How to get rid of pests inside and outside of your house

Homemade Humane Mouse Trap

	Home-Made Humane Mouse Trap Lightly coat a large bucket with vegetable oil. Place the bucket next to table, work bench or chair. Balance a pvc or paper towel tube on the edge of the table directly over the bucket. Place a small dab of peanut butter inside the end of the tube that is hanging over the bucket. The mouse will enter the tube to get the peanut butter, the tube will tip and fall into the bucket ( see diagram below). The mouse will not be able to get out of the bucket because of the vegetable oil on his feet. Be sure to relocate mice about five miles away from your home. Other humane methods can be used such as store bought ketch-all traps and repellents. I have used shake away rodent repellent with very good results in some cases. Humane Bucket Trap Humane Mouse Trap Shake Away 9001020 20oz Rodent Repellant Granules  Field Mice Field mice, also known as voles, eat plants, insects, and the remains of other animals such as birds or chipmunks. In summer, field mice(voles) store caches of seeds in their system of burrows. In winter, their diet consists of bark chewed from shrubs and tree trunks less than 4 inches in diameter.Voles often scurry back and forth in their under-the-snow tunnels, to get seeds from beneath bird feeders. They are active both day and night getting enough food to satisfy their voracious appetites. What Do Mouse Droppings Look Like? (left) mouse droppings - (right) rat droppings Warning-- Mouse droppings or feces can be toxic and has been known to cause Hantavirus. If you have large amounts, hire a professional to clean them up. Page Author  Paul Van Durme-Certified-Exterminator Contact Me Using Mouse Bait If you decide to use bait to get rid of your mice be sure to place it in a bait lock box or place it where pets can't get into it. More than ten thousand dogs and cats die each year from rodent bait poisoning. You may want to try a repellent before trapping or baiting. You also take the chance of having a mouse die in your walls which will produce a bad smell that may linger for weeks. Mouse bait box placed next to drain pipe

	Mice Problems Mice invasion  We recently moved into a very old farmhouse. Before we moved in we had an exterminating company treat the house for mice. I think they used bait because the house reeks of dead mouse odor. In the past week we have seen at least 25 mice nin our basement and atic. My wife has told me she is moving out if I dont stop this mice invasion. Could you recommend a product that we can use that wont cause the rodents to die, and that will get rid of them in a hurry,,, Please help!!!  SUBJECT: Re: Mice invasion  Hi, Sorry to here about your mouse problems. I recommend using ketch all traps. They can catch up to twenty mice in one setting and are very humane since they do not kill them. You just have to release them in a different area. WATER BUCKET TRAP Just thought I would let you know about a great mousetrap I found after giving my dogs a bucket of water. I call it the bucket trap. Last spring our basement was infested with mice. I had put a half full bucket of water (which I use to water the dogs)just below some shelves I have in my celler. I returned the next day to get the bucket and noticed that there was 7 dead mice floating in the water. They must have climbed up on the shelves and jumped in to get a drink of water and drowned. Within a week I caught 7 more. Maybe I should get a patent on this mouse bucket trap. I have tried other home remedies to get rid of rodents in my home but this one really worked good. Please pass this remedy on to your readers. Answer: Inhumane person,,, Get rid of the bucket and get a humane ketch all mouse trap. Its more humane and works just as good, if not better Infested With Mice We recently bought a house that has been vacant for two years. the mice have taken the place over.I see twenty or thirty mice each day. I have small children and many pets and do not really want poisons around my house. Is there any trap or device that I can set that will not hurt the mice pets, or children...Thanks Answer: A ketch all trap should work great for you. Be sure and release them 3 or 4 miles from your house. Mice No Longer Going in Traps.  We have field mice in our home....we have used the catch and release traps and this winter caught and released 14 mice (we released them very far from our house - near a horse barn on a nearby farm - where the barn cats can control them) now we still see signs of them...but the traps aren't working anymore...what do we do now? Edit Text  Answer To Not Able to Catch Anymore Mice.  Moving the traps around to different locations in your house might help. Also try baiting your mouse traps with a few chunks of dry dog food. Thanks How To Make A Mousetrap We followed your directions on how to make a mousetrap as you show in the diagram above and actually caught quite a few mice the first week. We really had to get rid of these mice fast because my parents were coming to spend a couple weeks with us and my mother is really scared of mice. The second week we had problems with the tube falling off the table and onto the floor and the peanut butter would be eaten. I think these pesky little rodents had figured the trap out. We decided to make some changes in the design of the trap. Instead of using the pvc tube we replaced it with a small board or slat about 2 inches wide and 18 inches long, with a dab of peanut butter placed on the end of the board that would hang over the bucket. We used vegetable oil to coat the bucket because we believed the mice might be attracted to it. We caught around 10 more mice using the board method. Maybe we should get a patent on it. Thanks for your help.