We have Mice (yes, plural as in more than one mouse!!!!!)

Oh no. I have zero advice, but I just want to say I'm sorry your apartment keeps having problems. I hope you get rid of them ASAP.

be careful mice droppings carry some virus (the name escapes me) but use gloves and a face mask when picking them up. I live in a little bitty town and like 10 people have died from it! We had mice and we told our landlords so they put decon underneith our trailer well they crawled under the pipe coverings under the floor and died. So then my landlord refused to pay to have them removed. We called a terminator ourselves and he told us to get out and make them pay for it because I was 7 months pregnant and he said me and Aidan could die from it. They're response was We looked it up and put fabreeze down the vents. We'll take it off your rent. So then when maggots crawled up the vent (it was in our bathroom and we had to block it off and me being hugly pregnant would have to get up like 8 times a night to go all the way on the other side of the house to use the bathroom) well then they turned into horse flies. They're response was buy fly paper and we'll take it off the rent! Ha! I had enough. I wasn't going to endanger our family anymore and we broke our lease 7 months early and move. We moved out first and then we told them. They threatened to take us to court for breaking our lease and I just told them if they did I'd bring the extermintator iand have him tell the court what he told us and then I'd tell them how they were being cheap and still wouldn't have someone come out and do it. So anyways the point of this story is to tell you I know how you feel, I'm really really sorry, don't touch mouse droppings, and don't put decon anywhere they can crawl up and you can't reach them. Oh and your landlord is supposed to re-imburse you for buying that stuff or buy it them selves. Attach the reciete to your check and take it off.

Rats and mice carry typhus fever, Trichinosis, plague, infectious Jaundice, Salmonella food infections, and the Hantavirus. I so feel for you. We have a really old house and last winter, we had them and it was awful. that scratching noise makes my skin crawl. We just finally trapped them and so far this year, no mice.....yet.

Ugh, we had rats in our old apt., twice and it really sucked. Like, one time I went to my room, turned the light on and it just ran right past me to the kitchen. I was soo freaked out! We used those little pellet poison things and they died, but I know you said you don't want to kill them.. I think it really sucks that your landlord won't pay for things like this. Anyway, I really hope y'all get rid of them soon. I know how much it sucks to have the constant thought that they're in your home. :/

[quote="Amy Rox"]totally sick. in our lease, it specifies we are responsible for exterminators/pest control. we knew something was probably up when we saw that in the lease, because i've never heard of that being included before. after a lovely run with fleas for months at a previous place, we discussed our concerns before we signed here. at that place, i split a hefty bill with the landlord because we had to have exterminators come twice. i'm just naive. but, i seriously need to rent a cat! :lol:[/quote] If I were you I would check to make sure that clause is legal. Even if it's in the lease, if it's not legal, you don't have to stick to it. Do you live in a building that has more than one unit? Sometimes if there is two or more units and more than one have mice, it's still the landlord's responsibility. Having mice really sucks. Our last place had an out of control mice problem.

I feel you hun. I think we have mice here, but we live in the country so it's kind of expected. I haven't seen any yet but I thought I heard one yesterday, and said something to Jason and he was just like "Yea it's probably a mouse" I freaked out! I know what you mean though, I hate the sound of them and if I see one I will probably jump on my bed and stay there till someone comes but, I still don't want to kill it :(

Oh I so feel for you! I had a neighbor who had a rat problem, which meant I too had a rat problem. I hated every second of it, and like you while I wanted them gone the traps an everything made me so sick.... ugh. I hope there is some way to hold your landlord accountable, please check into that. It seems fishy to me. Hugs.

That's a crummy situation. At least the landlord is doing something though... maybe he will come back to clean up later? And as for the upstairs woman maybe you could wait a little bit before you tell her... or spare her the thought of the dead mice altogether... if the mice are gone by the time she gets back and the poison they used isn't harmful to the baby.

I am hoping that they do NOT die in your walls. I've had a dead rat in my daughter's bedroom where we used to live, we didn't know for WEEKS and it is the most awful smell ever. Ugh.

[quote="rosie"]I am hoping that they do NOT die in your walls. I've had a dead rat in my daughter's bedroom where we used to live, we didn't know for WEEKS and it is the most awful smell ever. Ugh.[/quote] thats what my whole place smelled like when my landlords put the decon underneith our house. it was that way for 3 months! it still smelled when we moved out! they ripped the siding off saying it would air out and i drive by it every time i go into town and the siding is still off and we move out a year and a half ago! slum lords man!

