field mice

[Anonymous Poster]

Has anyone had experience with the sticky paper traps for mice that are being sold now? We have just finished building a barn and we know that we can expect an invasion from the mice that were displaced by the construction.

 

[chim]

Yes, and they have worked for me. They are best for placing in a path the mouse normally travels. I don't think there's any one "silver bullet" for dealing with mice. I use a combo of poison and traps most of the time. There was a string not too long ago that had a number of suggestions.

Oh yeah, I did get a call at work one time asking what to do with a mouse that was stuck on a glue trap. Simple - kill it or ignore it till I get home. Wifey didn't like option #2, so by the time I got home that night, there was one dead mouse and one sticky sneaker to deal with.

Last Winter 3# Son caught a mouse in the dog food in a container someone left open in the garage. Somehow, he managed to get the mouse by the tail with a pair of pliers. He then gave the mouse a lesson in water ballet. Mouse didn't make it through the first session.............chim

 

[heehaw]

i've used the sticky pads a lot, with pretty good luck, but i too use poison along with the pads. one thing i like about the sticky pads is they do a number on spiders too. one of my daughters worked at a bank that had a lot of brown recluse or however you spell it, spiders, the exterminators used the sticky pads everywhere..don't know if it did any good for them, but i sure catch a lot of spiders and other bugs along with a lot of mice.
heehaw

 

[gws]

One word. CATS

 

[heehaw]

i've tried cats, its kinda like folks tell me not to kill snakes cause they eay mice....well, they don't eat enough of them to make it worth the trouble to have them around. i hate cat prints on my truck in the morning...i don't care how dirty it is, but the prints bug me..plus there ain't much that smells worse than a dang ole cat spraying all over everything:..several years ago, a friend came by with a fairly newly painted car, looked good, till she went back out to leave and the cat had got on the hood and scooted off with claws extended..almost cost me a paint job, but a little polishing compound saved the day..i'll stick to poison and glue traps
heehaw

 

[Trev]

<font color=blue>One word. CATS</font color=blue>

Two words. SIX CATS.

No mouse problems around here! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[beenthere]

I will agree with HeeHaw. The mice are nicer to deal with than any cat. I don't have a problem with mice because I do keep after them with poison and traps (baited with peanut butter) to keep them from getting in the house. Knock on wood, but have never had a mouse in the house in 35 years.

 

[DUMBDOG]

When we first moved into our new house (24 years ago), I woke up one night and the kitchen light was on, went out to investigate and there the wife was with a shovel waiting for a mouse to pop out of the stove burner again. Got her calmed down and explained to her that the shovel would do more damage to the new stove then the mouse. Solved the problem with a trap.

It appears that he got in when they were painting the front door and it was open waiting for everything to dry.

 

[WVBill]

Concur with the others. I use the poison bait stations around the outside of the house and barn and a few inside. The ones inside are working out to be more for "proof" that the outside ones are working. The inside ones have never been nibbled. Also, I must be reducing the population over time (or the mice are learning) because the outside bait stations are getting nibbled less and less.