I had a mouse so smart i named him Einstein. He used objects to trigger snap traps, avoided sticky traps, wouldn't enter anything, nor go up any unfamiliar ramp for a bucket trap. The mouse was a genius. So I thought about how ima get him and it came to me garter snakes. I knew Einstein was probably too big for a garter snake to eat but I hoped they would rattle him enough to make a mistake. And it worked caught him in a snap trap looked like he was running away from the snake and didnt think about where he was going. also got the garter snake back it was trying to swallow the mouse while it was in the trap.
I live in a housing estate surrounded by fields. Mice come into the houses every winter.(They are house mice.) I have had mice twice in ten years. Immediately I went around to B and Q and got poison wax and seeds, whilst waiting for the professionals to arrive. The mice must know these poisons from other houses, because even though I placed them correctly and left them alone the mice never touched them. Ran along the skirting and past them day after day. A particular hole kept having the wire wool pulled out of it, until I stuffed it with a bag of poisoned seed. It hasn't been touched since. The poison seed actually acts as a deterrent now. The mice know all B and Q's poisons.
Had wood mice when we moved into this property not house mice. Heard them within 2 nights of being here previous tenant clearly never bothered to do anything or never noticed. But the scratching and scuttling noises coming from the loft was getting on our nerves when trying to sleep so set up traps with peanut butter and next morning went up there and there was two of them dead in the traps. Decided to set another couple of them actually outside this time in the garden and again caught two. Set some more up and none, did this with fresh peanut butter each day for a couple of weeks and still nothing. About 6 months went by with no noises at all in the loft and then the dreaded scuttling was back in the loft, this time it was just one mouse that was in the loft that I caught. I reckon they get in via the air bricks in the wall then climb up the wall cavity into the loft. These air bricks are now sealed off with mesh wire and no noises for months so hopefully will be the last of them. If not still have traps ready.
Fantastic work @gordy9490 Hopefully the mesh will stop them coming in again this autumn. Another place to look is around pipes and wires coming into the house, and underneath door steps and sliding patio doors. Good luck 🤞🏼
Very informative video. I have a few questions if you don’t mind? You mention the wood mice not being street savvy. I am dealing with some wood mice in my home. Or at least I thought it was just wood mice until I saw this video. I’ve only caught wood mice in the traps and assumed that is all I had. Now after seeing these house mice eat off traps I’m not so sure. Do they ever live in homes side by side or would the bigger wood mice defend their territory and chase off the house mice? wood mice are quite noisy at night when all is quiet. Or I found them to be. I’m pretty sure the ones in my home haven’t been there for long but I can’t be sure. I never heard them until recently at least. Are house mice quieter than wood mice? 8:14 Less likely to be noticed? Less likely to come in a room were people are wether awake or a sleep? Also are there any tips on how to find where they are getting in to the house? It’s a top flat in a tenement building. They were already in the flat when I moved in 20 years ago but I trapped them all then found where they were coming in and I blocked it and I never seen, heard or saw evidence of any until recently. I checked the place they were coming in out last time and it’s still blocked but they seem to have found some new way in. Any advice would be very very much appreciated.
The best way to stop mice stealing the bait is to use better traps. Check out our Blue Bar mouse traps on our store. We catch even sneaky house mice in them! As for entry points you need to know that a mouse can get through a 5mm hole! So look for any hole and fill it on the outside of the property. Air bricks are a favourite way in and also look under door steps. Any climbing plants like ivy on the house should also be removed. Good luck.
Nice video I've been watching a few of your videos I do like the mole removel. Can I ask why you don't use the wood traps or a variety of different snap traps
On this particular job the tenant has already been using a variety of traps, including wooden ones. The same problem was occurring with those. The plastic traps we use have been tested over ten years of trial and error. We find that particular brand to be the best one when it comes to mouse traps. Really super you enjoy the videos, there are plenty more in the pipeline.
