re: What repels mice

[Guest guest]

Thanks to Cindy, Starr, Kahfess, John, J for all your suggestions. I will

definitely try the candy idea and the peppermint EO.

 

I have nothing against mice, per se. I raised pet mice when I was a child and

found them to be sweet, adorable creatures. However, I'm afraid of wild mice

running around my house as they may harbor hantavirus, plus it's a tremendous

nuisance to clean up after them, and there's always the worry that they will

destroy wiring and cables and furniture and such. So, they have to go. They

belong outside.

 

I don't like to kill them. It goes against my nature, it goes against all the

effort I put into rescuing animals, it offends my Vegan son. I will be ecstatic

if peppermint will drive them away. And peppermint smells so much better than

those nasty glue traps which are impregnated with a blend of peanut butter and

mouse urine odors (an abhorrent combination, surely, to anyone but a mouse? Even

to them, possibly, as I have yet to catch any). When my husband comes home from

his business trip I'd much prefer him to walk into a minty-fresh home than the

one I'm currently enduring!

 

Thank you all again, and wish me luck )

jaime,CA

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I don't like to kill them. It goes against my nature, it goes against all

the effort I put into rescuing animals, it offends my Vegan son.

 

[Dave:] Please let us know if the peppermint works. This is a tip to file

away if it works! I don’t like to kill them either, but lest you are

tempted to go the trap-and-release route, you should know that mice are very

territorial, and will come right back if you simply carry them outside and

let them go. They will travel up to a mile to their home territory.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I'll test the mint too

 

It is coming Springtime here in Brasil (happy Spring/Autumn for you) and rats

and mice are going to look for places to make nests. I'm going to impregnate my

house with mint.

We loved the idea. I hate to kill these bichos with a trap and poison them is

so horrid, and I hate the idea of having them around.

Thanks a lot and let us try.

Ane*

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Thanks, Dave. I will let you know how the peppermint works. So far, things are

looking up. I put my kitchen in " mint condition " yesterday. There was no

evidence of mice in the pantry or elsewhere in the kitchen when I got up this

morning. So far, so good.

 

I also have them in the yard. It's a huge yard, naturalistic in style, in a

semi-rural environment. IOW, it's mouse heaven with open fields nearby, lots of

wild grasses and hiding places...we've seldom had rodent problems inside and

even then they were taken care of fairly easily. Mostly, we and they have

coexisted peacefully for 14 years. However, there is a great deal of new home

construction going on in the vicinity and that is stirring up the rodent

populations. (It's stirring up the human populations, too, but that's another

story). It's going to be very hard keeping the mice away from the house when

they're being chased out of their natural burrows across the way.

 

To make matters worse, I now have rats in the garage (

 

jaime,CA

 

 

[Guest guest]

, " Brian Jacobs " <jacobs.fam

wrote:

>

> Thanks to Cindy, Starr, Kahfess, John, J for all your suggestions. I

will definitely try the candy idea and the peppermint EO.

>

> I have nothing against mice, per se. I raised pet mice when I was a

child

> jaime,CA

I Keep an organic household myself. Drives my pristine neighbors

crazy, because I have Dandelions in the spring, (My daughter thinks,

as do I, that they make a great necklace). Regarding mice....Get A

Cat. Now your working on a primal level, but heh, Toulouse, our cat,

has been fighting the good fight for us for 10 years. I have also

conditioned him to do only mice, and moles. We have tons of birds,

Toulouse knows if he goes after one of those ther will be no treats.

He also leaves the chipmunks alone because well one of them could be a

relative of Chip or Dale's, and we can't have that.

For the moles, I do use hair from our brushes soaked in Beer, works

for me. On particularly bad years I go to my friends at Gardens

Alive, an all organic gardeners helper. I use alot of their products,

and have been happy with them. they to recommend natural predators

for infestations of all kinds. they have a web site. Hope it's ok to

post Gardensalive.com or google them

 

Here's to the weekend,

Lynn

[Guest guest]

Regarding mice....Get A

Cat.

