Prevention Options
Here is the most important thought for you to remember: Mice need to be prevented from entering your home. You can trap the rodent population in your home, but if you leave the door open, so to say, you will always have a rodent pest control problem.
Any crack that they can force their skull through, they can wiggle through. They can force a fat chubby body through the smallest of cracks, if the environment is temperate, has good humidity levels, always has food, water, and nesting areas, you have an open mouse house.
You should employ the methods of herding your existing mouse population to the area where you are trapping, with an effective electronic trap, and then, follow these methods of preventing new mice from arriving at your home.
Silicon Caulk
Silicon chalk can be your best friend! If you have a really drafty home, you are welcoming mice by its open crevices and cracks. Find all openings by attacking one side at a time, looking from the bottom to the top of your home.
Plumbing and Holes
Be sure to have your plumbing access points reviewed and inspected inside your home. There are wire rings you can buy at any hardware store, that can block pipe fittings in cabinets, bathrooms, and other access points. Silicon chalk all other areas.
Mint
Mint, spearmint, peppermint are great herbs that rodents hate! You can plant them on the outside of your home, and grow them inside in decorative pots. The leaves can then be dried out to form a pest sachet in your mousey habitat.
Cork
Mouse habits will be inclined to chew, and chew and chew. Give your home’s wood structure a break, and give them some cork. Go treat yourself to some great wine, and save the corks. You deserve it!
Then, use the corks as a special treat near the mice nesting areas, and they will eat them eagerly. Unfortunately, this is not the happiest idea, as you are not trapping the mouse, and when it dies from the obstruction in its belly, the after effects will not be pleasant.
For this reason, this is a great solution for outside of your home. You soak the corks in bacon, beef or pork fat, slice up the corks, and then leave them in a box or tuna bowl. Bon Appetit!
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Mouse Prevention
Choices you make at home can really be inviting to Mice! If you have ground cover near your home, you are sending out an open invitation!
Your Shrubs and Landscaping Choices can really make a difference how Mice like or hate your home. If they see lots of low, creeping and dense bushes and plants, they will love your home!
Mice hate strong smells, and will evacuate any chemical or intense smelling areas. Your old fashioned cologne will not work, however.
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Feed the Birds, Not the Mice
Feed the Birds: Not the Mice
Mice are going to grow only if the food is growing with their family, so keep this in mind when filling your bird feeders. If you have a series of feeders that spill bird food, and are constantly being attacked by squirrels, you are going to be feeding mice as well.
A great way to ensure you are only feeding the birds, is be sure you have good quality bird feeders. It is better to have one long metal feeder, like a Droll Yankee Feeder, which restricts squirrels from using the feeder.
A base food capture plate, and a squirrel dome top, will be a good way to stop the squirrels from attacking the top of your bird feeder, and keep the food from dropping to the ground.
When the bird food is in the feeder, and is eaten almost entirely by the birds, you should have a very thin mouse population, and they will go elsewhere.
Is that the point? Of course it is!
Another great idea is to ensure that you keep your excess bird food outside of your home and garage, not in plastic containers or plastic garbage containers, but old-fashioned metal tins with tight fitting lids.
All metal containers and bird food should be stored away from your home, and in the yard near your feeders. If you have a metal container, it will confound the mice, and squirrels, but, your food will be safe and sound. As well, if you keep bird food in areas where it is warm, you may allow some of your bird food to develop worms, and then you get moths.
Ewww…..
Just another reason to keep your bird food outside, in cooler areas of your yard, and away from your kitchen and home.
You do not have to stop feeding the birds, but, it is a good idea to use good feeders, and keep the food in the bird’s beaks, not in the nests of your local mice.
Let them find another bird feeder to eat from, and be sure to read more about Mice. Learning about how they think, and what works to stop them from entering your home is a great way to stop mice. That really is the best mouse trap around!
If you have the tricks of keeping them out, you are ahead of the game!
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