Ugh! MICE! Exterminator recommendations?

[Martinjmpr]

We've recently discovered evidence of mice in our home in the Columbine area. It doesn't help that our next-door neighbor is a "bird lover" who dumps massive amounts of bird seed all over his yard, right on the part that borders ours.

Any recommendations for an exterminator who is good at ridding homes of mice? We spent about half a day last month cleaning up the tiles in our dropped-ceiling basement with lots of mouse poop and one dead mouse. I put in some of those "sonic" mouse repeller things and tried to stuff steel wool into anything outside opening that looked big enough for a mouse to come in,

Over the past few years I've found a couple of dead mice in the basement.

but then this morning there was a live mouse in the dog's food bowl!

I really hate this but the wife hates mice even more than I do and I just want to get rid of them.

Thanks in advance!

[kidicarus13]

Stick wherever you've seen evidence of mice. Worried other critters may get into them? Use the black boxes.

[00tec]

Stick wherever you've seen evidence of mice. Worried other critters may get into them? Use the black boxes.

Tractor supply is a good source for those. I had a run with mice, that stuff murdered 'em good. I got several of the black boxes initially, then just bought the bucket of poison bricks and refilled the "non-refillable" boxes.
Tossed some outside where pets can't get to them too.

[Justin]

Get a couple of outdoor mouse bait stations and put them around your property. It will help to kill the mice before they get in your house.

https://www.amazon.com/Tomcat-Bait-S...9160973&sr=8-5

[Martinjmpr]

Yeah, I've got some of the poison stations around but we still have the mice. Also have to be careful of our dog who will eat anything that will fit into her mouth.

[Circuits]

I got my best results with these traps, freshly baited daily with a dab of peanut butter. I got the covered ones because I had an elderly cat at the time, who was no longer any good as a mouser, but I didn't want her getting hurt by open traps.

I also used glue boards folded into their box shape, along baseboards.

Note, though, that nothing will do any permanent good unless you find and close the way(s) they're getting into the house, especially with the neighbor basically baiting your yard for you.

[asystejs]

I made cheap outdoor bait stations out of the white 2 gallon plastic buckets from HomeDepot or Lowes.

Use a 1 inch hole saw to make a hole in the side near the bottom.
The hole is small enough that only mice/rats can get in.
Put in the Tomcat/D-Con cubes covered with peanut butter.
Fasten the lid.
Set something heavy on it so the wind does not it blow around.

I set them out in late fall and usually have to re-bait them after a couple weeks.
The mice get cleaned up quickly.
We had a couple rats move into a retaining wall one summer, it took them out quickly as well.

[.455_Hunter]

I only use mechanical traps. As a kid, I lost my cat to what the vet indicated was probably eating DECON poisoned mice from the neighbors. Not the raw poison, but the dead or dying mice.

[funkymonkey1111]

I only use mechanical traps. As a kid, I lost my cat to what the vet indicated was probably eating DECON poisoned mice from the neighbors. Not the raw poison, but the dead or dying mice.

this. use mechanical traps. if you have an infestation, buy 40 or 50 (or more).

[Ramsker]

Bird feeders are the worst. My wife hung one on our patio and several days later, I looked out the sindow and mice were scurrying around on the patio. Bird feeder got evicted. I concur on the mechanical traps with peanut butter. Set them and re-check/reset often. I get mice in the garage occasionally, especially when colder weather sets in. I'll catch 5 or 6 within a couple days and that seems to keep it under control as then I'll stop catching any (or will get one every now and then).

We had a friend whose cat died and the vet suspected the same as someone above mentioned with the cat eating poisoned mice. Also, I've had people tell me they used the bait and they'd have mice crawl into spots and then die where they couldn't find them and they stink for weeks.