mouse in the house!!

Pootie
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:26:29 +0000

Hope things went ok with your guests. If you have ongoing problems, don’t worry about rabies–just avoid getting bitten. (A bigger issue with mice is hantavirus, which you are not likely to be exposed to either unless you have hundreds of mice & droppings). I have problems with mice in our chicken coop and have never been bitten disposing of the live mice I catch in a bucket.
Old fashioned traps baited with peanut butter or cheese are very effective. Most effective of all is a good cat–but you can’t have poison around if you have a cat. We have not seen a single mouse in our barn since a cat moved in three years ago–and we used to have lots. The mere presence of a cat will deter mice from moving in.