What goes bump in the night?

[SustainableAg]

That is brilliant! I'll have to make one. We found that our mice accessed the ceiling via a faux wall between the kitchen and family room, where there was once a sliding door. Too small to fit a trap into. But there is evidence they have entered in the house from the crawl space in the basement. Might be worth a giving this trap a shot!

 

[sumi]

Anything's better than heart attacks @ midnight lol

Mine are getting in via the boiler (heating) and access the rooms via the heating pipes again. The walls seem to be fairly hollow, so mouse heaven here. We had an epidemic last year and I must've killed about 20 of them before they were gone.

 

[tortoise]

I've no idea where our mice are coming in. We get them in the old part of the house that was built 1880's.

 

[Hinotori]

Mice are real issues in older homes. Mine was built in 1900. I'm not even sure how they get in ours. There is some hole under the sink cupboard in an area I can't access without tearing half the kitchen out. I can hear them under there and it drives me nuts.

Ones that get in elsewhere the dog or cats kill.

 

[sumi]

I heard another mouse in the wall this evening or should that be

 

[MoonShadows]

The worst is when one dies in a wall. The stink lasts for about a week!

 

[baymule]

We had mice and rats in our 2007 double wide. We did traps, poison to no avail. Finally hired Terminix to crawl under the house and plug all the openings. No more rats and mice!

 

[Mini Horses]

They can get in through a tiny opening and chew very well to make them! Old or new houses. Plus...so, so fertile.

Google:
The gestation period is about 19–21 days, and they give birth to a litter of 3–14 young (average six to eight). One female can have 5 to 10 litters per year, so the mouse population can increase very quickly. Estrus begins 24 hrs after giving birth! At 6 weeks old, the female house mouse is sexually mature and ready to start breeding.

 

[lcertuche]

When I was a kid the science teacher sent a mouse pair home with my sister as an experiment. After 60 days the mice went from 2 to 60. They were interesting in that they all laid their babies in the same place and the original grandma mouse stayed with all the babies while their mothers ran all over the cage. They kept me awake all night with their squeaking and playing all night long. I was so glad when she took them all back to school.

 

[Mini Horses]

I'm thinking...chickens 21 days to hatch. Shame they can't be laying in 6 weeks, vice 6 months.

Yep, those little rascals can multiply at the speed of light. They even have the rabbits beat. No wonder they're always hungry.