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I'm a delivery driver so i can't have them in the car for obvious reasons. So for the last week i keep finding them in my car, i set traps etc..

does anyone know how to keep them out. i'm in montana in a rural setting. so i guess they are everywhere out here.

Hi there, It’s been 1.5 months since we saw our first mouse in the house we just bought and moved in in December. We saw it run by, then no sign of it or anything again… (we called an exterminator who plugged a hole outside and put down some bait poison).

Until… we found several droppings in my son’s play area. Called the exterminator again. This time they found a bigger hole and another near the area we found the droppings was. Steel wool and spray foam the heck out of it.

…more droppings. (When I say more, I mean 2 or 3 at this point. BUT, we found 1 in my newborn’s bassinet, and a couple on the couch! 🤢

We had contractors working b/f we moved anything in and they said they saw mouse droppings in what is now my son’s room. We did find droppings there (upstairs) under the baseboard heating element, behind where the vinyl flooring ends so they could have been old, and appeared old.

From time to time when doing a thorough search/cleaning, we’d find them in the same spot but another room- maybe 2, 3. Sometimes only 1.

We looked at EVERY baseboard heating line (which basically runs the entire house), closed EVERY hole that runs the baseboard heating pipeline, as it seemed it/they could have been traveling that route.

Glue traps did not work (frustrated I laid down 72 of them). I put out blink security cameras on the floor in the areas we suspected it/they roam most, and continually get footage of a mouse in the same 2 spots whenever we are upstairs or out: by the front door, under the baseboard heating, and by the closet & bathroom where we know there was some kind of opening but we closed it. It appears to run around in circles. The same spots multiple times/day, for a few days now. We’ve only found 1-3 droppings/day concentrated in those areas now, since we closed every hole.

Do we think it’s 1 mouse that could mow be trapped in here? Or multiple coming/going, but we only see 1 at a time on the camera?

It/they are dodging the snap traps w/ bait, dodged the glue traps, and hadn’t eaten from the bait boxes as of last week. Our food is completely untouched too! I’m so confused and frustrated b/c we have 2 kids under 2 (a newborn)! We can’t let them play, or even be in the areas we see the mouse/mice b/c they put everything in their mouths!! It’s killing me!!

Any ideas what else to do?! Exterminator coming again on Monday.
TYIA!!!!

Last week I saw a lot of droppings in my closet and cleaned my entire room the mice ran when I sat on bed and since then I haven’t spotted it, I do know that it has made its home in the toe kick behind my bookshelf and I can’t seem to get it out, I have placed some traps just outside the hole but it seems like it won’t be coming out anytime soon, how do I get it out

I have neighbors who live in filth. They throw furniture and trash all over their front yard and backyard and never clean it up. Since they moved in our block became infested with mice and everybody keeps turning them in and nothing gets done. Since I live next door, I have it the worst. I’m non stop fixing entry holes, they are even boring in through the cement between the brick work. I just spent a fortune hiring somebody to patch up what we could. I hired an exterminator who put down poison and the mice never touched it. I put down snap traps but it’s only put a dent and not doing much. Now I found they are entering through the faceplate for an electrical socket that broke and needs replacing and I can’t afford to hire an electrician to rip it all out and replace (plus In the past I’ve hired them and they blew me off). For now I duct tapped it down until I can afford it but I’m at my whits end. The mice are destroying my house and property and the exterminator told me it won’t stop until the city forces the neighbors to clean up the trash dump in their yard (and the city won’t). The whole block has approached them, my husband has too (one day they threw raw chicken on the ground and left it rotting and stinking, my husband yelled at them to clean it up), they just don’t care.

Is there anything else I can do to push the mice back? I’m fixing to have major surgery that’ll stop me for 6 weeks and can’t be cleaning mouse poop and trying to repair damage 24/7. I’ve moved all my pantry stuff into mason jars and doing everything I can and it’s exhausting.

I have a couple bait boxes I acquired from my work (I work for a storage comapny) and I was wondering what the best poison to use is. I've used the Tom cat blocks and they done seem to work at all. What do you folk recommend?

