Best mouse killer aside from a cat? Have quite a few in the shop. I sat in there this evening while the stove was warming up and it sounds like the building is alive!
I use traps with peanut butter at home and at work. I put poison in shed a few years ago and the mice carried it all into the air filter on the tractor.
Put the traps in areas a dogs nose wont reach. Still better than poison, which a mouse could brings poison crumbs out for the dog to get into. If the dogs tonge reaches the trap, not only will he look funny running up to you with a trap hanging from his mouth, but will learn quick never to do that again.
Also, make sure you don't have food like trash or bird seed that they can get into. Peppermint oil on a cotton ball places where they might be also discourages them. Simple cheap mouse traps work well. Avoid poison. They die and smell bad, and if another animal, cat, dog or bird eats the mice they can get sick and die. I have three cats, so mice don't live long in my home. They got a good size one and two small ones already. There are some dogs who also are good mouse hunters. Even my labs kill a few. Mice will alway try to get in. So whatever you do is long term.
That method loon sent works. I had mice jump into buckets that had peanut butter on the bottom. If you don't attend to them, they just dehydrate!
Bucket trap works. Quite a few variants. I used poison a couple years back. Got the mice, unfortunately my long time owl disappeared about that same time. She had nested in our yard for several years. Never again. Glue traps around tool boxes, and bait the bucket with peanut butter. Works a charm.
The shop is heated, has a bathroom, kitchen, parts room, machine tools room, etc. h that big wood stove
Our neighbor down the road doesn't even use the can, they just put the peanut butter down on the inside of the walls.
I will have to built a few. Have a TON of 5 gal pails laying around. Was actually thinking of collecting them all and putting them by the road for a free sign. Probably have 2 or 3 truck loads.
At our previous home we rats and mice! I could not use any type of poison since we had a cat and 4 dogs that were mousers, and the sick or dying mice are easier to catch..... We struggled with traps many years (had a skunk spray under the old crawl space going for peanut butter & cheese bait on rat trap, awful). A few winters ago I bought a Raticator during lightning deal on Amazon. They make smaller ones for mice too. Batteries are expensive but worth the convenience and safety. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=058YNWF4VACR6T6GAN89 We put it where our pets could not get to it and caught both rats and mice.
If a dog catches a dying mouse from antifreeze(easy kill) and eats even part of the mouse the dog might not survive either. Maybe your dogs are not mousers?
Alright, I have mice in a shed that's locked. Would a dish of antifreeze work since it's locked and no pets would get in?
Not sure if they drink it Fan? Its the spin off the can across the bucket then drown in the liquid. I use antifreeze in the winter at the cottage as i hope they dont wear skates?
