Don't want to gross anyone out, but recently some VERY UNWANTED guests have decided that they like our house. 
We've already caught two, and there's one more that we know of. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how, short of getting a cat, we can rid ourselves of these nasty critters? We've tried peanut butter, bacon, and cheese on some traps. Cheese so far has worked best, but I want them GONE! Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you!
I live out in the boonies and have problems with mice all the time due to all the horses etc around me. The only thing that has worked for us is Decon. It is food that attracts them and then poisons them once they eat it. They will die several hours later. Glue traps have worked also, but the decon works the bests. Just make sure you put it somewhere that kids or pets can not get to.
Thanks so much for the tip cocakedecorator. I will try that. I don't know why, but mice just send me over the edge. I would rather face-off against an angry dog than a little bitty mouse. Ew, they just make my skin crawl! Well, off to get some D-Con. Thanks again!
We had two rats last year (ugh!!) and we placed some poison around the house and some traps with peanut butter. We caught one with the trap and the other died from the poison. When we called the local pest place they said to make sure you put out water with the poison. If it is a poison that kills slowly it will make them thirsty, they will look for water. Once they get the water the poison works quicker. Not sure if it is true or an urban legend. But we killed both of ours withen about 4 days of finding them in the house. Thankfully we found out where they came in and now that hole is plugged for good!
but your cousins have got to go!!! 
for sure mouse! love to see you but keep your friends away from us! LOL
I am like you. They creep me out. I was told to try peperment oil. I got it at the helath food store. You put it around the baseboards of the house and so far it has worked for me. I live on a farm and the mice love to come in for the winter. YUK YUK YUK
I forgot to write in my original post that I have been using peppermint oil. My aunt told me to get some and put it on cotton balls and place in different areas of the house. What exactly is it supposed to do - deter them from coming in? If nothing else, my house smells real good and my sinuse are pretty clear. Since my original post, we've caught 2 more, bringing the total up to 6 mice in about 30 hours. Every time I think about it, my skin literally crawls! Thank you so much to those of you who have offered responses/suggestions. Man, I wish they would pack up their stuff and get out of my house.
When we called the local pest place they said to make sure you put out water with the poison. If it is a poison that kills slowly it will make them thirsty, they will look for water. Once they get the water the poison works quicker. Not sure if it is true or an urban legend.
This is rather interesting I always thought that you should not leave any water out for them to have. Some rat poisons are basically nothing more than anticoagulants. This means they prevent the blood from clotting. Warfarin (coumadin) that's used as a medication is also used in some rat poisons. Lethal doses of anticoagulants will cause internal bleeding which will results in hypovolemic shock. One of the first signs of hypovolemic shock is dehydration. So rats that have ingested rat poison will look water. If they can't find any in your house they will leave to find water. And hopefully croak in their search for water.
If the water does in fact make the poison work faster then at least they won't be croaking in your house.
I know you don't have a cat, but I am posting to warn others that do.
Remember that even though you place the De-con away from where pets and children can get to it.... The cat that ate the rat, that ate the De-con, is still a dead cat.
The Warfarin in it will still cause death in a cat after it has been digested by a mouse or rat.
Seen it happen to often
I don't know much about the mice but I know how you feel. I'm not scared of them but spiders! Don't put me near a spider or I'll be running for the hills! I did help my grandma get rid of mice once. We found out that they were coming in her kitchen where the plumbing comes in under the sink so we plugged up the hole with steel wool and they did stop coming around.
This is rather interesting I always thought that you should not leave any water out for them to have. Some rat poisons are basically nothing more than anticoagulants. This means they prevent the blood from clotting. Warfarin (coumadin) that's used as a medication is also used in some rat poisons. Lethal doses of anticoagulants will cause internal bleeding which will results in hypovolemic shock. One of the first signs of hypovolemic shock is dehydration. So rats that have ingested rat poison will look water. If they can't find any in your house they will leave to find water. And hopefully croak in their search for water.
Hope she doesn't find them in her bathroom or kitchen though! 
Ok just had a thought --maybe I should clarify 
--I have seen cats die from De-con alot because I am a Vet Tech, not because I have lost several cats myself due to this problem 
Thanks to all of you for your responses. Well, we thought we were making some progress. The last one we caught was quite small, so we think it was a very young mouse. But now we must have either an adult mouse, or one that is very savvy, because twice now we've put cheese in a trap only to find in the morning that the cheese is gone, and the trap hasn't sprung. We'll try a dfferent one today, and smear peanut butter instead of cheese so that it has to monkey around with the trap more, and hopefully spring it. (I sound like an executioner!) We also think we might know where their hideout is, because the dog kept sniffing around the base of a kitchen cabinet yesterday, which is right next to the stove, where we've caught two, but it entails removing the kickboard near the bottom, placing a new board, etc. (Hey, maybe I'll get my kitchen remodel after all! 
) I can't wait till this is all over - I don't need any more gray hairs!!!
NEWTODECORATING: We have put some poison pellets down, but only on the traps that have the really sticky stuff on them, so if the mouse eats it, they would be trapped on the glue and could not spread it anywhere. After we do catch one, we clean the area really good just in case.
YUUUUCK! I had some last year. I think we solved the problem. We put traps down and found out where they were coming from, an opening behind one of the kitchen cabinets. We don't have a basement so I guess they got into the crawlspace under the house. We patched that area quick fast in a hurry. Haven't seen any since and I hope it stays that way! Eeew! Makes my skin crawl too. Good luck!
This topic is contagious. Yesterday, my 5 lb Yorkie cornered a mouse in my bedroom. I have lived in this house for 22 yrs and have never had a mouse problem. This morning around 3:00 a.m. she woke me up whinning and scratching while looking at our window in our bedroom. I got up to try and see if there was another mouse and could not find one. She kept whinning for at least an hour sniffing right under the window. I think that there is another mouse inside the wall. I guess I'll try the peppermint extract. I just have no idea how they got inside and upstairs.
We had a couple mice in one of our cabinets in the winter. I found out when I tried to use the phone that sits on the counter b/c the wire comes up through that cabinet through the hole I guess wasn't big enough for the mouse with the wire going through it. The mouse/mice chewed through the phone wire and my phone was dead. I think we killed 3 mice so far. Just the other day though, we left the trap loaded in there, I heard it snap. DH found nothing but a few spots of blood so we set it again.
They skeeve me out completely. I scrub and sanitize everything after we find something like that.
My opinion on the poisons is not to use it unless you put it on a sticky trap. I know it probably kills faster and more of them than a snap trap alone but when the thing wanders off the croak, I don't want it croaking under something or in something where DH can't get to it!!!
Well, we're up to 7 that have passed on to the big cheese ball in the sky. DH found another one in a trap behind a chair in our den, which is right off the kitchen. Those are the two rooms that they seem to be frequenting. DH also put some magnets on the lower cabinets so that when you close them they close tight, with no little gaps for the critters to get into. Every time I open a door or drawer, I wonder if I will see two beady eyes staring back at me. This is no way to live! If the weather ever gets warmer around here, maybe they'll leave. We've moved everything edible into cabinets we're sure they can't get into and that have no spaces, and everything else that is in glass or thick plastic bottles/jars is on a table in the middle of the room so that they can't get to it. So their food source is definitely gone, except for what we put on the traps. Somebody pinch me so that I can wake up from this bad dream!
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