Good Questions: Eeeek, Mice In My Ceiling?

Hello AT,

I live in a New York city rental where there has been scratching noises in the ceiling for 6 months now. I suspect it to be mice in the ceiling/floor board. I am a deep sleeper and it is loud enough to wake me up multiple times a night. I've spoken with my landlord and upstairs neighbor to no avail. The landlord said they could only leave bait/traps out in the general area (did nothing). My upstairs neighbor said she has not seen mice and claims to not hear the noise...

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The noise does sound like it is from 'within' the ceiling though. I've tried to install those ultrasound repellent devices and banging on the ceiling, either of them worked. Do you have any suggestions to what I could do? I do have light fixtures in the ceiling and maybe I could leave poison in? Would that result in dead mice in the ceiling with smell? I've even had the nightmare where the mice successfully dug a hole through the ceiling and fell on me (!!). What can I do??!!

Thanks, Grace

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Well, I know how alot of people are feeling. I just started the mice battle a few days ago. They got into my stove, and were living in the insulation of the stove. I caught two of them with glue traps under the heating elements. Then a third one appeared and has managed to avoid all the snap traps and glue traps. ( I have both black and standard snaps). The apartment complex replaced my stove since it was full of mouse doo.

My apartment complex has called an exterminator and he is coming out tomorrow... Then the maintenance supervisor and the exterminator are going to be searching my apartment for entry ways (found one, behind the heater along the bottom of the wall in my kitchen). The mice are getting everywhere in my kitchen and branched out a little into my living room. Its hard to ever even want to cook anything because everytime I go into the kitchen there is doo all over my counters... Guess I will be eating out forever, and most likely moving.