I find Talon works well if you want to bait them. Kills them within a couple days, and good if you can't get back to your new place to re-set the traps etc.
I went out side to turn a tap off that DH had left on (hose to the water tank) the other night and a mouse was on my back patio making a run for the open dooor! Luckily as soon as it saw me coming back it ran away and I made it in and slammed the door lol. WIll be super careful to make sure the doors are closed in the evenings.
We had them all inside last year but we have moved into a new house this year which has been built to keep the buggars out *fingers crossed* we don't get any!!
I'm in the Wimmera and we are in the middle of a mini mice plaque here too.
We use baits and traps. I don't know how many times I've gone to the toilet (which is in the laundry) and a mice has run between my legs. (they were coming up through a gap between the toilet pipes.
I too use steel wool to try and cover up any holes. We had used poly filler but the little buggers have got through that.
I was given another tip you mix together cement powder and custard power 50 50 mix, just leave in a say aluminium tray, it works like bait, they are attracted to the custard powder, eat the mixture then the cement draws all the water out of them and kills them. They won't smell as bad as baited mice do when they die. (or so I have been told I haven't tried this one yet)
I cant stand the dirty little critters lol
( like i am talking a insanly stupid little mouse phobia here ROFL)
I say KILL THEM!!!! no seriously lol
we find baiting is best cause you odnt have to deal with the dead mouse then lol ( cant stand dead mice either ROFL)
My boys found a little mouse nest outside in my back yard a couple of days ago and DH and the cat caught 4 little baby mice but no mumma so i am worried that she is still around... with dadda and nanna and poppy and aunty and uncle and brothers and sisters and cousins ETC lol
Long story short.... lol
we just went and bought some baits!
I say definitely traps We use the grey plastic one's, with peanut butter and nutella as a combination. They are a quick death, not like the bait which is a slow painful death and they can go off into a well hidden spot to die and then you have to work out where they are, and I have heard of them dying in wall cavities and the like, not cool!
At least with the traps you know where the dead mouse is
Place the traps along walls, or where you see their path of movement.
I would be horrified if I was you as well
I hope you house is mouse free very soon! xxoo
We have mice here also. We use the ones where they eat and go away to die and leave no smell.
We have to keep the throw ones in the roof as we always have them there and nothing is worse than hearing a mouse in the walls in the night.
We also have them outside under the water tank but the gap isn't big enough for the dog to get them. The one we found outside dead was quite large. YUK!!!
I think it has something to do with the good weather we have been having.
Can you get a cat?? We recently moved from Yarrambat, but while living there I never had a single mouse (and we lived next to a poultry farm!). I think our 2 cats were to thank for that.
I am trying to convince DP to get DD1 a kitten for her 2nd b'day.. it can be for Mice and snakes... lol
Would prefer it grow up with her, he's not interested in an 'inside cat' though, i said inside at night, outside with the kids during the day.... hmmm gotta work on him.
Is there a particular breed thats good? Preferably low allergenic as DD gets eczema and i don't want ashtma or cat allergy... lol
cats don't always fix the problem hun! mine makes it worse! he just plays with the damn things (and the lizards he brings inside) - so i wouldn't agree it would be a solution ...
we seem to have found the mouse super highway or something - 8 of the filthy mongrels in 2 days - everytime the trap got reset we had more - haven't seen any sign of any for a week now though - and the trap is still set, so maybe we're getting somewhere
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We use the grey plastic one's, with peanut butter and nutella as a combination. They are a quick death, not like the bait which is a slow painful death and they can go off into a well hidden spot to die and then you have to work out where they are, and I have heard of them dying in wall cavities and the like, not cool!
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