Phisherman wrote:
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:38:51 -0500, Ohioguy wrote:

Actually, I'm dead serious about killing mice. It seems like mice
have moved into our 92 year old home with a vengeance. It started about
2 months ago, as it got cold outside. I was able to use traditional
mousetraps to kill a lot of them, but then that petered out as the
remaining ones seemed to keep to the walls more, and not bother with the
traps, no matter what tempting morsels I might put in them.

About a month ago, I finished installing clear plastic panels over
the open joists in the kitchen ceiling. I had installed tube
fluorescent lights up there. Now I notice that in just the past week,
there are probably 60 mouse droppings up there on top of the plastic,
and I can also see yellow where they have been taking ****. This is
right up above our kitchen stove.

I'm wondering if our mice could be numerous because my sister, who
lives on the other side of our duplex, is a packrat. She tends to leave
things lay around, including food, which probably gives them a perfect
breeding ground. They finally got into her foodstuffs so bad that she
was forced to make some changes, though. Still, I believe they have
plenty of hiding places in the boxes piled up over there.

Obviously, this is a serious problem. I want the mice dead. I've
been thinking of either fumigation or poison of some kind.

Anyone have experience with this sort of thing? I'd like to get
something that I can put all over in hidden areas, which will eradicate
these things.

Place a DCon mouse bait anywhere you see droppings. The mouse traps
work well, baited with peanut butter or sausage. Since I'm allergic
to cats, I use other methods.

Trouble with poisons is that mice are going to die in the walls and may
just dessicate or rot and stink or worse get infested with maggots.
I toss poison bait in the attic but use traps in the inside of the
house. The Victor trap with a trigger that looks like Swiss cheese is
very effective. The more traditional traps work but little mice can
often eat the bait without tripping. Most important is to plug entry
points from outside.