Loves chewing on wiring or wall boxes.

Day six,
Am trying dual ultrasonic high frequency plug ins.

But they don't seem to chase them away,
Five traps around the Apt. No effect.

Chewing, gnawing,gnashing biting scratching, digging.

One Apt. Down stairs Caught two, two weeks ago.

Any help you might be able to offer would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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What kind of traps? What bait?

Would the apartment complex not be responsible for the removal of mice?
The entrance area needs to be closed off to eliminate them returning.
I use the green TomCat bait blocks that is pet safe. I have a bunch of bird seed feeders outside around the house which attracts mice. I made a bunch of T-shaped bait holders out of 1-1/2” PVC that are placed around the outside of the house and around my property lines.

It's going to be specific approach for the dwelling.

Might be able to fumigate, then mitigate closing, sealing and making the premises undesirable to the vermin.

There is no "one solution". It is going to be predicated upon the type of critter(s), and what is "inviting" for them.

Then figuring out how to deal with the recurrence, after successful elimination.

(I realize this is a Cap'n Obvious answer)

Peanut butter. 5 gal bucket filled 1/4 water, I drilled two holes across the top and ran a metal wire. I had one that would still get the bait until I sprayed some pam on the wire. I've battled many mice over the years, this works the best.

Peanut butter on Victor spring,
Wooden base traps.


Through our the Apt.
But they are not in the interior.

Noisey ass bastards in the exterior walls.

The apartment down stairs is either their way in or out of the walls. Set a bucket style trap and see what happens, worth a try, doesn't cost much.

Put some liquid dish detergent (like Dawn) in the bucket of water for reduced swimming time.

Once a noxious rodent chewed a hole in the exterior windowsill of an old ranch house we were renting. It was doing the scratching and chewing thing in the wall behind the headboard of our bed. My wife was freaking out, worried that he would chew through the wall and jump into bed with us. I tried traps to no avail. I was in Sam’s Club one day and saw a one pound jar of cayenne pepper powder and thought to myself this might work to drive the foul creature away. I poured the whole jar in the hole. It worked great. After he left I sealed Mr Rat’s access hole with a piece of tin.

I wonder if it would be practical to load a turkey baster with cayenne powder and puff it into your wall through small holes drilled through the drywall, then patch the holes with spackle.

Four years ago a plumber ripped huge holes in the basement garage ceiling wallboard,
To repair a leaking copper pipe.
They never repaired those holes.

I am on the second floor.
Our bird feeders were 60 feet out in the yard.

20 years in this place .
First time with the problem upstairs here.

Wonder if I drilled a two inch hole in the wallboard and poured in some poison bait?

Apt. Management showed no concern , told me to buy traps.

They will come out of the walls for peanut butter, you don't want them dying in the walls. Those bucket style traps will get them all eventually, hard to believe until you see them work.

Not a lot you can do until he comes out. Find the routes where he got in (mine get in through the attic). Use MANY more traps than are remotely reasonable. I like to pave the walkways (joists) with them.

Peanut butter is my go to bait. Do not use poison, or they die in the walls and stink.

No poop or chew marks in the Apt. Interior , that I can see

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Originally posted by bendable:

Wonder if I drilled a two inch hole in the wallboard and poured in some poison bait?

This will work.

I’d be doing a serious ‘layered approach’, starting with bait houses along outside edge where they may be entering.

Understand all rodent poison isn’t equal, vary the bait some, those poisoned grains may be worth trying.

With no poop or sign inside the apartment, maybe they didn’t make it there yet.

With an apartment, is it worth mentioning, maybe the complex can pay for a pest service?

If you caught two down stairs, I would be going there. One other thing, might want to get rid of their food source, pet food, etc. Keep any eye out under the cars hoods around there, most likely end up in them too. Not much more I can say but those bucket traps really do work, doubt you will many saying they don't.

It would be easier to draw the mice to bait in traps if their usual source of food (bird feeders) are not available. They are creatures of habit. They follow regular scent paths, typically alongside the baseboards.

I’d put a variety of traps in the garage, along the walls.

You need to provide a ramp for them to get to the top of the bucket trap. I use a yardstick.

Sticky traps baited with a tiny bit of peanut butter in the center. You’ll have to sacrifice them once they’re stuck, but it works better than a spring trap.
Good luck.

When I had them in NC, I put bait in the crawl space, sealed up where they had gotten in (knawed thru a vent) and placed glue traps around where he was eating the stuff for the septic system(under the sink)

Caught 2 of em and that ended the problem

The apartment owner has a lot of reason to stop this as wiring and other things you mention are high cost.
The real issue is what's attracted them to begin with because they'll never be gone until that's addressed.