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Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, August 20, 2007 - 8:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Where to ask? I'll try here.

I have a nice vinyl-type food container in which I've been storing a bar of soap. Now I want to put food in it again. Now it smells like the soap. I tried putting baking soda in it and closing it up for a few days. Still smells. Any suggestions for deodorizing it?

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, August 20, 2007 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Try Vinegar or lemon juice. Let it soak for a couple of days

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Escapee, thanks. I tried closing it up with vinegar for a few days, then airing for a while. Smell is GONE!

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Okay, this looks like a good place.

I have mice. Many mice I think. The cats can't keep up.

I hate killing things, and refuse to use a snap trap.

How can I move the mice back outside. Do humane traps really work? Does anyone have one that they have been very successful with?

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
YES KAR - I WAS VERY successful with a humane trap!

I got them from the TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. The lid just closes and there are airholes. I was very mad at someone at the time who really did me wrong, so I released a couple of them behind their bldg. Not nice, but it's true!!!


ETA - at that time I had an elderly cat who was almost 19 and at that point all she did was sleep and eat. So I couldn't rely on her to help me. I'd broken up with someone and didn't have time to find a decent place. So I was in a miserable appartment for a few months, and was stuck with bugs and mice and it was freezing and horrible. I left that apt as soon as I could find something decent, 11 months later.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
FOR KAR:

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-29,GGLG:en&q=humane+mouse+traps&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Mame, is the kind you used pictured there? I just want to buy one that really works...

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
For you... i'm going to dig around and see if i can find it in my closet... Mind you it around 1995-7 somewhere around that time.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Oh, you don't have to do that! Just curious because there's one at Walmart that I thought I might try right away. And there are several online companies that always claim amazing abilities for their products, but neither of those places always lives up to their claims!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Kar- I FOUND IT - & didn't have to rummage through my closet. Yay! (It was on the next page on the link above.)



Pretty sure these are EXACTLY what I used. I remember the rounded hinged door. :-) And it WAS grey. And you can see the airholes. :-)

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
ETA KAR- GGLG:2006-29,GGLG:en%26sa%3DN, Click Here for a site where they sell them. It's the Woodstream # M007

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Um Kar...make sure that when you do let them go...let them go away from your home, so they don't just follow the same path and get back into your house again lol

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
yay, Mame! I tried searching on walmart.com to see if this is the kind that I saw there - it looked familiar. First time through I got the Milton Bradley game "Mouse Trap" LOL

LOL,Skootz. We have a lake/wildlife area about 1/3 mile away. I"m thinking they'll be happier there. Or at least I'll be happier with them there!

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
You already know this but you need to find how they are entering and block the little pests.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    


Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
That's nice of you not to kill them. I have them here but since the fumigator came they are staying away. Sadly, I have such an overall pest problem that I have to consider spraying for them if I see one again.

Glue traps are horrible. My old roommates used them and it's very very cruel. I watched one die of a heart attack. Once they are in the glue you can't get them out. My roommate used the snap trap and killed one. I've put out the D-Con but haven't seen one for two months. They have super-noses. I heard one chewing through a bag in the summer. Turns out there was a lone french fry in there.

You can try finding the holes they get in and stuffing them with steel wool. They won't chew through becuase it cuts their mouths. Sounds cruel but they don't keep trying. Also seal up holes with plaster, keep thrown-away food in plastic bags up off the floor (or throw away outside the same day,) and all regular food stored in plastic tupperware.

Basically send the signal NO FOOD HERE and try to keep them from even smelling anything edible!



Rissa
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03-20-2006

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 1:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Karuuna, up until last year we lived on an acreage. When we first moved in we purchased a bunch of those little sonic thingies (love my grasp of english?), we plugged them in the electric outlets around the exterior of the house. At the same time we set traps inside the house (sorry). We trapped a few mice inside that first week then put the traps away and depended on the sonic plugs. We never had a mouse in our home from the point on. Five years in a rural setting. The sonics repel the mice so they don't want to approach the house.

