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what is the best way to get rid of mice when you have a pet dog?

i need to get rid of the mice in my house but i dont know how to do it when i havea pet dog. please help! i have mice in the house and a dog. how can i get rid of mice when my dog closes his eyes when the mouse is in his food bowl?? help.

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1. put out those sticky traps.
2. Starve your dog. When it has no other choice than to eat rats, your problem is solved.
3. Well, I guess it depends on where the mice like to hide out. If its designated in a certain room, I would lay some traps with peanut butter or cheese in it and keep your pet out of that room. If you can set up the traps in an area that your dog can't reach, by all means set the traps. Also, if you're dog is well behaved..just set them anyway. I usually set them at night, most mice dont dare to run around in broad daylight. And your dog will most likely be sleeping too :)
4. get one of those things that plug into the wall and send out small pulses or noises that are too high for us and dogs to hear. When we had a mouse problem we got one of those, and we had dogs at the time. If your dog does seem to be affected then remove it and try something else.
5. Phone a profffessional exterminator, and get the dog OUT of the house! Good luck and may God bless you.
6. i have a dog, and he is so smart, he catch the mice and kill it, but he won't eat it, and the next morning I put the mouse to the trash. so easy...
7. A repeating 12 bore shotgun... or flame thrower!
8. Borrow a friends cat for a couple of days, the mice will be gone within a week, just make sure the cat is a proven mouse catcher. We live in the country, and we have a cat that is a good mouser, we have never seen a mouse in all the years we have lived here.
9. I have a patterdale cross lakeland terrier and he would get rid of mice ffor you no doubt haha
10. Put out traps, one room at a time, and keep your dog out of those rooms with baby gates. Or crate the dog at night and put out the traps.
11. Traps are the safest. If your dogs are well fed they won't want to eat a dead mouse anyway. I use poison and as yet, i haven't caught my dog with a dead mouse at all. But my dogs are mostly outside and the mice usually die inside since thats where they live.. Having said that tho, i used to take my dog out for rabbits in her younger years and she often caught them, usually the very young or sick (mixo) ones. The adult ones would only be carried to me and the babies she would eat.. So.. To be safe use traps.
12. Don't use normal mouse traps as the dog will eat the chesse and get its nose trapped. Don't use rat poison as the dog might eat it. Get one of those cages that has a door that will drop once the mouse is inside. These ones on this link cost £9.95, I searched human rat traps on google, this trap is the cheapest available and has a 5 star buyers rating. Although it is a rat trap it will trap several mice as well and uses similiar bait ( I'd use cheese). http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/HarrodSite/product/GPC-325.htm Once you have caught the mice put the trap inside a cardboard box with a lid (with airholes in!) with the mice inside the trap and take them to woodland at least 3 miles away and let them out of the trap. Once you have released them put the trap back into the box and once you get home disinfect the mouse trap with dettol and hot water and fairy liquid and put the box in your houshold waste in a seperate bin bag. Wash your hands afterwards. I'd advise wearing washing up gloves and throwing them away afterwards. You should want to vacuum the car using fabreze and washing your clothes you have worn after releasing them. I'd also clean and vacuum your house using disinfectant on vinyl; and fabreze on rugs or carpets as I think other cleaning sprays will bleach the carpets and rugs. Get everyone who has lived in the house to shower during the pest infestation. Wash your dog with flea killing dog shampoo. Use dettol air freshener and also use a plugin air freshener for the next two weeks. I know this sounds drastic but believe me you don't want to get diseases that wild mice have. Also be aware that if the mice have made holes in the walls that if your house was built before 1989 that they could be an asbestos hazard, call an asbestos worker to seal up the holes and cracks from the mice and to make them air tight. NEVER TRY TO DO THIS YOURSELF! - you need specialist knowledge and equipment to solve this problem; I've read about people getting asbestos related diseases from trying to do this with face maks from DIY stores and garments made out of bin bags, face masks from DIY stores do not provide sufficient protection as the extremely small and deadly asbestos fibres can get through the holes in the mask. Asbestos causes incurable and untreatable lung diseases often after less than ten years after exposure. Look for an asbestos worker in the yellow pages if your house was built before 1989. Do NOT go near the crascks and holes - in fact keep out of the room altogether and shut the doors to it! Someone suggested letting your dog starve in order to get it to eat the mce. Starving your dog is cruel and if it eats the mice it will get a life threatening disease.
13. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071223095327AAhMKL6
14. glue traps, i swear to you, there is nothing funnier than watching a dog get his hand stuck to his head with a glue trap
15. Get a cat!
16. Don't leave food in the dish when the dog isn't eating and keep all foods dog and human covered. Get a cat?
17. Well I had a giant rat in my house and I have 3 dogs. First I set out rat poisoning. To keep my dogs from finding the rat poisoning I just looked for the blueish green tablet and I either kept them outside or in their crate. Also I set up mouse traps. I recommend the old fashioned wooden ones. I think they work the best. It caught and killed my rat. Also feed your dog inside its crate and watch him while he eats. Oh and also hide the mouse trap somewhere where the dog can't get it like behind a couch. Or you could just get a cat. Good Luck!
18. Borrow my sister dog; she catches them and eats them! (The dog NOT my sister!!) LOL Get a cat? You could try putting down the traps... you put chocolate inside the trap, the mouse goes in to eat it and can't get back out. You can then let them go (in a field or somewhere away from your home if you can't face killing it!) I think I would choose to get in some vermin destroying company and pay them to sort it out, they have probably come across this scenario before... people who own pets with vermin problems. Are the mice in ALL your rooms? How "bad" a PROBLEM are they? You need to find their nest and get that destroyed really, other wise you aren't going to get rid of them for good. They will breed and keep coming back.
19. buy a cat
20. turn your dog into a cat