I think mice are super cute... when being eaten by a snake that is.
I don't, however, think mice are cute in my basement... and we seem to have a big problem.
When we purchased this house and had the inspection, the inspector told us "You have mice. All houses have mice. I don't see any damage so its probably just a seasonal problem.". When I had the house exterminated for carpenter ants this summer the exterminator told me we had mice. But he went one step further and told me what to do - so we went to Home Depot and bought some bait to put out in the basement.
I had Shawn put several packets in the laundry room which has several 'outlets' out of the foundation - meaning several 'inlets' for mice. Also put several in the drop ceiling in the adjourning room.
Not only were the packets opened and moved from where they were placed but they were EMPTY.
Oh My God.
5 days after the packets are opened we are supposed to start seeing dead mice.
Oh My God.
My laundry room is down there and so is my scrapbooking room with the computer that I do all my photo stuff on. I can't go down there now! My cats can't go down there and no way the kids will go down there. The bait stays active in the mice even after they die so the cats can get sick and mice in general are yucky so the kids shouldn't even see them yet come in contact with them...
But God help me if I see mice up here on the living floor.
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I take it your cats are not mousers.. :) we had the same problem when we moved into our previous house in bellingham, but within about two weeks, Sam - the cat, made sure there were little mice bodies scattered all over the yard and we never had a problem with them from then on!
We had a problem with them in Milford in our garage and basement, but after setting some traps and deporting them, then filling every hole with great stuff (and it really is) we haven't had a problem since! We had to do the work this time, because Rune - the cat, is not a mouser!
Good Luck!
what did you fill the holes with? I'd love to find something that actually works.
It actually is called "Great Stuff" and you can find it at any home depot/lowes type store. it is spray foam (about the same size as a spray paint can) that expands and then hardens like a rock. you can even sand it if you want to..
Too funny - my dad was just telling be about that stuff about 10 minutes ago - I'll be making a trip to the store this weekend! THanks for the tip!
Awww...
you should've just used humane traps instead of killing little mice and sending them off to heaven!!! I found a family of mice in my garage let go a few of them and kept two little ones. These ones that I kept weren't diseased or anything and now they are doing just fine in a 10 gallon aquarium! Most people should use humane traps and let the mice go in a ditch or some place safe where the mice can roam around instead of being killed and sent to heaven.
Awww...
you should've just used humane traps instead of killing little mice and sending them off to heaven!!! I found a family of mice in my garage let go a few of them and kept two little ones. These ones that I kept weren't diseased or anything and now they are doing just fine in a 10 gallon aquarium! Most people should use humane traps and let the mice go in a ditch or some place safe where the mice can roam around instead of being killed and sent to heaven.
Awww...
you should've just used humane traps instead of killing little mice and sending them off to heaven!!! I found a family of mice in my garage let go a few of them and kept two little ones. These ones that I kept weren't diseased or anything and now they are doing just fine in a 10 gallon aquarium! Most people should use humane traps and let the mice go in a ditch or some place safe where the mice can roam around instead of being killed and sent to heaven.
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