Dead Mice Found in Apartment?

Question

We have now found two dead mice--probably, but not certainly, killed by our two cats about 6 weeks apart. We live on the third floor of an old apartment building, with an enclosed front staircase, which is how everyone accesses their front doors. Our front door is warped so that there's a pretty big gap between the bottom and the jamb, and the weather has been getting colder (the time of year when mice generally come inside, I've heard). Both mice we found far from the kitchen, near the front door (in the foyer, actually). We searched the kitchen and closets and found no signs of them--no droppings, no chewed boxes or fabrics, and no holes. Could they be coming in from outside? We covered the gaps in the door and put traps in the front hall closets. Could they be coming in from outside or are they definitely living in the walls, perhaps mostly kept at bay by the cats?

Side note: I've never heard a neighbor complain about mice.

Answer 1

Thur the walls

Answer 2

Okay, this is NOT a recommendation, but my daughter's cat caught a mouse in our basement. Besides getting traps which were never tripped, and cleaning out everywhere we found mouse signs, we got a three-pack of those thingies that plug into the wall and are supposed to emit a sound or something that mice hate. They advertise as a big cure-all; I have no faith in them, but -- oh, God, a -mouse-!-- I was desperate. We put one in the basement near the food pantry, and the other two upstairs. We haven't seen a mouse since, nor any signs at all -- and now we know what to look for. Frankly, I think it was just one mouse that wandered in from outside and found food. But that sounds almost too good to be true, doesn't it? Anyway, no mouse. The three-pack of thingies was about twenty or twenty-five bucks, and each has an outlet in it, so you can still plug things in while the outlet is occupied with the -- thingy!

Answer 3

Your cat brought them home as a present to you. Mine used to do that. He/she likes you in a cat sort of way. Mine used to eat them right in front of me, and them hack up a furball with bones the next day.

Answer 4

well both but they most likely come in from outside and stay in the walls...if i should say