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Best Way To Get Rid Of Mice?

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Old 07-16-2004 | 12:04 PM
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Nothing like walking into the kitchen and finding a mouse on the ribs you are about to cook.

I guess traps and poison are the trick -- but does anyone have any advice?
Old 07-16-2004 | 12:19 PM
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get a cat
Old 07-16-2004 | 12:26 PM
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i used to own a large tarantula that ate mice...I could find one for you if you dont mind large, hairy spiders.
Old 07-16-2004 | 12:37 PM
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Haha yeah not sure I want big ass spiders running around anymore than I do mice ...
Old 07-16-2004 | 12:58 PM
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put 'em in the microwave. they don't need as long a cook time as babies.

I've almost always had a cat. Never had a real mouse problem.

Once when we were kitty-free - a few mice were around the place. I bought rat poison (green cubes of some sort) and it worked like a charm.
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Originally Posted by steve c,Jul 16 2004, 11:04 AM
Nothing like walking into the kitchen and finding a mouse on the ribs you are about to cook.

I guess traps and poison are the trick -- but does anyone have any advice?
Exterminator bro... might be worth it.

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Old 07-16-2004 | 02:38 PM
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Traps. Don't use poison! If the mouse eats the poison and then goes away and dies somewhere in your home you won't discover it until it smells of rotting mouse carcass which is much more disgusting than the mouse alive.

Bait the trap with peanut butter or get the sticky traps.

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Old 07-16-2004 | 02:51 PM
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C-4 might work
Old 07-17-2004 | 12:11 AM
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sticky traps. Lots of them. Surrounding a small pile of rice grains. Make it so every inch is covered so there's no place they can step without stepping on the sticky trap to get to the rice. We dont let my cat goto the basement. That's where the mice hid. The sticky traps and this method worked like a charm and almost instantly.
Old 07-17-2004 | 12:54 AM
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Mice are animals too, feed them instead of killing them. No, I'm serious! I used to have a mouse, he lived happily for over a year, then died. Then I got a hamster, then he died a year and a half later. I guess that's their life expectancy. But anyway, adopt a cat!



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