On seeing the mice, it makes me senseless. We know that how difficult your life would be by living in the same house or the apartment with these nasty mice or mouse. You must be curious to know the methods to get rid of mice from your house. In this article, we have mentioned some of the steps that are natural without using any toxic chemicals. These not only create the nuisance in the house but also transfer harmful bacteria of various diseases like the plague. Fleas and mites spread these bacteria, to your pets, thus increasing the problem quite fast. Therefore, it is so essential to know the methods of removal of mice before they infest and cause more damages.
Methods to Get Rid of Mice
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1.) Castor Oil to Get Rid of Mice
The castor oil mice repellent is the perfect tip to get rid of mice. The mice repellent that is made below, is the best for outdoor conditions and thus help you to get rid of mice in the yard and lawn.
Things You Need:
- Three spoons of Castor oil.
- One Plastic bowl.
- Six spoons of liquid dish washing soap.
- One spoon of Tabasco sauce.
- One Garlic clove.
- One liter water.
Steps to Follow:
- Take three spoons of castor oil, in a plastic bowl that is not of your regular use.
- Mix six spoons of liquid dish washing soap, and one spoon of Tabasco sauce in castor oil.
- In the bowl add one garlic clove chopped.
- Mix all the above ingredients in the bowl with one liter of water to it.
- Next, place this bowl having mixture close to the holes of the mice or rats.
- Continue this method for a few days to get rid of mice.
- Do not place the same mixture again and again near the holes.
- Every time make a fresh mixture for application.
- Follow this process particularly after each rain to stop mice.
2.) Mice Trap to Get Rid of Mice
Mice traps are easily available in the stores, but are quite expensive and sometimes these mice traps kill the mice. This can be shocking if you don’t want to kill them. The better way here is to use the homemade mice trap, as this will not kill it and keep the mice alive. It is a humane method to get rid of mice.
Things You Need:
- A piece of bread.
- Bucket half-filled with water.
- A piece of cardboard.
Steps to Follow:
- Before applying this technique, make sure that there are no eatables lying around your lawn open.
- Clean all the food storage area so that the mice is trapped in your food trap only. To bait the mice, you can try out from these eatables such as cakes, bread, and peanut butter, a small piece of banana, raisins.
- Take a half-filled bucket of water that will capture and hold the mice when it drops.
- If you want to kill the mice, which you shouldn’t do then you can fill the bucket with hot water or by adding glue in it.
- Next, take a small piece of cardboard, and slice it into a square shape.
- Place this cardboard piece on the edge of the bucket in such a way that when it comes to eating the food, it will get trapped into the bucket.
- Always use a thin cardboard for this trap, and it should overhang the edge.
- Take any eatable discussed earlier as mice like such kind of foods very much. Place it on the cardboard that is hanging on the edge and will make the mice fall in the bucket.
- This trap work when the mice get the smell of the eatable you have kept in order to catch the mice.
- Follow this method regularly for a few days until you catch all the mice in your house.
3.) Home Poison to Get Rid of Mice
Home poison for mice prepared at home is harmless rather than buying it from the drugstore. These market poisons are highly poisonous and can harm to your lovely pets if they swallow it by mistake. So, here you can know the safest remedy to get rid of mice.
Things You Need:
- Three spoons of corn flour.
- Cement powder without water.
- One flat dish plate.
Steps to Follow:
- Take a spoon of dry cement powder and corn flour in a flat dish plate in equal quantity.
- The amount of the dry cement powder and corn flour solely depends on your mice infestation.
- Mix them well, and put it in the adjoining place of your lawn or house.
- You can place this poison at various corners of your house where mice are often seen.
- Once the mice will eat this powder, they will go outside in search of water.
- The mice will die fast when the cement powder will choke in a short time.
- This homemade poison is a very powerful remedy to kill the mice outside your house.
- Try this remedy every time you wish to get rid of mice at your lawn or house.
4.) Carbonated Drinks to Get Rid of Mice
Carbonated drink like Coca-Cola and Pepsi helps to get rid of mice infestation. It is a simple remedy and is not dangerous to the environment as well as to the human beings. It is a studied fact about the mice that they are not able to remove carbon dioxide from their bodies. Once they drink the carbonated drinks, they are not able to burp and remove the gas from their body. In this process, they will die automatically. This method works by killing the mice.
Things You Need:
- A few small bowls/dishes.
- A few spoons of carbonated drink for the bowls.
Steps to Follow:
- Pour a few spoons of any carbonated drinks you wish like Coca-cola or Pepsi in each bowl for the mice.
- Place these bowls of carbonated drinks close to the corridors, passages, dustbins, cupboards and under the sink. The mice will get attracted to the sweetness of the carbonated drink.
- Once they will drink it, after a few minutes they will die due to the failure of passing carbon dioxide from their body.
- Repeat this method whenever you find them in your homes and close to the lawns.
5.) Peppermint oil to Get Rid of Mice
Peppermint oil is considered as one of the quickest ways to get rid of mice. It is quite safe for kids and for pets both as it is a natural mouse repellent. The most important thing is to use 100% pure and raw peppermint oil.
Things You Need:
- A few spoons of Peppermint oil.
- A few cotton swabs.
Steps to Follow:
- Take few cotton swabs, and drop a few drops of peppermint oil on each of the cotton swabs.
- Put these cotton swabs in the areas where you see the mice most of the often.
- This peppermint oil disappears quite fast, so you must keep changing the cotton swabs after every hour.
- This helps in getting rid of the mice without killing them as it uses peppermint oil.
- If you are disturbed because of the mice in your car, then you can do the same process discussed above to get rid of mice.
- Follow this method several times in a day for a few months for total mice extinction.
6.) Mice Spray to Get Rid of Mice
Mice removal sprays are easily available in the drug stores, but they contain harmful chemicals. These can be quite dangerous to the pets and kids at home. In order to overcome this problem, you can make your home repellent spray for the mice that are natural and non-toxic for kids and pets present in the home.
Things You Need:
- A half liter of Apple cider vinegar.
- One Spray bottle.
- Two liters of water.
Steps to Follow:
- Mix half a liter of apple cider vinegar in two liters of water, in a spray bottle.
- Mix it well, and sprinkle it in the places where you see the mice most of the times.
- These mice repellent can be used at any time of the day, and applying them regularly for a few times in a day will eliminate the mice fast.
- It is one of the simplest ways to get rid of mice, as it is safe and effective.
Tips to Get Rid of Mice
- Mice are always in search of shelter and food, which leads them to the houses. So, keep your eatables stored in air-tight containers. Do not place the food left in the open. Take away the smallest particle of food to get rid of mice.
- If there is any opening or hole in the home then seal it fast else it will be an invitation for the mice to come and reside in it.
- If you know that mice are there in your house, but not able to see their hiding place; just sprinkle some powder to see the footprints of the mice.
