Mouse Tails De-rail House Sales
Monday, June 8th, 2009 at
10:18 pm
Even the cleanest and tidiest of homes may soon notice the odd field mouse trying to sneak in to the warmth of their home as the fall evenings become crispier.
No-one willingly buys a home that they know is troubled by field mice, and as they often bring a ‘rodent’ smell into the home, it is best to keep them and their smell out of your home.
Usually a cat will deter a field mouse enough to make it go and look for another warm spot. Just the smell of having a cat in the house is usually enough to do this.
However, not everyone has a cat and not everyone wants to deal with messy and dangerous traps or toxic chemicals. The good news is, if this problem affects you, there is a nice clean answer.
It is an electronic device that lets out a bleep to scare off a mouse, but us humans cannot hear it, neither can your family dog, cat or bird.
That sounds a lot better than wandering barefoot into the kitchen on a dark morning and finding a poor mouse in a mouse-trap or feeling a little set of paws scrabble across your bare toes! These electronic repellents also work with rodents – rats, squirrels etc.
These acoustic devices are for use indoors and have one obvious advantage – you never have to come into contact with a mouse i.e. like removing it! It will not want to venture into your home.
According to tests made with these devices, they cost less than twenty cents per month to operate on a twenty four hour basis and they show a marked reduction in rodent activity in six to ten days. These results were recorded in a field test that Sonic carried out for the Canadian registration of their product.
Most devices, for instance the PestChaser, will not go through walls but will cover an area up to 1000 square feet, say in a garage, if there are not a lot of obstructions in the area.
The devices work by creating severe auditory stress to the rodents. The reason that humans cannot hear the beeps is because they are on too high a frequency for our ears. (Our ears cannot vibrate fast enough.) Human hear sounds ranging from 20 to 20,000 cycles per second and cats and dogs can hear sounds up to 27,000 cycles per second.
This measurement is also called ‘hertz’ and 20,000 cycles per second is equal to 20,000 hertz or 20 kilohertz. The PestChaser rodent repellent emits a signal between 32 and 62 kilohertz; the signal fluctuates so that it does not become familiar.
If you feel you would like to make sure that there are no rodents already safely ensconced in your home, try one of the electronic mouse traps on the market. They work by batteries and once trapped, the mouse is dead and in a box ready for you to drop him off to garbage bag heaven. No mess and fairly cheap about 4 traps for $20.
Once you have them all out of your home, use a mouse and rat odor killer in your home, this product is easy to use and one quart is about $25. The odor killer works scientifically; it destroys the gaseous molecule which is the odor by attaching to it and this heaviness makes it fall from the air. (Orderable from the Internet: Bugspray.com.catalog/products)
Are you sure that you wouldn’t want to buy a little cat?
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