Is there anything you can wash cupboards out with to deter mice.Please help me.?

Answer 1

I would imagine there are deterrents and traps, but why not try to solve the problem in another way. Keep all your edibles in your refrigerator and in plastic bags or plastic containers that mice can't eat thru. Ziplock has some great zip bags that come in several sizes. Also don't leave crumbs of anything around, i.e. clean up after each meal and wash dishes after every meal. If the mice are still around find out what else could be attracting them. I don't know if you have children or pets who could get into any mouse bait you would put out...so I can't suggest anything else.

Once I found mice in my storage locker and what was attracting them was the smell of spices that I forgot to bring into the house.

Answer 2

There are some homemade mouse repellents described here, as well as a homemade live trap:
http://www.helpinganimals.com/wildlife_livingWithMice.asp

I've had great success with this live trap in my house:

http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266

It’s also available for $2 cheaper here (although I prefer to buy it from the other place since I’m not a big fan of PETA):

https://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=HP200

I've caught over a dozen mice with it so far and it can be used over and over indefinitely.

If you do live trap mice, please be sure to check the traps several times a day and release the mice promptly, approximately a mile away from your home. It is much more cruel to allow a mouse in a live trap to slowly starve to death than to kill it quickly with a snap trap. When you release the mice, do it in an area with some sheltering bushes or plants. If you are a kind person, you might also leave a little bird seed or oatmeal for them, along with some shredded paper towel for bedding.

The absolute cruelest traps are glue traps. Mice have been known to gnaw off their own limbs and tear off their skin in an effort to escape, as they starve or dehydrate to death or suffocate in the glue. It can take three to five days for them to die. Poison isn't any better, as the mice die slowly and painfully from internal bleeding. It can take up to a week for them to die, and then they smell as they rot behind your walls.

It doesn't take much extra effort to be kind. You will feel better and so will the mice! Good luck!

Answer 3

Is there a reason why you don't or can't kill them instead of deterring them???

Set lots of traps, spring traps, glue traps, get a cat... just get rid of the mice!

Here's what I did to get rid of a rat. Set a small pile of dog food in the middle of the floor. turn off the lights but have a flashlight shining on the dog food (so you can see). Wait for the mouse and shoot him with a BB gun.

This is actually pretty effective and fulfills my need to hunt!

Answer 4

cat pee is about the only thing I can think of. Put all your boxed and packaged food in plastic boxes and they will stay out of the cupboards. No food, no mice!