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Posted by on March 20, 2007, 4:35 pm
I'm hoping someone can tell me a way to find out where mice are
getting in our house. The house was built just over a year ago and
about 2 months ago we've discovered mice. We keep trapping them (about
3-4 a night) but until I find where they come in, I'll be doing this
forever. I've gone around and foamed and/or stuffed steel wool in any
openings I could find. Thanks in advance for any help
Dave
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Posted by Notan on March 20, 2007, 4:59 pm
zands15@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm hoping someone can tell me a way to find out where mice are
> getting in our house. The house was built just over a year ago and
> about 2 months ago we've discovered mice. We keep trapping them (about
> 3-4 a night) but until I find where they come in, I'll be doing this
> forever. I've gone around and foamed and/or stuffed steel wool in any
> openings I could find. Thanks in advance for any help
Mice show up in our garage, the same way that socks disappear from our
clothes dryer.
If you come up with an explanation, please share it! <g>
--
Notan
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Posted by Bob Stanley - Handy Man on March 20, 2007, 6:38 pm
Gee Davy -
We have dealt with this very same problem in several houses.
Solutions we have found are:
1. Get an INDOOR cat. Outdoor cats lose their edge from the spoils of
war - birds, snakes, bugs, frogs, toads, voles, moles, & mice, whereas
indoor cats retain their blood thirst to kill anything that enters
their domain, especially Mickey and his friends.
2. Track the little buggers. If you live where it snows, it's easy.
Just go outside after a snowfall that has aged for a night, and look
for their tiny little feet prints. You may also have some success
with mud prints. This will provide at least a starting point of which
side of the house they are using as a door to your domicile.
3. Focus your attention near the sill-plate. Many times, they can
wedge themselves up under the cladding at this juncture.
4. Don't live like a human; clean up food scraps and keep mouse food
like birdseed out of your house. We had bird food in our basement one
winter, and soon had about 50 mice ... really, 50 mice!
4. Bless the weasel. Coax a weasel family to set up residence next to
yours. They love mice, in the carnivorous sense of the word, and can
fit through small openings to catch them. Fortunately, a weasel
showed up and occasionally made house calls to remove about 40 of
those 50 mice we had.
5. Invite Farley Mowat over for some boiled mice and beer.
Good luck, and good eatin'
- Bob Stanley, Handy Man
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Posted by Glenn on March 20, 2007, 9:21 pm
Years ago we had a inside cat. A mouse got in and I set some
plywood around it in the basement and dropped in the cat. The cat
got in one corner and the mouse in the farther corner, both scared
of the other. Not knowing of any other thing a cat is good for, I
decided cats are useless.
PS we haven't had a mouse for years, don't know why.
in message
> Gee Davy -
> We have dealt with this very same problem in several houses.
> Solutions we have found are:
> 1. Get an INDOOR cat. Outdoor cats lose their edge from the
> spoils of
> war - birds, snakes, bugs, frogs, toads, voles, moles, & mice,
> whereas
> indoor cats retain their blood thirst to kill anything that
> enters
> their domain, especially Mickey and his friends.
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Posted by MEEF on March 21, 2007, 10:27 am
>From my experience:
There are three ways to keep mice out:
1- Get a cat, Or
2- Remove Mice food, Or
3- Get a reppelent and spray it aound suspected enterances
Good luck
MEEF - Middle East Economic Engineering
www.eng-forum.com
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