freshprincess87
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Hi everyone,
I hope this is the correct area to post this. I would like to know how to get rid of mice. I did a quick search but couldn't seem to find anything.
I have been dealing with mice for the past 4.5 years. Not since we got birds here. We have had birds in the house since 2016. Mostly lovebirds, but over the years a few different of species of parrots and doves too.
The mice started to come in 2018, soon after pigeons started coming. First wild ones (who still come here), and some are in the garage that my partner has been rehabilitating. Some released, some stay. Most stay. But they attract mice. I'm not sure how much more I can take. It's been 4.5 years of dealing with the constant scratching in the roof and walls. They have not gotten into the actual house itself after all this time. I am really afraid that one day they will somehow get inside though. I already suffer from depression, anxiety and OCD, and my OCD will not be able to cope if they get into the house. My partner finds dead mice everyday in the garage from all the traps he puts. I think that due to the food sources in the garage (i.e. the pigeons and their aviaries and food bowls etc, they always stay there but also go to the roof too.)
Does peanut butter on the traps work? I told him to put traps in the roof and to just check every week for dead mice, but it just seems to make them go to another area of the roof. In the past, we did use poison bait. I'm not very proud of that. However, please don't judge me. I don't have sympathy for these mice because they killed five of my diamond doves when the diamond doves used to live in the garage. They harassed them all night long and we didn't know until my partner was cleaning their tray one day and found a bunch of baby mice there. They likely went into their food bowls and pooped and the doves probably accidentally ate the poop mistaking it for seeds. This is why I have no sympathy for mice, and also the fact that I have not slept properly since mice and pigeons came here which has led to me to abuse the use of pain killers for my constant lack of sleep headaches.
I'll be honest and say the poison bait worked. We had some in the roof but also in an unused aviary outside (to deter them from getting inside in the first place). But I do not want to do that anymore. I have heard it's bad, not only for the mice, but everytime the baits were refilled I just kept panicking and worrying about my indoor birds. We were always reassured that as long as they don't go into the roof themselves, it wouldn't be a problem, but I always felt uneasy about it nonetheless and my indoor birds stay indoors anyway. And I don't want secondary poisoning to occur as my partner is rehabilitating some tawny frogmouths. Apparently they can eat mice, but he has them on an insect diet. But in saying that, i don't know where the insects have been either and don't want them catching insects that have been around dead poisoned mice. Two or three times we would get huge flies in the house all of a sudden and a horrid smell for a week or two, and i think it was because of a decomposing mouse, or rat. He once found an old dead rat hidden away in the garage too while cleaning it. When my precious ducklings were still alive I worried about the bait even more as Enano liked to catch moths every now and then and didn't know where those moths had been.
Two weeks ago my partner found 25 mice babies in the garage. They were alive and with their mother. He has a bit more compassion for mice than I do. So he set them up in some large container so they couldn't escape and fed them and then when the babies were bigger he took all of them and the mother and released them far away from here. Good for them. But it doesn't solve the problem here. Because they continue to come here.
I see a support worker weekly and I talked to her about this too as this week I felt quite dizzy after a few days of severely disrupted sleep and she mentioned putting peanut butter on the traps as it would make them go to the traps to try to eat it but then they die quickly and humanely. Is this correct? I have read things about this online as well. She mentioned ultra sonic machines or something too but I don't really want something like that as it might annoy the birds.
Ideally for me, the pigeons would go away, and no wild birds would be fed outside and I believe this would get rid of the mice once and for all. Because this is what started it. Two years of having birds indoors and no mice. Only when the wild birds and specifically the pigeons would come around, is when the mice problem started. Almost instantly. But sadly, this won't be the case and that's a story for another time as it deals with my relationship problems.
Any advice is appreciated. Links to products that get rid of mice but are bird safe etc, I will look into it. Or if peanut butter will work, I'll buy a jar tomorrow. As long as it's safe. The traps are only in the garage and a few in the roof now. I'm severely exhausted and stressed about this. I just want my peace and quiet back. And my sleep. I think that even if I'm lucky enough to get a proper amount of sleep, I still feel exhausted and tired with headaches, just from the stress of it all. It's all too unpredictable. I never know which night will be good or bad. I already have that issue with the daytime. I don't want nights to be permanently ruined too.
