Exterminator Referral Mice

[CO Hugh]

I manage a house in Denver that has a mouse problem, we have never had that before. Any recommendations for an exterminator?

Thanks.

[rondog]

I don't recommend poisons unless you enjoy the smell of rotting mouse bodies that you can't find or get to. Ain't much nastier than that. Glue traps and snap traps with peanut butter bait work good, so do live traps like Tin Cats. Never tried the bucket traps.

[Lurch]

I picked up a couple of traps at HD that electrocutes them, I cleaned my house out of mice in about 2 days. Besides just the thought of the little bastard going to the chair was enough to buy the traps.

[Great-Kazoo]

neighbors cat.

[th3w01f]

If you go the DIY route these are awesome; with the construction around here we had a bunch of mice and I was able to get rid of most if not all of them in a couple of days. http://www.amazon.com/Aspectek-102-0-019-Snap-E-Mouse-Trap-6/dp/B004B9XPOO/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1377210903&sr=8-4&keywords=best+mouse+trap

[hatidua]

I bought some poison that looks like rectangular chunks of peanut butter from Jax - it's apparently some kind of blood thinner and if the mice eat it and can't find water, they croak. Mice disappeared in less than 48 hours and if they died inside, it's dry enough that I have not been aware of it. This was about six months ago.

Snap-traps tend to have 'odor-of-death' within six hours of the critter getting snapped but my experience with poison, in CO, is that it's dry enough here that they simply mummify. YMMV.

If using poison (either personally or via an exterminator), PLEASE be careful of pets finding the bait.

[jerrymrc]

I recommend a guy by the name of Karl Mann.

You funny guy. [LOL]

[Wulf202]

the only thing exterminator services are going to do is place bait or traps. You can do it yourself and save lots of money.

[sniper7]

To to Walmart and buy a bunch of traps and peanut butter. Put peanut butter on traps, set traps, enjoy.

You can also set up with a bb gun and a flashlight, lots of fun!

[Irving]

Or a blow dart gun.

[rocktot]

Use a toothpick through the copper thing and put a raisin on it (with PB thats ok also). I watched a small mouse eat most of the peanut butter off a trap before I did that. It was on top of the damn thing. They HAVE to grab the raisin, which causes the leverage, then the satisfying snap! Also, use the good mouse traps, forgot the name, NOT the crappy chinese traps. Home Depo has the good ones.- Ive had several peanut butter traps get cleaned off. Very aggravating. Then you start thinking the mouse is 'playing' with you. Then, you start talking to them.- Just use the raisins.
Also had a few escape snapped traps. Very aggravating, but found it outside dead.

[Stone83]

get some pure peppermint oil, and beer caps.

Fill up the caps with the oil and put them where the lil bastards might come in.
(gets traps also, in case the get through)
In 9 years doing this it works.
Cats works very well also...

[hatidua]

To to Walmart and buy a bunch of traps and peanut butter. Put peanut butter on traps, set traps, enjoy.

-mix the peanut butter with dry oats (tap into your breakfast oatmeal supply) and it's a bit more effective than peanut butter by itself. Also, put the traps along the edges of the walls, the mice tend to skirt the edges rather than run across the middle of open spaces.

[Trout Hunter]

Home Depot old school traps. Have mice in the job site trailer and in the storage on the patio at my place. Little peanut butter and 3 of 4 had claimed their first kill within an hour. I hate mice.

[stoner01]

Wife told me the other day we have the little bastards in our apartment again. Our apartment faces the east towards E470 so it doesn't surprise me. Anyhow, we had an enclosed snap trap and it triggered. Little bastard survived and was looking at my wife when she went to pick it up.

On a side note, what are the disposal procedures for bait boxes? Just toss like anything else?

[n8tive97]

Get those high frequency deterrents you plug in the wall, they will go away. Put one on each floor and watch them scatter...

[Lurch]

Get those high frequency deterrents you plug in the wall, they will go away. Put one on each floor and watch them scatter...

Always wondered about those do they screw with dogs?

[rockhound]

. Our apartment faces the east towards E470 so it doesn't surprise me.


WTF does that have to do with anything? Unless you mouse is a muslim I don't think he cares if your apartment faces east.

Get yourself some bait squares, the mice will leave in search of water, you will never have an odor in your house. the new ones all dehydrate the little buggers, even if they don't leave the house they dry out so fast they never smell.

[Punkface]

I used the bucket method and cleaned out my house and my sister's house within a day.

Fill a 5 gallon bucket with a few inches of antifreeze, put a can with peanut butter on a thin rod (i used a wire coat hanger) and make sure the little bastards have something they can climb up to the rim of the bucket with. The lil idiots jump for the peanut butter, fall into the antifreeze and drown/die of poisoning. Drain, toss them in the trash, refill bucket, and put more peanut butter on. I got 3 mice within the first hour of setting the trap at my sister's place.

[n8tive97]

Always wondered about those do they screw with dogs?

Nope, not at all. They don't bother either of mine.

[Jamnanc]

I have a cat you can have if you promise to feed, water, and change out the litter.

[buffalobo]

I bought some poison that looks like rectangular chunks of peanut butter from Jax - it's apparently some kind of blood thinner and if the mice eat it and can't find water, they croak. Mice disappeared in less than 48 hours and if they died inside, it's dry enough that I have not been aware of it. This was about six months ago.

Snap-traps tend to have 'odor-of-death' within six hours of the critter getting snapped but my experience with poison, in CO, is that it's dry enough here that they simply mummify. YMMV.

If using poison (either personally or via an exterminator), PLEASE be careful of pets finding the bait.

^^^This. In the 10 years we been living in the country, only been 1 or 2 smelly ones and rest little mummies.


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