Love your videos mate. We've had field mice every now and then since we moved into this house. Caught 6 in the loft over the past 3 1/2 years after hearing scuttling noises at night. Can go months without hearing a peep though after a round of killing them. How do they get in the house as we've blocked all the entrances on the walls? It's a 1960s terrace of 3 houses so can they move between all 3 using the cavity walls? Also do field mice prefer to live outside? Because there doesn't seem to be any gnawing damage in the loft on wires or wood etc. Plenty of cats round here and I've heard tawny owls sometimes so hopefully they both keep the mice population down. 😁
It’s very important to identify if they are field or house mice. Presuming they are field mice then you are doing things right. Check for entry points around your house, pipe holes, gaps around pipes, air bricks, etc. One place many people miss is under door steps and under patio sliding doors. Annoyingly for you, yes, they can go from your neighbours house to your house. Once they’re in a cavity wall or under flooring it’s just one big house, not three houses joined together to them.
@@PestInterceptors The best mouse trap that I've ever used are the red and white ones made by the Big Cheese Company (Amazon UK has them). My kill-rate went through the roof when I started using them. The other models that I'd tried were useless, with a high incidence of bait theft and traps sprung without mice in them. I house my mouse traps in DIY tunnels to restrict the movement of mice, because it's easier for them to eat and steal bait from the sides or rear of traps. The spaces for the traps are just large enough to hold them, so mice can only interact with the traps head-on. Trigger pads are more sensitive at the front than the sides, and more force is delivered head-on, resulting in cleaner kills and fewer injured mice. My tunnels have 20mm diameter hole entrances, which limit rat interference, because they can't remove traps. Tunnels also prevent the problem of traps setting off neighbouring ones, like loose ones can. I recommend using some plywood to make a flat tunnel that holds 4 traps. It should make a difference, regardless of the trap model being used. Cheers from New Zealand.
Can’t get rid of the wee critters! New build property and the mice were already here! Its definitely house mice and not field mice. They are extremely noisy rattling around. They have even wakened me up! They are so cute but they ruin everything peeing and pooping. I don’t like killing them because I love animals and I used to keep rodents as pets when I was a kid but these are not pets. They stink and I caught one shortly after I moved in in an Amazon snap trap. I had been patiently waiting and then I heard the bang of a strap going off one night and it was a little house mouse. I was worried that it had suffered because when the trap went off I could hear it struggling like battering it’s legs but I guess it was just the nerves because it was definitely killed outright. The bar came down right across the neck so I was relieved. It was absolutely tiny poor little thing. But I haven’t been successful since because other smart mousey set traps off and escaped without getting caught! So now it knows to avoid the traps! I have tried every trick in the book setting dummy traps to get them to eat different tasty treats nothing is being eaten 😡 I am absolutely stunned watching this video. So that’s what they get up to? I have found where they have been gnawing around the edges of lower kitchen cupboard shelves to keep their little gnashers pristine. I know they will eat virtually anything, soap ,candles, paper, their own poop and shockingly even eat each other if they fancy! I don’t enjoy trapping them but they have caused me a nightmare with my health not just wrecking my stuff! Wee wasters get in at everything! 😂they are little acrobats and jump up on laundry hanging up to dry peeing on it and popping as they go and yes they will climb on everything your bed your pillow and will crawl on your bed while you’re in it! I had one of the little beggars misjudge the height of my bed and it took a jump onto my leg and it fell with a little plop. They are not that timid either! But can I catch them? 😡was amazed watching how brazen the mouse is in your video having a nice little bonanza 😂wee stinker! They are very cute but I have had to remove my emotions from it it becomes a bit like fishing and a bit of a waiting game ❤️
It is very important to understand the MAIN difference between house and field mice. The main difference is the breeding rate. One pregnant female house mouse can become 2000 house mice in just one year! A large population of field mice might be 20 or 30. Take a look on our mice playlist, there is a video on there showing the professional process to get rid of house mice. Good luck. Ps. You did well to catch one!!!
