how do I keep mice away without killing them or getting a cat?

Question

I live at a summer cmap and the mice are poop everywhere and trying to burrow through the carpet into my room. I can't handle killing them, and I can't get a cat, is there anyway that I could keep them at bay for a month or so?

Answer 1

Get the latest Brittney spears CD,turn it on as loud as your speakers will take,and get out of there until it's over.That will scare anything out of there.

Answer 2

I understand, a lot of people do. No animal should be made to suffer, weather it be a human, a dog a mouse or even an ant or cockroach. The fact that you sought out the most humane way of killing the mouse speaks very well of your character. A lack of empathy is what causes much of the suffering in this world. However animals are not people and human and animal rights are not the same thing. Keep in mind that nothing lives forever, and the natural death of that mouse almost certainly wold have been a longer and less pleasant ordeal than the death you provided him. With people the individual is very highly regarded, or at least they should be. But with animals, while we shouldn't kill individuals without good reason, it is the population as a whole that counts. Also the dead mouse will facilitate and sustain new life. It will be eaten perhaps by a cat or raccoon or perhaps by beetles and fungus and bacteria turned into mulch and used by plants and in turn eaten by a fellow mouse. It is important that we do not give animals the same rights we give people. for example if hunters didn't shoot deer their populations would soar, then nearly all the dear would get sick and the population would crash. It is also imperative we do not treat people like animals. Many intelligent people have fallen into the trap of treating and viewing human populations they way one would look at animal populations, this can lead to some truly horrific ideas. What needs to be done must be done, weather it's killing a mouse, slaughtering cattle, or controlling the deer population, but the fact that we ask these questions, and have these feelings is what makes us human. We shouldn't be ashamed or afraid of these feelings.

Answer 3

get a garden sprayer and mix 1 quart ammonia, 2 heaping tbsp cayanne chili powder, 3 tbsp dishsoap, and 1 small bottle tobasco hot sauce. let mix set overnight and strain out through tea strainer or something similar. add 2 gallons water and spray the perimiter and under the unit if exposed. it will drive the mice away without harming them

Answer 4

you can get a mouse live trap. it has a one way door on it. I usually place a chunk of bread in it, and within 1-2 days my mouse will be caught. then just bring it somewhere far away from where you are at (at least a mile - otherwise it will come back) and release it.

Answer 5

Moth Balls will do the trick, place them around the outside of the house.

Answer 6

You could try live traps. I have never caught aything.

The best that I have found are cats and glue traps. Sorry

Answer 7

mouse traps, but use peanut butter as bait instead of cheese.

Answer 8

moth balls....