>>2982780
cat

>>2982780
An actual feral cat like from a farm will kill enough mice to live. That's it. The cat doesn't understand you want it to catch mice. A domestic cat is useless.
If you want to jut not see the mice any cat will do. But they will still be in your house touching your stuff and crawling on your face while you sleep.
It's absurd to me in this age of technology that you ant simply point couple of cameras to track down where they come in and out.
It's not impossible. In theory it's easy, it can just be a lot of work if you have lots of holes and your building is sloppily made.

If you find the hole stray foam plus steel wool keeps them out, they can't chew though the steel.

As for entry points around the house plant some peppermint if you can, they hate it.

>>2982780
If you are in the country attracting owls would be a better bet. Cats would just be food for the local coyotes.

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>>2982811
How do you attract owls?

>>2982813
mice

>>2982780
kill traps. like a dozen. when I lived in the country relentless kill traps (snap never glue or poision) were the only thing that curbed them. chipmunks need to be dropped 5+ miles from your attic, i've gone 10 miles with mice idk if the same ones came back but once I switched to snap traps they mostly stopped.

>>2982810
you can get peppermint bags too, those things last 5 years and can just be tossed into spaces.

electronic deterrents do NOT work at all

>>2982811
stupid city faggot

>>2982813
girl owls, duh

>>2982819
I was just reading this study. I didn't realize that deer mice in particular can travel miles to get back home. I'm tempted to mark the ones I'm catching to test this out. Caught another one last night, but now I'm assuming it's the same one I caught the day before and released about a mile away.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/5/1/99-0125_article

>>2982780
bro there is no unlimited number of mice in your area - I can guarantee that. You should just kill them once you trap them and eventually you will deplete the local mice population

>>2982787
>A cat kills enough to live
You don't know shit about cats. They are one of the few animals that kill small game just for the pleasure of killing.

That said, rat terriers are better at actual rodent elimination.

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I got another one overnight. I'm on a streak of about one a day. I released yesterday's mouse about 3 miles from home.

>>2983051
Draw dicks all over it so you'll know if it's the same one coming back. Bonus points for dousing it in tuna juice or something so it has an extra fun trip avoiding predators.

this is going to probably come off as horrifically callous but, good god, you people need a reality check.
Mice are disease carrying rodents. Mice are the vector that move ticks large distances. If you see one, there are probably 5 to 10. They breed insanely fast, you have got to get rid of them. They have litters of like 10 to 20 horrifically often. Once theyve made a nest, they can remember it and fucking smell it even if you've entirely gotten the last generation. They wiggle through cracks so small you wouldnt believe. They are a pestilence

you go get the jaw traps with the claw edge, and the little circle you are supposed to put the proprietary bait goo in, you instead fill with super glue and you glue a raisin down.

You then embrace your role as the harbringer of rodent death, and every morning just throw the bodies in the woods

unfortunately, some things cannot be allowed to take over our conditioned spaces. Bears, rodents and bugs all need to be managed.

alternatively, using a small piece of wire to tie a raisin down to the old style trap works as well. i like the jaw type ones because they are so easy to reset.

im sorry. drop your balls and kill the damn things

>>2983058
>using a small piece of wire to tie a raisin down to the old style trap works as well.
Truth. When I was a kid I figured out that gluing a piece of cereal to the trigger got even the sneaky fuckers that would lick off peanut butter without springing the trap.

>>2982971
>rat terriers
but then you have another rodent to take care of...

Anon you missed the part where the trap is supposed to kill the rat. Wether its glue trap or metal thing that thing is not supposed to live afterwards.

>>2982813
By being a bit of a hoot

>>2983058
I normally don't like killing things but if they're getting into the cars or the house I have buckshotted them out of trees and stomped them to death after them being a nuisance to me for so long.
the wires on my car are worth so much more to me than any living thing.

Glue the spring trap to a board, tie the food to the lever for trap. Keep killing until they are no more.

>>2982810
>>2982820
Do peppermint candles work? Wife loves eucalyptus candles, so might be an easy way to delegate that task.

