Re: [at-l] Mice - let's hope Mouse

[Debbie_Smith@Millipore.com]

Coosa said:

<<Promise???  Promise????  A gaggle of geese, a herd of buffalo, please NOT
a
'family' of mice.
Off list, tell me how you "disinfected" everything (it/they got into the
box
the plastic baggies were in and just pooped and left, so do I toss or do I
dip in chlorine/water, dry and reuse?)>>


Actually I had this exact problem last fall when I thought I had "a mouse"
in my kitchen.  It chewed a couple things but I decided hopefully it would
hibernate soon.  Then it got into the Nestle Crunch candybars... a case I
had put away for hiking.  So I bought the $0.99 plastic traps and set them.
I caught the mouse and set it again just in case.  I caught the mouse
AGAIN.  After a couple weeks the count was 6.  But each day the traps were
sprung and the PButter gone, but no mouse, so apparently I had killed just
the dumb ones first.

Finally I used peanut butter and stuck in pieces of Nestle Crunch... since
that seemed to be their favorite food!  I made sure there was no way to get
the candy out easily.  I caught 3 more, and finally the cupboards were safe
for food again.  I threw out a lot too.  I just reused the traps... opened
them with pliers and shook out the contents, then ran them under boiling
water.  The fact that a family member was recently there didn't seem to
bother my mice.  Good luck trying to get them.  It took a couple days of
having the trap set before I started catching anyone, but then they
apparently passed the word that a good food supply was there.  I'd suggest
using PButter plus some of whatever they seem to be enjoying eating most.

Twilight
GA>ME '98

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