Problem with mice!

I found better mouse & rat traps. The rodent is killed before he gets to the bait, there are two entrances to the bait & you can dispose of him much easier without getting your hands near him. And they are much safer & easier to set. I put them in a friend's house & got results quickly.
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Ken Anderson said:
This being an old house (1910), if we go away for more than a couple of weeks, we'll sometimes have mice in the house when we return. With some exceptions, including one mouse that she decided to grant amnesty to, Ella gets right on the job, and will wait for hours at a point of entry until she dispatches the intruders. However, after she killed one and remained vigilant, I bought a couple of traps on Amazon, looking particularly for ones that Ella wouldn't get her own nose or feet caught up in, and these worked great. They stay in place, allowing you to trap more than one mouse at a time.

A word of caution though; these aren't traps that you want to just leave out and forget about. They are live traps but I learned from personal experience that if you leave them in there too long, they die and soon begin to smell. They come in a two-pack.

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I might get a couple of these to put in my crawlspace, which seems to be the entry point to my house and which cannot be perfectly sealed. The Amazon videos on this product show a guy dumping maybe 20 mice at a time out of each trap. (He puts the traps in his chicken coop then drives out to the country to dump them out.) So it seems to be one of the few traps where you can catch a whole bunch at once in between being emptied. It's also meant for outdoor use, so could be submerged in a bucket of water if one were so inclined...and no poison involved. Plus you are not inhaling dust from dried poop.
 
John Brunner said:
So it seems to be one of the few traps where you can catch a whole bunch at once in between being emptied.
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I put one out upstairs and one out downstairs, and the upstairs one caught one fairly early on, then three at a time a few days later, but the downstairs one didn't catch anything, which makes sense given that our kitchen and all of our food is upstairs. That must have been it for the mice because Ella called off her vigilance and we didn't see anymore. Although this is an old house, we don't get mice unless we're away for an extended period of time. Even cats who aren't particularly vigilant can deter mice.
 
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Pretty much our cats seem to have deterred most rodents (mice, rats, squirrels) from being in our yard, which we are very thankful for. Now they are also scaring away some of the birds, which is fine, too; since the birds devour the berries as they get even close to being ripe. I do put a net over the berries as they are getting ripe, but the cats scaring them off is even better.

Jelly Bean has been catching young birds who are flying close to the back porch, where he is on guard watching for them to land. He is not eating them, but he brings the birds inside the house (squawking loudly).
He might be bringing us a present, but he does not like it when we take the bird away and let it go out the back window.

These cats love hunting, but have never actually eaten anything live, except maybe a moth or bug. I am fine with that, and don’t care if they eat it or not, as long as they are scaring them away and out of our yard.
All the birds out back were screeching and yelling “danger, danger!” To the other birds, so hopefully, the plan is working.
 
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