How can I keep mice out of my apartment?

Shut the doorHow can I keep mice out of my apartment?
Multiple optiions are available to you. Get a cat. Or else get mousetraps. Or get some rat poison. How can you not know what to do? Maybe you are 5 years old? Hello?How can I keep mice out of my apartment?
Get some mouse traps or get a cat..Liz.
you can keep a pet cat (get a mouser)
Where I live mice are an ongoing challenge in the dry season. This is what we do.





First get rid of the ones you already have. They tend to run usually along the base of walls or on top of the kitchen cabinets if there is a space. Mouse traps of which there are several types, using sticky pads but then you will have to drown the rodents before disposal, or use rat poison, but then you may have to deal with the smell for a day or two.





Second get in the habit of not leaving anything edible lying about in the apartment ... on kitchen counters, in sinks, or anywhere so the mice have no food to come to. Sorry, general cleanup here, use vinegar or baking soda. Leave little containers of baking soda in the cupboards and drawers to deter them and to freshen the cupboards generally.





Third, find out how they are getting in and close the holes or cracks, not with wood obviously. Mice can get in through the smallest cracks. Check the baseboards under the kitchen cabinets and sink. Fill with some kind of hard filler for plaster, I use Rockite, or plastic wood dough for wood areas. Screen the windows if you leave them open and you can use a thin layer of white lime or borax in the base. They tend not to cross these barriers.





If you do not own the apartment then choose what you find suitable from these suggestions.





If you do opt to get a cat, especially if you have never owned a pet before, make sure it is a mouser and not a lazybones waiting for a tin of catfood. As an apartment dweller there is also maintenance of the animal .. scratch poles, cat litter boxes etc. as well as what to do if you go out or away. Check with a vet or lots on the web about cats.





Hope all this helps.
Take the key from them or change the locks
you can buy a pair of cats or adopt some from a shelter, get some that aren't declawed so they can pounce on their prey...most cats instinctively hunt at night and when the mice come out they can easily detect them and they will eat them..all you have to do is dispose of the carcusses...and eventually mice will no longer enter the house when they sense a cat...good luck
this is fair dinkum mate. get a small boa constrictor at the pet shop and let it have the run of the place but keep the bathroom door shut, always. I had two and never had a problem. tell no one and everything will be just fine. when u ren out of mice just get one once a week or so from the store that sells mice and feed it. boas are great pets