Mice and dishwashers

[washerboy]

spoken from experience

I recently moved from a 100 year old house in a 100 year old neighborhood...mice and rats were a constant problem. #1 go to a farm supply store...tell the guy you have a rodent problem and he'll sell you a bucket of green blocks. I forget the name but farmers use them in their barns to control rats. Toss the blocks any where you've seen droppings and behind your major appliances. Don't forget under the house and attic.
2nd: get a cat..yes..that really works. My rodent problem was under control while I had a cat. When kitty passed away from old age I didn't get another one...rodents came back in about a year. I doubt you have a mouse problem..sounds more like field rats. I've had a rat chew through the lid of a Rubbermaid garbage can to get at dog food. And one more thing..do not let the exterminator sell you the stupid black box with bait inside. No self respecting rodent is going to leave the inside of your home, hunt around on the outside of your house for a bait box..I fell for that before someone told me about the farmers coop. Good luck!!!

 

[askolover]

I haven't seen a mouse or rat since I bought this 1956 house.  I saw evidence of past mice when I remodeled the kitchen but I fixed holes and gaps.  My daddy used to shove steel wool in holes and gaps to stop mice.  But I've always had at least 2 cats since I've lived here.

 

[veroroger]

for BradfordWhite

Yes, Vero Beach, Floroda.....where the tropics begin! Lived in the Vero/Fort Pierce area for 35 plus years now. Where are you?

 

[tolivac]

Stepping on mice-GROSS-something about stepping on those grosses me out.Cleaning up the stepped on mouse mess is disgusting!When I get mouse "visits" have several snap traps I can set for them!Gets them everytime-bait the traps with Cheerios-mice love them!Learned this years ago-was eating my Cheerios breakfast when a mouse scurried out and ate one I dropped on the floor.Baited the trap with a Cheerio and nailed the mouse!!Put the mouse body outside for the neighbors cats to "dispose" of.

 

[bradfordwhite]

I recently moved from FLA. I'm just curious where you found a Menard's store. According to the website the closest store is only a short drive to central Kentucky.

Also, your posts is showing only 7 yet, you've apparently been posting since 2008 with 49. The system is cheating you out of your posts. lol

 

[bradfordwhite]

mouse squishing

I don't know that it's gross, in mo. I've had the need to do it a few times now.

Two were shivering baby mice that could have easily got work in the movies doing children's animated series. So stereo-typically cute.

The other one was a mother mouse with tiny new born babies latched on. I had pulled off a tarp off a pile of wood outside a shed and she ran out and into the shed. Because she was weighted down it was an easy and productive kill. A mother with probably 6 future bird meals in infancy.

 

[tolivac]

If the mouse squish in outdoors-no problem.You don't have to clean it up!Let nature do it!All kinds of scavenger creatures will help-along with rain.

 

[rollermatic]

from a cat lover here

i feed any cat that comes around, i also feed the racoons and the possums and any snake or turtle i see in the road gets caught by me and taken to a safe place and let go!

and if i catch a mouse in the house (with a no kill trap ofcourse) it gets let go back out side! only thing i would kill if i had any but i don't are roaches or bedbugs. spiders get left alone in my country house!

no one will ever convince me that cats are an infestation, or dogs! people are an infestation in my book!

as a huge cat lover anytime i hear anyone, anywhere make a comment about cats being an infestation i'm gonna spout off! there is no way i could not! and will continue to do so till the day i die!

cats are cool! dogs are cool! people are idiots!

pete

 

[bradfordwhite]

I have moved or re-directed a few turtles in my time. Most recent one was in FLA where a turtle was trying to cross at a curve in the road where people would not be able to see and stop or swerve in time. I parked my car and carefully picked up the moss covered thing and put it back on the side of the road and it ran off into the ditch but not after again trying to get onto the road.

Spiders in the house. Spiders are our friends so most times get moved outside.

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If you're putting other animals above humans that's a problem.
Humans are top of the animal pyramid and you are a human unless you're a chat-bot.

 

[veroroger]

Update

I ordered the rodent repellent which came last week. Put it under the kitchen sink next to the wall by the dishwasher. It seems to be working as the dog is no longer sticking to the front of the dishwasher trying to get at the mice/rats whatever. Now, however, they've moved to the master bath in the wall behind the tub! So the dog sits in the tub and barks at the wall! The joys of home ownership never end!!!!

 

[cessnaman]

mice eating dishwasher hoses

electriduct in pompano beach fl sells a rodent resistant braided sleeve that can be put over hoses.

https://www.electriduct.com/

 

[mark_wpduet]

That video....wow!!!!

I watched a video documentary on cats and how if it were not for CATS, this is what the world would be like....this lady's house...She had good intentions her intentions were a total mistake.

 

[wayupnorth]

Mice and stoves seem to be a worse problem. They nest in the oven insulation and first time the oven is turned on a horrible odor comes out. The only thing you can do is junk the stove. That seems to happen to seasonal places alot around my place as the vast majority of neighbors pack up and go to warmer weather for the winter.