I have a little mouse under my fridge for three months !!! He’s a little field mouse the cat bashed up and dragged in . Then the dog got him and I tried to get him but he dragged himself off found a chewed up tea bag box empty fajita pack a chewed onion and a pack of lily dog food gone x set five humane traps and he’s not having it in he cats sit watching under the fridge and do nowt !!! It’s eaten a cacti 🌵 and it contains mescaline so it’s been off its head for days it’s too clever why can’t I get him 😮
We have mice hiding inside the gaps of our cooker I first saw an adult mouse chewing on my crisps and then went on the bin bag so we got it out and then we trapped tiny baby mouses like 5 baby mouses with humane traps one passed away unfortunately as it got trapped on its legs and couldn't survive pretty sure there is one left hiding as I saw it last night on the usual place as I mentioned previously !! Not sure how they've got in ? and inside our cooker ? probably they've got a nest inside there ? We had to do something as it's not healthy to be having mice running around on your work surface where you are preparing food 😢
@PestInterceptors I am trying to clean up after I prepare food also I have covered a long gap next to the sink as the silicon have come off over time so there is a gap there which I suspect this is where they are coming from also behind our cooker there is a gap there which I recently covered it with these steel wool things ☺️ now if these don't work I don't know then ! 🤨
Do you guys never use glue boards? Very last resort i know. They are a bit time consuming having to check every 12 hours but the results are usually worth it.
So the mice died in the nest which you didn't know where it was? If you had sealed up the house, so mice couldn't get out into wild when contaminated with rodenticide, then why not use a vacuum cleaner with IR trigger on that cupboard access first? Seems a bit odd you go straight to poison from bait spring traps that experience told you unlikely to work? The optical sensor, of which even the brainiest rat is ignorant, must be the answer going forward. Seal entrances, starve, entice into kill zone
@marklimbbrick I’m not sure what video you are commenting on? It can’t be this one because it’s about mice not rats 🤷♂️ Also, whether it’s rats or mice, we are stringent about pointing out that poisons are a last resort. Here’s a video to show you how to get rid of mice professionally and legally. Pro MOUSE CATCHING tips and techniques! CONTACT GEL to get rid of mice. Best mouse trap advice. ruclips.net/video/3IcJcwLyUrk/видео.html
I had a mouse so smart i named him Einstein.
He used objects to trigger snap traps, avoided sticky traps, wouldn't enter anything, nor go up any unfamiliar ramp for a bucket trap. The mouse was a genius. So I thought about how ima get him and it came to me garter snakes. I knew Einstein was probably too big for a garter snake to eat but I hoped they would rattle him enough to make a mistake. And it worked caught him in a snap trap looked like he was running away from the snake and didnt think about where he was going. also got the garter snake back it was trying to swallow the mouse while it was in the trap.
I live in a housing estate surrounded by fields. Mice come into the houses every winter.(They are house mice.) I have had mice twice in ten years. Immediately I went around to B and Q and got poison wax and seeds, whilst waiting for the professionals to arrive. The mice must know these poisons from other houses, because even though I placed them correctly and left them alone the mice never touched them. Ran along the skirting and past them day after day. A particular hole kept having the wire wool pulled out of it, until I stuffed it with a bag of poisoned seed. It hasn't been touched since. The poison seed actually acts as a deterrent now. The mice know all B and Q's poisons.
Had wood mice when we moved into this property not house mice. Heard them within 2 nights of being here previous tenant clearly never bothered to do anything or never noticed. But the scratching and scuttling noises coming from the loft was getting on our nerves when trying to sleep so set up traps with peanut butter and next morning went up there and there was two of them dead in the traps. Decided to set another couple of them actually outside this time in the garden and again caught two. Set some more up and none, did this with fresh peanut butter each day for a couple of weeks and still nothing. About 6 months went by with no noises at all in the loft and then the dreaded scuttling was back in the loft, this time it was just one mouse that was in the loft that I caught. I reckon they get in via the air bricks in the wall then climb up the wall cavity into the loft. These air bricks are now sealed off with mesh wire and no noises for months so hopefully will be the last of them. If not still have traps ready.
Fantastic work @gordy9490
Hopefully the mesh will stop them coming in again this autumn.
Another place to look is around pipes and wires coming into the house, and underneath door steps and sliding patio doors.
Good luck 🤞🏼
Very informative video. I have a few questions if you don’t mind?
You mention the wood mice not being street savvy. I am dealing with some wood mice in my home. Or at least I thought it was just wood mice until I saw this video. I’ve only caught wood mice in the traps and assumed that is all I had. Now after seeing these house mice eat off traps I’m not so sure. Do they ever live in homes side by side or would the bigger wood mice defend their territory and chase off the house mice?
wood mice are quite noisy at night when all is quiet. Or I found them to be. I’m pretty sure the ones in my home haven’t been there for long but I can’t be sure. I never heard them until recently at least.
