How To Get Rid Of Mice From Your Home
Hi everyone, this is my first post but wanted to tell you how we managed to get rid of Mice.
I first noticed we had a mouse problem when laying in bed one night and I heard a scurrying sound in the Attic.
A few days later I saw a brown mouse dart across the kitchen floor and under the washing machine.
Mice carry dangerous diseases which can be potentially deadly to us. On top of that they cover everything in their urine and other bodily matter and make your home smell terrible.
I knew I had to do something about it and bought a load of classic mouse snap traps and some poison bait. For the next few days I kept coming down to find the bait from the traps gone and the poison bait too.
I thought something must be working if the Mouse was eating the bait. Then it all went quiet for a few days. I guessed the mouse had died and I'd find it in some corner at some stage.
However, a couple of weeks later, I found a dead baby mouse near one of the traps. I was horrified as the mice had been breeding.
The next night, we were in our Lounge when we heard a horrendous sound from the ceiling above our heads, there were several of them running around in the space between the ceiling and the upstairs floorboards. I knew we had to do something and started to read up on how to get rid of them.
Mice can get through a gap the width of a pencil , so all holes need to be filled and plugged with steel wire pads and/or filler. In our case I found where they were getting in quite quickly. I went out into the Garden to look and straight away noticed a horrendous sight- they had chewed their way through our solid mahogany patio doors which is four inches thick! I quickly plugged the hole and also scattered cotton wool balls which had been soaked in peppermint Oil around the area too , as mice detest the smell.
Anyway, we tried various traps and baits, the humane ones and the type that look like a big block of cheese, nothing worked and the mouse sightings were becoming more frequent.
Eventually we found a product called Victor Electronic Mousetrap. It was more expensive than anything else (about $40), but we were desperate.
When it arrived, I set the trap which was easy to do. Just put four batteries in, throw a piece of chocolate biscuit into the big 10 inch tunnel like structure and the idea was when the mouse runs in it gets Zapped by 8000 volts. It flashes and sounds a buzzer when something is caught.
By this stage, I was thinking nothing would work. A few minutes later my Wife said " you better go see to that trap thing of yours-it's obviously faulty."
I went into the kitchen thinking maybe I'd put the batteries in the wrong way around. I examined the trap and there was a dead mouse in there. I was both amazed and elated we'd found something that had worked so effectively.
I reset the trap and literally 30 minutes later it'd caught another mouse. In the next few weeks it'd caught over twenty mice in total. We were horrified at the extent of our mouse infestation.
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