OT/old news/mice/ lavender

[Barbara Richmond]

Hey Stéphane,

I had to deal with mice when my husband and I lived in Texas.   Mice attract 
snakes, so we had to deal with snakes, too.  Oh, boy!  After we tried all 
the nice stuff, all-out war was declared and we went to traps.  They were 
able to steal the cheese or lick the peanut butter off without setting off 
the trap.  I ended up <tying> cheese to the trap with thread.  That worked.

Good luck,

Barbara Richmond, RPT
near Peoria, Illinois


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stéphane Collin" <collin.s at skynet.be>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:04 PM
Subject: RE: OT/old news/mice/ lavender


> Hi Annie.
>
> Like you I hate barbarian solutions.  But the catch-and-release traps 
> didn't
> work here : the mice managed to get the cheese without activating the trap
> (they walk on the vertical sides of the grid, get the yummy cheese, get 
> out
> the trap, and then come proudly wave the score before running away; but
> then, these were genuine Belgian mice)
> Also, the ultra sound device seemed to have no effect here.  I do believe
> those little animals to be superiorly intelligent, and genetically very
> adaptive.
>
> I could evaluate the (un)effectiveness of my methods directly, because I
> live in one room, and I can see them run around, late at night, when they
> get awake.  They are quite funny in fact, and talkative.  They even can
> climb the walls, foreseen they are covered with fabric-like paper or stone
> like plaster.
>
>
> Best regards.
>
> Stéphane Collin.
>
>
> Stephane,
>
> How do you know the lavender actually repelled any of the mice?  You found
> little mouse shacks under other furniture?  They posted tiny Rooms Wanted
> signs on the lamp bases? <g>  (No nastiness meant -- I really do want to
> know.)
>