Can you smell mice?

Question

We just moved into a new place. We caught 3 mice in our garage last week. Since then, I've put all our food into tupperware, and the house is clean. We do not allow food in any place other than the kitchen. The other day, I could smell a very faint odor in the living room. It kind of smelled like a hampster cage. I checked under the couches and all, and found nothing. Well, tonight, I smelled it again, only this time in my sons bedroom. It was there for about an hour, and now it's gone. Could it be the mice or perhaps my paranoia?

Answer 1

I'm not sure about the smell, but to put your mind at rest... go to a hardware store or garden center and ask for cedar chips. Sprinlkle these around.... they will not stain your furniture. This will repel mice and roaches and fleas. I sprinkle these around our yard... no mice, and our pets have no fleas.

Answer 2

possible paranoia, but you're probably smelling feces. at night set up a large trap in the kitchen. fill a bucket 1/2 way with water, place a plank leading up to the bucket for the mice to climb. get a can with a string through it, and tie it across the bucket. smear peanut butter on the can. during the night, mice will attempt to leap for the PB, the can will spin and the mouse will fall in the water and drown. leave this out 1 night. if no mice go for it, then you are mouse free, and just need a good cleaning for feces. find a drowned mouse, and call the exterminator.

Answer 3

I know from my own experience of moving into a home that had been empty and had lots of mice at first. Yes, and it did smell like a hamster cage. But I've never been able to get a whiff of a smell here and there. Perhaps the smell is in the walls and you are only smelling it here and there. We put out lots of traps and scrubbed everything!

Answer 4

Mice and rats dribble constantly so, the smell if you can smell it would be the urine and that would be the ammonia smell, there would have to be quite a bit for a human to smell unless you have a good smeller. If you have an ultra violate light you can see the trail they use, always the same trail, this is how they move about using the smell of their urine and the ammonia smell. You can put traps in the urine path to catch them.

Answer 5

very well could be mice. I used to live in a old house, bout 90 some years old, and they lived in the walls, ceiling, etc. Mice are very small and can't get into unbelievable places. My suggestion, call an exterminator

Answer 6

Well...-Some people say they can "smell fear" -so maybe you ARE alittle paranoid! :) ...But you know what you can do; cats CAN smell mice. -So see if you can borrow a neighbor's cat for a week & let it have the run of the house. Barring THAT, you can always adopt a kitten of your own to go with your new place... Good luck!

Answer 7

of direction that's interior the wall. while it dries out it is going to provide up smelling. it would additionally be a rat, jusging with the help of ways undesirable that's. All you're able to do is open the residing house windows and in all possibility seal off the room.

Answer 8

When mice, rats or other rodents, make themselves a nesting area, they urinate and pass faeces, both as bodily functions and a territorial marking.
The odour is natural ammonia, that you can smell.
There are many different methods, that you can use to catch, trap or kill the mice. Speak to your local hardware store.

Answer 9

I think you can only smell mice if you're a cat !

Answer 10

yes any one with a keen sense of smell can do this in a humid room.when the weather is damp some people can smell squirrels and deer.I can.