I have mice. I can hear them scurrying around behind my stove and I saw one in my pantry (on a high shelf !!). I don't know what to do about them. I can't bring myself to poison or trap them. My cat is a lazy-ass. He sits and listens to them but makes no move to chase them out of our house.
I wish I could just reason with them, and maybe relocate them to a home in the country or something. I'd pay their moving costs.
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I understand you're not wanting to kill the little creatures, but if you don't nip this now, you will soon have a tremendous rodent problem in your home. As the owner of Varmit Buster's told me, after I told him we were humanely trapping rats and driving them to the county. "The world has enough rats; don't worry about killing them."
Also, if you have a fire place, you might be storing your wood to close to your house.
Take away their food sources; clean, clean, clean!!! Use traps to stop the vermin immediately; debra is right they will soon multiply.
There are electronic devices you can buy that repel rodents by using sounds we can't hear. I've heard they work pretty well.
We have this little green house and it's been great. Just put a dab of peanut butter in there and check in the morning. You can release the mouse outside, preferably in a field. If you open the back door and let him go, he'll probably find his way back in the house again.
http://www.planetnatural.com/cgi-
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Put a half dozen Snickers bars dipped in extra virgin olive oil on the counters. Works for me every time!
The regular traps that snap don't work so well-the mice just kept coming. My husband would find the body in the trap had been partially eaten by another mouse before morning. So that method really wasn't working.
Mice can chew wires and set your house on fire! They are no joke. They also carry diseases. Besides moving your wood, don't put compost piles near your house, either.
You have to plug the holes where they get in as best you can. The peppermint oil works, too. I find the snap traps the most humane, but you have to put out LOTS of them. I know the mice die, but the last thing they remember is yummy peanut butter and then it's all over. I hate to kill them, but you just can't have them in your house.
The Victor mousetrap company has good advice on their site:
http://www.victorpest.com/all_about_mice.htm
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