I moved it for you amy.

i was just informed that there is a " little tiny mouse" in my room! It ran out of Reese's room into mine and navy's. But reese said it's really cute and she wants to keep it as a pet! :roll: silly. but i REALLY don't want to sleep in here with a mouse. it could be anywhere! :shock:

My mother and I were just talking about mice the other day. She said if you drop peppermint oil all around your house, it will make the mice go away because they don't like the smell. She said you could soak cotton balls in the oil. I thought it was an excellant tip for those who are looking for a humane way to get rid of them. She also said that moth balls help too. I'm not sure where she got the tips from, but can't hurt to try. I'm sorry your having to deal with mice. Hopefully something will work out and they will be on their merry way.

ew, mice. They aren't as bad as roaches, but still they do suck. I know it doesn't work for everyone, but we used to get mice like, somewhat often and then we got a cat, since then (over 10 years ago) we have had one mouse. :) Good luck, i hope you are able to get rid of them soon!

[quote="thenewgurl"] She said if you drop peppermint oil all around your house, it will make the mice go away because they don't like the smell. She said you could soak cotton balls in the oil. I thought it was an excellant tip for those who are looking for a humane way to get rid of them. She also said that moth balls help too. [/quote] I've heard of the peppermint oil thing too but am not sure of its effectivenesses or if it is true or not. But it is worth a shot . especially if you like the smell anyways.

I don't have too much advice either, just wanted to let you know it is not your fault at all, I've heard of 4 different friends already this "winter" that have multiple mice. If you are worried about killing them I am pretty sure you can get traps that they walk in that don't kill them, but then if you do that and put them back outside they might just come back in. ;( You'd have to like drive them far away or something. If you can try to find where they are getting in and block that off it would help, but finding it is half the battle. Good luck :(

Our neighbor tried to poison the rats he had, and while he did get some of them (which was appalling) he also got my cat. So please be careful with what he is using and how he is delivering it. My neighbor mixed something in peanut butter I guess, which any number of living things will try to ingest.

[quote="Amy Rox"][quote="rosie"]I am hoping that they do NOT die in your walls. I've had a dead rat in my daughter's bedroom where we used to live, we didn't know for WEEKS and it is the most awful smell ever. Ugh.[/quote] Rosie- Dare I ask how you got the dead mouse out? I'm still pissed he put poison in a house he doesn't live in without asking the people who do live here. [/quote] The maintenance people at our apartments had to cut open the wall in her room to extract it, they said it was really big. It smelled for a good month and I just couldn't make her sleep in there, so we kept the window open and the door closed for about that long. It was so disgusting.

The things that emit a signal do NOT work at all. If you have a rodent problem, you can try and get rid of the humainly, but you are going to have to catch them and drive them three or more miles away from your house or they will come right back in. And, more will probably come in anyway. What I would advise doing: Walk around your apartment and block up any holes with (I'm having a brain fart and can't remember the name of the stuff) that metal/cotton stuff. That will stop them from coming in. Second, make sure that you don't have food laying out EVER. Cover the trash can, take the trash out every night, make sure that dishes are done every night, crumbs are swept up, there's no food on the counter, that food that is in plastic bags are either put up high in cubbards, or put into thick plastic containers. Third, I would get some poison. There's a type of poison (this is gross, I'm sorry), which drys the mice out from the inside out -- so it kills them and when they die, they don't rot in your walls because there's nothing really to rot. They make it so that it is in a seed packet, and that way the mice bring it home to their babies and it kills them as well. If you're in an apartment building and your neighbors have pets, let them know that you are doing this because if their pets eat a mice that has poison in it, they could get super sick/die. I didn't want to kill the mice in my place either, but it was too much to deal with. They say that if you are actually seeing the mice, then there are waaay more than you think there are.

[quote="Ella"]Our neighbor tried to poison the rats he had, and while he did get some of them (which was appalling) he also got my cat. So please be careful with what he is using and how he is delivering it. My neighbor mixed something in peanut butter I guess, which any number of living things will try to ingest.[/quote] My dad used to do that. He'd mix poison in PB and then use it as bait in a snap trap. It used to make me mad, because he'd use a butter knife and leave it in the sink still covered in poison/PB with the other dishes (one time he put it in a sink full of S's bottles, which I threw away, but he didn't get why I was so upset)

[quote="CanadianMamma"]My dad used to do that. He'd mix poison in PB and then use it as bait in a snap trap. It used to make me mad, because he'd use a butter knife and leave it in the sink still covered in poison/PB with the other dishes (one time he put it in a sink full of S's bottles, which I threw away, but he didn't get why I was so upset)[/quote] OMG, I would be so scared/angry! My neighbor just had it on plates, in various places around his house/yard. I would see the rats occasionally around that time and after he put the poison out they started to look drunk and would fall off the wall between our houses and stuff. It was revolting to say the least. Then he went outside with his pellet gun and shot the sluggish ones.....it was really appalling. My cat was otherwise healthy, then bam. You have to be so careful with poison of any type in any degree of strength.

we have..er...[i]had[/i] mice in our house but with close to 20 cats inside/outside.... let's just say there where a lot of "presents" outside our door and shrewn about the house :shock: