Wednesday, July 30, 2008

How To Get Rid Of A Mouse

Writen by Emma Drosy

If your house has small opening, mouse may utilize these small opening to enter your house and you will definitely need to know how to get rid of mouse. The mouse may sometimes be very small to weigh less than even one ounce and will require small opening to enter your house even mouse can enter through a quarter inch crack. The mouse will try all type of food and items available to them in your house, although the preferred food for mouse is seed and grain. They can damage many daily use items, they can dig the places they found week on our house and mouse will also produce many offspring. They are the nuisances to not only us but they cause many losses to our valuables including clothes and foods.

Contamination of food can cause various diseases and we must try to get rid of these as soon as they enter our home.There are many metal traps available in the market and you can use a suitable trap. These are made up from metal wires with both the end open and a peanut or any other grain is attached to hook closed at one end and open at the other. As soon as the mouse tries to eat the nut, the other door is closed and the mouse is trapped inside the metal box. You can release the mouse in some field but try to release the mouse as far as you can.

Although there are various poisons available in the market for killing the mouse, you should avoid the poison as this may cause the mouse dead under your house. This will invite other animals such as cat to come and eat and is dangerous for the cats also. Further the smell may remain in your house or long periods. So the trap is best option to get rid of mouse. There are tall claims made by many ultrasonic repel device manufacturing and marketing companies, however these repel devices are rarely useful. These are based on damaging the nervous system of mouse and that may take months.

There are only a few useful techniques to get rid of mouse and you should use a proven method.

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