I have mice or rats in my kitchen help and advice please?

I have bought one of those plug in pest control things and it cost me 拢20, have had it a few days now but still see droppings and hear the mice/rats scratching still, have pest control coming anyway, but is there anything else that I can do in the meantime and do these plug ins work at all...help and advice please and please not sarcastic people answering as I will report you and its unfair to judge people, honest people only....thanks...I have mice or rats in my kitchen help and advice please?
The sticky glue traps baited with a small piece of cookie %26amp; a smear of peanut butter work very well. I caught a few this way. They do work. After you lay out a few of these, move on to finding out where they got in. Look around the house from the outside to find the original external entrance %26amp; block that off with either expanding spray-foam in a spray can or a mix of steel-wool %26amp; plaster. As long as they can't get in initially from the outside, you don't have to worry about wondering where all the holes %26amp; other openings are on the inside of the house.


Clean everything. Empty all your drawers, cabinets, everything, %26amp; wipe them all down clean. All items made of sugar, flour (cookies, cereal, etc) should be stored in the fridge if possible or in air-tight plastic tupperware containers. Even missing something sticky when wiping up the kitchen counter will attract them due to the smell.


Believe it or not, they also like chorizo sausage in addition to the peanut butter %26amp; sugar cookie.


Also I once had an old but very full gallon container on the garage floor filled to the rim with used cooking oil. I left the cap off with a funnel in the top %26amp; it was so full that the oil came 陆way up in the funnel. I figured I'd get around to emptying it one day. When I finally did months later (very busy...) I found to both my horror %26amp; delight 6 or 7 of them all piled up %26amp; drowned in the funnel. I guess they like used vegetable %26amp; olive oil too.


Hope this helped.I have mice or rats in my kitchen help and advice please?
Get some humane traps in if you're not happy about them being killed. They close shut on the rodent without killing it. Bait them with something like chocolate place them along skirting boards or walls.





I've had mice but my little terrier usually deals with them quickly and cleanly.
Some of the electronic pest controllers work to some degree (the twin speaker ones are best-cover a bigger area), but you can`t beat a proper mousetrap,baited with peanut butter. The American made,plastic ones are very good . There is a newish organic(?)poison called EradiBait that kills ONLY rats and mice -available from--www.ilexorganics.com


Hope this helps-good luck.
A good unspoilt cat will get rid of mice but for rats...get a terrier.
Cats don't work, mice are small,get in small places and run fast, cats also tend to bring mice home. Unfortunately poison's the only way, do it in the winter or you'll be plagued by flies laying their eggs in the dead bodies, you might still have the smell of the little cadavers until the flesh has gone. Important to find how they got in in the first place. A friend of mine has had the same recurring problem. I eventually discovered they got in to her flat through a broken airbrick, a tiny gap, but big enough for them to squeeze through. They can also get upstairs between gaps between the walls. Pest control experts is sometimes the only option, good luck. Doubt they're rats, I once had them in an old 16th c. house I lived in, had to use big traps for them, poison didn't seem to work.
get a cat.


will kill mice and will make a loyal pet.
Humane traps CAN work on a small scale - but forget the chocolate /cheese rubbish - a smear of peanut butter works best - I have video evidence of how clever these little critters are at removing food from humane traps - peanut butter forces then to go right inside the trap and allows it to close on them. - But the only real way to be sure you get them all is through pest control.





Oh - and the electric things apparently work only short-term - it seems the rodents quickly become accustomed to them - even the ones which constantly alternate frequencies.
Phone your local council and get pest control in. It will cost you but at least they'll sort the problem out
Call pest control in your local area. The problem could be bigger than you expect and might not be enough to do it yourself.
There's nothing I can say about the traps etc that hasn't already been said. But there are a couple of additional things you can do that will significantly help in your quest to get rid of them.





First, do a thorough inspection of the room(s) they are in, and block up all holes. Mice can get through holes the thickness of a pencil. They particularly like to run along pipes and settle in warm areas. It's no good killing these ones if more can get in and move around freely.





The second thing is to make sure that absolutely NO food of any kind is available to them. That includes even small crumbs, which seem like a lovely cake to a mouse. Try to put all foods in cupboards into proper containers. Mice and rats can get through plastic, paper and thin cardboard very easily. By excluding all other food sources they are more likely to go for whatever bait is put down for them.