The best way to catch a rat!!?
Problem now is, oh my goodness, I found baby mouse poop in the kitchen underneath the microwave and the toaster oven which are on my countertop... I keep breads, onions, etc around... I have no idea how a mouse could get up there... there are no cords hanging down to the floor or anything like that... the only cord in the vacinity hangs from the microwave over to behind the refridgerator and it does not touch the floor nor is it anywhere near the floor....
Answers:
Okay...you COULD use poison, but that's some brutal way to kill a living thing. It's slow and agonizing for the animal. First, their throats constrict and they begin choking, then their bowels and bladder release, then their stomaches and intestines explode out of their bodies either through their mouths, noses, and bowels or worse, they just erupt out of their body like in the first Alien movie! YUCK! Plus, you could accidentally poison a neighborhood cat, birds, squirrels, or even dogs! If a bird ends up eating the poisoned mouse, then the bird will be poisoned too. Worse, a cat could eat the bird and then be poisoned. Poison could break down and get into the ground and then you're walking on it. Poison is the worst option for you, your family, your pets, and your neighborhood.
Another option is those glue boards. That's what a professional would bring. Those are almost as cruel as the poison. The animal sticks a paw or tail or nose to the board absolutely can't escape. I've seen then chew off their paws to get away and then bleed to death a foot away! If they don't do that, they eventualy starve and dehydrate to death. It's grim and gruesome! Also, a predator animal can come along, your cat or your neighbor's dog, and end up stuck to the board also, and then you have to take them to a vet to get the board off, because that glue STICKS!
A more humaine way to quickly kill the rodents is the snap traps you're currently using...but instead of peanut butter, try Butterfingers candy bars! I kid you not, that works the best. Probably any candy bar will work, especially if it's got nuts in it. You might try a couple different ones. The key is to get it in a place where the little monsters can't steal it off the trap!
They must be lured to the trap and peanut butter isn't incentive enough when they have access to EVERY dried food in your kitchen, and whatever bits and pieces you drop during a normal day (of course you sweep and mop, but everyone misses something, right?)
So make sure you double and triple Ziplock everything you have in cabinets. Now might be the time to invest in that storage container system you've seen and thought would be good. If you have a Smart and Final Iris near you they have industrial kitchen sized plastic containers in a variety of sizes and shapes, so you can do every cabinet!
Good luck.
Other answers:
Rat poison
Rat poison
get a cat
Call animal control to get rid of them, or get the sticky paper... you know the stuff where they walk on it and get stuck? Or you could get a variety of traps to catch them. Or just don't leave your food out!
CALL A PEST CONTROL COMPANY
the mouse hotel things dont they use feramones to atract the mice and then they get stuck inside
Have My Cat Come Over.
Use three different methods at once. Baits...glue boards...and traps. Three prong attack!
a good way to set the trap so it should go off is stick the cheese or another type of food real good in the trigger thing that way there is no way of getting to food out without setting the trap off. Thats what i did and it never failed
Bacon. Put it on the trap and put the trap in a paper bag.You won't have to touch it after you catch it . It will already be in a bag.
Keep cats till the rats exist .
have a tube big enough for it to fit through and make sure a little piece of it can bend like a straw and put in large clear jarto tall for them to climb out and they will climb up the tube and into the jar, but make sure you put cheese their able to smell in the jar.
catch one rat alive, and take it to a vet, and ask the vet to close teh butt of the rat... and put it back where you found it, supply the rats with food...
less than a week, the rat you cought will kill all the other rats becaus of some psychological problem...
and thats it...
This is so gross, but I have to ask for help from anyone else who has ever had a problem with mice! HELP !!?