Mice in heateer

[RonD]

Google: Millions of Mice Are Terrorizing Australia

Watch the video, from 2 years ago, WOW

 

[sgtsandman]

I have not found a good answer to this. Even blocking everything you can think of they still seem to find a way. For whatever strange reason, the mice here will literally eat soap. They ate a couple bars of Irish Spring soap, the entire bars, in just a few days. Then they started eating my bars of Lava Soap. We now have three cats and still a mouse problem. One fall I set up one of the 5-gallon bucket traps and put at least one mousetrap in every vehicle. I wiped out over 35 mice and it didn’t change anything around here. Bout enough to drive a fella to drink.

They only need a hole about the size of a dime in order to get in. Finding and plugging all the holes that small and larger is a tall order.

 

[Josh B]

Google: Millions of Mice Are Terrorizing Australia

Watch the video, from 2 years ago, WOW

They weren't so bad here till the farmers quit getting the subsidies, so the farmers sold out and became ranchers running cattle. Not they roll out large bales of hay every few days in every field, then a few days later roll out another one right on top of the ones the cows already mostly ate and filled with cow paddies.
Now they have ready made rat and mouse condominiums :/
Thankfully my family place is all timber excepting maybe 20 acres in the far back, and the neighbor that has the 160 acres across the road uses that field for hay, and cuts it 3 and 4 times a year to make round bales. That mowing helps a lot to keep them down

 

[dashhho]

My strategy is to trap them away from where I dont want them. So usually a random shed. This will bring mice to where you don't care. I don't think you should trap them in your house or in cars unless you know they are there or it will potentially draw more mice in. Bucket traps seems to work. Or you can lay a bunch of individual traps. The key is to keep on it until you kill the colony near you. It will work but it will take time. You are literally fighting a daily battle in order to win the war haha.