At one point or another we all get that stubborn little mouse in our house who just refuses to leave. It wanders around your home for days, leaving its dropping and diseases. So what do we do to get rid of it. See me personally I am not a big fan of poisonous mice. Who wants to have to pick a dead mouse laying in your house? I don’t. There are ways to make it go away.
Mice love dirty rooms and surfaces. They are attracted to clutter and papers. So what you have to do is make your house as uninviting as possible. Make sure your home is nice and clean everyday. Which means no clothes lying around in the middle of the floor, that give mice places to hide which encourages even more. Important papers should be filed away in a container or a file cabinet. Did you know that mice love eating and biting through paper? Yup paper attracts them.
Just like the kitchen may be your favorite place in the house it’s also mice favorite part of the house too. It’s the place where they can find food. So never leave dirty dishes in the sink all night. If you spill stuff like juice it will help to clean it. Regularly wash down your cabinet and countertops with bleach. Bleach throws them off. Having a clean kitchen isn’t just enough. You may have boxes of food like cereal, lying around on the counters or on top of the refrigerator. Mice like stuff like that, so put any type of box food, whether it may be cake mix or cereal up in the cabinet. Or another place where they are not likely to get too. Remember that mice will eat anything and is always looking for food. So if you and your family have the tendency to eat in the living room or your bedrooms, make sure you clean up all the mess you make and or vacuum the room. Any kind of food droppings will keep them coming back and they will be with you for even longer.
Where do mice come from? How do they get in your home? Since mice have no bones they can squeeze through cracks as small as one fourth in diameter. Cracks can be found in the wall, doors, cupboards whatever. If you see any holes or cracks in your home make sure you seal them. This prevents them from coming in.
What else can you do to get rid of mice? Well there’s a well known technology that I’ve even tried before is a sonic pest control device. It emits a sound that your pet and mice can hear. All you do is plug it in a socket and you won’t see any mice. It keeps them away. But it only lasts for a year or so. Or you can always get mice traps. They have mice traps with peanut butter smell on it to attract mice on it. There’s also glue board traps. Mice sticks to the trap and are unable to get off no matter what. Good huh? Theses are just a few methods to control mice and get them out of your home without having to call an exterminator.
yes that may work, but if you have dogs or cats, you cant do that. I tried snap traps and my 2 dogs stapped them in 1 day.
Comment by Susan — October 15, 2007 @ 5:40 pm