Are house mice quieter than wood mice? 8:14 Less likely to be noticed? Less likely to come in a room were people are wether awake or a sleep?
Also are there any tips on how to find where they are getting in to the house? It’s a top flat in a tenement building. They were already in the flat when I moved in 20 years ago but I trapped them all then found where they were coming in and I blocked it and I never seen, heard or saw evidence of any until recently. I checked the place they were coming in out last time and it’s still blocked but they seem to have found some new way in. Any advice would be very very much appreciated.
The best way to stop mice stealing the bait is to use better traps. Check out our Blue Bar mouse traps on our store. We catch even sneaky house mice in them!
As for entry points you need to know that a mouse can get through a 5mm hole! So look for any hole and fill it on the outside of the property.
Air bricks are a favourite way in and also look under door steps. Any climbing plants like ivy on the house should also be removed.
Good luck.
Nice video I've been watching a few of your videos I do like the mole removel. Can I ask why you don't use the wood traps or a variety of different snap traps
On this particular job the tenant has already been using a variety of traps, including wooden ones.
The same problem was occurring with those.
The plastic traps we use have been tested over ten years of trial and error. We find that particular brand to be the best one when it comes to mouse traps.
Really super you enjoy the videos, there are plenty more in the pipeline.
@@PestInterceptors thank you
Love your videos mate. We've had field mice every now and then since we moved into this house. Caught 6 in the loft over the past 3 1/2 years after hearing scuttling noises at night. Can go months without hearing a peep though after a round of killing them. How do they get in the house as we've blocked all the entrances on the walls? It's a 1960s terrace of 3 houses so can they move between all 3 using the cavity walls? Also do field mice prefer to live outside? Because there doesn't seem to be any gnawing damage in the loft on wires or wood etc. Plenty of cats round here and I've heard tawny owls sometimes so hopefully they both keep the mice population down. 😁
It’s very important to identify if they are field or house mice.
Presuming they are field mice then you are doing things right.
Check for entry points around your house, pipe holes, gaps around pipes, air bricks, etc.
One place many people miss is under door steps and under patio sliding doors.
Annoyingly for you, yes, they can go from your neighbours house to your house. Once they’re in a cavity wall or under flooring it’s just one big house, not three houses joined together to them.
Have a look at Sean woods on mousetrap Monday. He has invented a mousetrap which he raves about.
That’s why you use the good ole fashioned wooden traps! That mouse would have been history lol
We have tried and tested every mouse trap on the market pal. Perhaps we would know what’s best ☺️
@@PestInterceptors The best mouse trap that I've ever used are the red and white ones made by the Big Cheese Company (Amazon UK has them). My kill-rate went through the roof when I started using them.
The other models that I'd tried were useless, with a high incidence of bait theft and traps sprung without mice in them.
I house my mouse traps in DIY tunnels to restrict the movement of mice, because it's easier for them to eat and steal bait from the sides or rear of traps. The spaces for the traps are just large enough to hold them, so mice can only interact with the traps head-on. Trigger pads are more sensitive at the front than the sides, and more force is delivered head-on, resulting in cleaner kills and fewer injured mice. My tunnels have 20mm diameter hole entrances, which limit rat interference, because they can't remove traps. Tunnels also prevent the problem of traps setting off neighbouring ones, like loose ones can.
I recommend using some plywood to make a flat tunnel that holds 4 traps. It should make a difference, regardless of the trap model being used.
Cheers from New Zealand.