I hope this is the correct area to post this. I would like to know how to get rid of mice. I did a quick search but couldn't seem to find anything.
I have been dealing with mice for the past 4.5 years. Not since we got birds here. We have had birds in the house since 2016. Mostly lovebirds, but over the years a few different of species of parrots and doves too.
The mice started to come in 2018, soon after pigeons started coming. First wild ones (who still come here), and some are in the garage that my partner has been rehabilitating. Some released, some stay. Most stay. But they attract mice. I'm not sure how much more I can take. It's been 4.5 years of dealing with the constant scratching in the roof and walls. They have not gotten into the actual house itself after all this time. I am really afraid that one day they will somehow get inside though. I already suffer from depression, anxiety and OCD, and my OCD will not be able to cope if they get into the house. My partner finds dead mice everyday in the garage from all the traps he puts. I think that due to the food sources in the garage (i.e. the pigeons and their aviaries and food bowls etc, they always stay there but also go to the roof too.)
Does peanut butter on the traps work? I told him to put traps in the roof and to just check every week for dead mice, but it just seems to make them go to another area of the roof. In the past, we did use poison bait. I'm not very proud of that. However, please don't judge me. I don't have sympathy for these mice because they killed five of my diamond doves when the diamond doves used to live in the garage. They harassed them all night long and we didn't know until my partner was cleaning their tray one day and found a bunch of baby mice there. They likely went into their food bowls and pooped and the doves probably accidentally ate the poop mistaking it for seeds. This is why I have no sympathy for mice, and also the fact that I have not slept properly since mice and pigeons came here which has led to me to abuse the use of pain killers for my constant lack of sleep headaches.
I'll be honest and say the poison bait worked. We had some in the roof but also in an unused aviary outside (to deter them from getting inside in the first place). But I do not want to do that anymore. I have heard it's bad, not only for the mice, but everytime the baits were refilled I just kept panicking and worrying about my indoor birds. We were always reassured that as long as they don't go into the roof themselves, it wouldn't be a problem, but I always felt uneasy about it nonetheless and my indoor birds stay indoors anyway. And I don't want secondary poisoning to occur as my partner is rehabilitating some tawny frogmouths. Apparently they can eat mice, but he has them on an insect diet. But in saying that, i don't know where the insects have been either and don't want them catching insects that have been around dead poisoned mice. Two or three times we would get huge flies in the house all of a sudden and a horrid smell for a week or two, and i think it was because of a decomposing mouse, or rat. He once found an old dead rat hidden away in the garage too while cleaning it. When my precious ducklings were still alive I worried about the bait even more as Enano liked to catch moths every now and then and didn't know where those moths had been.
Two weeks ago my partner found 25 mice babies in the garage. They were alive and with their mother. He has a bit more compassion for mice than I do. So he set them up in some large container so they couldn't escape and fed them and then when the babies were bigger he took all of them and the mother and released them far away from here. Good for them. But it doesn't solve the problem here. Because they continue to come here.
I see a support worker weekly and I talked to her about this too as this week I felt quite dizzy after a few days of severely disrupted sleep and she mentioned putting peanut butter on the traps as it would make them go to the traps to try to eat it but then they die quickly and humanely. Is this correct? I have read things about this online as well. She mentioned ultra sonic machines or something too but I don't really want something like that as it might annoy the birds.
Ideally for me, the pigeons would go away, and no wild birds would be fed outside and I believe this would get rid of the mice once and for all. Because this is what started it. Two years of having birds indoors and no mice. Only when the wild birds and specifically the pigeons would come around, is when the mice problem started. Almost instantly. But sadly, this won't be the case and that's a story for another time as it deals with my relationship problems.
Any advice is appreciated. Links to products that get rid of mice but are bird safe etc, I will look into it. Or if peanut butter will work, I'll buy a jar tomorrow. As long as it's safe. The traps are only in the garage and a few in the roof now. I'm severely exhausted and stressed about this. I just want my peace and quiet back. And my sleep. I think that even if I'm lucky enough to get a proper amount of sleep, I still feel exhausted and tired with headaches, just from the stress of it all. It's all too unpredictable. I never know which night will be good or bad. I already have that issue with the daytime. I don't want nights to be permanently ruined too.
