Best Way to Get Rid of Mice in Walls
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What is the best way to get rid of mice in walls?
I can see the problem. I don't think you have an acrobatic cat that could climb through the walls after them.
Seriously, what should I do?
Get mouse traps.
They are in the walls.
Their food is not. Set up mouse traps to catch them.
I'm afraid if I set up mouse traps, I'm going to reenact some cartoon scenes after stepping on one.
So get a barrel with a spinning tube on it, with a ring of peanut butter smeared around the middle. They'll come out of the walls, onto the thing to eat the peanut butter, fall off and land in the water.
They'll drown.
Yes, and then you can feed them to your cat or a dog or toss them in the bushes. And unlike mechanical traps, you can't hurt yourself setting them up or accidentally setting them off.
And I don't have to deal with blood.
Another option could be poisoned bait. The downside is the smell.
I'll put up with the smell of the bait if I stop the screams from visitors finding mice in my food or the messes in my kitchen from the mice eating through boxes of cereal and rice.
I meant the smell of the dead mice in the walls. If you lay out bait, they'll eat it, but they are just as likely to die in the walls as they are in a corner somewhere.
Any other ideas?
Put sticky traps in your pantry where the mice are eating your food or around the corners where you find a lot of mouse poop, literally catching them as their pants are down in the bathroom.
Then what do I do with them.
Unlike my prior suggestion, those caught on sticky traps are probably still alive. Whether you set them free in the wild or kill them is your choice.
There is no wilderness near me.
The alley behind your house is good enough for teenagers, it is good enough for the mice.