Nyheat I so agree about the glue traps. We used one of them because we had to put it in the rafters and didn't want to be groping for a snap trap up there. I don't mind killing pests but hate to see any living thing suffer.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Rosie, I do know that, and the local pest control company will do that for me; but they insisted on killing the mice first. Blech on them!

I have such a large house, and it's about 30 years old. It could take quite some time to find all the entry points. Typically it's just this time of year that they find their way in, when it starts getting colder outside. And usually the cats keep 'em under control. But lately, my kitties have taken to playing all night long, so they are relegated to their own play room downstairs at night so I can get some shut eye.

I didn't know you could spray for mice. And I thought if you used the poisons, they could crawl into the walls and die and stink for a long time?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 2:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
D-con has a dehydrating formula. The mice eat it and go off to die, but they don't stink. Problem with it is they sometimes don't go crawl into a wall or outside and drop dead in the middle of a room. If you have pets or kids who would play with something like that, or worse, eat it, you have to worry about them.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 2:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh and glue and snap traps are just awful.

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 2:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Fortunately I haven't found that out yet regarding the spray. The mice are not a major concern at the moment but they can be very bold. This summer they were coming very close to the bed and mocking me! Yes I saw that glimmer in the eye--mocking!

It's really the food that draws them out in a big way. I stupidly left a bag of leftover Chinese food in a wastepaper basket overnight and the next day one had taken up residence in the trash! Actually it was trapped and kept trying to skitter up the side but couldn't reach so I had to tip over the basket and let it out. Ohh--me and the mice.

But currently I have worse pest problems, centipedes, cockroaches, and bed bugs (THE WORST)to name a few. Finally I signed up for bimonthy pest service because give me a break already.

BTW the bed bugs are "gone" now but it was a very scary six weeks as I realized they were quickly getting out of control. I had to throw out a bed and a roommate. Please if you ever see one bomb your house or move. They have a heavy musky scent and that is how I hunted them.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
My vet said that even if a pet eats a d-conned mouse, the pet would not be harmed unless said pet had eaten the d-con directly and a whole lot of it. It's rare that mice croak out in the open, though.

Anyone tried these things? *Mouse Magic*

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 2:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
I have heard that peppermint oil works, so maybe that mouse magic would keep them out.

I do remember when I first moved here, they were just rampant, because the house had been vacant for awhile. One even ran right over my hand while I was sleeping! EEK!

I get my house sprayed for bugs every month, since we have a lot of deadly things like yellow jackets and wasps and bees, and that keeps them from sneaking in. I've had the house sealed for them and they still get in.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
My brother's dog Lucy ate about 4 boxes of dcon a couple years ago. [Don't even get me started!] She weighed about 50 lbs. Vet gave her a Vitamin K shot to thicken her blood just in case and said to expect turquoise poop for a few days. She was fine.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL, not sure about how rare it is Vee! I found two last week right out in the open, one in front of the couch in the den, the other on the kitchen floor. We go through cycles with them, right now the gas company has been in the neighborhood digging stuff up for weeks and theres a new housing tract going up down the street so we're overrun again. Once they stop digging, we'll get rid of them, then someone else will start and they are right back again.

The last couple years here have been rather dry so we're seeing a lot of critters in the neighborhood that we weren't before. Snakes, rabbits, heck ants have been terrible too this year, and the frogs and mice are worse. It's not unusual to see these critters in the desert, but in all my life living here (or most of it) I've never seen snakes coming right into the neighborhoods like they have been.

Harvey doesn't give a damn about the mice and will sit and watch them walk past him. Still don't like to take a chance with the d-con though. They can be very bold, lol, we had one run into the living room, stop, and stare at us with this "So what are you going to do about it???" look.

We do the food in plastic containers and have for years. Only thing thats left out is the dogs food and water dishes (which I think they're going for as much as the food.) It's a very annoying problem to have, that's for sure!