Whats the best way to keep rodents out uf the house?

Answer 1

See if you can discover where they are coming in; if this is a very old house or apartment, this will be hard. The most common are where pipes from meters, etc. come through the foundation, and under the floor if you don't have a basement. If you find holes, plug them with spray foam (from hardware store, it hardens into insulation) or caulking until they are tightly closed. Check lower floor windows and caulk. But, after that, keep in mind you will have to trap all that are already in attic, walls, and basement. And that may be quite a few, and they will breed and give birth to more mice very quickly. So get a lot of glue traps, which are already pre-baited, and set them where mice like to run, which is through lower cupboards, along walls, on stairways. Toss out your toaster, they've probably been in it, unless you always keep it in a tightly closed cupboard. If your cupboards don't close tightly, you should buy magnetic catches and make the ones with food mouse-proof. Buy plastic containers for everything, they can chew thru paper and cardboard easily. Toss out stuff that's been open, they're probably been in it. Look for the trails of mouse droppings and sanitize everything with Lysol or bleach. I'VE BEEN THERE! When you catch them in the sticky traps, you can grab the end where their tail is and drown them, trap and all, in a bucket of water. Unless you want to put on a heavy glove and release them outside. Yuck!

Answer 2

If you want a herbal way to get rid of rodents. Put some Oil of Peppermint on a cotton ball and put them where mice frequent. Rodents are allergic to peppermint so they won't come back. Just make sure you use Oil of Peppermint and not peppermint extract. You can find this at any health food store. My family has tried this and have yet to find any evidence of mice in the house for over a year. Good luck!!!!

Answer 3

#1. Clean the place up.
#2. Mouse traps (or rat traps if needed) baited with peanut butter. or get the glue traps.
#3. Do NOT use poisons! They can crawl into places you can not reach and die. Do you have any idea how bad a dead rotting rodent can smell? Repeating. do NOT use poisons!
#4 Check the traps at least once daily. (see #3) Empty or dispose of successful traps.

Answer 4

Cats will kill mice and such... but that won't keep them out of the house... because the cats will bring them in to play with.

For rats get an air-rifle.

Answer 5

Leave a massive lump off cheese in the garden, that'll keep them out of the house.

Answer 6

Cats
Don't leave food rubbish lying around - wrappings of meat, bones from roasts/barbecues
And get yourself a couple of humane mouse traps - these can be got from your local garden centre

Answer 7

I assume you are referring to mice, I use a poison I get from the local farmers Coop. It works like the stuff you get at your hardware or grocery store but is much stronger!

Answer 8

Remove trash or open food items that attract them, poison them, trap them, call an exterminator, get a cat, a black snake or a barn owl.

Answer 9

Tell them the party's over and call them a cab

Answer 10

pimp up one of those sony Aibo dogs with razor sharp teeth and some new programming. Do't try it with that dancig robot.. he's just gay.