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    popa_bar_abba
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    It is digging a hole through the door to my room. And nesting in my boxes of books. And keeping us up all night.

    #994205
    ItcheSrulik
    Member

    Someone as knowledgeable as you are should know the ancient and time honored segula for dealing with mice.

    Hint: It’s even older than R’ Yeshayele Kerestirer.

    #994206
    RABBAIM
    Participant

    A hungry cat will cure the problem. For real.

    #994207
    writersoul
    Participant

    ItcheSrulik: You mean get rid of the aron?

    #994208
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    Early bird gets the worm.

    Second mouse gets the cheese.

    #994209
    wanderingchana
    Participant

    Nesting? If you don’t trap that thing pronto, your problem will increase exponentially.

    #994210
    oomis
    Participant

    EEEK EEEEWWWW, and OOOOYYYYYYYYYY! One suggestion, once it is out of your room, put sticky baits along the threshhold of the doorway. At least that ought to stop it from re-entering. When the yeshivah next door to me did construction work (actually this happened three separate times over the years, we got mice as a result. I have never been so grossed out as I was by one tiny little mouse. I would rather have a root canal than pick up the trap with the mouse on it. (That’s what GUYS are for).

    #994211
    Imaofthree
    Participant

    Put out a glue trap with a bit of peanut butter.

    #994212
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Ok, so they weren’t in that box. I plugged up the hole in the wall, and also put spray foam to repair the digging they were doing in the door.

    Then, I’m going to put a glue trap near the door, so when they come to dig- ?? ?????? ???? ???? ????? ???

    #994213
    yitayningwut
    Participant

    Nice! Now you can have bedikas chametz sheilos and learn the sugya in Pesachim and laugh when Rava says ??? ????? ????? ???! I always do.

    #994214
    Imaofthree
    Participant

    I also heard that it is good to plug up holes with steel wool. good luck!

    #994215
    youngbubby
    Member

    The Rat Zapper on Amazon.com. Its works like a charm usually catching and killing your first mouse within 24 hours. Follow the instructions on the box. Good luck!

    #994216
    ahavas_yisroel
    Participant

    ItcheSrulik, I’m waiting with bated breath to hear of this ancient skula.

    #994217
    youngbubby
    Member

    The Rat Zapper on Amazon.com. It works like a charm usually catching and killing your first mouse within 24 hours. Follow the instructions on the box. Good luck!

    #994218
    nitpicker
    Participant

    NOTE: spray foam (Great Stuff) does not by itself keep out mice.

    they can and will gnaw right through it.

    #994219
    TheGoq
    Participant

    George tell me about the rabbits again huh george please?

    #994220
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Nice! Now you can have bedikas chametz sheilos and learn the sugya in Pesachim and laugh when Rava says ??? ????? ????? ???! I always do.

    That is hilarious! Where is that?

    As it happens, I did realize today that I would have the bedikas chametz shailos because of it.

    #994221
    yitayningwut
    Participant

    Lol, it’s 9b.

    #994222

    The way it works in life is that if you lose one thing, you lose another, and when you find the second thing, the theory goes that you will find the first one also. So judging from what you said, I suggest going to the pet shop and picking up another mouse and set it free.

    Alternatively, you can put some Starbucks coffee on a glue trap (if its in your house, it probably is used to the things you often consume) and wait. You may want to pick one up for yourself too just for kicks.

    #994223
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    Get a Mountain Troll – I mean Lion

    #994224
    simcha man
    Member

    1) Stuff steal-wool under the door.

    2) If they’re in your house already and not going out, use the spring type of mouse trap with a piece of shredded cheese. Follow the directions for setting up the traps and make sure to use GLOVES and not your bare hands.

    Good luck!

    #994225
    Feif Un
    Participant

    If you want a natural way to get rid of them, use mint oil. Rodents have a natural aversion to the smell of mint. Soak some cotton balls in mint oil, and place them every few feet along walls, especially where you’ve seen the mice.

    #994226
    SayIDidIt™
    Participant

    “You may want to pick one up for yourself too just for kicks.”

    Are you talkung about coffee or a mouse trap (or coffee on a mouse trap)???

    #994227
    Toi
    Participant

    The early bird gets the worm. The early worm gets eaten.

    #994228
    wanderingchana
    Participant

    Spring traps are better than glue traps, and peanut butter is better than cheese.

    #994229
    zen3344
    Participant

    So a rabbi, a priest and a minister are discussing how they took care of the mouse problem in their respective houses of worship.

    The priest says, “I had a crew come in and seal all of the holes with steel wool and plaster. The mice never came back to the church.”

    The minister says, “I had a crew come in and move all of the food to places where the mice can’t smell it. They never came back to the church.”

    The rabbi says, “I just Bar Mitzvahed all of the mice. They never came back to the shul.”

    #994230
    oomis
    Participant

    Feif un – mint oil? repels mice and keeps the house minty fresh too? What a CONCEPT!!!!!!! Come to think if it, they should make a house cleaning product that contains mint and call it, Pestoil.

    #994231
    yungerman1
    Participant

    Use more than one of the above and use POISON. I had a picture of R’ Yeshaya but the segula stopped working after a while. Traps are good but mice reproduce often and several at a time, so you never know if you got them all. When using glue traps, make sure you buy quality ones- not from a 99 cent store- as the mice can get off of those traps.

    #994232
    ItcheSrulik
    Member

    writersoul: I was going to say “get a cat” but your way works too 🙂

    #994233
    TheGoq
    Participant

    I guess there are no literary types in here.

