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Rent-a-cat.I really miss having a cat. We have an empty lot behind us, full of trees and brush, but we never knew it was also full of mice until our oldest daughter developed an allergy to catsWhile our Basset Hound was alive, she kept the mice away from the house (after Calvin the cat passed away and we couldn't have another cat), but ever since we've been fighting an uphill battle. No idea where they are getting in, but every fall and spring since Daisy died we've been fighting the Great Mouse War. Lulu and Louie apparently don't bother the mice at all (I smell payola ;D).
I have 3, and could let you have any of them short or long term, although only 2 are mousers. The other one thinks she's a dog.
Not at my house......no sir!Yup, (and looking back... it's Garter, not Gartner, although that's how I've been saying it since I was a little kid). Not poisonous, but the suckers do like to bite your fingers and won't let go.
Best mole control there is.
Just when I was beginning to think you're ok, you go and get all sentimental about spiders......
Spiders help to keep the nasty insects in check, chika. I've had several family members get Lyme Disease, including my daughter. SPIDERS RULE!
skimom2 - go to a health food store and purchase essential oil of peppermint. Not the grocery store baking type. Put several drops to cotton balls and stuff wherever you see them, and any place you put the steel wool. I had mice that chewed through the steel wool. The essential oil is a smell they can not stand. You can use outside around the house ( but raise tend to wash it away). Added benefit, your home smells of peppermint. Good luck.
I love spiders, but have a severe phobia of all other creepy crawlies. My daughter is the opposite: extreme fear of spiders, but fine with all other bugs/worms. We help each other out.
I'll try it! I'm not a fan of using poisons, but we have used them in desperation. Traps, too. If I can discourage mice from entering at all, I'd far prefer that.
Garter snakes are great for mice control, too.
But then I'd have to get a new husbandGarter snakes are great for mice control, too.
It took 25 years to get this one just so--I don't have the patience to do it again (lol)
Garter snakes are great for mice control, too.
You'll love this:
Once upon a time my wife and I put our house in Florida up for sale and one of the prospective buyers -- a Navy man who would be coming from San Diego -- happened to notice that things like bugs and lizards do very well in Florida. I could hardly deny it, as the Palmetto bugs are roughly the size of Volkswagens around Pensacola, and my fence was wall-to-wall with geckos happily sunning themselves the way they do.
It was at this point in the visit that the guy's wife piped up and said: "Oh, I don't mind the bugs so much, so long as there are no mice."
Thinking quickly, I said: "You don't have to worry about mice at all, ma'am. Snakes eat 'em."
That was the first (although hardly the last) time my wife ever tried to kill me by simply looking at me.
Needless to say, we did not see that couple again.
I am many things, and have been called many more, but none of those is a salesman.
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don't know how or why it might work, and maybe another has already answered, but some people use...whirly-gigs...things that move with the wind? plant them in the ground where the moles are active, the wind turns the thingy, and perhaps the vibration? is enough to drive the moles elsewhere?
Spiders help to keep the nasty insects in check, chika. I've had several family members get Lyme Disease, including my daughter. SPIDERS RULE!
I have two very real phobias......one of them is spiders. I can't even look at a photo of one without getting the fraidy chills......
Sounds like a fun way to scare off a few moles.
Now, I only need to find someone who can make me a couple of them whirly gigs.......
I've seen people use the kind you can buy in almost any department store...small and plastic, sometime in a flower design.
or something a tad more pricey:
There are mole traps, but they skewer them when they go in and you have to take the dead mole out.....
But then I'd have to get a new husband
My daughter, the one heading off to college next week, has this mouse.
What's your other phobia?
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