Keep the mouse out of the house!

Post date: 2022-08-14 08:17:38

A mouse has been visiting our apartment this summer. In my experience, the only way to really deal with mice in an apartment is to seal up the cracks and keep them out — but an exterminator has done this twice already and the mouse has chewed through the steel wool and plaster within a week! How can I keep these little shits (pun intended) out?

It's pretty clear where the mouse is getting in because both times one area has been visibly chewed — hole where there wasn't before and bits of steel wool and plaster on the ground. What can be done to seal it up better so they don't come in? I'm open to trying anything myself but one of the areas is by the outlet for the stove, so don't want to do anything electrically unsafe.

I already know the score about storing food, etc., but the mouse has completely ignored the pantry — it just seems to go for crumbs by the toaster and then another area in the living room with absolutely no food. We have a few traps up but in my experience the mice will often ignore them. I had mice much worse in a previous apartment and sealing the cracks was the only thing that worked. This guy seems like a better chewer, though. What can I do to keep him out?

Also, I don't want to use poison as we have a little 18lb dog and lots of our neighbours have cats. Said dog is why I don't think the mouse has been trapped inside the apartment — whenever it comes out she will alert us and run after it, though she's clearly not much of a hunter.

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