I just recently discovered a mouse loose in my house. I think it hangs around the kitchen at night. I've tried putting out d-con and traps, but they arent working.

Is there any other method or gadget I could use to get rid of this thing. I'd rather not kill it unless I have to. I have a dog, and I know mice carry disease sometimes.

mice carry hantevirus. there is no cure and it is usually fatal

they make live traps but then you have to move em

sticky pads work pretty good and then you just toss the mouse and pad into a dumpster

D-con works best. its a poison that dehydrates them so they leave the house in search of water and die somewhere else


oh. just reread and saw that dcon isnt working. try putting it under cabinets or beside the fridge or even on the cabinets

Get a trap and bait it with peanut butter, the world isn’t going to end because there is one less mouse in it

i also had a mouse in my kitchen.. i was on the laptop one day and i looked up and that little thing crawed under the dishwasher, never saw it again.... i had decon out but of course he never took the bait

if you have seen one.....it means there are a hundred!!! they live in colonies!!!!
trapping one or two will not end your problem,they are smart. (watched a video of a guy that trained one to run an obstacle course)

I'd recommend "Assault"
this will not harm your other pets, D-con can be harmful to your dog.
also glue pads are a pain if your dog gets into it!!!

I recomend mixing 50% flour with cement. Leave it where micky will find it. Prehaps a bowl of water and a few candles would be nice as well?

(Okay, I kidding about the candles)

cats are good to get rid of those little pests

yep. borrow a cat from a friend for a couple of days!

Well, I hate to tell you this but mice usually come in pairs. When you find one, there will more than likely be another. My family had a problem with mice (plural!) a few years back. I found one in my bedroom and my mom thought I was crazy when she found me jumping on my bed screaming at 1am. But the next night he was BACK... and he brought a friend with him. They were both looking at me... one under the bed and one behind the dresser. Then I discover a third one in my room... but wait, there's MORE! So I go out and sleep on the couch cuz there's no way I was going to sleep in my room w/ 3 little friends running around. Well, I couldn't sleep so I got on the computer... I'm sitting there (the comp is in the kitchen) and this little mouse peeks his head out from under the computer desk and stares at me and I scream! Then not 5 minutes later I hear my mom scream. My mom is in the bathroom when ANOTHER one crawls out of somewhere and looks up at her. This all occurred in one hour tops (except for the jumping on the bed, that was the night before).

We had a total of 5 mice in our house that week... caught them all with traps. I think my dad used little pieces of cheese, but I've heard that peanut butter works too. And don't place the traps out in the open, put them in the room where you saw the mice, probably behind/under furniture (preferably the furniture or the corner you found them by, they'll most likely return to that spot). Check the traps every morning, and always reset them with fresh bait.

Go to the local pet store and snag yah a corn snake and let him loose in the kitchen for a week or so, and then return him to the pet store hehe

sticky pads are cool

if you catch a couple mice with it, it looks like they are playing twister

now thats funny

Sticky traps don't always work. Sometimes the mice will chew there feet off and escape the traps. I've seen it..........discusting.

Go to a hardware or farm supply store and ask for bar bait for rats and mice. You can also buy bait boxes to put them in so you can be sure your dog wont get at it. That stuff has always worked for me. You also need to find where the mice are coming in or you will never really be mouse free.

that is true. you have to find the holes into your house and stuff em with steel wool

get some peanut butter and some rat poison and mix em together and leave it on the mouse traps that u have

Sticky traps are awful and the mouse will suffer. Not very nice.
Be careful with decon ...once they find water their tummys blow up and they die ...possibly in your walls or cupboards.
Traps work with peanut butter and you can get them cheap at dollar stores, quick and painless...put the peanut butter under the little tab and all over the latch..watch your fingers.
Cats work well too, unless it's my cat! She will bring it to you half alive and drop it right on your lap

get yourself a .45 auto and pack it around the house. see a mouse? shoot'im!!! If you are not too good with a pistol, get a kalishnikov with a 50 shot clip. Have your buddy file down the firing pin shoulders a bit, and you have 50 rapid shots to gettem.

I recently saw a live trap that used an empty two liter soda bottle and the trap was just a screw on cap with a valve that let the mouse in the bottle but not out. Bait it up with some sunflower seeds and peanut butter.

When you catch a mouse or three take them to your ex's yard and release said buggers.

I was sitting at my desk this week and a mouse came on top of my desk and went under my keyboard. I reached for the fly swatter and I saw his tail as he climbed down my computer wires. I'm going with the cat option along with the soda bottle trap.

Aha http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/product/black+friday+2008/magicandnovelty/catch+a+mouse+animal+trap+%28set+of+2%29/AdditionalViews.do?WT.svl=AltViews

Get a cat, totally, brakes your heart when u listen the poor mouse crying.

The best way to get a mouse in your house is to release a rat snake or a gopher snake in your house. Cats sometimes let them go in your house! Cats are lame as mousers go in that regard. Snakes will eat them if they are hungry, period. Mice fear them as well. Dogs do eat mice but they are not that good at it. Some people have a serious problem with snakes though.
OSH sells an electric mouse killer for about $30. It uses electricity to get them. Bait it with peanut butter. Glue traps work well but you have to place them properly so that the mouse will walk into it. Mice are extremely agoraphobic and move accordingly! In a world full of cat's you learn to move and keep cover near by so you can hide from the cats when they do find you!
Don't worry about killing a mouse. The damn things reproduce so fast they are like insects. Keep in mind they are extremely destructive and are not afraid to shi* where they eat which is typically your food.

Good hunting.

I hope it does not turn into a "Mouse Hunt" for you !

That movie was funny! That mouse beat those guys up good...