Although my wife and I have done a bang-up job plugging up all the little holes/cracks/spaces on our mountain cabin where mice can get in, one still occasionally slips past the defenses. The weak point is the poorly constructed base of the attached laundry room; I'm fairly certain that the roll of thick mesh screening we plan to pick up at Home Depot next week will put the kibosh on that. All the aforementioned entry points have been sealed. We use caulk for small openings, and that "Great Stuff" expanding foam spray for larger ones. These both work extremely well.
Last week, one got into the wall between the bathroom and the outside laundry room, almost certainly through the laundry room floor. I could hear it move around intermittently, and figured it would likely follow the path of its predecessors--in other words, it would climb up into the attic, and get caught in either of the two mousetraps placed up there. But this did not happen; it just hung out in the walls for no good reason. After about five or six days of this, I decided I'd had enough. We use the Victor brand snap traps with the plastic pedal. They've served us well in the year and a half we've lived at this particular location. A pea-sized blob of peanut butter does the trick. I placed it in the laundry room last night, and in the morning, sure enough, our guest had checked out. Fortunately, without leaving a tip (blood).
What do you use for rodent control? Interested to hear some other stories about this very relatable problem for rural dwelling folk.
Last week, one got into the wall between the bathroom and the outside laundry room, almost certainly through the laundry room floor. I could hear it move around intermittently, and figured it would likely follow the path of its predecessors--in other words, it would climb up into the attic, and get caught in either of the two mousetraps placed up there. But this did not happen; it just hung out in the walls for no good reason. After about five or six days of this, I decided I'd had enough. We use the Victor brand snap traps with the plastic pedal. They've served us well in the year and a half we've lived at this particular location. A pea-sized blob of peanut butter does the trick. I placed it in the laundry room last night, and in the morning, sure enough, our guest had checked out. Fortunately, without leaving a tip (blood).
What do you use for rodent control? Interested to hear some other stories about this very relatable problem for rural dwelling folk.
