You may be able to get rid of mice in your walls by scattering about cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil.
By Norm Noe
December 2010/January 2011
I live in a 102-year-old house, on a small acreage, which helps explain why I had a problem and needed to know how to get rid of mice in my walls. (It sounded like they were having a party in there!)
The young lady that works where I shop said she had heard from her grandma that all you need are peppermint-soaked cotton balls scattered about, and mice will split!
So I placed small, peppermint-soaked cotton balls all around the kitchen. I unscrewed two wall plugs and carefully slipped some in behind the sockets and, like magic, no more sounds of mice. Twenty-four hours later, no sign of the mice at all.
Norm Noe
Vancouver, Washington
http://www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/how-to-get-rid-of-mice-zm0z10zhun.aspx
Comment: I live in a 105 year old house and I don't get mice. But in the past I got lots of rats in the walls. It was not pretty. I can remember banging on the wall in my bedroom to try to scare them away. No, it did not work! When we did some remodeling we put blocking in so the walls and attic space are not one. This keeps them out of the walls, but we have gotten a couple in the attic since then and catch them with a have-a-heart trap. (they like cheesecake) Then they have to be transported more than 4 miles away so they can't find their way back. I am wondering if the rats would be offended my the peppermint smell. My spearmint and orange mint plants (which I have plenty of) don't seem to keep them out of my yard though).
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