How to get mice out of the cellar

Mice and rats, settling in the cellar or basement, are capable of delivering great trouble: they eat food harvested for the winter, gnaw and spoil boxes and even concrete, and also carry many infections. Therefore, learn how to get rid of mice in the cellar, what methods exist rodent control, every home owner wants.

Preventive measures

When the owner, having visited the cellar, finds that the mice in the cellar gnaw potatoes and spoil the products and things laid down for the winter, dig moves in the walls and make nests to take out the little mice, then he will have the problem of taking urgent measures to destroy them. You can worry in advance and prepare the cellar for the winter.

Before the beginning of the winter season, before filling the cellar with products, it is recommended to take preventive measures that will help prevent rodents from entering the basement:

• The doors to the cellar are better forged with a metal sheet;
• the ventilation outlets should be closed with a mesh or metal with small holes, it should be noted that small mice are quite capable of crawling into small holes with a diameter of a pencil;
• if possible, close all products in an airtight container with tight-fitting lids.

All these measures will be effective only in the case when the cellar has concrete or brick walls, through which rodents cannot climb.

Ways to deal with mice in the cellar

Mice in the cellar

You can fight with mice in the cellar in winter and in summer using various methods:

• mechanical methods;
• the use of poisons;
• the use of folk remedies;
• setting ultrasonic repeller.

Mechanical methods of struggle

The most widely known method is to put a cat in the cellar that loves to catch mice and is hungry enough. Even a cat smell can scare rodents away from this place. However, the method has some drawbacks: it cannot sit there for too long, and the owner will have to check all the time, did the cat eat the mice in the cellar. For the whole winter, the cat will not be planted there and it is not known whether it will be able to catch all the rodents.

Important!

When running a cat or a cat in the cellar, care should be taken to ensure that there are no poisonous baits or dead mice. Otherwise, the death of the mouse will happen.

You can use other methods of struggle. By means of mechanical destruction of mice include:

• Mousetrap cageswhich can be purchased at the store or do it yourself. The main disadvantage of them is a small number of captured pests, and dignity is the convenience to fight mice in the winter and the ability to control the number of rodents killed.
• Glue traps designed for gluing the mouse, which is trying to get the bait. This method is not always suitable for people who prefer not to look after the mouse agony.
• Homemade traps with a bait: from a plastic bottle with a little vegetable oil poured, put at a slight angle. When the mouse gets there on the smell of oil, it will fall into the bottle, and will not be able to get out back because of the sliding of the feet through the oil.

Pest control

Use poisons

The modern chemical industry produces poisons for rodents of a different principle of action:

• Long-term exposure - such drugs gradually accumulate in the body of mice, causing suffocation or disorientation in space, due to the long-term action of mouse relatives do not have time to determine the cause of death of their fellows, death occurs only after 4-10 days.
• Poisons of instant action - cause hemorrhages inside the mouse body, killing the animal almost instantly, the mouse does not have time to run away far from the bait and its corpse will not have to be looked for later;
• Mummifying poisons perform the function of embalming a mouse carcass that dries out and will not give off an unpleasant smell.

Interesting!

All rodents very quickly inform each other about the source of danger, so after the death of several individuals, the rest of the family will no longer eat the bait with poison for mice.

Folk methods of struggle

Disposal of rodents using folk remedies can be effectively applied using various grass from mice and substances with a strong odor that rodents do not tolerate.

In the cellar you can use:

• sharply smelling tufts of dried wormwood, black root (which is not for nothing called the ratman), tansy or wild rosemary - put or hang;
• peppermint essential oil, camphor or cloves - oiled rags are laid out around the perimeter of the cellar, and also pushed into holes that mice gnaw in the room;
• corners can be treated with liquid mothballs or kerosene;
• the use of smoke or sulfur bombs can drive out mice, but this is best done while there are no products in the cellar.

When using sulfur bombs, you should follow safety rules so as not to get poisoned by smoke:

• remove all pets and children from the room;
• do all the work with gloves and better together with a partner,to promptly call for help at the first sign of poisoning;
• the sword cannot be set on fire near wooden structures or the floor so as not to cause a fire;
• one day after the procedure, make ventilation of the room.

The disadvantage of this method: the use of substances with a sharp unpleasant odor can adversely affect not only rodents, but also on food.

Folk remedies for mice

Use bait

You can remove mice from the cellar with the help of various baits:

• The mixture of flour with alabaster (or putty) and a bowl of water placed nearby acts as follows: after eating the bait and drinking water for animals, the mixture turns into stone and causes its death.
• Bait for mice in the form of sugar and quicklime after passage into the stomach of the mouse causes a burn of the esophagus, after which the animal will try to quickly run out into the street, which will help get rid of its corpse and subsequent smell.
• A mixture of pieces of wine cork with bait leads, after eating by rodents, to blockage of the digestive tracts and the death of the mouse.
• Dusting the floor with wood ash, which, sticking to the paws of animals, causes them irritation.Licking them, the mouse eats the ash, which provokes stomach pain, as a result of which rodents leave the cellar.

Ultrasonic Repeller

One of the most humane ways to help get rid of mice in the cellar in winter is the use of ultrasonic repellers. Ultrasound, which emits such a device, affects the nervous system and psyche of rodents, as a result they run away in a panic away from the sound source. The man sounds the ultrasound frequency does not hear.

With this method of struggle, it is necessary that the repeller work in the cellar almost constantly for 2-3 weeks, and then use the device only for prevention or after the repeated arrival of rodents.

Reviews

Help advice, pliz. My mice have penetrated into the cellar and are digging holes for themselves, in my opinion, even the mice have already been born. I read the article, tried to put a mousetrap, but after 3 mice were caught, the rest are no longer caught.

Albina, Voronezh

I threw the cat into my cellar, he is now the owner there, I only give him some water and sometimes let it out so that he can breathe air. Indoors now have a constant feline smell, and mice are very afraid of him.

Pavel, Oryol

The most effective way: to put an ultrasonic repeller. In the absence of light in the cellar, you can apply the model on batteries. I put it on for 2-3 weeks, and all the rodents fled. Try it, do not be disappointed. The only drawback: the repeller is quite expensive compared to the usual mousetrap, but there is a guarantee of successful disposal of rodents.

Igor, Belgorod