How to get rid of mice in the house- tried everything?

I have had good results in three houses with plug in ultrasonic rodent repellers.In two days the mice were gone and even drove squirrels out of the eves.They are about $20 for three.

Peppermint oil is a natural deterrent. The smell is simply too intense for rodents and they will not try to go near it. It also helps to mask the scent of any tasty morsels that have been missed when cleaning. You can get peppermint oil in most health food stores and even some major grocery stores. Place a drop or two on a cotton ball. Mice can get through tiny holes (if the head can get through, the body can), but the best way of having a mice free house is to close any possible entry. While this can be hard to achieve in old houses, it is the most effective solution. A good way to board up small holes is by using green kitchen pads. Steel wool pads will prevent mice from using the hole to get back into your house. Better still, it's too tough for mice to chew through.Place tubs of used kitty litter around entrances the house. Visit a local reptile center, zoo, or pet store and ask for some dried snake poo. Place near entrances and in places where mice seem to go, out of the reach of children and pets.Killing rodents won’t keep mice gone for long and can actually result in a temporary spike in the food supply, causing remaining rodents to breed. There are traps that catch the mouse in a box. The mouse can get in but not out. This can be a humane way to catch mice, once you catch them; you will need to release them at least 1 mile from your home. There is an electronic unit that emits a beeping sound that rodents hate. This sound is not a hazard to dogs and cats and can be bought at hardware stores. Keep your home clean.Put your trash cans as far away as possible from your home. It will stay under the towel for a short time. Put an inverted waste-paper basket over the towel. Tuck the exposed bits of towel under the basket so it is in contact with the ground. Slide an LP record , or large piece of cardboard under the basket and towel. Carefully turn up the right way.

Don't start using poison, they can die anywhere and the stink is quite strong if you can't find and remove the body. That, and a mouse suffering the effects of the poison could get caught by a predator (like your cat) and subsequently poison the predator. Don't want that, either.

Getting into your drawers means they're under your cabinets. Try to work the toekick panels loose at the bottom of your cabinets, and place some traps down there. While you're on your belly looking under the cabinets, see if you can find the hole where they're coming in. Do whatever you can to repair that hole.

Go around the house and find everything that looks like a hole big enough for a mouse. Be very pessimistic about this: assume any hole larger than a shirt button is big enough for a mouse (it's not, but it's close and it's the best comparison I could think of). Plug every hole.

Now go all around the house on the outside, looking for likely avenues of ingress. Plug them, too. Get everything. You can get a lot done with a simple daub of mortar mix into each and every crack you find.

Tough problem, but you can get ahead of them. It takes consistent effort, and you have to think very small...like a mouse.

Just use the old style mouse traps with the metal bait trays (the plastic ones don't work), I use warm, creamy peanut butter for bait. Mice love peanut butter! Place the traps in a high traffic area. You can drill a small hole in them and tie a sting to them so a mouse can't drag it away, sometimes they don't die right away. Look all around the house a use boards or sheet metal to seal any hole that they can get in. You'll be surprised at how small a hole they can squeeze through. If their head fits, their body will fit! If you use poison, a mouse could eat some poison and then your cat could attack the mouse and your cat will get sick or even die from that mouse. Yes, you do have to keep putting those traps out, even though you don't see any mice that don't mean they're gone

You didn't mention figuring out how they are getting in and blocking up those holes. You can trap them all you want, but until you trap every last mouse in the continent, more will show up and come in if they can get in and are finding food or nesting places. Obviously the deterrents aren't sufficiently deterrent to keep them away. If they are only showing up in the kitchen drawers and cabinets, I'd start looking in that area. Take everything out and look in there using a very good light. Keep in mind that nice can get through very small holes, as small as a dime and maybe smaller. I even saw one, once, which squeezed under a heavy box that was sitting on the floor.

Set the traps with the proper bait, and put them where the mice travel.

Use poison, and put it where the mice travel, and can't be gotten to by kids or pets.

Get rid of the cat. Mice don't care if you have one.

Unless to block all the entry places you'll never get rid of them

Cleaning will do OTHING

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Soak a cottonball in peppermint oil and leave it where you are seeing mice.

i would get a few new cats and not feed them...let them catch their eats

i would get rid of all clutter...

i would store everthing in plastic containers...

get sticky traps...

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