Have your cat eat cheese, then hide around the corner with baited breath. There's always the steel wool idea. It's supposed to keep mice from chewing through openings. I know it would discourage me! Not the micest thing to do to the poor little critters, but D-Con on the bottom board, and elsewhere (watch kids and pets) does help eradicate the whole brood: This from sad experience. Alan Barnard Salem, Missouri > [Original Message] > From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> > To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> > Date: 05/02/2006 10:31:29 PM > Subject: Re: Yet another mousie > > > Sorry to belabor the issue, but does anyone know of a good mouse repellant? > > > > Thanks, > > > We have one cat that brings in live snakes about once a week > all summer (I evicted a little beauty today). Another that > specializes in live mice, though not as often. I can catch the > snakes and take them back outside, but the mice elude me like > they do the cat that brings them in. Short of a gasoline > filled moat surrounding the house, electrified floors are the > only thing likely to work, and that only on barefoot mice. The > ones with the galoshes just clomp on through until one of the > other cats takes offense at the noise keeping him awake, and > eats them. If you do both, I'd recommend a low voltage, high > amperage charge to fry the little rodents with minimal arcing. > > Personally, I prefer the snakes. > > Ron N
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