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Okay, my son arrived home for work one night, only to see a little guy sneak through a previously undetected small hole in my home's cedar plank siding. What's a squeamish girl to do? No evidence of the little buggers in the home's interior yet, but I am occasionally hearing their notorious pitter patter. :(
I don't know what to use and how to avoid dead rodents in my walls. Any advice?
Whatever you do, don't use poison, that's what gets you the dead mice in the walls. Unfortunately, that's about the only way you can get rid of them without having to see them...any sort of trap you buy you're going to have to dispose of the mice that are caught (I prefer live traps since I don't like hurting animals...but if you want them dead snap traps are supposedly less cruel than glue traps since they kill them right away). Someone on another thread mentioned that peppermint oil repels them, so you could try that to keep them from coming in.
You could also pay for an exterminator--just make sure that they're not going to use poison. I think you can pay them to set up the traps and then come back and empty them. They can also check around the outside of your house and seal up holes that critters can get in through (mice can get in through any hole that's the size of a quarter or larger) Or if your house is on a slab foundation like mine, it's not too hard to go around the outside yourself and look for holes where they could be getting in and seal them up.
