the owner of the shop said that as soon as the mice smell the kitten the will run away from the house. as the owner said the mice did go and problem was then solved, as the kitten got older we started letting it outdoors for a few months and letting it in for feeding and SOME nights, but now the mice problem has hit back home, we have brought the kitten back in, from past experiences or known Knowledge are the mice going to run away from the house again??
or is they anything else i can do to make the mice go (without harming my kitten?
2007-02-26 06:47:17 · 9 answers · asked by Mikey 2 in Pets ➔ Cats
A few years back, we had problems with mice. They would come into my repair shop, mostly in the fall, and get into our filing cabnets, or other paperwork, and make a big mess. It was not a good thing. We aquired a stray cat, (young but not a kitten), and a couple weeks later, someone sent us another stray. (Sickly). After nursing her back to health, and the two of them becoming a matched pair, our mouse problem has stopped. I feed my cats so they won't eat any mice, and get sick. Every once and awhile, one will bring me a dead mouse, uneaten, which is fine with me. The moral of this story, is we no longer have a mouse problem. I guess it might be the smell of the cats! At least I believe it will help you as it helped us. Good luck.
2007-02-26 07:19:46 · answer #1 · answered by megofish2day 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats are not always a sure cure to getting rid of mice. When I was a child my parents bought me a cat and the mice were gone immediately. Well, now I have 2 cats and have a house in the country and can't say I have a horrible problem with mice, but one night my husband and I were sitting in the living room when all of a sudden I saw a mouse run across the living room, right in front of the TV and on out to the back of the room. Neither cat even looked up. We finally got the mouse out of the house with a broom. So, cats, not always the answer. WE then had a problem in our basement. I had to call an exterminator who set some kind of bait traps, I guess they were filled with some kind of poison, and following that we found dead mice around the basement. Will it keep them away forever, doubt it, we are in the country, but if we keep up with the poison we will get rid of the mice. Ok, some people may say it's cruel, but I don't want mice in my house, and I don't want them stuck in those traps.
2007-02-26 07:45:23 · answer #2 · answered by lochmessy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont get a small kitten, their hunting skills are developed enough, Yes, with a mature cat in the house mice will stay away more
2007-02-26 06:57:34 · answer #3 · answered by Memeiko 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not necessarily true. I've had mice crawl on my sleeping cat...
If your cat is a good mouser, then bringing him in might be enough. You might also consider getting some live traps to catch them in. It's more humane than the standard, and you can release them somewhere away from your house (not your yard though, they'll go straight back to the house!)
2007-02-26 07:13:52 · answer #4 · answered by Souris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i could say commence them off small with a fish or 2 each and each. See how nicely they guard them and tell them that in the event that they take stable care of those then they could get a hamster or another little creature. Hamsters do no longer scent except you in no way sparkling their cages. I easily have 2 hamsters (so 2 cages) and that they are stable pets. They prepare accountability. My nephew is going to be 4 in March and he has cats at his mothers homestead and at my brothers homestead he has a canine, fish, turtle, frog, and he thinks the cat under the home is his although this is not any longer. He loves animals. we can't take him to the puppy keep without coming homestead with a clean puppy. *observe* Hamsters do chew- yet i've got in no way had one easily draw blood. you in basic terms could desire to earnings the hamsters believe by utilising keeping them gently and giving them treats and not squeezing them. i've got in basic terms been bit as quickly as in my existence and this is because of the fact I have been given scared and squeeze it....
2016-10-02 00:55:47 · answer #5 · answered by favaron 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL ... the smell of the cat will scare the mice away! that's great .. who's the owner of the shop? EINSTEIN?
2007-02-26 07:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by Reserved 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
OMG if that was true, smell of a cat wont scare them off at all, thats a lie. Mouse traps and poison, if a dog or cat in the house screw the poison.
Feeding or allowing them to eat dead mice, They carry diseases that will kill them or make them ill. just keep shots up to date and vet care
they may hide more with the cat around
2007-02-26 06:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
haha funny..... " as soon as the mice smell the kitten they will run away " . that's hilarious. lol.
2007-02-26 07:16:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try spreading mint oil/extract around where you see the mice most often, we had a mice problem and so we did this and apparently they don't like mint so they left for us. good luck
2007-02-26 06:56:10 · answer #9 · answered by katherine c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