    #994234
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    I have a picture of you

    I think its very nice

    I hang it in the attic

    To scare away the mice…

    nesting in my boxes of books

    Maybe they’re after the bookworms?

    once it is out of your room, put sticky baits along the threshhold of the doorway

    I’ve been tempted by your sticky baits. Hi oomis!

    #994235
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    *AHEM* *just wrote a term paper on Steinbeck*

    #994236
    TheGoq
    Participant

    OOM did u get a good grade?

    #994237
    AinOhdMilvado
    Participant

    Put out a few snap traps with a SMALL dab of peanut butter on the paddle, BUT DO NOT SET THE TRAP/S!!!

    Do this for 2 or 3 consecutive nights.

    On the 3rd or 4th night put the traps out again and this time SET THE TRAPS!!!

    The mouse/mice will have gotten use to feeling safe around the traps and go right on to them to get the bait, – then… WHACK! – problem solved!

    #994238
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    So, I put out all my traps last night, in the bedroom. And had already plugged the hole, as I noted.

    No mice. I think I kept them out of the room. They can stay in the kitchen, I don’t mind that.

    #994239
    SayIDidIt™
    Participant

    popa,why would you not mind nice, cute, furry mice in your kitchen?

    #994240
    SayIDidIt™
    Participant

    popa,why would you not mind nice, cute, furry mice in your kitchen?

    #994241

    Put out two bowls where you thing they will find them the easiest, and in one bowl put vinegar and in the other put baking soda. All you will have to do now is clean up the remains of an exploded dead mouse!

    #994242
    yitayningwut
    Participant

    lol i wonder if that would work

    #994243
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    Goq: Yup. Incidentally, it really only barely touched upon Of Mice and Men. But he’s one of my favorite authors, soooooo…yeah. 🙂

    #994244
    ItcheSrulik
    Member

    OOM: I don’t like Steinbeck much. Then again, the first thing I read by him was The Pearl so yeah…

    #994245
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    The Pearl stinks majorly. All high schools fail Steinbeck by teaching it. Same goes for Silas Marner. For the life of me I can’t figure out why they do it…

    #994246
    Health
    Participant

    PBA – I once posted this here in the CR. I think the best products out there is something called “Tomcat”. They make poison bait and traps. Their product is very effective compared to other products & ideas mentioned above.

    #994247
    ItcheSrulik
    Member

    I didn’t like Grapes of Wrath either and that was supposedly his best book.

    #994248
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    lol…it’s a secret, but…I never managed to get through that one. The ones that kept me riveted were East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle. I really like him best for East of Eden.

    My paper actually centered around a theory that is mostly grounded in Grapes of Wrath…sorta never mentioned the fact that I never finished the book…:P

    #994249
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Itche it was a great movie one of my faves.

    #994250
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Mice in mein hoiz

    At least they’re not in your hoizen.

    #994251

    popa_bar_abba did you solve your mouse problem?

    #994252
    Yenta
    Participant

    I’m shocked that no one told you to hang up a photo of Reb Shayela Krestierer. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7tLqMOXSPm8/RgPQxkNDMBI/AAAAAAAAAZw/OSUMQr6vRT4/s1600-h/krestirer.jpeg

    Don’t ask me why, but by chasidim, this is a known segula….and it actually seems to work.

    A quick Google search came up with this:

    The Famous Mouse Story-

    Affectionately known as Reb Shaya’le (Rabbi Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestir), the Kerestirer Rebbe lived around the beginning of the 20th Century. He was a very pious man and extremely humble, always referring to himself in the diminutive (Shaya’le). He was known as a “miraculous” person. His greatest pleasure was to host a very elaborate Melave Malka, the meal that follows Shabbos, on Saturday night. Often he would have his chassidim shecht fresh chickens for his meal.

    One motzo’ay Shabbos, while Reb Shaya’le was eating this special melave malka meal, a chossid came to him with an urgent request. He was a man who had a warehouse full of foodstuffs and he made his living by buying an selling food. For the past number of months, his warehouse had been taken over by mice who were eating his grain and other commodities and his entire livelihood was threatened. He asked Reb Shaya’le for a blessing that the mice should leave his warehouse. At that time, each small town in Europe was ruled by the local church pastor. Some of the pastors were kind towards the Jews and others were very harsh. Reb Shaya’le asked the chossid if the pastor of the town he lived in was kind or harsh. The chossid replied that he was very harsh toward the Jews. Reb Shaya’le then instructed the chossid to go to his warehouse and to tell the mice, “Reb Shaya’le says to go to the estate of the pastor.” The chossid followed the Rebbe’s advice and instantly hundreds of mice raced out of the warehouse all heading in the direction of the pastor’s estate. The chossid’s business was saved and ever since Jews who have been plagued with this problem have used Reb Shaya’le’s picture to accomplish the ridding of mice from their homes.

    Another Google search:

    This is a picture of a holy tzaddik, Rabbi Yeshayah, the Karestier Rebbe, ztk”l, zy”a. This picture is a famous segulah, and it is thus worthy to have a copy of it somewhere in your house or place of business. According to some, the Rebbe promised that any house or building where his picture was would not be plagued with mice. (Because of this many food stores in Israel have this picture hanging somewhere.) Even according to those opinions who don’t accept this (the present Karestier Rebbe, shlit”a says that he does not know the source of this segulah), it is always worthwhile to have pictures of holy people around you for a source of inspiration. Thus it is surely worthwhile to print this picture and even to make copies for your family and friends.

    #994253
    SaysMe
    Member

    yenta- did you read through the thread? It was mentioned more than once 🙂

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