https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
Here are a couple links on the topic of outdoor domestic and feral cats. It’s not the cats’ faults, it is the owners.
Edit: First link didn’t seem to work, but you can look it up if you’d like
You could always seal up the garage tight and run the car in it until it’s filled with a lethal amount of carbon monoxide. If it’s lethal enough to kill a person I’d have to imagine it’d kill mice, or drive a lot of them out for a bit.
That’s the only new idea I could come up with. I agree with the ones already shared of finding where they’re getting in and plugging their entry points, OG mouse traps with peanut butter and bird seed, and getting a cat.
Keep in mind that the only reason house cats exist and why they were created via animal husbandry, is for the sole purpose of killing mice, rats, and other rodent vermin. Mice are a nuisance and unwanted nowadays but rats once caused a plague that wiped out half of Europe. In that sense cats are one of the more valuable animals we’ve been able to domesticate. They’ve killed a lot of vermin which saved a lot of humans over the course of our history.
I use the old wooden mouse traps, baited with Peanut Butter. I have two in the garage in “strategic” locations. I also have two refillable, pet/kid friendly bait stations out too. PLUS, I let the cat out every morning when I leave for work at 3:30, the wife & kids let her back in when they leave for school & work. It’ll only take a week or so to get rid of them if you check the traps in the morning & before bed (unless you have an army of them). After the initial “harvest”, I end up getting one every other day and the cat doesn’t leave as many by the front door.
I don’t do the bucket thing either because of the dogs. Even if the bait isn’t toxic. The mice that are in the bucket may have eaten the poison. My German Shephard will eat those mice if she gets to them before I do..
Bucket with water and sunflower seeds, wheeled peanut butter bucket and traps. Same as all the other advice. Main thingbos to figure out how they are getting in.
Poison isn’t a good idea at all. They consume it then go and make a nest somewhere and die. This leaves a nasty smell in your garage/boat/vehicle. Plus, if a dog gets a hold one one and eats it then it eats the poison as well.
Good luck. I hate those thing more than anything.
My dad leaves his radio on 24 hrs a day and has never had a mouse. He even has open bags of bird seed sitting on the floor and corn, etc and nothing. Might be worth trying.
What station does he leave it on?!?! I can confirm that 103.7 The Loon is not working. I think they are having an 80’s party in the detached garage.
Our Mpls mice have seen it all, traps are for the weak….
Our Mpls mice have seen it all, traps are for the weak….
Thank you, this made me chuckle!
X2 on the bucket trap!
-J
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What station does he leave it on?!?! I can confirm that 103.7 The Loon is not working. I think they are having an 80’s party in the detached garage.
Its some country station near Brainerd.
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What station does he leave it on?!?! I can confirm that 103.7 The Loon is not working. I think they are having an 80’s party in the detached garage.Its some country station near Brainerd.
i’d run like heck to if i hadto listen to country music!!!!! 
Our Mpls mice have seen it all, traps are for the weak….
I didn’t read all the comments… but when I called the glue board manufacturer asking why my gb’s were being dragged around and found with only hair on them, I was told they don’t work in temps under 50 degrees…he couldn’t answer me as to way that wasn’t on the label.
Also, I’m not a fan of position. After poisoning they can get outside where unintended creatures can eat them.
I’m a trapper. Not with the old time snap traps but with the new black plastic traps. My covered sunflower seed buckets attract them and 3 traps help them visit their dead relatics.
Fast, humane and effective….oh yes…cheap!
I didn’t read all the comments… but when I called the glue board manufacturer asking why my gb’s were being dragged around and found with only hair on them, I was told they don’t work in temps under 50 degrees…he couldn’t answer me as to way that wasn’t on the label.
Also, I’m not a fan of position. After poisoning they can get outside where unintended creatures can eat them.
I’m a trapper. Not with the old time snap traps but with the new black plastic traps. My covered sunflower seed buckets attract them and 3 traps help them visit their dead relatics.
Fast, humane and effective….oh yes…cheap!
i agree BK, those are good traps. i think victory brand makes a good trap like the old style wood ones. i’ve had good success with them also. the past 2 years up at the cabin i’ve got rid of 30 mice the past 2 years.
Some of my favorites:
My personal favorite because it works on small and big mice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjwkdj_h8P8
If you have some time to blow during the day check out Shawn Wood.
