Got Mice Living in Ceiling

[Mike]

I've got a family of mice living in my living roof ceiling. Any recommendations for how to get rid of them?

Thanks, Mike

[Wayne]

trap don't poison they will die in bad places peanut butter on mouse traps!

Wayne

[rck]

Mice don't usually stay in the ceiling. They wander around at night in search of food. That's when you get 'em. I've had excellent results with sticky traps and I got me a good cat. Feed the cat just enough to keep it around. If you overfeed the cat, it won't hunt.

Bob

[m Ransley]

How do you know they are mice and not chipmunks or flying squirrels, do you now where they go in and out.

[JerryMouse]

Think cat.

Borrow one if you have to.

[rck]

This cat I got wandered up out of the holler one day, skinny and mean. It had to hunt for a living so I knew it would be a good mouser. First day it brought me a squirrel. Good kitty. It's due to have kittens any day now, good bloodline, let me know where to send them.

Bob

[Joseph Meehan]

I had some show up in my attic area a month or so ago. After having squirrels who can cause some real damage I called the pros out, the same guy who got the squirrels.

I was up in the area several times trying to find evidence of exactly what I was up against and then we both went up when he arrived. He was able to identify them by a small amount of evidence as mice. He suggested poison and I went out and got some and put it in place. As it turned out, it seems they did not like all the traffic in the neighborhood and moved out.

As to why the long story, the pro said not to worry about the smell of dead mice, as the area was hot and dry and they were small so they would not smell, I would just end up with some mummified mice.

[JerryMouse]

The greatest number of mice killed by one cat is 28,899. Towser, a tortoise-shell tabby in charge of rodent control at a Scottish brewry, killed 28,899 mice in her 21 years. This is about four mice per day, every day, for 21 years. Towser died in 1987.

Had I been in charge of the brewery, I'd have gotten Towser a helper.

[xymergy]

Be sure to keep the kittens for 7-8 weeks so the mother can train them to be as good hunters as she is. They need to learn, they don't just automatically know how to hunt. And spay the mother after the kittens are weaned.

[rck]

No money for spaying, I'm retired on a low fixed income. What happens to the cat happens. Some of the kittens will be roadkill, some will be gotten by the foxes. One or two may survive or may not. This isn't like life in the big city. We don't get too attached to animals here, except for maybe a good coon dog.

[Bonzo]

If you have kids or a lazy cat and do not want to put the spring type traps on the floor try the walk in and shut the door type of traps.. they work well too and don't pinch fingers. Hold your nose when you open them though, mice really smell even when they are alive.

[spamfree]

MEOW MEOW !!!!!

[spamfree]

How do they know the facts on this, and where did u get this onfo. Did they have this cat on a video monitor at all times ro what?

[Jo]

[Mike]

Yes, I'm thinking the same thing.

Mie

[Mike]

I've got some sticky traps outm but I'll buy more. Really don't like cats, but it looks like one is in my future.

mike

[Mike]

I saw one late one night.

Mike

[Mike]

I'll get some of them too.

Mike

[Mike]

Yep.

Mike

[Mike]

Sounds like just what I needI'm in the Baltimore, MD area. Where are you located?

Mike