Keeping Rodents Out of Your House

As the weather turns, small critters often look for refuge from the cold in your nice, warm home. What can you do to deter them from becoming uninvited guests in your humble abode? Here are a few suggestions that are easy to apply. Moth balls! Throw them under the house, just enough that they don't smell inside the house and redo about once a month. Also throw them around the footing of the outside of the house. Moth balls also deters snakes, bugs, ants and such. You can also put a little of the spray foam in the holes around our pipes, then put in steel wool and spray more foam on it as well. Mice will not chew through the steel wool. An unusual tactic for controlling the rodent population is to give them Exlax... super strength if you can. Rodents love Exlax! Place it outside & inside. If you think a cat or dog could get at it, cover it so that only a rodent could get in and eat it. Even if a bigger animal does get it, it isn't deadly. Rodents are smaller, their digestive systems are smaller. A little Exlax goes a long way! Rodents live in communities or families. If one gets sick in "home space". They learn fast and leave for a safer environment. A mouse/ any rodent loves the chocolate wax like bar of Exlax! Add peanut butter to the bars if you like. It is "Dairy Queen Deluxe" for rodents. Once the word is out among fellow rodents about the "after effects" of the food supplied, they leave the area for healthier food, as well as, communicate and smell the "Gastric Distress and Results" of the afflicted Exlax filled rodent to the community! Mice do not like the smell of peppermint. Put some on cottonballs and place in the drawers, basement, or anywhere you think or see mouse evidence. Peppermint oil is a natural mouse repellant.