Mice are pests that come uninvited and live in the house with whole families, causing serious inconvenience to residents with their bandit raids on food supplies and garden crops. Moreover, these gray thieves are carriers of dangerous diseases, so every effort should be made to get rid of their presence forever.
This method has remained to us from our great-grandfather, passed down through the generation. This recipe is also used by hunters who wander through the forests for a long time in search of game and leave things and provisions in special forest houses.
In summer, the bred mice begin to actively act, storing food and hiding it in their bins. Therefore, bandit mice flocks raid the vegetable garden and, according to the destruction wrought on them, can successfully compete with the moles.
The trouble here is at least twofold: in addition to the loss of crops, vegetables and fruits bitten by mice can be infected with a very dangerous hemorrhagic fever and many other diseases. When summer ends and the mice lose their food supply, they move into the house and begin to feed in it.
How to deal with the gray invaders
It is clear that there are such proven methods as introducing a cat (it is better if there are several of them). But some people have allergies from these animals and often this method is not acceptable. Again, cats need to be fed, and for a summer residence, this option is rather doubtful in the winter. You can put mousetraps, but they are ineffective. It is generally dangerous to scatter the poison, the same neighbor's cats or dogs can die from it, then you will have to deal with the neighbors.
Hunters prefer to use proven methods of smelling mice.
Bad smells for mice
- mint. The smell of mint can not be tolerated by mice. Therefore, mint is laid out in places of accumulation of a potential enemy, where your intelligence often noticed him;
- processing of mouse moves and places that look like them, camphor or anise oil;
- makhorka. It is harmful not only to people, but to all living things. The strong smell of makhorka scares off mice, so it is laid out in basements, in attics - in those places where mice can build their nests;
- · juniper branches are a means used to preserve the harvest. They scare away rodents;
- burnt wool, or rather its smell, mice also don't like it very much. Therefore, you can lightly light old woolen socks on fire and spread them out in dangerous places.
Peppermint tincture is the best way to scare away mice. The tincture (25 ml) is mixed with mint essential oil (10 ml), poured into a syringe and sprayed on dangerous places. The procedure is repeated every month. Cheap (no more than 180 rubles) and effective.
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