Has anyone tried one of these? I know Riddex makes one and it's supposed to be good for up to 1300+ sq. foot of building. I was wondering if they work and anyone's experience with them.
I am having mouse problems right now and am running a trapline because I don't like to put out poison for many reasons.
I am almost obsessed with getting rid of these little buggers. I am spending way too much time stratigizing on where to put traps, checking them, what bait to use.
My sweetie says, think Elmer Fudd with a mousetrap.
I never used to have this problem when our Austrailian Kelpie was alive. She was the best mouser I ever had.
Any ideas?

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Electronic repellents have been around for decades. They do not work.

Don't use poison, use traps. Go around the house and see if you can't find where they getting in. A lot of times, it's around the dryer vent. You can plug the gap with steel wool.

We have squirrel problems.

We tried them and they do not work at all.

Definitely check under your sink where the pipes are and you may find some spaces that *seem* too small for a mouse to get through, but they can nearly flatten themselves out and get through amazingly small spaces. Also check your where your dryer vent goes outsides. If you stuff those areas w/fine steel wool and also drop some cotton balls with a few drops of pure peppermint oil on em around areas where you've seen evidence of meeses, that oughta help.
We had a horrendous prob with mice for 3 years (due to dh dumping a load of semi burnt stove corn into our firepit out back! =8^O). Those nasty lil suckers darned near drove me nuts, I became like the guys in Mouse Hunt trying to vanquish them. Regular old fashioned snap type traps didn't work for us, the sticky ones did help. But the cats would occasionally get behind the washer and dryer and then run around the house w/a sticky trap cemented to a tail.
You know those plastic bread keepers that are shaped and sized like a loaf of bread? We bought them cuz the filthy lil vermin were making our bread drawer party central. And they *still* got the bread! We didn't realize there were tiny vent holes in the bottom of the box, about the size of a pencil eraser's circumference, and the ratzenfratzen rodents were able to squish through them.
Ugh! I hate, hate, hate wild mice.
Now I have nothing against pet mice or rats, but those field mice carry all sorts of nasty diseases like Lyme's and Hanta virus. Ick, ick, ick, ick.
We haven't see any of the lil tormentors for months now, so I am hopeful we finally have seen the worst of their invasion.
Good luck, you have my sympathy.

Mice love peanut butter. Try putting this in the traps or peanutbutter cups. I had a bag of these in my attic the first year I moved into this house and they ate them. I didnt know I had them. Just had the same problem again. I hate those meeses to pieces.

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I second the peppermint oil, just make sure it is ""100% natural peppermint oil. My mother has a really old house and wound up with an extreme infestation. I had heard about the pepperming oil on QVC and got some and put it in every nook and cranny of her house and they were gone in no time. I have no idea WHY it gets rid of them but it does. She had put out some of those glue traps with the hard plastic bases and some how they completely vanished. I looked in every drawer, under the beds in the back of cabinets, behind the fridge, they were just completely gone. The natural pepperming oil works and it isn't a poison you are putting into the environment.

I've used the electronic things before. They work for about a week. It was our experiance that during the first week that we were free and clear we had to find where they were coming from, and plug up those darn holes. Then we were good. Long term, then don't work. Our problem was squirrels, not mice.

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I have only had one mouse, but we got him with a sticky trap and I never want to use one of those again unless absolutely necessary. I'm not one to feel sorry for rodents, but he had been stuck to it all night long it appeared, and he had done everything he could to get away. It had been on a top shelf and DH found it on the floor, so at some point he went through freefall from seven feet high. He was still alive and had chewed the skin off of two of his legs and there was blood everywhere.

A snap trap that does the deed instantly would have been much more humane and wouldn't have left us with the responsibility of finishing him off with a baseball bat.

As of this morning my kill score is 4.
I have learned that, yes peanut butter is a favorite but for some reason, when my SO cooks bacon in the micro they seem to be more active. So they are now getting PB w/a crumb of bacon on top.
The trap under the sink and the one behind the micro get the most action while the one in the utility room doesn't seem to be bothered.
I did get out the caulk gun and make sure that there were no gap around the pipes but haven't pulled out the dryer yet to see about that.
I am going to stop by the local drug store and see if they have the peppermint oil.

Thanks for all the tips. I'm glad I didn't waste my money on the electronic gizmo.

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Cashchik - meeses can chew through caulk, that's why you need to use steel wool. Meeses can chew through darned neared anything!
Maybe you can mix some steel wool into your caulk?

Well, so much for that brillant idea.

Why do I feel like too much of my focus is spent trying to outwit fourlegged critters? I know as soon as I get this mouse thing under control I will be dealing with rabbits and ground squirrels in the garden. And then ants. (Do ants have four legs?)
Sometimes I feel like a general in the army in the war on pests. I should have my blackboard with my battle strategy chalked with little arrows and enemy troop locations and such.
Geez, even as I say that it kind of sounds like a good idea.

Thanks for the explaination of the steel wool.
Who would have thought the little boogers would be so well equipt?

And the battle rages on.

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I feel your pain, cashchik, I'm the same way.
Now that it *appears* we have the meeses extracted from our domicile (am not yet willing to jinx it by saying it's a sure thing) we're coming up on ant and rabbit season. Though, they are never the irritation to me that the meeses were. There's just something about those lil disease carriers that torques my jaw unreasonably.

If you can't figure out where they are coming from put out baby powder by where you find poop then you can follow the footsteps to where they are coming in and going out. Then you can seal it with either steel wool, that foamy stuff, or plug up the holes in a number of ways.

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