I’ve tried all kinds of products and the best I’ve found is running a trapline with “Jaws” traps baited with chunky peanut butter. Never had a false trigger, but watch your fingers.
all you need
Well… except a bunch of specialty tools and a bunch of free time.
Looks like it works as good as the other bucket traps that take a fraction of the time to build.
Unless you like the smell of dead mice, don’t use poison.
Put out a LOT of snap traps. Put 10 or so around the perimeter of the garage (mice mostly travel along edges) and any other areas where you know they’ve been. Check your “trap line” often and reset the traps. You’ll clean them out in a few days. Try leaving a few sunflower seeds, etc. around to see if they get chewed as a test to see if you got all of them.
And yes, keep your garage doors closed… Good luck!
Well… except a bunch of specialty tools and a bunch of free time.
Looks like it works as good as the other bucket traps that take a fraction of the time to build.
I tend to forget not everyone has all of these tools. We made these for boy scouts one year in my garage and it took less than 1.5 hours for the kids to pump out 20 of them. I found the plank works better than the spinning can on a stick. But they do both work.
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Well… except a bunch of specialty tools and a bunch of free time.
Looks like it works as good as the other bucket traps that take a fraction of the time to build.I tend to forget not everyone has all of these tools. We made these for boy scouts one year in my garage and it took less than 1.5 hours for the kids to pump out 20 of them. I found the plank works better than the spinning can on a stick. But they do both work.
what badge did they earn for that project?????
what badge did they earn for that project?????
It was a part of Baloo the Builder, build one useful project.
We have never had mice in our attached garage til this week. Wife texted me a picture of this stating we may have mice! I swept the sand back in between the wall and floor, then filled and sealed them off with expansion foam. While I was doing this two mice popped their heads out-got one with my shoe, the other wouldn’t give me a chance! 
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>glenn57 wrote:</div>
what badge did they earn for that project?????It was a part of Baloo the Builder, build one useful project.
I’m always surprised someone has to suggest that cats are just destroying the world. I mean…. MAYBE if you had an army of feral cats that you never fed or properly took care of…. but otherwise a bunch of BS
Even IF a cat has a couple “incidental” kills it’s a small price to pay for effective rodent control. Much better IMO than using poison which I think is a poor choice on several levels.
Cats lives matter…..
We had mouse problem a few years ago and tried trapping and put poison up high in back basement rooms and we have always had dogs so we wanted to be extra careful with poison, well the mice take the poison and hide it in shoes and other places around, very lucky no dogs got into it as we had a beagle at the time and he ate everything! So now we farm cats, not typical farm cats, they are up on shots and spayed. But now we have almost no mice,I will say a couple of the cats are savages they took down 20+ chickens last fall! Didn’t believe it but caught them doing it! But hey it’s better then a mouse infestation which we would have with out them!
Lindy- you should do a little research on the cat factor. You may be surprised at the amount of real damage cats can and will do. There’s a couple links I left up above that you should probably check out.
P.S.- if people are always bringing it up, there’s a good chance there’s something to it. Not trying to be a smart aleck here, just trying to spread some much needed awareness. I probably should’ve started a different thread to address it.
Cats are great for mouse control, but in all reality SHOULD NOT be allowed outdoors. Ever. It is well documented how much havoc they wreak on the native environment/wildlife.
Do you realize how much havoc these pests can cause? If cats can continue to keep mice and squirrels out of the vicinity of my basement, garage, attic, and sheds then they’ll always be welcomed around my property no matter what your links say
We took our cats in when they were left on my front porch. They will soon be indoor outdoor cats. But because we moved just 2 weeks ago I dont want them to run out side yet.
My last cat was a great hunter. Its hard to believe what some of you say about house cats. Ours slept inside all day and hunted out side all night. His confirmed kills were awesome. He alone controlled a over populated rabbit community and all the neighbors loved him for that. Now that he has passed away and my son is heart broken im leary on letting our new baby cats out until they realize where home is. I dont want to see the kids go through the heart break I already had to witness. I dont care about the ferrel cats and what they destroy. Not my issue and if it was then they’d be taken care of in a appropriate manner.
Amen on the wheel of death, 17 so far this fall in my farm buildings. Be careful with mice dumped into antifreeze. Its poisonous. Not sure if an antifreeze soaked mouse would kill a cat but I wouldn’t want to find out,…unless you don’t care for your house cat,…..
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