I have a mouse living around my house, it's been there for years and I've seen it out in the open. I didn't think it was anything to worry about because my foundation is solid concrete without any gaps and goes up a few feet off the ground, but the thing you guys said about crawling through cracks has me concerned. My garage doors don't go down all the way to seal and something small enough could crawl in. Recently something has also started digging holes in my lawn over winter and once the snow melts you can see snake like tracks that they were running through under the snow.

Is it time to declare jihad on the local fauna?

I have wondered why it hasn't been worse because I live in a subdivision right next to the woods, but there are always coyotes and hawks wandering around.

op back again. I haven’t caught or heard a mouse for the last few days. the last three I caught I released several miles from home. one of the reasons they had gotten so comfortable here is that I have a parrot who eats seed. the idiot takes whatever seed he doesn’t feel like eating and throws it to the ground. obviously I vacuum it every day, but it’s impossible to keep up with. I first knew there were mice from seeing the droppings and then hearing them climbing within a wall. the walls are old plaster ones, so you could hear them clambering up the lathe and plaster keys. I’m not sure if it’s always so easy to catch them but one thing that I think helped was using the peanuts that they were used to from eating the bird’s food as bait. previously I had tried peanut butter, which is more commonly recommended, without success.

also, while I don’t like killing the mice, if I lived west of the Mississippi and caught so many deer mice, I would just kill them. the chances of them carrying Hanta virus are pretty big there, and it’s worth just killing them.

>>2983423

you can hear mice in your walls, they are destroying and infesting your living space, it is absolutely worth your time to kill them where you are you little bitch

>>2983324
>I have a mouse
there is no such thing as a singular mouse

spring traps are fine
a cat obviously works well too
but a true final solution to the mouse question is and always will be fastrac contract blox or any bromethalin based feed bait
buy a few little plastic bait holders and fix them around your property and spend the 60 bucks on a few pounds of this stuff

this also has the advantage of poisoning the mice so they leave to find water and die away from your shit shop you don't have to deal with clean up

get any pest control company to give you a quote and they will all recommend and try to sell you on having them put down bait on some recurring schedule so they can constantly bill you, but you can just buy the exact same shit on amazon

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>>2983058
this anon has it.
also, related: last year I set a trap on top of an old wood stove and a lil' motherfucker came running for the trap the second i put it down, must've been hiding behind a jar or something. faggot looked at me briefly, then sprung the trap. picrel was the bait i used.

>>2983053
>dousing it in tuna juice or something so it has an extra fun trip avoiding predators
lmao so fucking cruel

>>2982787
>The cat doesn't understand you want it to catch mice. A domestic cat is useless.
you're a retard
rats are terrified of cats & the smell of cats, it'll be enough to keep them out

>>2984229
>a cat obviously works well too
nooo, predator prey paradox.
predators are efficent hunter meaning they go for the weak and easy meal, once the old are dead that leaves more resources for the fertile to eat and reproduces, non territory hunters like cats increase prey pops. few animals will hunt to extinction; humans and dogs have documented history of hunting species to extinction. .

>>2982971
I actually am a cat so I do know a little bit about it. Hunting for fun is nothing the same as hunting as job to keep your place pest free.
>>2984578
This is absolutely not true lol. At all. Both mice and rats, if hungry enough to find a way into a house with humans but no cat, aren't going to give a flying fuck about a cat.

If you get a cat, the rodents will hide. The will not be eradicated. They will still be climbing on your surfaces and dragging their balls across your face while your asleep.

The solution is very simple but extremely tedious. Fill every small gap where a rodent could enter. And that will end it.

>>2984753
That's assuming your cat will even kill them. I've had cats that would legit just stand there and watch the mouse eat.

>>2982819
This, rodents are smart. We kill them not because we hate them but because they are smart enough to be trouble. Can't say that about lizards and the like. Lizard gets in your house just put it out and it will likely not come in again, because it was a complete accident that it came in the first time.

I use snap and glue traps. You gotta kill them yourself if you glue trap them.

>>2983303
Rodents are mammals just like you. They functionally have the same organs and senses you have. That's why they test chemicals and drugs on them before they test them on humans. So no, going to Bed Bath and Body works to buy a bunch of candles won't change anything.