Hi all. So a few months ago I had mice in my garage, attic and crawlspace. Pest control company came out and put down poison. They also quoted me $1,500 for exclusion (blocking off all possible places mice could enter). I haven’t noticed any mouse activity in the garage for probably 4-5 months. I monitor this by looking for droppings. Is it worth it to pay for the exclusion or am I good? I’m not willing to do the exclusion efforts myself as I don’t want to have to get up on the roof etc. thank you for any advice you have!

Feel like I'm going crazy... found 1 singular one behind my microwave and all along the outside window sills. Do I need to burn down my house? Every noise or spot I see I'm now paranoid of it being mice remnants

Hi, I need advice! I live in a condominium and I hear a mouse or rat gnawing at the wood or metal in the wall every night. I checked the entire wall and there are no holes and no evidence of rodent feces in my unit. The neighboring unit is vacant and it’s been about a month since I first started hearing it.

I have no idea how it got there, but I imagine it has a way out somewhere else so that it can eat. I opened up a small hole near the source of the noise and kind of built a little setup to lure it out with food traps, but no luck. Does anyone have advice? I’m nervous it will chew through wires in the wall.

We have mice. So far we have caught 4.

We had a man from the council come over and put out bait blocks and there was about 5 and they've all gone. The bait has been replenished and they have all seemed to come through the same cupboard under the stairs (the cupboard is very full of stuff) and the man told us to leave it there and not disturb the mice.

It's getting to the point where I want to empty out this cupboard and try to fill in the holes so the mice can't get through.

What should I do?

TIA

I haven’t checked on my storage unit for 4 months. Last week I did a check in and found a live mouse in my unit and droppings everywhere. I have a lot of blazers and clothes that I wanted to keep. Should I throw everything out or can they still be saved?

how do y’all get these little jerks to get in the traps??? we’ve tried 3 different traps. have only caught one so far. they seem too smart and manage to avoid the traps. one even managed to get the dog food off THREE different traps and it didn’t set the traps off! help please lol

Hello. Please pardon the LONG post… if you make it through it I would love some advice or anything!

I have a 5 week old. I exclusively nurse her which makes me very happy and proud! I gained a lot of weight (this is my 2nd baby). I use to be a distance runner and was 70-80lbs less than I am now. I suffered an injury (Labral tear in the hip and frayed cartilage in the knee) that means I can no longer run or do a lot of cardio I would normally do, so losing weight is even harder.

I was really set on losing weight after this pregnancy and being more of my “old self.” However due to a lot of stress factors, it’s been hard to take any kind of care of myself…,

We recently bought a house and turns out there is a mouse infestation. We found droppings all over the kids toys, and even the couch. Despite exterminator coming twice, closing any holes and having no food or water around, they’re still here. Now we found a tear in the fabric of our brand new couch that was custom designed for this house. (A very expensive couch we saved up for). My husband seems to think it’s not a big deal but I know they are nesting and using the couch to do so. Plus it’s SO disgusting!!!!

I spend days and nights worried about the cleanliness and safety of our home with a baby and toddler, constantly trying to figure out how to trap or get rid of the mice, cleaning, and/or nursing/changing my 5 week old. My toddler is quarantined from his playroom b/c we don’t want him exposed to droppings or mouse urine.

I find I’m losing interest in even cleaning, which use to make me feel happy and safe. Now I’m in the same pajamas, don’t leave the bedroom, haven’t showered or washed my hair, skipped the laundry today and just don’t seem to care about anything. My appearance was always very important to me but I don’t seem to care anymore, and it’s spiraling.

I worry that these mice will still be eating away at all of our hard earned $ and I’ll have to go back to work (I am on maternity leave) having more work ahead of me when I could have gotten so much done while home: unpacking, decorating, cleaning, etc….

It’s taking a toll on our marriage too b/c besides the usual struggle of having a newborn, add the mouse damage/infestation. He seems to think “everything is going to be fine.” While I see the reality of the problem!!
Today I haven’t left the bedroom b/c all I can do is cry, worry, or stare into space and feel nothing. I don’t feel like making small talk with him or hearing that this isn’t as bad as it looks 🙄

I feel I could have beat postpartum by working on the house, cooking and eating healthy, and working out, but instead I’m in my room to stay away from where the mice roam, living off of Pringle’s and Gatorade b/c I need a snack while nursing and to hydrate, and the laundry is piled up and I haven’t showered. I can’t live like this!….

End of vent.

