Tips for keeping mice out?

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I was unloading the silverware from the dish washer and saw mouse poop in the drawer that I didn't see yesterday. Sick. All dirty and unusable now. Tips for keeping mice out?

We can set traps but that won't stop them from crawling on stuff until they die in a trap.

[Regina Philange]

The poison packs. They get rid of them instantly. Just be careful around your animals. Put them out at night when you can contain your animals to one area.

[dixeedeluxe]

We have so many mice. So many.

We can't do poison because we have small dogs. We do glue, but it seems that the mice have gotten wise. We haven't caught any this year.

[neverlosthope]

We had mice in our last rental house. It was disgusting and the home owners wouldn't do ANYTHING so now I am paranoid about getting mice again. If you can find where they are getting in you can cram steel wool in the holes and they won't come through anymore. Also we have poison packets anywhere a kid or the dog can't get to (like behind the fridge and under/ behind the stove). The poison packs worked really well.

[dixeedeluxe]

Remember when using poison you have to be vigilant about collecting dead mice. If they end up dying in the yard and a dog eats the dead mouse, it could be toxic to the dog.

[dixeedeluxe]

That's why we don't use it. I never clean the yard!

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I would worry about poison with the cats. They are inside only but I've seen mice run in the basement and that's where the liter box is. They've played with mice before. It's a house from 1969. So its older. I'm sure they come in many places, ugh.

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Anyone use those plug in pest repellers? I wonder if those are for mice.

[dixeedeluxe]

Jan 11, 2013 14:02:04 GMT -5 hoodyhoo said:

I would worry about poison with the cats. They are inside only but I've seen mice run in the basement and that's where the liter box is. They've played with mice before. It's a house from 1969. So its older. I'm sure they come in many places, ugh.

Yeah, I feel ya. Mine was built in 1950 and is on a crawlspace (no basement). So we are pretty much Hotel Mouse in these cold times.