mouse in my house

[mazzgolf]

Got my trapper's education completed yesterday. I can get my trapper's license now.

I go to bed last night all happy -- instead of counting sheep, my mind wonders off thinking about finally trapping those yotes bugging me at my buddy's property. Well, I get up in the middle of the night to go pee, and I hear scratching above my head in the ceiling. Is that rain? What is that??? 

I open the attic, turn on the attic light, immediately see mouse droppings on the attic ladder, look up, !@#$%$ mouse darts across my face. 

They did NOT teach how to trap mice in our trapper's ed class this weekend. 

Now I have to figure out how to get rid of mice from my attic.  

I got an email into Ron Jones - I'm hoping his ACP business will take care of mice. He taught the trappers ed class this weekend, if I knew I had mice, I would have asked him while I was there!

[archer36]

It's that time of year. Those little SOB's are finding winter housing. Just set some glue traps or snap traps and you will clear them out quickly. Peanut Butter or Cheese is good bait. 

[Psehunter]

Ive made these and they work great....I used threaded rod and PVC pipe to make the roller

Edited October 15, 2018 by Psehunter

[gobblergetter]

That's what you get for taking the southern class...

Us northern instructors teach you EVERYTHING.

LOL

Maybe, Live to hunt , will let you borrow his cat.

[Live to Hunt]

I charge $125 guaranteed to catch eat then puke them up as evidence. Cleaning puke an extra $25 

[mazzgolf]

14 minutes ago, gobblergetter said:

That's what you get for taking the southern class...

Us northern instructors teach you EVERYTHING.

I want my money back....

oh wait...

[Buck154]

They are mice. Nothing to catching them. 

[fdsmiles]

go down the hardware stole and get ya a dozen traps and start a line in the attic.you will learn allot about setting traps.that is  how i taught my sons.

[Woodsman416]

Mice run along edges.

[mazzgolf]

I had a couple extra traps sitting around that I used to kill the moles I had in my yard. So I went up there and laid down two with peanut butter. Do these !@#$ things poop everywhere they walk? The attic doesn't have a floor, just the rafters and beams, and you can see where they walk but following the poop on the beams (and the burrows they made into the insulation).

Catching them isn't going to be the problem - not a lot of poop, so I think they just moved in. The problem is - finding out how did they get in here in the first place. Been in the house over 20 years, never had a single mouse in the house (yard? yes. shed? yes. house? never). Now all of a sudden, somehow they got in. I need someone with the know-how and good eyes to find out how they got in and plug up those holes!

[Zipper]

Ron could have given you lessons on trapping mice, but more importantly he could have showed you how to skin them out. 

[Zipper]

1 hour ago, Buck154 said:

They are mice. Nothing to catching them. 

Glue traps with a dab of peanut butter in the middle. And those green poison blocks. 

[Stan Putz]

It doesn't matter how they got in, they will always find a way.

Snap trap, glue trap, or poison bags if you don't have kids or pets that will get into them. It will take a little time, but you will clear them out if you are persistent.

[Greenspace]

 put out a few containers of the granular D-con, they'll be gone quick

[Tarhunt]

Pick up some T-Rex snap traps and bait them with peanut butter or chocolate.

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