I’ve got a few traps throughout the house and they still did all that work for the chocolatey goodness.

What’s the best thing to use for bait? I’ve been putting peanut butter on my traps with no luck yet. Thanks!

Under kitchen sink. Mice ripped out all steel wool. I looked up the next remedy and it states to mix caulking with it. I cannot do this, as at some point these pipings will need to be repaired, moved, etc.

What now? I am a serious animal lover and traps are out of the question. I do have tiny havahart traps to use in a pinch but that will not necessarily prevent the damage before they go into the trap.

I previously had a bad mouse problem and eliminated most entry ways and killed over 30 that were in my home through a combination of snap traps, sticky traps (humane as possible), and bait stations. The bait stations were placed by a pest company and they gave me a key to monitor since I had most of it handled. It's been almost 3 years since a mouse sighting.

Well last night I caught 2 in an old snap trap within an hour. So looks like I am going back to the front lines against the little guys.

Instead of getting the pest guy back out, I am just going to refill his stations and check entry points. He used a Bromethalin type of bait (purple little pouches) whereas the sticky says to get JT Eaton, a different type of poison.

Is there any pros or cons between the two? I know Eaton can take longer but I can see how that is a good thing (for example when dealing with ants using Terro baits).

Looking forward to any thoughts and strategies.

So we had the council round who set up about 6 bait stations and I've checked the boxes and all the bait has gone (bait was put down 9 days ago).

I haven't seen any droppings until last night but the poop was black and not blue (colour of the bait). Does that mean the mouse hasn't eaten the bait?

I've ordered some snap traps today to put under the kitchen cupboards just in case

I live near fields in the UK and recently have discovered mice in my car. I have tried live trapping and releasing them away from my car (so far released 2). I know there is at least one more but it has bitten out of two separate live traps overnight so I am struggling to catch it.

We have looked in my engine air filter and couldn’t find evidence of them in there. I can’t locate any area where it/they may be nesting

I have also sprayed my car with peppermint oil mixed with water and detergent (as suggested online) and have tried an ultrasonic alarm which but after a week or so of use there is still a mouse - the trap it got itself out of was near this alarm so I don’t think this is working at all.

I am struggling for any other ideas on what to do. There is no food sources in the car (other than when I have placed traps in). I also will not use snap traps so please any other suggestions would be appreciated.

So I came home yesterday and could hear something coming from the floor (like rummaging and scratching like a plastic bag). My cat was in the room with me as well. I have a major phobia of mice/pests, so I called my brother in. He said he didn’t see anything but then said he saw something ‘white’ go further under my bed. I left the room and bough and set up 4 mouse traps around under my bed and put a blanket under the door to stop it from getting out. Well fast forward to this morning and none of the traps have been set off and the bait hasn’t been eaten, I haven’t seen any mouse droppings, and after a 3 hour work meeting, still haven’t set off and can’t smell anything, but I’m still a little scared a mouse will jump out (again, major phobia).

Am I over thinking it or could there still be one? I know this sounds stupid and ridiculous but I do have an uncontrollable fear😂

I live in an old house that has seen better days but this is the first time there has been a real rodent infestation here for years aside from a mouse or two.

I'm at my wit's end and have tried everything. I've removed any food sources I could reach and have placed a number of traps which have gone untouched for at least a week.

They found their way in through various entry points in the house that I'll admit I'm not entirely certain how to seal up. And I understand preventing them from getting in is important but they've seem to have nested in my kitchen to the point that they've taken over. They're also in the attic and all throughout the walls.

I cannot really afford the amount of animal removal services needed to deal with it. Just not affordable to me at the moment as is simply moving away. What I need now is just some advise, I feel like I'm in over my head here.

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There’s no food in my room. He’s usually in my kitchen downstairs. There’s traps set up but he seems to be the smartest of his pack, the last one left I believe.

I don’t want to kill him if I don’t have to 🥹. He comes in my room and munches on this cardboard square I’ve got in the corner under a little table. I’ve caught him munching and removed the cardboard BUT then he started wandering to other areas so I put it back. Now he stops by every few days and I hear him munching 😭.

What can I do? Live and let live? Is it unsafe for him to come in my room, he stays to that spot. I almost caught him with my hands once but that seems unsafe for both of us.