The idea is to kill them. But the word "bait" means that it's food-like and therefore attract them.

I don't exactly have a problem. Just found some droppings. So I don't know if they were just stopping by, or actually live around my house.

What do you think?

I'm afraid by attracting them to the bait, some of them will find an alternative entrance into the house, instead of staying where they are.

Any advice will help.

 

your first bet would be to move things around see if you can spot a "home" or entry points for them. If you find them, seal them up! As well you may want to put those sticky pads near them.

 

and some of it is also finding there common pathways, which iirc are almost along objects/walls




as far as bait, iirc when watching dirty jobs, they had used peanuts, or something along those lines

 

Traps baited with cotton. It does not attract them or other insects and if they are around, they cannot resist taking the cotton for their nests. Works like a charm.

 

never even thought about something like that....

 

Problem solved. Much easier than hauling heavy-ass furniture around the house. Just make sure you get a spare house.

 

Peanut butter is good bait. Works very well on a trap. Make sure the trap is against the wall tho

 

peanut butter works great and mice have poor vision so they run along walls.

 

The bad thing about bait i.e. poison is that the mouse (or mice) is almost guaranteed to die somewhere inaccessible to you. It will start to decompose and stink up your house. You do not want that, trust me.

 

on this also. I kid you not, this pic is of an interior wall I had to do some demo on to install a second return for HVAC. I cut open the wall and looked down to find a GRAVEYARD of very old mice skeletons. I looked up above and there was a small hole where they had fallen from the attic down into the wall and could not escape. I can't imagine what the smell was like when they were decomposing, however, it was long before I got there. There wasn't a single bit of skin or hair on them, just bones.

 

 

Buy a snake.

Turn it loose.

Mouse problem solved.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z52seudeQOI

 

About two months before I moved out of my apartment, a couple of rats got stuck in the wall between my closet and the next unit. They died. It reeked for about a week after the managment company removed the bodies.