Navre and Friends in Boston

[Chantilly]

These traps have worked great for us John, the rats eventually learn, but you can catch quite a lot of them before that happen. Once they do learn you can just put it away and then bring it back a few months later and they fall for it all over again: http://www.easypestsupplies.com.au/mult ... vQodsK0HEQ , I would definately recomend trying this style trap, it has done great for us, from what we have tried dog food is amazingly great for bait-the rats and mice both cant resist.

[Navre]

I'll try those traps. Thanks.

Last night I took all the food and water out of her cage, changed the papers, and put peppermint oil on the wheels of the cage. She didn't seem to get disturbed by nice at all last night. I just hate to keep something in a cage without any food and water.

[Navre]

The spelling of "defence" tipped me off that those traps are on an Australian site. I'll try to find something similar here. I have some black, victor traps. No luck so far. https://www.google.com/shopping/product ... 91#sgro=om

The snap traps, using the same bait, catch a mouse about every night. I just can't use them with the birds around.

[Wolf]

Might be dumb or just sound dumb, but did you wash the traps before attempting to use them? Almost every product sold in the US has some sort of coating on them when new. It may also just be that it needs a couple of days for the mice to get used to the sudden appearance of the new little cage, I don't know.

[Pajarita]

Yes, it might be a smell they don't like on them... The ones I use work like a charm - did you put a little 'trail' of seed pointing to the entrance and a bit more inside? That's what I do. But the trail has to be very short, meaning not too many seeds or they get full before they get to the entrance of the trap.

[Navre]

Still no luck with those traps. I have already got up to get mice out of her cage 3 times tonight. I think they're going in there after her water.

[Navre]

The mice we a problem all night.

I've ordered the exact traps that Paj posted, and some spray mouse repellant. The peppermint oil on the base of the cage worked for a day or two, but now they climb right over it.

[liz]

Grease the legs of the cage with Vasoline.

[Wolf]

Well then let's try creative.. can you put a smaller cage on top of this cage for the bird to sleep in for a few nights? If so, you could set the traps in the current cage and place them near the food and near the water. You should still try to trace them back to their entrance hole and place additional traps there. The closer to their entrance you can catch of kill them the better. You might even be able to poison them if you put it inside the hole.

I have often found the hole and torn open the wall and removed the nest and contaminated insulation and repaired the wall to stop them. Leaving a mothball or three in place of the nest.

[Navre]

They're going after her water. There was mouse poop in her water this morning. I'm tempted to put a bowl of water on the floor so I can get some sleep until the traps start working.