Our house up north has terrible mouse issues, it's got a million little holes
I need to fix, replacing the enclosed porch floor being job 1 next year.
For this year I put a package of "Grandpa Gus" anti-mouse stuff in there. Each
pouch is supposed to protect 50 square feet. The house got 9 pouches and I put
one in the garage on the Farmall Super M. Dang mice ate the seat cover this
year. Didn't bother it for 20 years and then this year they just gotta eat it...
The grooming machines get pieces of cloth soaked in peppermint oil. It doesn't
100% repel them but helps a ton. We used to have terrible trouble with mice,
now they're just an annoyance, a few poops here and there but no nests.
-Curt
On Thursday, December 2, 2021, 12:31:11 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Living in the country I fight an endless battle against mice invading the
house. I am not sure where they get in but there must be an opening somewhere
that I haven't discovered. I heard one the other night and set some traps, but
caught nothing.
Today the refrigerator was making a noise so I pulled it out to investigate.
Seems like the condensor fan motor might have a bad bearing or at least a
vibration. A couple of years ago we painted the kitchen, and I had come up one
outlet cover short when it came to putting them all back on. So, I left the
cover off the outlet behind the fridge, intending to pick up a new one, but
then forgot about it.
Hanging out of the outlet box was the mouse. Must have climbed the refrigerator
power cord and stuck his head into the box, contacted the hot terminal, and
zappo. Didn't trip the breaker though, as the fridge is still running. Wasn't
sure of the shock risk so pulled the corpse out with electrician's pliers. I
then gave it the usual final rites (threw it into the woods).
Who knows how long it would have been hanging there if the fridge hadn't
started getting noisy.
Allan
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