>>2982787
Some domestic cats are pretty good killers. In my experience the females are way more brutal and willing to seek prey.

>>2983051
Stop releasing them. Just toss that trap into a bucket of water and come back ten minutes later to empty it. Leave the corpses around the exterior of the home as a warning.

>>2985033
>glue trap
Abhorrent

>>2983058
kek what a faggot

Everyone that I ever heard with this KILL DA MICE point of view is a manlet, a Redditor, or brown. Only a retard would find satisfaction torturing a small animal with a glue trap. Go watch videos of glue traps on YouTube. It's always some fat fuck retard who is super proud that he outsmarted a rodent. I'm serious, find a video of a guy using a glue trap on YouTube who isn't a wife guy/cuck.

I knew a guy (5'4) who had a Resident Evil style basement. The kind of place if you brought a women home from a club she would run away. He was an ugly zero viewer fortnite streamer who was always bragging about glue traps. "We are at the top of the food chain" /r/atheism Reddit 99IQ comments. It didn't take long to realize he took some sick pleasure killing these things.

OP is actually using his primal hunting skills by catching and releasing them like a real man would. Do you know how hard it is to catch a mouse without a glue trap??? Anyway, OP your place is dirty. If you have mice in your home, you are a dirty third worlder or a retard (or both). Mice find shelter where they can eat. You obviously have food somewhere in your house. You need to clean your house and spend $12 on crack filler (they sell a poison kind that repels them). If you have a bird feeder or your neighbours do, forget it you lose.

>hurrr they carry diseases
https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/cpg-sec-555600-filth-insects-rodents-and-other-pests-foods

We really need the /sci/ math captcha back because some of you are stupid and dangerous.

>>2982780
Cat

>>2985151
Not as abhorrent as giving your children or live in grandparents the bubonic plague.

You learn to live with your actions. I don't like killing mice but I gotta do it and I own it. Where snap traps don't work glue traps do, just toss them face down in the water and throw them in the trash.

>>2982787
>But they will still be in your house touching your stuff and crawling on your face while you sleep.
Are you talking about the cat or the rodents here?

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the mouse is not falling for my looney tunes ass trap (the croutons he chewed a hole into were placed in a bucket and I spray lubricated the sides of it)

>>2984229
>bromethalin
>bromethalin
>bromethalin
>bromethalin
>bromethalin
there's a reason professionals use this to treat/solve mouse problems
it's cheap, extremely effective, and doesn't leave bodies around the property
additionally you can leave bait traps around to prevent further mice
sure, traps can kill individuals but bromethalin will wipe out all mice that decide to get near your house

>>2982780
Both cat and sealing up your house. Metal mesh is your friend

>>2985246
bros can jump bro

>>2985246
Fill the bottom with soapy water, anon.

>>2983051
Why did you release him dumb ass?
Drown the fucker

>>2983058
Based. I actually love the glue traps because when I find them the fucker knows it is game over.
I'll even dip them in buckets of water over and over again before I put it out of its misery.

>>2985282
What are you even supposed to do with them after they get caught in a glue trap? You're likely to kill or maim it just by unsticking it. Just get a snap trap or poison it. At least it won't suffer.

Glue traps are for psychopaths.

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>>2985281
>>2985282
post your skin color

>>2985283
>You're likely to kill or maim it just by unsticking it
Kek you think i'm trying to unstick the little fucker?
I'm killing them slowly first with water when I find them for getting into my shit and fucking it up.
Fags like you are the worst. They're pest and vermin deserving of a painful death.

imagine posting bait in a thread about mice and getting no replies.

fag
you know who you are

>>2982821
Having a cat in the countryside is straight up retarded

Fucking everything up because you're too stupid to get and train a rat terrier

>>2985154
No need for torture. Yeah that's fucked. Just kill them.

Mice might seem like they're a pest, but they're actually very clean and orderly. Rather than using peanuts as bait in traps, you should instead designate a part of your property for us to live in and leave peanuts there instead (leave some fruit too). I did this and I've not had trouble since.

I fucking hate cat people but theyre right. Cats are your only true help to getting rid of these pests. Nothing else. Not these bullshit retarded gimmicks or organic poisons. Just gotta find a way to deal with cat urine