I have been plugging holes and gaps around a lot of the plumbing in my manufactured home after the cats have been catching plenty of house mice. I believe I found the main entrance they have been using and I am about to pack it with silicone soaked steel wool too.
While looking at this main hole I noticed one of our missing mouse traps is on top of the hole, caught in the plumbing, unsprung. The trap was moved probably 4 feet from where it was.
Would you suspect that this was a rat trying to pull the baited trap down the hole with them? A house or field mouse couldn't do this could they?
Also, attaching some photos of some different sized feces than the ones I've seen under the kitchen sink cabinet. I'm vacuuming the feces up now but hopefully I have a good enough photo of them.
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Northwest Illinois
by SoundAnxious3362
6 Comments
Way too small. It’s mouse poop not rats. Rat poo is oblong, mouse poo is little.
EDIT: I think a mouse could drag a snap trap if it only got the back legs or the tail.
We had a mouse problem in a home and used steel wool to plug holes. They won’t chew through it. Just a thought, you can buy the cheap stuff.
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Mouse poop not rat poop. How do I know? I work in restoration and spend a ton of time in crawl spaces, and today I happend to be in a rat infested one. If you have land im leaning toward field mouse or barn mouse, a rat would have most likely been caught in that trap as it was entering. A mouse tends to set off traps of that size but not be caught due to size. I might also add spray foam is like giving these guys food. For some reason they some this stuff mice or rats, if youre going to use spray foam I suggest adding steal wool to the mix. It rips their mouths up and typically causes death due to their mouths being messed up. Remember if they die they will most likely do it under your house so you may habe to go under every so often to clean it out. I dont suggest poison because if something eats the poisons mouse/rat then they in return get poisoned.
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Definitely mice in my opinion. I tried everything considered humane and failed, until steel wool whiich worked for two years. Then we moved, so I can’t provide any further updates 😁
Also: we also tried snap traps and I found them OUTSIDE several times despite the original locations being indoors and they would have had to travel quite some distance. One time we even heard an odd thunk, thunk, thunk down the hallway and found a mouse with one leg trapped. That’s when we stopped using them.