AAAAaaargh!!!!!! Anyone successfully got rid of a family of mice from house?

[~TT40~]

we are at what is hopefully the end of the plague... we were catching like 20 a day... our local supermarket catches hundreds and everynight they have to pack up all the shelves into plastic tubs (some things like suger and floor are always stored in plastic tubs on the shelves) just because they get into it all...poor people.
Ive used traps - but make sure you empty them quickly otherwise the live ones will eat the dead ones and they arent so fun cleaning up then.. we used steel wool but that eventually did get eaten through. we baited...and are now discovering horrible smells around the house where they have died in cupboards and clothes draws.. I have just put mint down aswell cause apparently they dont like that (and it masks the smell), but dont know if its worked cause they have died down a bit now...(too cold) oh we also tried spraying amonia in our roof cause it smells like cat wee and mice dont like cats.
so we might have like 1? mouse left...i know we havent gotten rid of all of them, but its heaven here now compared to what it was.
hope you get rid of yourones.

but it was seriously bad here...the supermarket also put that sticky paper down that when they walk on it they get stuck...but well lets just say mice would do anything to get unstuck, even without their legs...

another way (we havent done this one though) is a bucket of water, with a plank across that rolls, so when they walk across it to get a drink they fall in the bucket and drown. I might put some up in my roof...

[Kazbah]

another way (we havent done this one though) is a bucket of water, with a plank across that rolls, so when they walk across it to get a drink they fall in the bucket and drown. I might put some up in my roof...

Before I moved in my husband had a mouse problem. My 2 cats though ... no more mice. Although he did the ruler balanced across the bucket and drowned a few - videoed it even. But they can swim for ages, so he'd be having to kill them.

[Cranky Kitten]

Mmmm, I remember having mouse plagues growing up on the farm (central wheatbelt of WA) especially just after harvest. Though the snakes mostly kept them under some kind of control, and the cats kept them away from the house.

Peanut butter on an old style wooden trap worked best for us if we needed to. Cheese or anything else the cheeky beggars would just pinch from the trap and not get caught.

[jaspen]

i've been told eucalyptus oil keeps them away - this was from someone on a property who had a big problem and then started using a lot of eucalyptus oil and leaving open bottles of oil in appropriate places - haven't tried myself as I'm still using rat sac but will have to get rid of it soon so the dog is allowed in the shed.

[deletedit]

Our cat is a very good mouser but she brings them inside and plays with them and LOSES THEM so her escaped snacks wind up living in our oven. They eat the fat inside the grill drip tray.

I'm getting really good at catching mice. For a human, anyway. The indoor ones get really fat and slow and I've caught them by stepping on them, cornering them and grabbing them with a tea towel, squishing them against things and picking them up by their tails, if they hide under a pillow or stuffed toy you hold the toy down and peel up one corner and then get them by their tails. They regularly hide in small holes with their tail sticking out and don't know you can see them. Ready made handle

This morning one hid under my baby bounty bag full of brochures. So when I held it down I squished the mouse's head. So when I tracked it out by its tail I left a trail of blood from its mouth from kitchen to outdoor garbage bin ...

Gross.

[anney]

Oh yuck. - that is gross.
Well we resorted to poison and the mice seem to be gone but there is a fairly disgusting smell just outside the house so i think one died under the house. but after spending many days cleaning up after them am very happy they are gone.