PenniF

This thread has me in stitches....and i have a tale of my own. Setting the scene....we lived in the country and it was early fall and I knew the mice were already starting to come into the basement.
I had an open bag of M&Ms in my pantry...but was saving them to make M&M cookies for the kids. One night after they were in bed, got in the pantry only to find the bag had only a couple M&Ms left in it. Darn kids !! I told them i was going to bake cookies.
Didn't think anything else about it - til a couple days later i was going to make rice with dinner. Reached 3 shelves UP from the shelf the M&Ms were on - and almost dropped the rice box because it was so much heavier than it should have been. Looked inside and the Uncle Ben's box was full of......you guessed it ....M&Ms. I swear it's true !!!! Some dumb mouse had moved them all into that box. No way the kids could have done it - they could not have reached the top shelf even standing on a chair !!!
Sure made me mad cuz i had to throw away the rice and the M&Ms !!!

Prism99

I would recommend either this:
http://www.amazon.com/ANTI-REMOVER-P...dp/B001RFY3AK/

or this:
http://www.amazon.com/Nok-Out-Spectr...dp/B009LLHOJY/

They are both enzyme formulas that work on breaking down the proteins causing odor.

Anniedeb

I can vouch for peppermint oil! I also had an infestation...IN MY CAR!! I'd gone shopping, and when I came back to my car, there were TWO brown and white mice on my drivers floor mat. UGH!!! one dead, one not quite. Luckily I was able to pull the mat out and leave them...sorry... no proper burial. When I got home I noticed tons of little pieces of foam behind both the drivers and passengers front seats...yep they had both made nests in my seat backs, and yup...left their babies behind!! DH had to handle it from there, and by the time he finished taking the seats apart, he removed 9 babies. He bought little plastic bottles with holes at the top, added cotton balls, and soaked them in peppermint oil. They now hang on the door handles of the back seat. There's one in the engine compartment also. For several weeks I made him drive my car, and I took his....just to be sure!! They haven't returned, so I'm back to driving my own car!

Mamia

My husband can't kill anything and he was sick one year so he had me taking the live traps to the back of our property through a snow storm. His cousin laughed because mice are nesters and would only come right back to the house. That was the end of that.
Mia

wildyard

I was awakened around 3AM one morning by my cat playing on the bed. As she ran from my head down to my feet, then walked from my feet up to my elbow, I turned on the light to see what she was doing. She had a little mouse she had brought to give me, and every time she laid it down beside me, it would try to run away. Then she would catch it again and bring it back to me. I was not happy knowing that before I turned on the light she had chased it across my pillow!!!!

coopah

Thanks, Prism99. I'll try that if the vinegar didn't work. It's not a place I like to go after the infestation!

maviskw

Sounds like you need some Tupperware. But, yes, mice have been known to gnaw through Tupperware, too. Those were some really hungry mice, or a whole lot of them.

caspharm

I found a water rat's nest in a self-watering planter base a few years ago after the plant (a large palm) had died and I was clearing out the dirt, so I could take it downstairs (we lived in a condo next to a lagoon). I had gotten to the bottom of the pot and saw pink wiggling bodies. Mom was gone. I called Animal Control and they told me leave the babies alone and the mom would move them. Sure enough, I checked the next day and they were gone.

purplefiend

When the new apartment complex was going in behind my house, we had lots of mice. My Westie, Annie, was very busy eradicating the mice. She doesn't eat them, just bites the back of the neck and shakes it till its dead. Come morning there were 7 mice lined up on the kitchen floor.

lwbuchholz

Once again I haven't read all the posts so someone might have mentioned this. But I found a article on the net for repeling pests and they suggested that strong smells especially peppermint repel mice. I tried it and it seemed to work. I used cotton balls and wet them with peppermint oil and set them where there was a place that mice might come in. I think they should be placed in something since it is oil. We also use those copper scrubbers in any holes they come through. They can't chew the metal. We tried steel wool but it rusts away and makes a awful mess. I had thought of planting mint around the foundation of the house too. I hate mice!! The neighbors just remodeled an empty house and the mice fled to my house. I had one and I thought it was a hord. It ate all the chocolate it could find and my traps didn't work so went to walmart and found some new kinds and caught it. That was the fatest mouse I have ever seen.
Lynda