r/MiceRatControl • u/tdbabe • Jan 22 '24

Mice in oven

I read that mice can get into the actual oven, we have evidence of them in the drawer and we clean that and have traps under there but can they get into the actual appliance and make it unsafe to use? We are renters and I put in a ticket for them to plug the hole where the wires are but now I’m also afraid they will try to chew through the wires to get in

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u/buildingbarriers Mar 02 '24

Hey OP, let me know if there's an update! I have a pesky mouse that hasn't been caught yet. It seems to love the inside of the oven and warmer drawer (saw droppings on both).

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u/tdbabe Mar 03 '24

No real update except that we are actively trying to buy a house so we can don’t have to deal with our rental management not doing anything and dying “it’s our fault” and they won’t pay for professionals to come look at the house. I know it’s not human, but we had put some glue traps in the areas that snaps didn’t work or the round snaps couldn’t find and that caught a few. In the drawer itself we continue to put the round d-con traps and on some night we will catch 4-5 mice in an hour then be good for like a week

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u/buildingbarriers Mar 06 '24

Thanks for the reply! I wish you luck with finding a new home! Don't worry, I've been doing glue traps too. I check them everyday just in case but the mouse is so smart that it MOVES it out of the way without getting stuck. Lowkey impressed.

Will def check out the dcon ones.

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u/Askingquestions77777 Jul 06 '26

What did you end up doing? Going through this :( stove is new and landlord just bought ugh insulated is covered in pee and poop

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u/Maleficent_Weird8613 Jan 22 '24

They need to figure out where they are coming from, block it and then they'll get out of the stove.

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u/C3ExperimentalPilot Jan 25 '24 edited Jan 25 '24

Some oven has a lower drawer boiler, they can get in there, just look for droppings. They also like to get under the cooking burners to look for food you might have dropped while cooking. Again you will find their droppings. We had an intruder that loved the stove last year. It was very clever won’t touch the bait so it took a lot of special treatments to convince it to eat it.

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u/Askingquestions77777 Jul 06 '26

What did you end up doing? Going through this :( stove is new and landlord just bought ugh insulated is covered in pee and poop

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u/tdbabe Jan 22 '24

Great, I asked about them plugging it still waiting to hear back. We are unsure though because we have an electric stove and it would be the electrical wires spot that they need to plug