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cutroot

(875 posts)
3. I once lived in an old farmhouse in Co.
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 11:16 AM
Oct 2022

There was a three foot bull snake living under the refrigerator. He liked the heat from the motor I guess. We never had any signs of mice for long. If they got in the house they were pet food. He only came out at night and we rarely saw him. He had a glass terrarium to live in but he always escaped. He preferred being under the fridge.

cutroot

(875 posts)
8. There is a high frequency sound on YouTube that you can play that seems to drive them out
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 12:42 PM
Oct 2022

You can’t hear it but they can seems to work

2naSalit

(86,673 posts)
11. I always wondered...
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 01:33 PM
Oct 2022

If those frequencies also had an ill affect on other animals, like other pets in the house. I have never tried them because I would hate to harm the pets, like pointing a laser light into your pets eyes, even just a flash.

cutroot

(875 posts)
14. Mice have a really high range. Almost 100,000 Hz
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 01:57 PM
Oct 2022

Dogs and cats are around 65,000Hz. Mine never seemed to mind it. My dog would stand right next to the speaker wagging his tail

twodogsbarking

(9,769 posts)
5. Lived in the woods for eleven years. House had crawl space underneath.
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 11:26 AM
Oct 2022

Mice and black snakes. Thoreau never mentioned any of this.

Demsrule86

(68,609 posts)
7. We have a siamese cat. She will not catch mice. We had droppings in the drawer under the stove.
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 11:46 AM
Oct 2022

We have a vented microwave which may have been how it got in. Wr thought we had a major infestation. We put traps out and found it was only one lonely mouse. I read where most mice won't go in a house with a cat ....the smell or something.

cutroot

(875 posts)
9. Mouse Math: if you thought you might have seen one there are two.
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 12:44 PM
Oct 2022

If you caught a glimpse of one there are ten

2naSalit

(86,673 posts)
12. I learned, a few years ago...
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 01:40 PM
Oct 2022

That they do not like the stinky, strong smell of cannabis. I had to store some high turpine-laden hemp crop in an emergency, hard freeze coming had to harvest all at once, so I chose a mouse infested cabin on the property. The smell drove the mice out of the place overnight. I was impressed, I thought they'd try to eat it.

I have never tried to use any hemp intentionally for this but it was an interesting thing. The deer stopped eating it early in the year so I can imagine other animals were repelled by it.

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