Find mice, drive them away and do not come back
Mice should not be underestimated, where there is one can also be a nest: they should be sought, found, chased and not returned.
When winter comes, rodents seek warmth and find their way into our garages and cellars. We found out a week ago that we have mice in the garage and found a small hole in the curtain wall to the house. There was a bit of mouse feces.
Unfortunately, we did not react directly, but waited a few days: we are probably field mice and they are not so bad and it's just a bit of feces, that will be a little mouse. But I searched and read everything I could find to know my opponent better.
Three days later, we already heard it scratching the wall and the next morning the mouse was sitting in the kitchen, on the worktop. When she tries to catch her, she escapes, into the storeroom and into a hole where the heating pipes come out of the ground.
So:
Garage cleared, especially all cardboard boxes out and open> because the first mice came out and in the last box was the nest with 10 mice and they all ran away.
You have stuffed animals, shoes, plastic bags, polystyrene boards, cardboard boxes,? gnawed, torn, lived in her own pee and Kaka - disgusting. To prevent them from running in or hiding, we barricaded their way with a 40 cm high board. Even if they climb well, they take the free path in stress.
So the question remained, which and how many still live in the wall?
In our storage room, we found the hole in the mouse had disappeared from the kitchen. So we cleared the rake, cleared the floor, set traps and glued a brush strip to the door> so the mouse that was still in the wall could only get out through the wall and the hole in the garage.
In the garage, I put a live trap right in front of the hole, so that she had to almost pure> then I know at least that I have it. I put a piece of cheese and ground hazelnuts in the trap.
We cleaned and disinfected everything in the garage and in the house, sealed food in plastic containers so that no alternative food could be found anymore> otherwise they will not handle the traps.
Then we set up traps:
- Schnappfallen with all sorts of things in there (everyone says something different anyway): the trap must be placed with the food side to the wall in the path.
- And an alternative live trap: cutting open a plastic bottle, putting the bait down on the floor and accessing the mouse. If she is in the bottle, she can not get out (even with a high bucket).
- We stuffed all the openings and the smallest holes with steel wool> they can not digest them and I imagine, the steel wool pokes in my nose.
- In the house we have connected an ultrasound device> it means mice are listening at a very high frequency; No idea if that helps, but it calms the conscience.
- On the stairs to the bedrooms we have distributed cotton balls with eucalyptus> It is said that mice do not smell like that and I imagine, then they do not run up the stairs.
- At night I heard the mouse in the storeroom, but since she did not find anything there, she probably walked straight into the garage and there she was trapped.
- Since then, it's quiet, but you should stop them from coming back, so we're going to winterize the house (mice looking for warmth in October)
- All filled with steel wool holes are plastered, the wool stays in it
- The garage door hermetically sealed: fill any cracks with steel wool, or close with metal mesh
- Raise the traps strategically again
- Close all potential food items, clothes, shoes etc. in storage boxes (metal suitcases or plastic boxes with lids
- I also try to keep them away with eucalyptus> that may not really help, but it does not hurt and smells good, with many forums talking about it.
- Then we will plant another elderberry bush, pull the juice out of the leaves and distribute it around the house.> It is said that they do not like it, should also apply to the garden (this tip can also be found more often).
- Of course cats work well, the smell scares the mice off, but not always, and then the cat has to chase them too?
The most important rules are:
- Not to underestimate the animals> multiply the potential in rough amounts, where one is, are often very many; they are disgustingly filthy and carry all sorts of pathogens (wear gloves, if not a mask); they are intelligent and have their code system, learn quickly and fit through the smallest cracks (1 cm)
- You have to stress them and make their habitat uncomfortable: strong smells like eucalyptus, cleaning, disinfecting, removing crumbs and dust, putting away their hiding places, clearing potential nesting places, clearing the ground, blocking access to food, setting up ultrasound equipment (does not go through walls) ), it is said that they do not like draft, cut the holes with steel wool, and get rid of alternative food, or there will be no mouse on a trap.
- I do not know how the poison traps work, the mouse must not find any other food for it to go to it and then you do not know if they decompose odorless or just yet everything. We've designed the poison traps at the end when all the holes are closed and no mouse can rot in the wall.
P.S. Our mice are forest mice.
