabinet. Did you know that mice love eating and biting through paper? Yup paper attracts them.

Mice Trap
Just like the kitchen may be your favorite place in the house it’s also mice favorite part of the house too. It’s the place where they can find food. So never leave dirty dishes in the sink all night. If you spill stuff like juice it will help to clean it. Regularly wash down your cabinet and countertops with bleach. Bleach throws them off. Having a clean kitchen isn’t just enough. You may have boxes of food like cereal, lying around on the counters or on top of the refrigerator. Mice like stuff like that, so put any type of box food, whether it may be cake mix or cereal up in the cabinet. Or another place where they are not likely to get too. Remember that mice will eat anything and is always looking for food. So if you and your family have the tendency to eat in the living room or your bedrooms, make sure you clean up all the mess you make and or vacuum the room. Any kind of food droppings will keep them coming back and they will be with you for even longer.

Where do mice come from? How do they get in your home? Since mice have no bones they can squeeze through cracks as small as one fourth in diameter. Cracks can be found in the wall, doors, cupboards whatever. If you see any holes or cracks in your home make sure you seal them. This prevents them from coming in.

What else can you do to get rid of mice? Well there’s a well known technology that I’ve even tried before is a sonic pest control device. It emits a sound that your pet and mice can hear. All you do is plug it in a socket and you won’t see any mice. It keeps them away. But it only lasts for a year or so. Or you can always get mice traps. They have mice traps with peanut butter smell on it to attract mice on it. There’s also glue board traps. Mice sticks to the trap and are unable to get off no matter what. Good huh? Theses are just a few methods to control mice and get them out of your home without having to call an exterminator.

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yes that may work, but if you have dogs or cats, you cant do that. I tried snap traps and my 2 dogs stapped them in 1 day.

Comment by Susan — October 15, 2007 @ 5:40 pm

“Mice have no bones” ?
Oh dear! Not sure where that info stemmed from, but afraid, being vertebrates, mice certainly do have bones.
That aside, article has good advice.
For those that use glue boards and wish to release the glued mouse, cooking oil (infact most oils) will acy as a release agent.
Mice are attracted to fat, so most fatty foods will serve as an ideal bait for mice. Even chocolate melted on to the trip plate of snap traps will catch those mice skillful enough to steal peanut butter bait.

Comment by James — November 9, 2007 @ 4:41 am

When sealing entry points, be sure to use steel wool or copper wire mesh. Simply sealing with a foam insulation won’t work. Mice will chew through the insulation.

And while good hygine is very important, Mice have no problem chewing through plastic bags to access foodstuffs. So be sure to seal your drygoods in plastic containers.

Another tip, Mice are proliferic procreators. If you have one mouse, the probability is that you have more than one. These little critters create tunnels in your insulation and crawl up the insides of your walls. They harbor germs and disease. And while this blog encourages using natural methods for control, many exterminators are now using a method called IPM (Integrated Pest Management) which provides for non-chemical solutions to be used first/in concert with chemical solutions. By selecting the right professional, you can solve your problem without adversely impacting the environment.

Comment by terri mares — April 20, 2008 @ 5:22 am

WOW!!! to think i’m the only one and in the pantry they love that they all in my pantry at home and glue borads don’t really help its a way of geting rid of them but they’re smarter than us you know.

Comment by Camron — October 13, 2008 @ 5:36 pm

I have a local home mouse in my home, he is smarter than we all can think. I’ve tried almost every possibility. I’ve made noise, light,and covered holes with steel wool. I have not brought the terminators or anyone’s else attention into this problem.
If you have any suggestions please tell me. The mouse/rat in my house is small, a bit round, and very fast. Since I live in an apartment building, he keeps chewing his way into almost every room of the house. I have planned to caulk some holes over the wool. But in the mean time, he only scurries away when he is SPOTTED.

Being spotted is a scarier thing for mice now.
Yes, they are more smarter than the human race is, but we survive for a reason; our ideas. When I had a stack of papers, I walked to it and glanced at it. I noticed the mouse run out of the papers and down out to my apartment balcony hole. This hole was only big enough for him to nest.
*************************My point**********************
The technique to scare them away now, is to look at them, glance at them. Use the techinuqes on this page and the signs of them. Then, when they are spotted, they will run. ^^This is very Important^^
DO NOT RUN. Look where the mouse runs off to. Then quickly get steel wool and plug it up.

Comment by Gman — March 26, 2009 @ 7:15 am

We had a smart mouse which it took two weeks to catch. After trying everything, we finally left out an Unset trap with peanutbutter for several days in a row. He got comfortable eating every night, realizing he was safe. After a few days, we set the trap, and that got him. Even so, he was fast — the trap only caught the tip of his nose but that was enough to hold him.

Comment by sunshine — May 7, 2009 @ 8:55 pm

The glue boards are not all they are cracked up to be. My resident mouse ate the walnuts, pooped on the glue board and left. Nasty little tip he left me, and I still haven’t caught him!

Comment by Sue — June 17, 2009 @ 9:43 am

Man. Everynight I hear little feet crawling above were I slept so I knew tey were mices. Im from ethiopia and we hav A LOT of spices. I knew instantly tht mices weren’t attrated 2 our dryfood (mayb) I knew it was the spices brought from Ethiopia. We always cleaned the pantry but the mices seemed 2 b always comn back. The last night was the night. I herd the crawling again, but closer. It was in the laundry room chewing on paper. Now I was not really scared of spiders but mices YES! Now tht I read this blog, I will definitly try methods 2 get STUARD LITTLE out of here! Lol

Comment by muna — September 14, 2009 @ 5:20 pm

when i see a mouse my hair stands up for days and i can’t get a wink of sleep. it isn’t comforting at all to read these especially the one about if you see one mouse you most likely have two+. How can that mouse make his/her way up to the 4th floor of my apartment building, passing up 1-3?

Comment by kelly — September 25, 2009 @ 11:43 pm