EVERY time I start feeling safe...

[anghara]

...it happens like clockwork.

Bloody mice. HOW ARE THEY COMING INSIDE???

(And the worst part is that this one just kind of vaulted into the heater, which of course wasn't on, and *disappeared*. rdeck says blithely, oh, he must have escaped into the wall. WAITMINIT. You mean these heaters are open holes into my walls where mice can waltz in and out of as they please??? WAIL WHINE WAAH and all that!

Now I keep on watching shadows. Every shadow, everywhere. It isn't just downstairs any more... this one was up in the living room. Right where I watch TV every night.

Oh, just outstanding.

Anyone have any ideas on mice extermination...? (Don't tell rdeck, he's the kind that saves cocokroaches and puts them outside so that they can live out their little lives in peace...)

Comments

Oh dear

[medievalist.livejournal.com]

Look outside your house for even very small cracks where they can get in; especially around pipes, like for gas or water. Use the very very fine "000" steel wool you use for furniture refinishing and the like to stuff into cracks.

I hate to say, but even the humane methods aren't really.

Re: Oh dear

[anghara.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of past humane - I have two cats who have taken care of a number of the little blighters in the past, in a manner that was certainly not humane (or even human) - and I know that sooner or later anything that does come in will meet those claws anyway - it's just that I DON'T WANT THEM IN MY HOUSE (the mice, that is not the cats) and I thought that by now I had plugged in every orifice I can think of. But if there really is a hole into the wall behind the heater where I can't reach... well.. I"m screwed, then...

Re: Oh dear

[violsva]

I was going to suggest a cat (before my old cat moved down the street we kept finding halves of mice on the driveway), but if you've got two then that's about all you can do in that direction.

[eneit.livejournal.com]

I don't know how effective the plug in electronic devices are, a friend had one in her home during a mouse plague, and between that and her two cats there was no mice, but another friend on a farm found the exact same device to be useless.

Oh, the inhumanity

[miketo.livejournal.com]

Heh.

My wife's father is a softie; he does the catch-and-release routine with *rats* on his property. I explain to him that rats, mice, etc. are VERMIN. They carry parasites that caused the Black Plague, they destroy property, and are in no danger of dying out anytime soon and in fact will probably outlive us as a species.

Don't use poison; you don't want a critter climbing into your walls and dying there. It won't smell like teen spirit, I assure you. Cats and active, vigilant trapping procedures are the best. Next step up is a professional extermination service.