Got mice?

[carsonshepherd]

The biggest rat I've ever seen is living in my garage. I saw its little footprints, but tongiht I saw it running up the walls into the rafters. It's huge.

*shriek*

What is the best way to get rid of rats and mice? (I want them dead, but not suffering.)

 

[Guest]

 

[carsonshepherd]

Cats work, but my four dogs might object

 

[Guest]

 

[SeaCat]

Traps work well. I personally believe they are more humane than poison. (Dow Chemical would of course disagree.) Bait them with something enticing like Peanut Butter. Cheese works only in cartoons.

Disposal is of course up to you.

Cat

 

[lucky-E-leven]

When we moved into this house three months ago, we found 4 boxes of D-Con around in walls and attics and below the house (pier & beam). This is all fine and good, I guess, except for the fact that our summer time temps reach above 100 F and when they die the smell is AWFUL! So I removed all those, bought some big rat traps and little mouse traps and caught a couple that way...cheese didn't work well, despite the cartoons. Peanut butter and/or 'Nilla wafers were the big winners, and for the little guys, the sticky traps worked well. As for suffering, that was where the work came in. I don't have the heart to smack 'em with a shovel, so I put them in plastic grocery sacks (trap and all) and held the bag open beneath the tailpipe of my car while running. A minute and a half CO2 euthanasia and that was it. They didn't suffer or holler or freak...just went to sleep. We're rid of them now, so I'm pleased, though none of it is a pleasant task.

Sorry for your plight. Wishing you the best of luck.

If you need any help, Vella and I would be happy to crash your pad for a while.

~lucky

 

[carsonshepherd]

Let your dogs loose on them. My mom's Akita is the best mouser aside from our chihuahu/terrier cross. Especially rats, big enough to hold thier attention.

Three German shepherds and a beagle could wreak untold havoc on my garage. Our backyard is "Squirrel Thunderdome" though - they come in but they don't make it out. *eep*

Besides, the rat ran up into the rafters. *shudder*

 

[carsonshepherd]

The carbon monoxide thing is a really good idea.

 

[entitled]

Get a live trap and turn the sucker out in the back yard with the dogs.

Be warned, though: if there's one you CAN see, there's a dozen more you can't. Rule of thumb on rodents.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Traps work well. I personally believe they are more humane than poison. (Dow Chemical would of course disagree.) Bait them with something enticing like Peanut Butter. Cheese works only in cartoons.

Disposal is of course up to you.

Cat

Yeah, I can't sentence even a rat to that kind of death, it's horrible.

Disposal would certainly be up to me because my boyfriend won't get near them

 

[LadyJeanne]

The carbon monoxide thing is a really good idea.

Can you leave the car running in the garage for a while? Carbon monoxide in the rafters?

 

[carsonshepherd]

Get a live trap and turn the sucker out in the back yard with the dogs.

Be warned, though: if there's one you CAN see, there's a dozen more you can't. Rule of thumb on rodents.

I know.

 

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[carsonshepherd]

Can you leave the car running in the garage for a while? Carbon monoxide in the rafters?

Also a good idea but my car won't fit in the garage.... it's a long story

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

Also a good idea but my car won't fit in the garage.... it's a long story

excuse me, but i thought we were talking about mice and not penis

 

[SeaCat]

LOL

You need to hire a good ol' boy like me. I'll come sit in your garage for a day with my wife's trusty little .22 and peg those suckers all day.

Cat

 

[entitled]

LOL

You need to hire a good ol' boy like me. I'll come sit in your garage for a day with my wife's trusty little .22 and peg those suckers all day.

Cat

Then have you a good roastin' fire going that night and eat well.

 

[Alex756]

My suggestion, figure out what is attracting them. #1 attractor in my experience, dog food. If the dogfood is in the garage, even in airtight containers, move it into the house.

Secondly, I'm a professional exterminators are worth the money type of gal ... long story short, at the vet place I used to work, we had mice problems (dog food yah know) and one time one of the traps didn't work. I seriously found a vet student to euthanize it, same chemicals as you'd have a dog or cat put down with, the student wasn't sure of amount and probbaly over did it, but it was over quick.

But MOST times the traps went off pretty well, they were high quality traps though, not the rinky dink ones.

~alex

 

[BigAndTall]

Should have seen how many mice and rats got in the corn where I use to work. One DAY we killed 45.


This was in a grocery store too.


I remember this one huge warf rat that jumped out of a box of bananans that took 2 days to trap.

 

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[minsue]

As for suffering, that was where the work came in. I don't have the heart to smack 'em with a shovel, so I put them in plastic grocery sacks (trap and all) and held the bag open beneath the tailpipe of my car while running. A minute and a half CO2 euthanasia and that was it. They didn't suffer or holler or freak...just went to sleep.

That's brilliant! It leaves me wondering, more than a little disturbed, if one of you came up with that yourself, but it's brilliant.

 

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[entitled]

Naw hon... that's squirill or possum. Rat is far to gamey for good eating.

Depends. Gives good flavor to stew, if it's done right.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Then have you a good roastin' fire going that night and eat well.

"there's good eating on those things"

[threadjack] Entitled is that really you in that av? Please say yes, please please... [/threadjack]

when we first came back to L.A. my family slept on the floors on my parent's house. We discovered that the little brown spots on the white carpet- that my dad was blaming on spilled coffee- were in fact, rat wee.
So he bought Glue traps.
I am the early riser, so I got to dispose of glued rats. As it happens, I LIKE rats, very much, I think they are beautiful and probably the next sentient beings after we humans take the big dump.
I hated to see them fight for their lives, with their clever little hands and silky fur (they'd been living phat at my folks for quite a while)
I had to kill somewhere between fifteen and twenty of the wee sleekit beasties...