Mouse in my stores

I've been doing my best to put everything in plastic bins and get rid of all cardboard. Cases of canned goods are tricky though, can't get rid of that cardboard with the room I have.  Definitely going to have to get more bins if they got into your chocolate!

I have cats so mice have to be suicidal to come in here (it's happened once), but they're hanging out next door and upstairs and I don't want to tempt them.  ick.  

I have numerous Maine Coon cats dotted about my house, and they are useless.  Saw a brown mouse once walk through 4 of them who had crowded around it.  If bloody mouse had a hat on it would have tipped it and said  "How you all doing on this fine morning" as it went passed.  Useless cats.  I ended up having to catch the thing and get rid of it myself while they watched. Of course after mouse had gone they all puffed out their big furry ruffs and claimed a great victory and how they all fought so bravely.  Ridiculous cowards.

Hz x

Your posts made me laugh, I've been there with previous cats!!!

And... Don't envy me too much. Last year a mouse got in, my youngest kitty (at almost 8 years old now) got to it - his first mouse!!! He injured it, and it died in an unknown spot in my bedroom. Took me a couple of days to figure that part out. (yeah, ewwwwwwwww) I had to move every piece of furniture in my bedroom to find it. :shudder:

I have an outdoor cat (former feral, now is in my carport on heated beds most of the time) and she is an *incredible* mouser.  She's not eating much food right now, she's filling up on mice.   Even better, she leaves the birds alone.  So you can envy me her. :-)     

Mice are good eating.  

Mice are a pest. We had a few once , our 20 pound tabby ripped them to death.  Glad we have him.... 

So we've caught 10 mice in two days!!!!!! Can you believe that? They've nibbled a hole in the wall, found their way in, told all their friends and my pantry has become a mouse social club. We set 6 traps last night and had 6 dead mice this morning. 4 yesterday (when we only had 4 traps). Unbelievable.

Just put more D con safe for dog traps out and purchased more real traps from Amazon.  Have the peanut butter or cheese to attract them.  Dang I worry about the little critters had a family living in my garage wall.  Got them with the d con stuff they did not all leave the "nest" and it smelled for a couple of months lucky it is dry here and they just finally dried up so no smell.

A comment on the traps with poison: there is an extremely high potential for birds or outdoor cats to eat those mice, and die an awful death. PLEASE don't use them.

Our local bird rescue posts so many horror stories every year, as do cat owners. Community cats (unowned cats) do a marvelous job of eating the mice, but if you kill them by poisoning the mice, they can't help anymore.

I won't be back to this thread, because this is too heartbreaking for me to read. 

KiminNM wrote: A comment on the traps with poison: there is an extremely high potential for birds or outdoor cats to eat those mice, and die an awful death. PLEASE don't use them. Our local bird rescue posts so many horror stories every year, as do cat owners. Community cats (unowned cats) do a marvelous job of eating the mice, but if you kill them by poisoning the mice, they can't help anymore. I won't be back to this thread, because this is too heartbreaking for me to read.

We did lose a cat a few years ago because he ate a mouse that had just eaten poison, so now we don't use poison. It was heartbreaking. I'm currently using those plastic spring loaded traps. We're making a pile of the dead mice and have found the local hawks (which are everywhere) are swooping down and taking them to eat so I'm please to help them out. One of the mice wasn't quite dead this morning so we gave it as a tasty snack to one of the dogs who crunched it up immediately and put it out of it's misery. The other 9 have been killed instantly.