i have mice in the pantry,but can't afford pest control.What can i do?

Answer 1

I had mice before and use the electronic pest repeller from Wal-Mart. Worked great when nothing else would. Safe for pets but eliminates the rodents.

Answer 2

First I would clean out your pantry completely to see if there are open packages that the mice could have been eatting. I then would set mouse traps with peanut butter on the trap. Plug all the holes that you come across with a piece of board as mice can chew their way bearly through everything! They also have special things that work @ your hardware stores so check their and don`t be afraid to ask the clerk what he thinks what would work!!! Good Luck to you!

Answer 3

In a pantry do not use poisons around food, traps are much better.

Go out and buy a couple of packages of mouse traps and set them up baited but not set. Do this where you have noticed the mice. The mice will get used to there being food on the unset (safe to them) traps and will start going to them to eat. After 4 to 5 days start setting the baited traps and you should catch/kill most/all of the mice.

The second thing is to look where they are getting in your kitchen. You should find small holes usually along baseboards or in your cabinets somewhere. Block off those holes.

Finally, make sure you have NO FOOD available. Make sure your cereals, bread, crackers, grains (flour, rice, etc), pasta, etc are stored in heavy plastic or glass containers. Make sure all cabinets and surfaces are clean/wiped down at least daily

Answer 4

find their entrances. if you can get a pencil into a hole a mouse will squeeze through. Block all the holes with cement.

put every packet into a plastic or tin box

clear up the crumbs which attracted the mice in the first place

get a couple of humane mousetraps, these just catch the mice inside without killing them. release the mice outside, as far away as possible. don't try to poison them, what happens is that they crawl away somewhere inaccessible to die and stink for weeks afterwards to remind you that you killed them!

oh, another way to catch a mouse is to put a big paper bag beside the wall and chase the mouse all around the room until they hide in the bag. It WORKS. I've done this many times, when one of the cats was bringing in mice.

Answer 5

Clean out your pantry thoroughly and sanitize with bleach/water mix.One part water,two parts bleach.Use a mask and rubber gloves as some mouse droppings are very bad for your health,especially from deer mice.
Anything they have been into,toss out.Put the rest of your things into air tight plastic containers.Shoud always use containers anyway for storage.
There's a product called Warfarin which is very good and not expensive.It's a rat poison but works very well for mice.I was advised by my local hardware store to use this product when I had a mobile summer home as I would get "little visitors" every spring.Every fall when I closed up,I would leave the Warfarin set out and never had mice again.There is no odor left behind if they happen to die in your pantry.They dry up and leave no odor behind.I was fortunate and never found any dead ones.They ate the Warfarin and left,I guess.
I'm a firm believer in this product and used it for years.
Good Luck.

Answer 6

Clean up any loose food. Put things in plastic containers. Use traps. Also try to identify and repair places that are allowing them to get into the house. Places like the water pipes under the sink are suspect. You have to remove the food source as best you can and the entry points. You can win the battle but it is sometimes difficult.

Answer 7

I guess you'll just have to afford letting the house collapse around your ears after the mice chew through the walls.

Can't you control the mice using traps, or a cat, or something of that nature?

Answer 8

A good place to set traps and poison is under the refrigerator. They are attracted to the water in the condensate tray. Pets can't get at it and it's not as gross as finding one dead next to the cereal box in the morning - gag - just ruins my whole day!!! RScott

Answer 9

Get a cat that has lived on the street, and is hungry. People have relied on cats for pest control for centuries! And, the cats don't charge you money. My cat would think it was great fun and could present it to me as a gift. (That's the down-side.)

Answer 10

mouse traps or something from your local store. ask them for the best mice control they have. the more u pay the better quality is how i always looked at things.