|
|
Post by limegreen on Nov 20, 2008 11:04:22 GMT -5
Update:
The thing arrived, it's been plugged in in the utility room and although it will take a while to have an effect on the mice, and the mousy smell, I have seen no beetles, or their friends with too many legs, in the utility or the master bedroom which is right off it.
This would be because the $%^& things have decamped to the kitchen! I caught and killed eleven of them yesterday, from a usual count of about two. Fortunately they are as dumb as rocks and move only moderately fast, so are quite easily caught and squished by hand, but still eeeeewwww!
Maybe I need anothter ultrasonic unit for the kitchen, or some beetle traps. Or both. Or maybe I should man up and pull off the baseboards and nuke the little buggers with the approriate chemical. I do need to deter as well as kill though as these Victorian houses are full of nooks and crannies and all interconnected.
|
|
hopehope
Banned
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 3,815 
|
Post by hopehope on Nov 20, 2008 22:59:10 GMT -5
blocks of green poison. here, they're called "tomcat" -- blocks so they don't spill -- and I just bag them individually in cheap clear plastic bags which I tie, and then distribute.
Mouse will eat through that no problem and I never have to touch the poison. There are dead mouse bodies (ick) but they dry up eventually and then you bag and remove. ick. there's no way around ick. I'm told to block their entryways with steel wool. Good luck on that. Also contemplated used cat litter-- the smell of cat pee should discourage them (as would it not to you?)
Mouse, one wonders about your karma with cat pee. Under the circumstances...
|
|
|
|
Post by insomnikitty on Nov 30, 2008 15:17:03 GMT -5
The high pitched sound to repel teens is the Mosquito. They have placed it in locations where young people tend to loiter, and it has worked well. Apparently older people (generally around 20 and up) no longer hear that high pitch. I'm in my thirties and I can hear that tone  One thing I wondered about regarding these things: does anyone have any firsthand knowledge whether or not these devices annoy or even harm cats, dogs, or fish? |
|
|
|
Post by mellowyellow on Nov 30, 2008 18:45:21 GMT -5
Oh no... you can hear it??? That just shows you are young in spirit. Or have hearing that is NOT deteriorating at the normal rate. Yay for you!!!  As for pets... Yep, I would be cautious with that... I wouldn't want to give my cats the kitty version of a migraine. Fortunately, now that I have 2 brave cats (and one cowardly one), I have not seen any mice in the attic or scratching behind the basement wall. When I moved to my house, I had to learn really quick not to get squeamish while trapping mice. The former owner had been in a nursing home for years, so with a relatively abandoned house, the mice had a "mouse heaven" going on, between the walls. They still try to show up in the attic and garage, come the winter colds. |
|
|
|
Post by limegreen on Dec 1, 2008 3:46:24 GMT -5
I don't have pets and neither do my neighbours above or below, I'm not sure about through the wall, but I doubt it, as that flat is a rental. But yes, it does annoy pets of the small rodenty variety, it says it's fine with cats and dogs, but I wouldn't be so sure about using it if I did have a cat.
No danger of me hearing it, or that kid-repelling mosquito, I've a moderate hearing loss, and can't hear the microwave timer, or the telephone unless I'm in the same room. DD is already pormising me that I will be getting hearing aids if she has to buy them herself as she is not going to yell herself hoarse the older I get.
|
|