 

[Dave:] Can’t beat ‘em. There may be valid reasons for not having one, but

if you can, there is no better solution on God’s earth to the mouse problem.

It’s organic, too.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Yeah, but then ya gotta feed them, or spay or neuter them otherwise ya

may contribute to the overpopulation of other little kitties!! We

had a rat in our tack room and had tried rat traps as well. I suggested

the cat as well, but then realized it was probably more costly in the

long run! But, then my DH saw him in there one day and found another way

on how to dispose of the rat! No more rat!! I heard on another

list that lavender was a good deterrent. But when the lavender scent

went away the varmints came back.

 

HTH,

 

Nikie Brown

After The Rayne - Handmade Soaps & Bath Products

http://www.aftertherayne.com

nbrown

936-203-3188

 

 

 

 

On Behalf Of David Lambert

Friday, September 22, 2006 10:06 PM

 

RE: Re: What repels mice

 

 

Regarding mice....Get A

Cat.

 

[Dave:] Can't beat 'em. There may be valid reasons for not having one,

but if you can, there is no better solution on God's earth to the mouse

problem. It's organic, too.

[Guest guest]

Actually, I have three cats.

 

jaime,CA

 

 

[Guest guest]

our cats are going on 9 years old and we have never bought cat food only put

food out for them in the mornings - a hungry cat will catch mice but a cat who

knows he has a full food bowl will rarely catch a mouse. We live out in the

country, last house on a dead end dirt road in an old farm house (nearly 200

years old) surrounded by fields and every fall when the crops are harvested, the

mice are left homeless and move in with us. Our cats spend equal amount of time

inside and outside and if there isn't a mouse/love offering outside the door

most mornings, look where you step because if there isn't one outside, there

will be at least 1 inside - usually on the floor in front of the coffee maker.

Guess they know us well - we may not notice a dead mouse laying in front of the

back door or the basement door but we sure notice them in front of the coffee

maker ! DH now knows to turn on the kitchen light before venturing into the room

after finding a love offering with his bare feet. We get half of their catch -

they'll eat 1 and bring us another 1. Once we ooh and aah and tell the cats what

good boys they are and fuss over them a bit, they carry off the offering and eat

it. The soy beans out here are about ready to harvested so the number of our

love offerings should increase to at least 2 a day for a month or 2, and then

increase again after the first big snow fall

Paula .......... in Michigan

I used to have super powers but my therapist took them away

 

Yeah, but then ya gotta feed them, or spay or neuter them ...............

 

 

[Guest guest]

, " Nikie Brown " <nbrown wrote:

>

> Yeah, but then ya gotta feed them, or spay or neuter them otherwise ya

> may contribute to the overpopulation of other little kitties!! We

> had a rat in our tack room and had tried rat traps as well. I suggested

> the cat as well, but then realized it was probably more costly in the

> long run! But, then my DH saw him in there one day and found another way

> on how to dispose of the rat! No more rat!! I heard on another

> list that lavender was a good deterrent. But when the lavender scent

> went away the varmints came back.

 

 

>

> Regarding mice....Get A

> Cat.

>

> [Dave:] Can't beat 'em. There may be valid reasons for not having one,

> but if you can, there is no better solution on God's earth to the mouse

> problem. It's organic, too.

 

 

Your right animals are expensive, but for me, they are so much more

than varmint catchers, soothe me soothe my kids in times of stress.

Unconditional love is a wonderful thing! Worth every penny,( OK not

at 4:20 in the morning when they got to go out) and yes they got to be

spayed or neutered! All my pets are rescued boys and girls, well

right now they're all boys. Speaking of health care costs, whew a

visit to the vet for shots is killer, but you can go to, (hurts to say

it) big chains like Pets Mart, Petco, and get shots, and flea worm

preventative at about 1/3 the cost of a vet.