This one is for Nancy H.

JD Seller · Jul 9, 2010

I usually have a bad mouse problem in my shop. I have poison out year round and still have mice. I noticed a few weeks ago that I had not seen any mice for a few weeks.
My son started back to Auto tech. school Tuesday. We had to load up his big Snap On tool box and haul it back to school. We made the trip fine, no problem. We got it unloaded and into the college's shop. The instructor takes pictures of each draw full of tools so there is a record of what he had. He pulled out the bottom drawer last. IN IT WAS A EIGHT FOOT LONG BLACK SNAKE. LOL that was where the mice where going. I bet that instructor has not moved that fast in years.
I am not a big fan of snakes but I will leave them be if they leave me be. My son loves the things. He caught that black snake and wanted to hold it while I drove home. NO WAY IN HE!!. I made him find a container and the snake rode in the back on the way home.

Kruse · Jul 9, 2010

My sister lives about 650 miles away in New Mexico and is an organist for her church. She was visiting me and wanted some playing time so we got the bright idea to have her practice in the church I attend. Now the organ in our church is up in the 2nd floor balcony and it is a tightly built brick church less than 30 years old. How a black snake could get up there is beyond any of us, but I guess I just gave away the ending of the story. Anyway, I guess the thing didn't like her music playing because it decided to show it's presence. My sister was so scared she about went over the side of the balcony.
This was years ago, but the funny thing is that she has never asked to practice here again.

fixerupper · Jul 9, 2010

We don't have any big snakes around here. Had a five foot bull snake hanging out of a bale when we were baling along a creek years ago but other than that garters are all I ever see.
Last summer we had a little garter snake living in the basememt. The first couple of times I saw it I'd catch it and throw it out the door but in a couple of days it'd be back so we decided to let it stay as it did clean up the crickets. About once a week it'd find it's way upstairs and I'd haul it back down to the basement. Marilyn would tolerate it but she would never catch it to take it back downstairs. It disappeared in the fall, never to be seen again. Jim

greenbeanman in Kansas · Jul 9, 2010

Use peppermint oil or extract as a natural mouse repellent.

Scatter droplets of it around openings as well as around the interior of the building. Renew from time to time.

Great for tractors, combine cabs, trucks, buildings, etc.

old · Jul 9, 2010

I have just what you need for them mice. How many of them do you want FREE. I have so many cats around the place but what is still funny is they still find mice. Went out to fee them this morning and in a box we have out there was a dead mouse, I figure one of the mother cats put it there for a kitten

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