Keeping mice out of your place?

[Frosted]

To be honest I'd never keep an animal again. It's £50 per month per cat including pet insurance and food. The pet insurance asks way too much of an excess and costs me £47 a month for both of them. That and the cost of veterinary fees - never again. Insurance companies and vets should be taken outside and shot. Basically for animals it's what Britain would be like without the NHS. Shit.

Edit - forgot to mention the vaccination jabs which are £45 each every year. Then just to see the vet is £50.00, medicines on top.
To fix the boys leg cost £2,800.

Yeah - get a pest controller.

[Ansel]

Cat's work well. In my garage where I tend to keep the cat out because of many chemicals present there he would eat and it would kill him (for example antifreeze) I use these ultrasonic things. We had a mouse problem years back. Used some traps, caught some that way. Since re-enforcing our storage of certain things in there (stuff that they like for bedding) and using these ultrasonic pest deterrents we have had almost no mice to speak of in there.

However keep in mind certain pets might be sensitive to it. Especially if you have rodents for pets.

Ken

I use these ultrasonic things too. They seem to work but i'm never completely sure...

[Roo]

To be honest I'd never keep an animal again. It's £50 per month per cat including pet insurance and food. The pet insurance asks way too much of an excess and costs me £47 a month for both of them. That and the cost of veterinary fees - never again. Insurance companies and vets should be taken outside and shot. Basically for animals it's what Britain would be like without the NHS. Shit.

Edit - forgot to mention the vaccination jabs which are £45 each every year. Then just to see the vet is £50.00, medicines on top.
To fix the boys leg cost £2,800.

Yeah - get a pest controller.

Pet insurance? I assume this is mandatory in London? Supposedly we are required to register cats and there is a fee, assessed every 3 years if I remember correctly. My cats don't go outside though, so anyone who thinks I am going to pay the state so that I can keep a cat indoors and scoop its shit everyday are kidding themselves. I also don't really take my cats to the vet. 2 of them are 13 years old and they've been to the vet maybe two or 3 times between them. My youngest is 4 years and she's only been once, to get spayed.

[Bigblue1]

Like Pp said cover the holes where they might be getting in. Use steel wool as it is hard if not impossible for them to chew thru.........

[Frosted]

Pet insurance? I assume this is mandatory in London? Supposedly we are required to register cats and there is a fee, assessed every 3 years if I remember correctly. My cats don't go outside though, so anyone who thinks I am going to pay the state so that I can keep a cat indoors and scoop its shit everyday are kidding themselves. I also don't really take my cats to the vet. 2 of them are 13 years old and they've been to the vet maybe two or 3 times between them. My youngest is 4 years and she's only been once, to get spayed.

Not at all mandatory. I suppose if you care about your animal in Britain you'd get it insured as vet bills are astronomical. If you're not insured you simply won't be able to pay the vet and you'd have to put the animal to sleep.
You've been lucky - my cats are constantly getting into scrapes with other cats, cars etc.
Since the kids have come along I can't afford to keep up the annual vaccinations. That's the only thing we've lapsed on. Oh yeah - and then there's flea treatment which you absoloutely have to keep on top of. That's about £10 a month.

[Thunder_Snus]

My kitty used to hunt bats down in our basement before we furnished it and turned it into a living space. She would always be so proud dragging up a dead bat and laying it on the ground.

Aside from catching i believe the father or mother a few weeks ago and catching 2 babies? possibly teenage mice(not sure of the not baby not adult term for mice? The place is heavily trapped now and holes are sealed. Anything left inside should be flushed out soon if any. Still looking at good preventive methods for KEEPING them out. I can seal off holes but i also have neighbors with walls connecting our stove outlets. We are located on the outskirts of town nearby to a lot of farmland which is where i suspect they're coming from.

[GoVegan]

If they don't allow you to keep a pussy in your apartment the ultrasonic Devices might be worth a shot. They are fairly cheap so you can probably get 2. Extreme- I hear you on the vet bills. We have adopted 3 kitties and I cringe at vet visits.