Can’t get rid of the wee critters! New build property and the mice were already here! Its definitely house mice and not field mice. They are extremely noisy rattling around. They have even wakened me up! They are so cute but they ruin everything peeing and pooping. I don’t like killing them because I love animals and I used to keep rodents as pets when I was a kid but these are not pets. They stink and I caught one shortly after I moved in in an Amazon snap trap. I had been patiently waiting and then I heard the bang of a strap going off one night and it was a little house mouse. I was worried that it had suffered because when the trap went off I could hear it struggling like battering it’s legs but I guess it was just the nerves because it was definitely killed outright. The bar came down right across the neck so I was relieved. It was absolutely tiny poor little thing. But I haven’t been successful since because other smart mousey set traps off and escaped without getting caught! So now it knows to avoid the traps! I have tried every trick in the book setting dummy traps to get them to eat different tasty treats nothing is being eaten 😡 I am absolutely stunned watching this video. So that’s what they get up to? I have found where they have been gnawing around the edges of lower kitchen cupboard shelves to keep their little gnashers pristine. I know they will eat virtually anything, soap ,candles, paper, their own poop and shockingly even eat each other if they fancy! I don’t enjoy trapping them but they have caused me a nightmare with my health not just wrecking my stuff! Wee wasters get in at everything! 😂they are little acrobats and jump up on laundry hanging up to dry peeing on it and popping as they go and yes they will climb on everything your bed your pillow and will crawl on your bed while you’re in it! I had one of the little beggars misjudge the height of my bed and it took a jump onto my leg and it fell with a little plop. They are not that timid either! But can I catch them? 😡was amazed watching how brazen the mouse is in your video having a nice little bonanza 😂wee stinker! They are very cute but I have had to remove my emotions from it it becomes a bit like fishing and a bit of a waiting game ❤️
It is very important to understand the MAIN difference between house and field mice. The main difference is the breeding rate. One pregnant female house mouse can become 2000 house mice in just one year! A large population of field mice might be 20 or 30.
Take a look on our mice playlist, there is a video on there showing the professional process to get rid of house mice.
Good luck.
Ps. You did well to catch one!!!
I have a little mouse under my fridge for three months !!! He’s a little field mouse the cat bashed up and dragged in . Then the dog got him and I tried to get him but he dragged himself off found a chewed up tea bag box empty fajita pack a chewed onion and a pack of lily dog food gone x set five humane traps and he’s not having it in he cats sit watching under the fridge and do nowt !!! It’s eaten a cacti 🌵 and it contains mescaline so it’s been off its head for days it’s too clever why can’t I get him 😮
www.pestinterceptors.com/collections/mice-control
We have mice hiding inside the gaps of our cooker I first saw an adult mouse chewing on my crisps and then went on the bin bag so we got it out and then we trapped tiny baby mouses like 5 baby mouses with humane traps one passed away unfortunately as it got trapped on its legs and couldn't survive pretty sure there is one left hiding as I saw it last night on the usual place as I mentioned previously !! Not sure how they've got in ? and inside our cooker ? probably they've got a nest inside there ? We had to do something as it's not healthy to be having mice running around on your work surface where you are preparing food 😢
Less crisps on the floor may be the answer @costas91 ☺️
@PestInterceptors I am trying to clean up after I prepare food also I have covered a long gap next to the sink as the silicon have come off over time so there is a gap there which I suspect this is where they are coming from also behind our cooker there is a gap there which I recently covered it with these steel wool things ☺️ now if these don't work I don't know then ! 🤨
@@costas91 good luck. Check around outside is better than inside.
A place lots of people miss is under door sills.
What's a cooker?
@@DKNguyen3.1415 something you cook food on.
Do you guys never use glue boards? Very last resort i know. They are a bit time consuming having to check every 12 hours but the results are usually worth it.
Illegal in the uk now. Professional use only and only under license.
@@PestInterceptorspity you couldn’t train a ferret or a weasel to go in behind the walls
@@The160879 considering that one house mouse can turn into 2000 mice in one year it would need to be a very energetic feret 😁
@@PestInterceptors 😂
@@PestInterceptors tell that to Joseph Carter
Don’t want to kill it and glue boards are disgusting
www.pestinterceptors.com/collections/mice-control
That's a rat not a mouse
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
So the mice died in the nest which you didn't know where it was?
If you had sealed up the house, so mice couldn't get out into wild when contaminated with rodenticide, then why not use a vacuum cleaner with IR trigger on that cupboard access first?
Seems a bit odd you go straight to poison from bait spring traps that experience told you unlikely to work?
The optical sensor, of which even the brainiest rat is ignorant, must be the answer going forward.
Seal entrances, starve, entice into kill zone
@marklimbbrick I’m not sure what video you are commenting on? It can’t be this one because it’s about mice not rats 🤷♂️
Also, whether it’s rats or mice, we are stringent about pointing out that poisons are a last resort.
Here’s a video to show you how to get rid of mice professionally and legally.
Pro MOUSE CATCHING tips and techniques! CONTACT GEL to get rid of mice. Best mouse trap advice.
ruclips.net/video/3IcJcwLyUrk/видео.html