Peter Griffin: There's only one thing to do - learn the language of the fleas, earn their trust, and breed with their women. And in time our differences will be forgotten.
Just replace the word fleas with voles and problems solved.
Didn't work so well for the English in Braveheart as I recall.
Apparently premanocta or whatever it's called wasn't even used in Braveheart times. And the Scots didn't start wearing kilts for like hundreds of years after too. And william Wallace wasn't a poor commoner he was a knight like Robert the Bruce. Good movie though.
When I was a kid we had a bad vole problem out south of town on an acreage. One day the old man had had enough. He drove the pinto wagon onto the grass, hooked up a hose to the exhaust and found a vole hole of some kind to stick the hose into. It worked. There were no more voles in the yard after that. FWIW, I'd rather live on a town of voles, than introduce snakes in the yard to get rid of them.
I just discovered some rodent droppings in my garage. I suspect it's mice, but I did see what I thought was a vole scurry across my deck the other day. He was short and fat (size of a computer mouse).
I left a bag of grass seed in the garage over the winter and apparently mice love grass seeds, so that's where I found a majority of the droppings. I haven't checked inside the house yet, but the garage door is usually closed. What are the chances the mice will find itself inside my house?
I've set out a couple of snap traps near where I found the droppings. This morning, no mice yet.
I'm tempted to call an exterminator out to deal with the problem before it gets out of control. Has anyone gone this route, and would they recommend it? Is it completely hands off, ie do they move things around in the garage, find any holes and seal them up to keep the mice out of the garage? Or do they pretty much want me to clean up the garage and they just go in to kill the mice?
I just discovered some rodent droppings in my garage. I suspect it's mice, but I did see what I thought was a vole scurry across my deck the other day. He was short and fat (size of a computer mouse).
I left a bag of grass seed in the garage over the winter and apparently mice love grass seeds, so that's where I found a majority of the droppings. I haven't checked inside the house yet, but the garage door is usually closed. What are the chances the mice will find itself inside my house?
I've set out a couple of snap traps near where I found the droppings. This morning, no mice yet.
I'm tempted to call an exterminator out to deal with the problem before it gets out of control. Has anyone gone this route, and would they recommend it? Is it completely hands off, ie do they move things around in the garage, find any holes and seal them up to keep the mice out of the garage? Or do they pretty much want me to clean up the garage and they just go in to kill the mice?
As it gets colder, mice will migrate further inside. They're capable of clawing through into the house quite easily. Male mice are also very territorial and as baby mice become males, they will migrate to new colonies AKA your house.
One thing to keep in mind is that mice need a lot of food, and they need to eat very regularly. I'd focus on removing all of their food sources just as much as sealing up any holes. If you call an exterminator, the mice will come back if you don't get rid of their food source. A source a lot of people overlook is the BBQ. Mice will eat the fat drippings from your BBQ.
One thing I've learned from this site is that fire kills everything...so I would use that. and since I'm lazy if someone could post the "kill it with fire..." gif for me that would be fantastic.
Actually somewhat true. I have used the smoke bomb sticks in the past and they work like a charm. Just make sure all their holes are covered and put a few at different ends of your yard. I tried everything for a couple of years and once I tried these they were gone for good.
