Mice in your yard and in your home can be a nuisance and a health danger, as they carry many diseases. Keeping your home and yard free of mice and their droppings is a big task, which you can take care of on your own with natural remedies or you can use a professional pest control service to help. Here are some tips and tricks you can use to repel and eliminate mice in and around your home.

Repel Mice

Keeping mice out of your yard with natural repellents can help to prevent them from entering your home. As soon as one mouse enters your home, they can quickly multiply and spread, eating your food and leaving feces and urine. In fact, one mouse can have a litter of six to eight baby mice five to ten times each year. When you are not able to own a cat as a pet to get rid of mice, you can use the smell of urine and feces from a cat to scare the mice from your yard and home.

Ask someone who has a cat to collect the cat's urine and feces when they clean out the litter box. A good deal of kitty litters used today clump together when they absorb urine. This makes collecting and using the urine-soaked litter around your yard as a mouse repellent more easy. Sprinkle the litter in areas of your yard where mice live and travel. The smell of the urine and feces will cause the mice to find another yard that has no threat of a cat.

You can also use the smell of peppermint to repel mice. Use a squirt of peppermint flavored toothpaste in any mouse entryway of your home to prevent them from entering. Apply some peppermint oil in a cotton ball and place it in areas of your home to keep mice from entering.

Eliminate Mice

If mice are already living in your home, you can use some safe methods to get rid of the mice without harming your children or pets with poisons. Combine equal amounts of powdered chocolate drink mix with some plaster of Paris and leave it in corners or closets of your home or pantry where you have found mice droppings. The mice will be attracted to and eat the mixture, then die soon after.

You can also sprinkle powdered potato flakes instead of the cocoa powder mixture. Mice will eat the powdered potato flakes, which will expand when they have ingested them.

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