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Post by reb on Feb 15, 2015 13:41:08 GMT -5
Hahaha and my dog made friends out of them. Used to sit there wagging at them while they ate, pooped and peed in his dog food bowl
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Post by lesaulerouge on Feb 15, 2015 13:51:39 GMT -5
Oh yea, I remember being stared at by our sad cat as we could hear things nibbling in his bowl In the kitchen!
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Post by dayeanu on Feb 17, 2015 2:13:24 GMT -5
We used to shoot them with a .22
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Post by Jannie on Feb 17, 2015 11:11:10 GMT -5
Mice hate the smell of mint. You can buy mint-scented black plastic garbage bags, cut them up and stuff wads into any wall openings. I roll the empty bags the long way and place them on the floor of my garage, along the exterior walls, to keep the critters out. I also use the mint scented bags for all my trash. The brand is "Mint-X'. They are about $6 US for 26 bags.
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Post by reb on Feb 17, 2015 11:16:01 GMT -5
Mice hate the smell of mint. You can buy mint-scented black plastic garbage bags, cut them up and stuff wads into any wall openings. I roll the empty bags the long way and place them on the floor of my garage, along the exterior walls, to keep the critters out. I also use the mint scented bags for all my trash. The brand is "Mint-X'. They are about $6 US for 26 bags. That was such an awesome suggestion Jannie, that I put it in HUGE RED LETTERS WHERE can people purchase these bags? And how often do they need changing when the mint wears off?
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Post by lesaulerouge on Feb 17, 2015 11:45:26 GMT -5
I used mint essential oil on cooton wool make up remover pads and put them in gaps. No idea if it worked tbh, but it smelled very nice!
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Post by Unswamping on Feb 18, 2015 19:36:32 GMT -5
Took my car in to get a new battery today and the mechanic found a lovely mouse nest in the engine. He removed it and cleaned it up. I may try some peppermint oil so it doesn't get any ideas about moving back in.
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Post by wynken on Feb 19, 2015 0:46:20 GMT -5
I've used pepper sprinkled when the mice / rat would run. The peppermint oil in excess gave me a headache, as did an excess of black pepper (irritated eyes as well ) but white pepper did the trick. The rat found a bin of water outside to drown in, and the mice just moved out. I was worried about poison and pets so decided against that. I've used snap traps as well.
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Post by ellie on Feb 21, 2015 22:26:02 GMT -5
eeeeuuuww. sympathy. empathy. whatever-athy. eeeuuww. me too. ugh.
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Post by flyonceiling on Feb 22, 2015 2:32:49 GMT -5
Hi everyone: Great suggestions, thank you!
I made two trips to Home Depot. On my first trip, I bought a few Tomcat "spin" traps (9-10 bucks for a pack of two). I liked the idea that the mouse would be contained after meeting its demise. I placed them in every corner of the kitchen. After a week, nothing happened, and the little bugger chewed the shoots from some tulip bulbs I had on the kitchen counter.
Game on, mouse.
I made a second trip to Home Depot today and bought numerous inexpensive Victor snap traps, about 5 bucks for a pack of four. I placed some on the floor, one under the sink, one in the stove drawer, and five of them on the counter near the wall. A few hours later, while I'm watching Saturday Night Live, I heard the tell-tale snap. One of the ones on the counter did the job. I've disposed of both trap and mouse, and baited a new trap on the counter, just in case.
Final score tonight: Flyonceiling - 1; Deadmau5 - 0
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Post by fluffychild on Feb 22, 2015 22:57:25 GMT -5
I used to catch them in live traps. I would put them in a padded shoe box and took them to work to release them in the parking lot. One day, I did that. The mouse didn't want to get out of the trap, so I kicked it and he ran across the parking lot. A seagull was flying overhead, zoomed down, grabbed the mouse and took him high in the air and dropped him. I saved his life so that he could be killed a different way.
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