Electronic pest control?

jd50ae
jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Anyone ever used those little things that you plug in? They emit some kind of noise that mice don't like, supposedly.
We are in the midst of our annual mouse migration.

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  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tried it for squirrels. Failed.
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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,502 ✭✭✭✭✭
    people get used to living in noisy cities, mice get used to sonic repellers in cellars.
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,406 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My experience too.
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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2018
    We have those electronic things in our shop at work and they don't work very well.
    They may keep the mice away directly around them, but other than that, they don't work.
    I agree with @Amos_Umwhat
    Peppermint oil works 100 times better.
    I put cedar sawdust in bags and put peppermint oil on it and it seems to work the best.

    To clarify, I use fine mesh bags. Forgot to put that part.
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  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So, peppermint it is.
  • silvermouse
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  • First_Warrior
    First_Warrior Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Electronic stuff doesn't work. Have a Heart live traps do. A few years ago I trapped and released 14 flying squirrels in a two week span. Cute little critters but not big enough to eat.
  • First_Warrior
    First_Warrior Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hell, i don't know for sure. I drove and released the fuzz balls at least a 1/2 mile away.
  • Martel
    Martel Posts: 3,306 ✭✭✭✭
    FWIW, we have a mouse infestation in my office and they ate an entire large bag of peppermint lifesavers...
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  • ForMud
    ForMud Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭✭✭
    First_Warrior said:
    Electronic stuff doesn't work. Have a Heart live traps do. A few years ago I trapped and released 14 flying squirrels in a two week span. Cute little critters but not big enough to eat.
    Send one my way next time......It'll drive my dogs insane.
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Years ago, when the child bride and I owned a little mom & pop store and gas station up in the mountains, we inherited a herd of feral cats that the previous owner had been feeding. 

    Every now and then, when we’d step out the front door to go open up the store, we’d find the tail of a flying squirrel on our porch. Occasionally a whole squirrel but mainly just the tails. I guess the cats were eating most of them and leaving the tails for us as a gift...

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